Error Analysis of Lexical Cohesion in English Writ

ErrorAnalysisofLexicalCohesioninEnglishWritingbyLiRoubingSupervisedbyinpartialfulfillmentoftherequirementfortheB.A.degreeSchoolofForeignLanguagesAnhuiScienceandTechnologyUniversityJune2008IAbstractAmongmanyfactorswhichmayresultinpoorqualitystudentwriting,thecohesiveerrorisanimportantone.AccordingtoHallidayandHasan,cohesionisthefoundationofcoherence;whichisthemostimportantprerequisiteforthetext,thustheimportantaspectofgoodqualitywriting.Therefore,investigationintotheuseandmisuseofcohesivedevicesbystudentscanhelpthemimprovethequalityoftheirwriting.Basedonthetheoriesoferroranalysisandcohesion,thisthesisfocusesontheanalysisoflexicalcohesionerrorsinthewritingofthesecond-yearstudentsinAnhuiScienceandTechnologyUniversity,throughaquantitativeanalysisandadetailedexplanationofthereasonsunderlyingtheirperformance,thereforeaimstoincreasetheawarenessofbothteachersandstudentsineitherteachingorusingcohesivedevices.Theresultofthestudyrevealsthaterrorsinlexicalcohesion,especiallythecollocationalerrorsarequitecommoninChinesestudents’writing.Inordertoraisethestudents’discourseawareness,somerelevantteachingmethodsarealsodiscussed.Keywords:lexicalcohesion,erroranalysis,writing,writingteachingII中文摘要英语写作是英语教学中的重要环节，它能全面地反映学生对英语单词、语法的掌握情况及遣词造句的能力，是衡量英语水平高低的重要标准。写作是教学中的重难点，学生在写作中总会出现各种问题，以至于写作水平提不上去。而导致这一现象的最重要的原因之一是衔接和连贯。本文应用错误分析的方法针对大学英语写作中的词汇衔接错误进行分析。通过对一定数量的大学二年级学生的英语作文进行等级划分，着重对不同等级的作文中出现的词汇衔接错误进行调查、分析、研究，找出错误的来源，并给出一些可操作的解决方案，希望能够帮助老师在现实英语写作教学中改进教学方法，强化衔接的作用，提高教学质量，同时提出新的词汇记忆方法，希望可以帮助学生转变记忆方式，通过上下文的衔接与连贯在具体的语境中记忆单词，体会衔接的益处并运用于实践中，进而提高写作技能和水平。关键词：词汇衔接、错误分析、写作、写作教学ContentsAbstract.................................................................................................................I中文摘要..............................................................................................................IIIntroduction.........................................................................................................1Chapter1TheoreticalBasis................................................................................31.1ErrorAnalysis..............................................................................................................31.1.1TheDevelopmentofErrorAnalysis................................................................31.1.1.1SuccessiveParadigmsintheStudiesofLearnersErrors.............................................31.1.1.2TheHeydayandCriticismofErrorAnalysis..............................................................51.1.2TheDefinitionofError.....................................................................................61.1.2.1ErrorDefinition...........................................................................................................61.1.2.2DistinctionbetweenErrorsandMistakes....................................................................61.2Cohesion.......................................................................................................................71.2.1ConceptofCohesion..........................................................................................71.2.2ClassificationofCohesion.................................................................................71.2.3CohesionandCoherence..................................................................................81.3ABriefSummary.........................................................................................................9Chapter2ResearchandMethodology............................................................102.1ResearchandtheResearchFocus............................................................................102.2DataCollecting..........................................................................................................112.3DataAnalysis.............................................................................................................122.3.1GradingScheme..............................................................................................122.3.2CodingScheme................................................................................................12Chapter3ResultandAnalysis.........................................................................153.1Repetition...................................................................................................................153.2SynonymsandSuperordinate..................................................................................173.3GeneralWord............................................................................................................183.4Collocation.................................................................................................................19Chapter4ImplicationsandLimitations.........................................................214.1PedagogicalImplicationsofthePresentResearch.................................................214.2LimitationsofPresentResearch..............................................................................23Conclusion.......