语料库在大学英语写作教学中的应用初探

An Exploration on the Application of Corpus in Teaching College English Writing

语料库在大学英语写作教学中的作用有待发掘。英语教师可利用目前语料库的研究成果和分析手段来总结学生作文中存在的突出问题。以大学生的英语书面语语体特征为例,对比中介语的研究给我们提供了分析语料的多个角度,运用现有的理论,本文尝试考察了一次论说文写作训练的语料,初步探讨如何应用语料库辅助大学英语写作教学。

College English teachers do not fully realize the power of corpus in teaching EFL writing . In fact, they can apply the existing theories and approaches of corpus studies to analyze the major problems lying in their students＇ work. Taking register features of Chinese learners＇ written English for examples, the studies in the field of contrastive interlangnage analysis provide us a range of perspectives to investigate the materials. This paper examines a corpus of compositions randomly selected from a writing assignment, trying to tap on the implications of corpus studies to college English writing.