摘要
This study is based on two English vocabulary tests: theProductive Levels Test ( PLT ) and the Academic VocabularyTest ( AVT). 143 students from Hiroshima University, Japan,and 146 students from Tianjin University, China, both in theirsophomore year, were tested. The results in the PLT reveal thatthe productive vocabulary knowledge of the Japanese and Chineseuniversity students at the 2,000 word-level is not sufficient todeal with tasks required on the English courses of universitylevel. The results in AVT reveal that the academic vocabularyknowledge of the students is largely at the recognition stage,indicating that the students are defective at using and producingthe academic words they have learned. In A VT the performancesof the Japanese and Chinese students in some of the words arefound to have significant differences. The factors influencing thedifferences between the two groups of students are discussed.
This study is based on two English vocabulary tests: the Productive Levels Test (PLT) and the Academic Vocabulary Test (AVT). 143 students from Hiroshima University, Japan, and 146 students from Tianjin University, China, both in their sophomore year, were tested. The results in the PLT reveal that the productive vocabulary knowledge of the Japanese and Chinese university students at the 2,000 word-level is not sufficient to deal with tasks required on the English courses of university level. The results in AVT reveal that the academic vocabulary knowledge of the students is largely at the recognition stage, indicating that the students are defective at using and producing the academic words they have learned. In AVT the performances of the Japanese and Chinese students in some of the words are found to have significant differences. The factors influencing the differences between the two groups of students are discussed.
出处
《中国英语教学：英文版》
2004年第1期18-22,126,共6页
CHINESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
