不同年级学生英语议论文写作词汇重复研究
关键词 词汇重复 词汇重复手段 英语议论文
毕业论文外文摘要
Title An Analysis of Lexical Repetition Ties in English Argumentative Writing of College Students in Different Grades
Abstract
In Chinese college students’ English writing, problems like limited variety of vocabulary, the plainness of language, incoherence of the text often occur whereas problems of wrong spelling or grammar seldom happen. This paper has collected data from 32 compositions of 2014 “FLTRP Cup” National English Writing Contest in Nanjing University of Science and Technology tryout and gotten the statistics of variety of lexical repetition/cohesion ties occurred in subjects of different grades based on Halliday and Hasan’s lexical cohesion theory and Hoey’s repetition theory, figuring out the frequency of each lexical cohesion tie. And built on this, this paper is trying to give some suggestions on lexical repetition/cohesion education and contribute to the development of vocabulary and English writing education.
Keywords lexical repetition lexical repetition/cohesion ties English argumentative writing
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Literature Review 2
2.1 Previous Study of Lexical Cohesion in English 2
2.2 Hoey's Lexical Repetition Theory 2
3 Reasearch Methodology 5
3.1 Subjects 5
3.2 Data Collection 5
4 Results and Discussion 6
4.1 Simple Lexical Repetition 6
4.2 Complex Lexical Repetition 7
4.3 Simple Paraphrase 8
4.4 Complex Paraphrase 9
4.5 Reference 10
4.6 Substitution 10
4.7 Summary 10
Conclusion 12
Acknowledgements 13
References 14
Appendix A View on the Zeal of On-line Shoppping 15
1 Introduction
Writing can directly reflect one’s command of one language. So writing ability is quite essential to every English learners. But for long, Chinese students always have the problem in writing a good essay even most of them have learned English for more than a decade. The beginners of English studying usually focus on vocabulary, grammar and sentence pattern whereas ignore the importance of structure of the text. The mistakes occur in compositions of high-level English learners are not often on grammatical level, but on structure and coherence level. Especially when the problems come to coherence, learners have no ideas how to deal with them. Taking English as the second language, most learners still think in a native-language way instead of thinking like a native English speaker, which lead to the incoherence in their English writing. Their ignorance on the significance of lexical repetition/cohesion is a main problem. Since lexical repetition/cohesion is an important standard to judge coherence, analyzing and improving students writing skill on lexical repetition/cohesion should not be ignored.
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