口语产出质量与模糊容忍度的相关研究

Correlation between Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Quality of Oral Output by Gender

以某大学的90名非英语专业学生为研究对象,利用Ely的模糊容忍度调查问卷(SLTAS)(1995)和两篇从GRE和TOEFL考试中选取的材料为主要测试工具,考察阅读中的模糊容忍度与口语产出质量的相关性。结果证明:模糊容忍度与口语产出质量存在显著正相关,模糊容忍度越高,其口语成绩也越高。模糊容忍度对口语的影响表现在流利性、完整性和准确性3方面,对语音和交际能力没有影响;对阅读中的模糊容忍度与随后口语产出之间的相关性存在性别差异,女生存在这种相关性,男生不存在。

Subjects in this study were 90 non-English majors from XX University. The questionnaires of the Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale （SLTAS） and two materials from GRE and TOE- FL are the major instruments in this quantitative research. Then statistical analyses were conducted with SPSS17.0 software. Results indicate that, tolerance of ambiguity in reading is correlated with the quality of follow-up productive oral output. The higher the TOA is, the better the quality of the follow-up oral output will be. On the contrary, the less tolerant students get lower scores in follow-up oral tests after reading ambiguous passages. Tolerance of ambiguity Rays the influence on three aspects of oral production： correctness, completeness and fluency, but no influence on the other two aspects： pronunciation and communicative competence. Meanwhile, there is gender difference in the tion between TOA and oral output. TOA is correlated with the quality of oral output for female learners, whereas for male learners, there is no significant correlation found. correla- English