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| 研究生： |
吳卓勳 Wu, Jwo Shiun |
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| 論文名稱： |
臺灣大學生對英語連接詞的理解與使用之研究 A Study on College-Level Chinese Students' Use of English Conjunctions and Their Reading Comprehension |
| 指導教授： |
張武昌
Vincent Chang, W. |
| 學位類別： |
碩士
Master |
| 系所名稱： |
外國語文學院 - 英國語文學系 Department of English |
| 論文出版年： | 1995 |
| 畢業學年度： | 83 |
| 語文別： | 英文 |
| 論文頁數： | 123 |
| 中文關鍵詞： | 連接詞 、閱讀 、英語教學 |
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本研究旨在探討臺灣的大學生連接詞的理解與使用。除比較大學生對「句內」及「句間」連接詞的使用外，所閱讀文章內容的熟悉與否是否影響其使用連接詞，以及英文能力與連接詞使用能力之間的相關性，也是本研究的重點所在。
一百三十五位國立臺灣工業技術學院大一學生參與此研究。其測驗結果顯示：（一）英文能力愈強者，使用連接詞的能力也愈強；（二）「句間」連接詞比「句內」連接詞較難理解使用；（三）對文章內容的熟悉並未顯著幫助受試者選用正確連接詞。
The present study was designed to investigate college-level Chinese students' use of English conjunctions at the intra- and inter-sentential levels, the interaction of content familiarity and use of conjunctions, and the relationship between English proficiency and ability to use conjunctions. It aimed at understanding their weakness in using conjunctions and in comprehending expository texts, and thus providing some pedagogical implications for teaching English conjunctions and reading comprehension.
One hundred and thirty-five freshmen at National Taiwan Institute of Technology participated in the present study. One hundred and three of them were engineering majors and thirty-two of them were business majors. They were given a simulated TOEFL test and a conjunction test. The conjunction test was composed of a sentence-completion test, which was designed to test subjects' ability to use conjunctions within sentences (intrasentential), and a three-passage rational multiple-choice cloze, which was designed to measure subjects' ability to use conjunctions in extended discourses (intersentential) and the interaction of content familiarity and the ability to use conjunctions.
The results showed that (1) college-level Chinese students were more competent in using English conjunctions at the intrasentential level than at the intersentential level, (2) most of the subjects did not seem to comprehend logical development better and thus did not use conjunctions more accurately in content-familiar texts than in content unfamiliar texts, and (3) subjects with higher level of English proficiency exhibited greater ability in using conjunctions both intrasententially and intersententially.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT-----iii
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES-----v
TABLE OF CONTENTS-----vii
CHINESE ABSTRACT-----x
ENGLISH ABSTRACT-----xi
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION-----1
1.1 Some Problems in EFL Reading-----1
1.2 Textual Cohesion and Reading Comprehension-----3
1.3 Background Knowledge and Reading Comprehension-----5
1.4 The Scope of the Study-----7
1.5 Organization of the Study-----10
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE-----12
2.1 Linguistic Studies on Cohesion-----12
2.1.1 The Concept of Cohesion-----13
2.1.2 Cohesion and Linguistic Structure-----14
2.1.3 Linguistic Means of Cohesion-----15
2.1.3.1 Grammatical Cohesion-----15
2.1.3.2 Lexical Cohesion-----24
2.1.4 Conjunction and Expository Text-----26
2.2 Empirical Studies on Conjunctive Cohesion-----27
2.3 Schema Theory and Background Knowledge-----33
2.3.1 Definition of Schema-----35
2.3.2 Processing Modes in Reading-----36
2.3.3 Reading-Related Schemata-----39
2.3.4 Experiments on Content Familiarity and Reading Comprehension-----40
2.4 Cloze Test-----44
2.4.1 The Background of Cloze Test-----44
2.4.2 Construction and Types of Cloze Test-----45
2.4.3 Rational Multiple-Choice Cloze-----48
CHAPTER III METHOD AND PROCEDURE-----51
3.1 Research Design and Data Collection-----51
3.1.1 Subjects-----51
3.1.2 Instruments-----52
3.1.3 Research Design-----58
3.2 Data Processing and Analysis-----59
3.2.1 Scoring Methods-----59
3.2.2 Statistic Methods-----60
CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND FINDINGS-----63
4.1 Use of Conjunctions at Different Discoursal Levels-----64
4.2 Content Familiarity and Use of Conjunctions-----67
4.3 Conjunction Use and Language Proficiency-----71
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS-----77
5.1 Summary of the Results-----77
5.2 Limitations of the Study-----80
5.3 Pedagogical Implications-----82
5.4 Suggestions for Further Research-----86
BIBLIOGRAPHY-----91
APPENDIX A-----101
APPENDIX B-----103
APPENDIX C-----107
APPENDIX D-----108
APPENDIX E-----109
APPENDIX F-----110
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
Table
2.1 Halliday and Hasan's (1976) Taxomony of Cohesion-----15
3.1 Conjunctions Occurring in Business Textbooks-----53
3.2 Conjunctions Occurring in Engineering Textbooks-----54
3.3 The Top Ten Conjunctions Occurring Most Frequently in the Textbooks-----54
4.1 Mean Item Scores and Mean Percent Scores of Conjunction Task-----63
4.2 Mean Item Scores and Mean Percent Scores in SC Task and MCC Task-----64
4.3 T-Test for Mean Difference Between SC Task by AWM and MCC Task-----65
4.4 T-Test for Mean Difference Between SC Task by OWM and MCC Task-----66
4.5 Descriptive Statistics for Conjunction Test in Passages in MCC Task-----68
4.6 T-Tests for Mean Differences in Completing Three Passages in MCC Task by Engineering Majors and Business Majors-----69
4.7 Separate Mean Scores of Engineering Majors and Business Majors on Passages 2 and 3-----70
4.8 Means and Standard Deviations of Simulated TOEFL Scores by Fluent and Not-So-Fluent Readers-----73
4.9 Means and Standard Deviations of SC and MCC Tasks by Fluent and Not-So-Fluent Readers-----74
4.10 Correlations between Conjunction Tasks and Subsections of the Simulated TOEFL Test-----75
Figure
1.1 Grabe's Interactive Parallel Processing Model of Reading-----2
4.1 The Distribution of the Subjects' TOEFL Scores-----72
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