摘要
本文采用语料库技术对近五年温州中考英语阅读文本的词汇、句法和语篇难度进行测量,发现:阅读文本总词数为1100-1300;词汇密度集中在37.45%—40.51%;文本的平均易读度为67.6;D篇易读度最高;文本的词汇、句法和语篇难度均呈上升趋势。建议教师引导学生增加阅读输入,开展多话题、多体裁的课外阅读;培养学生猜测词义、分析长难句与合理把控时间的阅读策略;开展整体阅读教学,促进学生的深度学习。本文在如何运用语料库资源对外语阅读测试进行考前难度控制、考后难度评估与教学反拨等方面提供了技术与理论上的启示。
Employing corpus technology,the paper measures the difficulty of the texts in English reading comprehension in Wenzhou senior school entrance examination from 2017 to 2021 in terms of lexical,syntactic and textual levels.The study yields the findings that:the total words range from 1,100 to 1,300;the average type-token ratio ranges from 37.45%to 40.51%;the average readability is 67.6;text D has the highest readability.The statistics indicate an upward trend in lexical,syntactic and textual difficulty.Thus the paper suggests teachers:lead students to increase reading input and enhance extracurricular reading of various topics and genres;cultivate students’reading strategies of guessing the meaning of new words,analyzing long and difficult sentences and arranging time properly;teach reading as a whole and facilitate students’deep learning.The research has some enlightenment about how to control the difficulty of reading texts when designing a test,assess the difficulty after a test and improve teaching by means of corpus resources.
作者
郑鸥
Zheng Ou(Yangzhou University,Yangzhou Jiangsu 225100,China)
出处
《基础教育外语教学研究》
2022年第8期39-44,共6页
Foreign Language Teaching & Research in Basic Education
关键词
语料库
阅读文本
难度
corpus
reading texts
difficulty
