Sharing the environment of English as a foreign language （EFL） in South Korea and China, English text in the authorized English textbooks deserves a cross-country comparison in the same grade level. This research ex...Sharing the environment of English as a foreign language （EFL） in South Korea and China, English text in the authorized English textbooks deserves a cross-country comparison in the same grade level. This research explored the English texts linguistic characteristics in the authorized English textbooks through Coh-Melrix 3.0 and intended to provide implications to EFL English textbook design in the future. The results suggest that there is a need to be aware of the weaknesses and strengths from each other： the South Korean English texts display a diversity in noun, verbs, adjectives, the mean number of words before the main verb of the main clause in sentence, TTR and lexical diversity; the Chinese English texts reveal an overlap in lexical level （content words, noun, and sentences） and semantic level （syntactic patterns）.展开更多
Ever since Schmidt proposed the noticing hypothesis in 1990, the role of consciousness in second language input and output processing has attracted increasing attention from various researchers. In many studies, wheth...Ever since Schmidt proposed the noticing hypothesis in 1990, the role of consciousness in second language input and output processing has attracted increasing attention from various researchers. In many studies, whether or not consciousness is used is deemed as an important factor leading to changes in language learners performance. Current research procedures on measuring consciousness in second language acquisition field are not very satisfactory. The present study, by making use of Levelt s L1 speech pr...展开更多
文摘Sharing the environment of English as a foreign language （EFL） in South Korea and China, English text in the authorized English textbooks deserves a cross-country comparison in the same grade level. This research explored the English texts linguistic characteristics in the authorized English textbooks through Coh-Melrix 3.0 and intended to provide implications to EFL English textbook design in the future. The results suggest that there is a need to be aware of the weaknesses and strengths from each other： the South Korean English texts display a diversity in noun, verbs, adjectives, the mean number of words before the main verb of the main clause in sentence, TTR and lexical diversity; the Chinese English texts reveal an overlap in lexical level （content words, noun, and sentences） and semantic level （syntactic patterns）.
文摘Ever since Schmidt proposed the noticing hypothesis in 1990, the role of consciousness in second language input and output processing has attracted increasing attention from various researchers. In many studies, whether or not consciousness is used is deemed as an important factor leading to changes in language learners performance. Current research procedures on measuring consciousness in second language acquisition field are not very satisfactory. The present study, by making use of Levelt s L1 speech pr...
