摘要
自动评分系统被广泛应用于英语写作教学中,探讨其对学生写作能力的影响已成为焦点。文章以64名不同水平非英语专业学生为对象,将其分为高低水平组,通过对其作文文本和访谈记录的分析来探究句酷批改网对两组受试者作文的句法复杂度。研究结果显示,自动作文评阅系统反馈对二语学习者的写作句法复杂度有积极影响,且不同语言水平的学生在句法复杂度指标上存在显著差异,主要体现在子句平均长度、句子平均长度、T单位平均长度、句子中的子句数量、T单位的子句数量、T单位的复杂T单位数量、子句中从句数量、T单位中从句数量、字句中并列短语数量、T单位中并列短语数量、T单位中复合名词短语数量和动词短语数量等方面。
Automatic Writing Evaluation System has been widely used in English writing teaching,and its effects on students’writing ability has become the focus.The study aims to explore the effects of an Automatic Writing Evaluation system on writing syntactic complexity of 64 non-English majors with different English proficiencies through text analysis and interviews.The results show that the syntactic complexity of EFL learners’writing is positively affected by the feedback of AWE,and there are significant differences in syntactic complexity indices among students of different language proficiency levels,mainly reflected in the mean length of clauses,the mean length of sentences,the mean length of T-unit,clauses per sentences,and clauses per Tunit,complex T-units per T-unit,dependent clauses per clause,dependent clauses per T-unit,coordinated phrases per clause,coordinated phrases per T-unit,compound nominal phrases per T-unit and verb phrases per T-unit.
出处
《大学英语教学与研究》
2018年第5期94-101,共8页
College English Teaching & Research
基金
2016年重庆市社会科学规划培育项目:基于在线写作自动评分系统的英语写作形成性评价研究(编号:2016PY33)
重庆市高等教育教学改革研究项目:基于输出驱动的立体化大学英语教学模式改革与实践(编号:143028)
