词汇搭配与英语词汇教学 英语毕业论文.doc

Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………… …..…….……1 2.The Theoretical Basis for Collocations………………………………………………………...1 3. The Types and Importance of English Collocations…………………………………………..1 3.1 The Compositions of Vocabulary Collocations…………………………………………1 3.2 Types of Vocabulary Collocations……………………………………………………….2 4. The Main Problems that the Chinese Students Face in Vocabulary Collocations……………...2 4.1 Collocations of Chinese-English Style…………………………………………………..2 4.2 Semantic Repetition………………………………………………………...…………....3 4.3 Regardlessness of Commendatory or Derogatory Meanings……………………………3 4.4 Parts of Speech Confusion……………………………………………………………….3 4.5 Over-generalization……………………………………………………………………...4 5. Vocabulary Teaching Methods……………………………………….…………………………4 5.1 Problems that Should be Noticed in Vocabulary Teaching……………………………...…4 5.1.1 Emphasizing different kinds of collocational relationships……………………………4 5.1.2 Applying methods of comparisons to vocabulary teaching……………………………4 5.1.3 Incoporating language context with vocabulary teaching……………………………..5 5.1.4 Applying language database to vocabulary teaching…………………………………..6 5.1.5 Applying knowledge of semantics to vocabulary teaching…………………………....6 5.1.6 Catogorize the vocabulary collocations………………………………………………..7 5.2 Enhancing the Students’ Awareness of the Learning of Collocations……………………...7 5.2.1 Requiring the students to find out the collocations in the text……………………..….7 5.2.2 Doing exercises by choosing collocations from the text…………………………...…7 5.2.3 Looking up collocations in the dictionary……………………………………….……7 5.2.4 Understanding the development and changes of collocations from etymological point of view………………………………………………………………………………..7 5.2.5 Matching exercises of English-Chinese phrases……………………………………....8 5.2.6 Reteling the text……………………………………………………………………….8 6. Conclusion………….…………………………………………………………………………..9 Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………10 Bibliography……………………………..…………………………………………………...….11 Vocabulary Collocations and English Vocabulary Teaching Abstract: English vocabulary has a strong ability of collocations , therefore, by making full use of English vocabulary collocations, one can expand vocabulary and master the correct usages of the words. However, Chinese English learners have got many problems while using them. As collocation is one of the most important and difficult aspects to grasp vocabulary, thus in English teaching, the teacher should have a deep analysis of the factors influencing the students’ learning English and help them master English vocabulary collocations faster and more efficiently. The paper discusses the main problems of vocabulary collocations and proposes how the teachers guide and help students master the vocabulary with the correct methods thus to improve the quality of vocabulary teaching. Key words: Vocabulary Vocabulary collocations Teaching 词汇搭配与英语词汇教学 (指导教师: ) 摘要：英语词汇具有很强的搭配能力,利用英语词汇搭配,可以扩大词汇量,掌握单词的正确用法。但是,中国英语学习者在词汇搭配使用过程中,却存在很多问题。由于搭配是外语学习者词汇发展的重要内容和难点之一，在英语教学中，教师要深入分析影响学生学习词汇搭配的因素，帮助英语学习者更迅捷，更高效地掌握英语词汇搭配。本文分析了词汇搭配中存在的主要问题,并提出教师在教授词汇时,如何引导和帮助学生正确地掌握词汇搭配的方法,提高词汇教学质量。 关键词: 词汇 词汇搭配 词汇教学 中图分类号:H319 Vocabulary Collocations and English Vocabulary Teaching 1. Introduction Collocation is an important part of the comprehensive ability of a language. On most occasions of social life, with the right combinations of words, appropriate and proper language expressions, people express the main ideas and fully reflect the objective world, thus to reach the goal of successful delivery. However, although some English learners have a large number of vocabulary, yet they can not appropriately express the full meaning that they want to express. In speaking and writing, it is a common thing that they often misuse the words. Therefore, collocations remain still one of the most intractable problems in second language acquisition. The paper first analyses and summarizes the main problems that exist in collocations, finds out the root of these problems and proposes some teaching methods to reduce the misuse of collocations, thereby enhancing the quality of teaching vocabulary. 2. The Theoretical Basis for Collocations Although the concept of collocation has been widely used, the academic definition varies. Zhu Yongsheng proposes that collocation is related not only with words, but also with syntax. The most important and most noteworthy phenomena of collocations are semantic links between different words and different components. Joos believes a word of all possible collocations, for the linguists, actually is the meaning of the word.Firth holds that in order to understand a word, we should first look at the relationship with other words. Meaning exits in the language, and it depends on the word. Handan thinks that collocation is the customary used-together of one word with another. Lewis defines collocation as a language phenomenon that is easy to observe, as its constituent elements appear simultaneously in the natural discourse, and the flexibility is greater than the randomness. Khellmer has the view that many words in our brain are in the form of collocation, which is a relationship between a word and a word or between a phrase and a phrase。 Therefore, the meaning of collocation is closely related, interdependent and has mutual constraints and determines semantics of each other. Collocation is a significant way of constituting the meaning of a word. 3. The Types and Importance of English Collocations Collocation means combinational words or phrases which is used to express full meaning and has a fixed structure. Vocabulary collocations express the relationships between different words. Therefore, such idioms as “take a break”and “go on the ride” are all considered as collocations. 3.1 The Compositions of Vocabulary Collocations The vocabulary Collocations can be classfied as different types. A collocation can be composed of two words or even more. (1)adjective+noun heavy traffic (2)noun+noun a diary book (3)verb+adjective+noun speak a foreign language (4)verb+adverb apologize sincerely (5)adverb+verb Half understand (6)adverb+adjective badly dressed (7)verb+preposition+noun Tremble with fear Some collocations may be quite long, for example, s”eriously affect the political situation in The US” is composed of “preposition+verb+adjective+noun+preposition+noun”. 3.2 Types of Vocabulary Collocations Lewis classified vocabulary collocations into the following types: (1) Strong: The combinations of many collocations are very strict or fixed, for example,“a white lie”. (2) Weak: Some things can be long or short, can be cheap or expensive and also can be good or bad, but some things can be predicted previously, for example,“white coffee“ and “black coffee”.So they are called collocations. (3) Medium Strength: It is between the two above. For example, “hold a meeting” and “carry out a project”. 4. The Main Problems that the Chinese Students Face in Vocabulary Collocations The ability of vocabulary collocations is related to the efficiency of second language acquisition. Howe