大学生英语作文句法复杂度实证研究

An Empirical Study on the Syntactic Complexity of College Students’English Compositions

本研究对比了一组大学非英语专业英语学习者一年间书面语(议论文)的句法复杂度,分析客观句法复杂度各维度与主观人工评分之间的关系。结果表明,不同水平英语学习者写作句法复杂度存在差异,句法复杂度各指标与人工评分之间在每个子句中的复杂名词性短语数量,每个T单位中的并列短语数量及每个子句中的并列短语数量上相关。

This study compares the syntactic complexity of a group of College Non-English Major English learners’written language in argumentative writing in one year,and analyzes the relationship between the objective syntactic complexity dimensions and the subjective artificial score.Results show that there are differences in the syntactic complexity of English learners at different levels.The indexes of syntactic complexity are related to the number of complex nominal phrases in each sentence,the number of paratactic phrases in each T unit and the number of paratactic phrases in each sentence.