学习者笔语中BE动词的类联接研究

A Study on Colligations of BE in Chinese EFL Learners’Written Production

本研究采用了基于语料库的CIA的方法考察英语学习者笔语中BE动词的类联接使用特点。研究发现:学习者显著少用BE的屈折形式,其类联接类型少,类联接中多用静态动词,高频类联接序列中缺乏被动结构序列;BE动词的使用与外语学习水平有关,高水平学习者有少用BE动词的倾向,他们的类联接实现形式更倾向于语块;不同水平的学习者在体态结合的类联接使用上仍存在困难。造成差异的原因主要是语际迁移、语言教学与学习者的回避策略使用。本研究获取类联接的方法对基于语料库的类联接研究具有参考价值。

This study attempts to examine the colligational use of BE in Chinese EFL learners’written production in the corpus-based CIA approach. It is found that Chinese EFL learners underuse the inflected forms of BE, they use much smaller variety of different types of colligations and they heavily resort to static verbs in their colligations;besides,the colligations of passive structure are not found in their top sequences. It is also found that the use of BE is correlated with the learners’ L2 proficiency. High-proficiency learners tend to underuse BE and the realizations of their colligations resemble chunks. Learners of different levels are found to have difficulty with the colligational combination of aspects and voices. The reasons are found to be related with L1 transfer,language teaching and the avoidance strategy. The method of extracting colligations in this study may be beneficial to corpus-based studies of colligations.