【作者】 杨晓；

【导师】 罗鹏；

【作者基本信息】 上海交通大学 ， 外国语言学及应用语言学， 2011， 硕士

【摘要】 语言教学通常定义为教授四种技能:听,说,读,写。在这四种技能中,说和写通常称之为产出性技能。既然说和写同属产出性技能,二者之间必定有许多共同点,并且彼此关系密切。这一点已经由各领域的众多研究者所证明。然而,关于口语测试和写作测试的相关性研究却很少可以看到,更不用说大学英语四级考试中写作部分和口语考试的相关了。为了填补这项研究中的空白,本研究以实证的方法对大学生的大学英语四、六级口语考试成绩与他们的四级写作部分考试成绩之间的相关性进行了初步探究。本研究中所涉及的研究问题如下:(1)大学生的英语口头表达能力和英语写作能力之间有没有显著的相关关系?如果有,相关度如何?(2)对具有不同口头表达能力或者写作能力的考生,其口语能力与写作能力的相关关系呈现怎样的格局?(3)观察这两种技能之间具有不同相关关系的考生在口头表达和写作中对语言特征的掌握上呈现怎样的状态和规律?实验中,1500名来自中国不同大学的学生参与了本研究。他们首先参加了大学英语四级考试执笔考试并全部以不低于550分的总成绩通过,之后他们又全部参加了四、六级口语考试。研究数据在收集完成之后,经过整理录入SPSS 11.5,SPSS主要对数据做描述性统计和Pearson相关分析。根据SPSS输出的实验结果,本研究得出以下结论:(1)中国大学生的英语口头表达能力和英语写作能力之间整体上存在正相关,但相关系数极低,只有0.051。(2)无论是对具有不同口头表达能力的考生还是对具有不同写作能力的考生,他们的英语口语能力与写作能力之间都不存在显著的相关关系。(3)通过对这两种技能之间具有不同相关关系的考生在口头表达和写作中对语言特征的掌握上的观察发现,口头表达能力强但写作能力中等甚至偏低的考生在口语考试中能产出较长的句子,口语流利,发音好,并且积极参与小组讨论,但在写作考试用的多是简单的词汇和句子结构,并且论述罗嗦,连贯性不好;而口头表达能力差但写作能力中等甚至偏高的考生,他们的口语不够流利,语法错误繁多,语音语调也不标准,但他们的写作结构清晰,有说服力,语法错误少,并且句子结构和选词比较灵活。因此,为了实现中国大学生英语的平衡发展,即,英语口语能力和写作能力同步提高,在今后的英语学习中,对于口头表达能力强但写作能力中等甚至偏低的考生,他们需要在写作中注意选词,尽量写信息量大的句子,还要有适当的连接词。同时,对于口头表达能力差但写作能力中等甚至偏高的考生,他们则需要在今后的英语学习中增加口语的练习。这样,大学生的口语能力和写作能力才能同步达到高水平。更多还原

【Abstract】 As we generally acknowledge, the aims of language teaching course are very commonly defined in terms of four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among the four skills, speaking and writing are said to be productive skills, and people generally agree on this point. Since speaking and writing are grouped under productive skills, they must enjoy lots of similarities and have a close relationship with each other. Indeed, this point has been extensively proved by many researchers from various fields. Nevertheless, very few correlational studies between speaking test and writing test could be found, let alone the correlation between CET-SET and CET-4 Writing Sub-test.In order to fill the research gap, an empirical research was implemented to attempt to investigate whether or not there is a significant correlation between Chinese college students’CET-SET grades and their CET-4 Writing Sub-test grades. The research questions to be addressed in this study are listed as follows:(1) Is there an overall significant correlation between college students’English speaking ability and their English writing ability? If yes, to what extent they are correlated?(2) How are their speaking ability and writing ability correlated with each other for students of different English writing or speaking levels?(3) What notable characteristics can be found in their English speaking and writing for students with inconsistent speaking and writing levels?In the research experiment, 1,500 college students from different Chinese universities participated in the study. They first attended CET-4 and passed it with total scores no less than 550 points out of 710 points, and later they all attended CET-SET. After the procedure of data collection, the research data were formatted and then exported to SPSS 11.5. Descriptive analysis and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were employed to investigate the three research questions. Then the researcher analyzed the results of the experiment. The major findings of this study are shown as follows:(1) There is an overall positive correlation between Chinese college students’English speaking ability and their English writing ability, but the correlation coefficient is very low, only 0.051.(2) For students of different English speaking or writing levels, there is always no significant intragroup correlation between their English speaking ability and their English writing ability.(3) Through the analysis of their speaking and writing samples of students with inconsistent speaking and writing levels, it is found that students with high English speaking ability yet intermediate or even low English writing ability produce extended discourses, speak fluently with a good pronunciation and participate in the group discussions actively in SET whereas they use dominantly simple words and sentence structures as well as redundant and less coherent arguments in their writings; for students with low English speaking ability yet intermediate or even high English writing ability, their SET performance is characterized by influent utterances, plenty of grammatical errors as well as poor pronunciation and intonation while their writings are featured with the clear structure, convincing examples, few grammatical errors as well as flexible sentence structures and word choice.Thus, in order to develop Chinese college students’English in a balanced way, that is, to develop their English speaking ability and writing ability at the same time, in their English study later on, for the students with high English speaking ability yet intermediate or even low English writing ability, they need to work more on their word choice and try to write informative sentences with appropriate cohesive devices in their writings; meanwhile, for the students with low English speaking ability yet intermediate or even high English writing ability, what they need most in their English study later is more practice of their oral English. Only in this way, can college students’English speaking ability and writing ability both reach a high level.更多还原