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1、专四词汇专题讲座李克莉•专四词汇知多少?•专四词汇考什么?•词汇怎么来扩大?•专四词汇难点与考点解析专四词汇知多少?专四词汇知多少???•HowmanywordsarethereinEnglish?•Twoseparatestudies(Dupuy,1974;Goulden,NationandRead,1990)havelookedatthevocabularyofWebster'sThirdInternationalDictionary(1963),thelargestnon-historicaldictiona
2、ryofEnglishwhenitwaspublished.Whencompoundwords,archaicwords,abbreviations,propernames,alternativespellingsanddialectformsareexcluded,andwhenwordsareclassifiedintowordfamiliesconsistingofabaseword,inflectedforms,andtransparentderivations,Webster's3rdhasavocabu
3、laryofaround54,000wordfamilies.Thisisalearninggoalfarbeyondthereachesofsecondlanguagelearnersand,asweshallsee,mostnativespeakers.•Atpresentthebestconservativeruleofthumbthatwehaveisthatuptoavocabularysizeofaround20,000wordfamilies,weshouldexpectthatnativespeak
4、erswilladdroughly1000wordfamiliesayeartotheirvocabularysize.Thatmeansthatafiveyearoldbeginningschoolwillhaveavocabularyofaround4000to5000wordfamilies.Auniversitygraduatewillhaveavocabularyofaround20,000wordfamilies(Goulden,NationandRead,1990).Thesefiguresareve
5、ryroughandthereislikelytobeverylargevariationbetweenindividuals.Thesefiguresexcludepropernames,compoundwords,abbreviations,andforeignwords.Awordfamilyistakentoincludeabaseword,itsinflectedforms,andasmallnumberofreasonablyregularderivedforms(BauerandNation,1993
6、).•Clearlythelearnerneedstoknowthe3,000orsohighfrequencywordsofthelanguage.Theseareanimmediatehighpriorityandthereislittlesenseinfocusingonothervocabularyuntilthesearewelllearned.•Nation(1990)arguesthatafterthesehighfrequencywordsarelearned,thenextfocusforthet
7、eacherisonhelpingthelearnersdevelopstrategiestocomprehendandlearnthelowfrequencywordsofthelanguage.•请问专四考试要求的词汇量是多少?与大学英语六级相比,哪个考试词汇量要求更大?•高等学校英语专业教学大纲规定专四水平学生应认知词汇5,500~6,500个,正确而熟练地运用其中的3,000~4,000个及其最基本的搭配。而考生们比较熟悉的大学英语六级考试要求5,500个单词。•从考纲规定来说,专四的词汇量比六级更大,而且
8、专四对词汇搭配、词义辨析考查得更加细化和专业;由于新六级考试已经取消了词汇语法题,因此在词汇用法的掌握方面要求明显低于专四。•这里面尤其要注意,专四毕竟跟非英语专业的英语基础水平测试题目有不同,他要考察的是英语专业学生的技能,所以常常会对一些高难度的词法和语法点有所涉及。所以也要学会记住各个考点所涉及的难点和例外情况(词法和语法的一个特色在于他们经常会有例外