高中生英语词义推断策略量表的编制与分析

The Development and Analysis of Lexical Inferencing Strategy Scale for Senior High School Students

英语词义推断策略是学习者在英语阅读过程中遇到生词时,调动已有知识对其意义进行有根据的猜测时采取的学习策略。本研究以我国195名高中生为受试,采用文献分析、访谈、量表开发等方法,尝试编制高中生英语词义推断策略量表。探索性因子分析结果表明,词义推断策略分为聚焦形式、自我调节和聚焦意义三个维度,累积方差解释率为51.326%,因子间存在显著的中度正相关。因此,该词义推断策略量表结构稳定,具有较好的信效度,能为我国高中英语阅读教学提供科学规范、简便易施的调查工具,同时为教师改进教学提供参考。

Lexical inferencing strategies refers to the learning strategies that adopted by learners when they encounter unfamiliar words in reading and seek to make informed guesses to the meaning of these words in light of their prior knowledge.With 195 Chinese senior high school students as target,the study attempted to investigate the underlying constructs of lexical inferencing strategies via literature review,interviews and scale development.Results of exploratory factor analysis(EFA)revealed three strategies constructs:form-focused strategies,self-regulation strategies and meaning-focused strategies which significantly correlated with each other in a positive moderate degree,accounting for 51.326%of the total variance in learners’responses to the scale items.Hence,given its good reliability and validity,the scale of assessing lexical inferencing strategies is supposed to serve as a standardized and operational tool for the exploration as well as the improvement of Chinese English reading teaching.