词汇习得视角下的《新编剑桥商务英语》评价

发布时间：2018-05-16 04:12

本文选题：商务英语 + 新编剑桥商务英语　；参考：《广东外语外贸大学》2017年硕士论文

【摘要】：教材对于教学实践起着至关重要的作用,因而选择合适的教材相当必要。如今,越来越多的商务英语教材在市场上出版,使得选择合适的商务英语教材成为了当务之急。选择一本合适的教材之前需要对教材进行综合评估。然而,目前对商务英语教材评估的研究非常有限,且商务英语教材的评价标准仍未确立。相当数量的研究通过将商务英语教材与为普通英语教材评价而设计的评估表作对比来评价商务英语教材。然而,商务英语与普通英语教材大有不同,因而商务英语教材的评价应有其独特的方式。另外,这类研究大多为定性分析,可能会涉及到评估者的主观因素,从而导致评估结果不可靠。本研究试运用语料库分析工具对专为剑桥商务英语证书考试而编写的商务英语教材《新编剑桥商务英语》(初级,中级,高级)(以下简称《新编》)进行客观评价。鉴于词汇知识对学习者语言能力发展的重要性,评价从学习者词汇习得这一角度进行。基于Krashen的输入假设理论和Nagy等人的词汇附带习得理论,本研究从三个方面对《新编》展开评价:(1)教材课文就词汇方面的可理解性如何?(2)教材课文就词汇方面的难度分布是否合理?(3)教材课文中生词的复现是否足够?研究结果表明:(1)该教材初级和中级课本中的课文就词汇方面对目标学习者来说不可理解,而高级课本中的课文就词汇方面对目标学习者来说可理解;(2)该教材课文就词汇方面的难度无论是在每本书内部还是从三本书(初级,中级,高级)整体上来说都分布得不合理;(3)该教材(初级,中级,高级)课文中生词的复现对于帮助学生习得生词来说不足。总体而言,《新编》这套教材在促进学习者的词汇习得方面仍有很大的改进余地:(1)课文中的词汇应覆盖目标学习者已有词汇的98%以上以帮助其在理解课文的基础上习得生词;(2)课文的难度应以由易到难的顺序依次排列以帮助学习者循序渐进地习得生词;(3)课文中的生词应重复出现5次以上以帮助学习者记住生词。
[Abstract]:Teaching materials play an important role in teaching practice, so it is necessary to choose suitable teaching materials. Nowadays, more and more business English textbooks are published in the market. A comprehensive evaluation of the textbook is needed before choosing a suitable textbook. However, the current research on the evaluation of business English textbooks is very limited, and the evaluation criteria of business English textbooks have not been established. A considerable number of studies have compared business English textbooks with the assessment tables designed for the evaluation of general English textbooks to evaluate business English textbooks. However, business English is quite different from general English textbooks, so the evaluation of business English textbooks should have its own unique way. In addition, most of these studies are qualitative analysis, which may involve subjective factors of evaluators, which leads to unreliable evaluation results. This study uses corpus analysis tools to make an objective evaluation of the Business English textbook "New Cambridge Business English" (elementary, intermediate and advanced) written for the Cambridge Business English Certificate examination (hereinafter referred to as "the New Edition"). In view of the importance of lexical knowledge to the development of learners' language competence, the evaluation is carried out from the perspective of learners' vocabulary acquisition. Based on Krashen's input hypothesis theory and Nagy's incidental vocabulary acquisition theory, This study evaluates the "New compilation" from three aspects: (1) how can the text understand the vocabulary? (2) is the distribution of difficulty in the vocabulary of the text reasonable? (3) is it sufficient to reproduce the new words in the text? The results show that: 1) the texts in the primary and intermediate textbooks are not comprehensible to the target learners in terms of vocabulary. And the text in the advanced textbook is understandable to the target learners in terms of vocabulary) the difficulty of the text in terms of vocabulary, whether within each book or in three books (primary, intermediate, The reproduction of new words in the textbook (primary, intermediate and advanced) is insufficient to help students acquire new words. Overall, the new textbook still has a lot of room for improvement in promoting learners' vocabulary acquisition.) the vocabulary in the text should cover more than 98% of the target learners' existing vocabulary in order to help them understand the text. The difficulty of the text should be arranged from easy to difficult in order to help learners to acquire new words gradually.) the new words in the text should be repeated more than five times in order to help learners remember the new words.
【学位授予单位】：广东外语外贸大学
【学位级别】：硕士
【学位授予年份】：2017
【分类号】：H319.3

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