词块与二语教学简介_语篇与词语语义教学
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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
With the frequent communication of the international politics and economy, English teaching of our country is becoming more and more important.Early in 2001, Ministry of Education in China declared that English would be a compulsory course since October that year.The new decision not only placed more emphasis on English learning, but also gave more preure and motive power for English teachers to ameliorate their teaching methods and strategies.Guiding principles of this policy include: to arouse students’ interests in studying English;to build up students’ confidence to master English;to strengthen students’ communicative ability in English, especially oral English;to increase students’ cultural awarene;to decrease the influence of grammar.According to this, English teachers must make sure that students can both have basic English knowledge and communicative ability in hand during their teaching proce.However, elementary English education started in our country at the end of 1980s, so it will be very urgent and important to improve it.Oral English as the reflection of comprehensive English ability has played a vital role in English communication.How to improve oral English should be the first priority in elementary school English teaching.Language teaching has undergone a large variation of theories and methodologies ever since early period of 19th century to 20th century.Recently, many applied linguists namely Becker & Bolinger(1975), Lewis(1993), Nattiger & Decarrico(1992), Syder & Sinclair(1991)found the formulaic nature of language with the help of corpus linguistics which created a new teaching method from the point of view of lexical chunks.What is more, many Chinese linguists have started to be aware of the effect of lexical chunks in second language acquisition and teaching.However, most experimental studies about lexical chunks take college students as participants and it is rare to take elementary school students in the studies, so the effects of lexical chunks on elementary school English deserve more attention in present studies.In this thesis, the author tends to apply lexical chunks in elementary school oral English teaching, hoping to strengthen students’ self-confidence to speak English and reinforce their awarene of different cultures between eastern and western countries.The ultimate goal of the study is to heighten elementary school oral English which can be fluent and idiomatical.1.2 Purpose of the Research
The research aims to examine the function of lexical chunks in improving elementary school students’ oral English and the correlation between lexical chunks and oral English fluency, appropriatene, complexity, students’ grammatical ability, social communication ability, textual ability and strategic ability.This research deals with the following two questions: 1.What is the current state of applying lexical chunks in elementary school oral English? 2.What are the effects of lexical chunks teaching on elementary school oral English?
1.3 Significance of the Research
“The effect of our country’s foreign language teaching is not satisfactory.The teaching method is time-consuming, energy-consuming but inefficient”(Vice Premier Li, 1996).Traditional teaching method has its weakne and it cannot satisfy the need of modern English learners.However, the method of teaching lexical chunks is a unique way to improve the present situation of English learning and teaching in China, especially oral English.Grammar, semantics and pragmatics are the inner ingredients of lexical chunks.That is to say, after learning lexical chunks, students would master the basic knowledge as well as improve their communicative ability.The improvement of oral English will promote their writing and listening abilities too.In addition, the progre can make students realize that lexical chunks are important and effective, so they will learn lexical chunks consciously.The outcome of the research is able to encourage English teachers to apply new teaching theories and to innovate their teaching methodologies.There must be suitable and succeful English teaching methodologies after all the efforts of teachers’ and researchers’ in China.
