摘要
本文通过采用语言指标和话语策略指标考察了4/3/2活动对非英语专业学生口语产出的影响。研究结果进一步证明4/3/2活动不仅可以提高英语口语流利性,还对语言的准确性、复杂性和合适性均产生一定的积极影响。定性分析的结果显示,受试者为了在越来越短的时间内讲述完内容相同的事情,主要采用删减策略。此外,为争取思考时间,受试者主要采用停顿(包括ah现象)与话语重复策略,但较少运用如I mean, as you know等话语填充词。文章最后提出4/3/2活动运用于外语教学中的意义及其建议。
This study explores the effects of the 4/3/2 technique on Chinese non-English majors' spoken English production by means of linguistic indices and performing indices. The findings provide further encouraging support that the 4/3/2 technique has some good effects on spoken English production, not only in oral fluency but also in linguistic accuracy, complexity, and appropriateness. The qualitative analyses indicate that omitting or reducing some information is the major strategy for the subject to fit the talk into reduced available time. In addition, pauses (including ah-phenomenon) and lexical repetitions are the major strategies adopted by the subjects to gain time for planning and they use relatively fewer verbal fillers (e.g. 'I mean', 'as you know'). This paper finally puts forward some pedagogical implications of the 4/3/2 technique in foreign language teaching.
