英语写作中高频错误研究以及对教学的启示——以“百万同题英文写作大数据研究”为例

Research on the High Frequency Errors in EFL Learners’Writings from the Perspective of Errors Analysis and Its Enlightenment to Teaching——A Case Study of One Million-odd EFL Writings on the Same Topic by the Big Dada

错误分析理论对第二语言习得的研究起着重要的指导作用。"2015年百万同题英语写作大数据"显示,在英语写作中拼写错误发生频率最高,占总错误30%;其次为句子错误,占总错误28.3%,主要是主谓一致和成分缺失错误;搭配错误占总错误的21.1%;词汇错误占总错误20.6%,主要涉及到动词连用、词性误用以及介词误用等。通过海量数据对高频错误进行研究,有利于教师精准地判断外语学习者的学习发展趋势,从而精准教学。

Errors analysis theory plays an important role in the research on the second language acquisition.Based on the big data from a research report of million-odd English writings on the same topic by Chinese EFL learners in 2015,this paper does a research on the high-frequency errors.It finds out the highest frequency errors occur in spelling,accounting for 30%.Syntax errors take up 28.3%,mainly including subject-verb agreement and the missing of sentence elements.Then collocation errors occupy 21.1%.Errors in the use of words,making up 20.6%,are primarily concerned with succession of verbs,misuse of parts of speech and prepositions.This research on the high-frequency errors through the mass data is good for the English teachers to well understand the English learners’situation so that they can carry out accurate teaching.