中国学习者英语进行体理解研究

On the Comprehension of the English Progressive by Chinese Learners of English

本研究采用句子偏好测试和句子理解测试,对中国英语学习者和英语本族语者对于过去时终结性动词和过去进行体终结性动词的理解进行了研究。结果表明:高水平英语学习者在对过去时终结性动词和过去进行体终结性动词的接受程度上,与本族语者趋于相同,而低水平者与本族语者有显著差异;中国英语学习者和本族语者绝大多数情况下认为,过去时终结性动词表达事件的完成,少数情况下认为过去进行体终结性动词表达事件的完成。另外,低水平学习者认为前者表达事件完成的比例,低于本族语者。

By using a sentence preference test and a sentence interpretation test,this paper tested some Chinese learners of English and English native speakers on the comprehension of past tense telic verbs and past progressive telic verbs.The results showed that,on the acceptability of past tense and past progressive telic verbs,the high-proficiency learners of English performed as well as the native speakers,while the low-proficiency learners differed significantly from the natives.The majority of both the learners and the natives interpreted past tense telic verbs as referring to the completion of an event,and only a few of them regarded past progressive telic verbs as representing the completion of an event.Meanwhile,in holding that past tense telic verbs represent the completion of an event,a lower percentage was observed with the low-proficiency learners than with the natives.