中国英语学习者心理动词习得研究

Study on the Acquisition of Mental Verbs by Chinese English-Learners

采用语料库研究方法,对比分析中国英语学习者与本族语者对出现频率较高的心理动词的使用差异情况,研究中国学习者对心理动词的习得状况,笔语、口语中心理动词的使用规律与特点。结果发现:中国学习者运用心理动词频率普遍高于本族语者,尤其在笔语中,这在一定程度上反映出学习者笔语的口语化倾向;笔语表达中学习者主要依赖有限的几个心理动词;口语表达中学习者在句型、时态、词汇等方面表达的丰富度上尚有提高空间;心理动词与代词"I"搭配使用时,学习者的运用情况与本族语者相比,还有一定差距。

Adopting the methods of corpus linguistics, the current study compares the different uses of mental verbs between native speakers and Chinese English-learners to find the acquisition of mental verbs of the learners by focusing on the usages of the verbs in the written and spoken forms. Findings are as follows： The Chinese English-learners use more mental verbs with high frequency than the natives, especially in the written forms, which reflects to some degree the oral style features in written language. The learners depend on only a few mental verbs. There are still much more space for the learners to improve their richness in terms of sentence structures, tenses and lexical deveIopment. The learners have still some gap comparing with the natives in terms of the usage of the combination of the mental verbs with ＂T＂.