文档介绍：重庆大学
硕士学位论文
提高大学生英语学习中的积极词汇——关于积极词汇的实证研
究
姓名:冯巨澜
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:外国语言学及应用语言学
指导教师:余渭深
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重庆大学硕士学位论文中文摘要

摘要

词汇语义学的发展促使了心理词汇、语义场、词汇聚合和组合关系等理论的
发展。这些理论认为词汇在心理词典中形成相互关联、相互依存的网络,词汇的
种种网络关系模式有利于语言学习者通过聚合和组合的联想模式回忆并产出恰当
的词汇。鉴于这一已被证明和认可的观点:语言学习者的消极词汇量远大于积极
词汇量,提高积极词汇量是相对于提高消极词汇的一个更大挑战,本研究设计了
基于上述理论的一系列课堂教学活动,试图证明基于词汇联想模式理论的教学手
段在很大程度上能促使学习者在写作中使用更加多样化的、词级更高的和更恰当
的积极词汇这一假说。本研究采用了教育部新近发布的积极词汇表,并按照词汇
频率将其划分为三个等级;实验周期为 16 周,对象为重庆大学非英语专业的两个
自然班(一班为实验班,二班为控制班);在实验前期和后期收集受试者作文共计
500 篇并输入计算机、建立电子语料库;然后将作文逐篇输入经过修正的 LFP 软
件,得出每篇作文中各级词汇所占比例以及每篇作文的总词汇、不同词汇和词条
的数量对比;最后将数据输入 SPSS 软件包以检验两个受试群体间是否存在显著性
差异。经过对两个受试群体的对比研究,本研究发现两个群体之间存在显著差异(P
=.00),证实了上述的假说,即词汇联想教学法能够丰富学习者的积极词汇。

关键词:积极词汇,词汇关系模式,词汇联想教学法,词汇丰富性,词汇多样性,
词汇复杂性.
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重庆大学硕士学位论文 ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT

This empirical study provides reliable data to prove that it is practicable to use
semantic-association pedagogy to boost the variation, sophistication and
appropriateness of active words by raising language learners’ consciousness and
activating the works of vocabulary in learners’ mental lexicon.
Considering the publicly-recognized idea that learners possess much larger amount of
passive words than active words, and putting passive words into active use is a much
more challenging task than the acquisition of passive words, based on the rationale that
vocabulary of a language is work of sense-relations, this current
research designs a series of classroom activities aimed at activating subjects’ mental
lexicon and producing more varied and advanced vocabulary in their free writing. The
study adopts the Active Vocabulary List newly issued by Ministry of Education (2004)
and categorized into three levels according to different frequency levels. After
16-week’s longitudinal research, by establishing position corpus consisting of 500
pieces of writing and by means of the modified Lexical Frequency Profile (LFP) as the
measurement tool puter analysis of the