词块理论与大学英语写作教学

写作是语言重要的输出方式之一.现阶段我国大学生英语写作能力普遍不高,主要表现在作文中遣词造句错误多,语篇逻辑性差,母语负迁移现象严重等.随着语料库语言学近年来的不断发展,词块理论为大学英语写作教学提供了一种新的思路和视角.介绍了词块的概念、分类以及在大学英语写作中应用词块理论的优势,指出了词块理论指导下的大学英语写作教学的有效途径.

On Lexical Chunks and Teaching of College English Writing

As an important means of language output, writing reflects a learner＇s general language profi- ciency objectively. Presently many Chinese college students are not good at writing and they have many writing problems such as errors in wording, poor discourse logic and severe negative transfer of mother tongue. With the development of corpus linguistics, however, the theory of lexical chunks provides a new perspective for teaching college English writing. This paper makes a brief introduction to the concept and classification of lexical chunks and analyzes the advantages of lexical chunks in college English writing. Then,some effective steps are presented to teaching college English writing under the guidance of lexical chunks theory.