Fluency on oral English has always been the goal of Chinese English learners. Language corpuses offer great convenience to language researches. Prefabricated chunks are a great help for learners to achieve oral Englis...Fluency on oral English has always been the goal of Chinese English learners. Language corpuses offer great convenience to language researches. Prefabricated chunks are a great help for learners to achieve oral English fluency. With the help of computer software, chunks in SECCL are categorized. The conclusion is in the process of chunks acquiring, emphasis should be on content-related chunks, especially specific topic-related ones. One effective way to gain topic-related chunks is to build topic-related English corpus of native speakers.展开更多
Language is the most important tool for human beings with the outside world.In order to improve the efficiency of communication,people need to maximize the efficiency of language processing to ensure the smooth produc...Language is the most important tool for human beings with the outside world.In order to improve the efficiency of communication,people need to maximize the efficiency of language processing to ensure the smooth production and understanding of the meaning,although it is a subtle and complex process in human communication.As Dr.Widdowson proposed that language knowledge is largely chunk knowledge in the 1980’s.The process of language output is the process of copying prefabricated Chunks knowledge and then transferring it to language output.Based on data collected before,this paper intends to study the dominant reproduction and implicit output of the English language from the perspective of prefabricated chunks,to play a guiding role in optimizing the output ability of EFL learners.展开更多
This paper reports on a series of Consciousness-Raising （C-R） activities focusing on prefabricated verbs chunks and verb patterns. An 18-week experiment was carried out incorporating the C-R activities into a Compre...This paper reports on a series of Consciousness-Raising （C-R） activities focusing on prefabricated verbs chunks and verb patterns. An 18-week experiment was carried out incorporating the C-R activities into a Comprehensive English Course. A writing task and semi-structured interviews were administered after the experiment. Results indicated that （1） the frequency and accuracy of verb patterns used by Experimental Group （EG） were higher than those in the Control Group （CG）; （2） C-R activities promoted the use of the students’ reference material and their ability to notice gaps in meaning, enhanced their interest and confidence in learning English, and guided their personal learning of vocabulary; （3） the EG generally liked the activities.展开更多
文摘Fluency on oral English has always been the goal of Chinese English learners. Language corpuses offer great convenience to language researches. Prefabricated chunks are a great help for learners to achieve oral English fluency. With the help of computer software, chunks in SECCL are categorized. The conclusion is in the process of chunks acquiring, emphasis should be on content-related chunks, especially specific topic-related ones. One effective way to gain topic-related chunks is to build topic-related English corpus of native speakers.
文摘Language is the most important tool for human beings with the outside world.In order to improve the efficiency of communication,people need to maximize the efficiency of language processing to ensure the smooth production and understanding of the meaning,although it is a subtle and complex process in human communication.As Dr.Widdowson proposed that language knowledge is largely chunk knowledge in the 1980’s.The process of language output is the process of copying prefabricated Chunks knowledge and then transferring it to language output.Based on data collected before,this paper intends to study the dominant reproduction and implicit output of the English language from the perspective of prefabricated chunks,to play a guiding role in optimizing the output ability of EFL learners.
文摘This paper reports on a series of Consciousness-Raising （C-R） activities focusing on prefabricated verbs chunks and verb patterns. An 18-week experiment was carried out incorporating the C-R activities into a Comprehensive English Course. A writing task and semi-structured interviews were administered after the experiment. Results indicated that （1） the frequency and accuracy of verb patterns used by Experimental Group （EG） were higher than those in the Control Group （CG）; （2） C-R activities promoted the use of the students’ reference material and their ability to notice gaps in meaning, enhanced their interest and confidence in learning English, and guided their personal learning of vocabulary; （3） the EG generally liked the activities.
