读后续写对中国英语学习者冠词使用的影响研究

A Study of the Effect of the Continuation Task on Chinese EFL Learners’ Article Use

本文依据“续论”中提出的“读后续写”方法考察读后续写在英语冠词学习中的效应。67名中等英语水平的大学生被随机分成三组分别完成读后续写、读后写作及阅读任务。实验过程为前测—三次任务—后测—延时后测。结果显示:(1)读后续写组的冠词成绩呈现显著上升趋势,具体体现在误用错误率显著下降,但漏用和冗余的错误率无显著变化,阅读和读后写作组冠词成绩并未出现显著变化;(2)读后续写组不定冠词三类偏误的错误率均显著下降,读后续写对不定冠词误用和冗余的作用可以延时保持,但对漏用无法长效保持。而定冠词的三种偏误错误率均无显著变化。研究结果证实了读后续写对英语冠词习得在一定程度上存在促学效应,在促进不定冠词的习得方面效果尤为显著,但对定冠词的促进作用还有待进一步研究。

This study explores the effect of the continuation task on Chinese EFL learners’ article use.Sixty-seven intermediate English learners were randomly classified into three groups to finish continuation tasks,reading tasks and topic writing tasks,respectively.The research design involves a pretest,three tasks,an immediate posttest and a delayed posttest.The results are summarized as follows.(1) Scores of article use in the continuation task group improved significantly.More specifically,misuse of articles showed a significant downward tendency,while omission and redundancy did not show any improvement.Scores of article use in the reading task and topic writing task groups did not show any significant change.(2) In the continuation task group,the error rate of the three types of error of indefinite article use decreased significantly.The effect of the continuation task maintains on the decrease of misuse and redundancy of indefinite article,but not in the omission of indefinite article use.However,there was no significant change in the error rate of the three error types of definite article use.The results indicate that the continuation task has a promoting effect on the acquisition of English articles to a certain extent,especially on the acquisition of indefinite articles,but the effect on the use of the definite article needs further study.