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1、2009年7月外国语July2009第32卷第4期JournalofForeignLanguagesVo.l32No.4文章编号:1004-5139(2009)04-0002-09中图分类号:H030文献标识码:A学习者英语语体特征变化的研究文秋芳(北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心,北京100089)摘要:本研究选择了14个典型语体特征,并将其归为口语语体与笔语语体特征群,每个特征群包括7个特征;在此基础上分析英语专业学生一年级与四年级英语口笔语语体特征的变化,同时考察其变化与本族语者口笔语语体差异的方向是
2、否一致。研究结果表明与本族语者相比,能够区分学习者英语口笔语语体的特征数量少,且差异程度不相同;经过4年学习,差异程度朝着本族语者口笔语差异的方向变化,但与本族语者仍旧有很大区别;随着英语水平的提高,学习者口语中5个书面语体特征频次在增加,3个口语体特征频次在减少,笔语中2个口语体特征频次在减少,3个书面特征频次在增加,这意味着口语中的笔语倾向比笔语中口语倾向严重。关键词:语体特征;英语书面语;英语口语;学习者英语AStudyonChangesofRegisterFeaturesinLearnerEnglis
3、hWENQiufang(NationalResearchCentreforForeignLanguageEducation,BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity,Beijing100089,China)AbstractBInthisstudy,14typicalregisterfeatureswereselectedandclassifiedintothespokenandwrittengroupsrespectivelywithsevenonesineach.Basedonthes
4、etwosetsoffeatures,thechangesinspokenandwrittenEnglishbyYearOneandYearFourEnglishMajorswereanalyzedinanattempttoseewhethersuchchangescouldbringEnglishlearnersclosertothedifferencesinthenativespokenandwrittenEnglish.TheresultsshowthatcomparedwiththenativeEng
5、lish,thefeaturesthatcoulddifferentiatethelearner.sspokenfromthewrittenEnglishwerefewer,andtheirdifferences,notthesame;throughfouryears.study,thenumberofdifferentiatingfeaturesdidnotincreasewhilethedifferencesbetweenthespokenandwrittenEnglishchangedresulting
6、inbeingclosertothenativeuse.Moreover,therewasstillahugediscrepancybetweenthelearnerandthenativeEnglishregardingtheuseofregisterfeatures.Theresultsalsoindicatethatalongwithlanguageproficiencyimproving,fivewrittenfeaturesbecamemorefrequentandthreespokenfeatur
7、es,lessfrequentinlearnerspokenEnglishwhiletwospokenfeaturesbecamelessfrequentandthreewrittenfeatures,morefrequentinthelearnerwrittenEnglish.ThissuggeststhatthewrittenstyleinthelearnerspokenEnglishwasmuchstrongerthanthespokenstyleinthelearnerwrittenEnglish.K
8、eywordsBregisterfeatures;writtenEnglish;spokenEnglish;learnerEnglish1.导言析英语语体差异的先河。1999年Biber等[2]随着计算机与语料库技术的发展,国外对出版了5朗文英语口语与笔语语法6(Longman英语本族语的语体特征研究越来越关注。1988GrammarofSpokenandWrittenEnglish)首次提年Bib