大学英语作文中的语言回避类别及其教学对策

A Study of Language Avoidance Categories in College English Compositions and their Teaching-learning Countermeasures

语言回避现象问题在大学英语作文中极为常见,它不仅直接制约作文的质量与水平,还会严重影响英语表达的地道性、准确性和多样性。运用分析和访谈等研究方法、手段,研究了大学英语作文中常见的语言回避现象及其产生的原因。研究结果发现,学生作文中涉及语义和功能的常见语言回避形式有9类,其产生的原因表现在7个方面。在深入分析研究结果的基础上,借助语块教学理论,提出了克服语言回避现象和有效提高大学生笔头语言交流能力的3种(强调常写、写长,写作前进行有效语言形式输入,培养用英语思维)教学对策。

In the light of the prominent problems in college English compositions,scholars abroad and in China have conducted a lot of research on teaching content,teaching methods,teaching modes,etc.and harvested some successes with practical values.However,from the perspective of language expression,the frequent appearance of language avoidance,if ignored,is likely to not only have an immediate negative effect on the composition quality,but also severely spoil the language idiomaticality,accuracy and variety.Therefore,it is of great significance to research into language avoidance and work out solutions to it.Language avoidance involves complex reasons,but through personal interview data analysis we come up with the finding that it is chiefly concerned with learning strategies and language acquisition patterns.On the basis of this finding,we assume that as long as learners make adjustments in learning strategies and methods,they are able to remove language avoidance successfully and produce adequate language subsequently.Having studied language avoidance this paper has classified language avoidance into nine categories by means of text observation,note-taking and interview,analyzed their underlying reasons,then with the assistance of lexical chunks,proposed three effective countermeasures concerning how to remove language avoidance and to improve college students＇ English written communicative competence.