【作者】 谢枝龙；

【导师】 林跃武；

【作者基本信息】 江西师范大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2004， 硕士

【摘要】 基于第二语言习得理论、语言学、心理语言学、英语语篇衔接及英语教学等理论，本论文利用错误分析理论探讨大学英语专业学生英语写作中的语篇衔接错误特点，并对学习者错误属性及错误原因进行分析，提出在英语写作教学实践中对错误应持有的态度、解决方法和教学意义。 本论文追溯了有关语言学者对学习者错误研究的各种不同流派和观点，介绍了各学派对学习者错误分析的研究方法和各自存在的问题，同时本文还详细归纳了各语言学派对错误的不同分类和界定。 学习者错误的产生是二语习得过程中必不可少的现象。由于语言学界曾对对比分析一度地排斥，对待学习者错误也一直持有否定态度，认为学习者不应该犯错误，有错必纠。然而学习是一个过程，学习者的中介语作为一个持续体反映出学习者中介语和目的语的差距，也就是我们说的错误。通过对错误的分析我们可以进一步了解学习者学习语言的整个过程，懂得错误如何产生和为何产生，这比单纯描写学习者错误的语言形式本身更有研究意义。学习者错误的根源纷繁复杂，有语言的因素，如对目的语语言知识的缺乏，对母语和目的语的偏见和不足；有个人的因素，如学习者个人的心理、情感、动机、认知能力、学习策略、交际策略等；还有社会环境因素，如学习环境、家庭环境、社会地位、社会政策、经济、文化等等。最后，作者通过对江西师范大学英语专业学生写作中英语语篇衔接的实证调查，得出该校学生的语篇衔接错误发生规律和特点；论文还就错误分析的结果联系中国的外语教学实际，提出在英语写作教学中的正确态度及理论和实际意义。 本论文分为六个章节： 第一章为本论文的简介，阐述错误研究的必要性和重要性并简单介绍论文的主要内容。 第二章对错误分析进行综述和回顾、介绍对错误研究的不同流派和观点、详细介绍对错误研究的不同研究理论及模式，最后归纳语言错误的定义、描述、和分类。 第三章是本论文的方法论部分，说明本论文的研究目的和研究方法。 第四章是本文的中心部分，是作者对江西师范大学外国语学院英语系学生作文进行有关英语语篇衔接的实证调查后作出的调查报告和数据分析。通过对学生写作中出现的衔接错误进行统计分析论证并结合语篇衔接理论，作者从横向角度分析此类错误的变化特点并总结错误产生的种种根源及对待错误应有的态度和评价。 第五章作者基于前文的研究结果结合中国英语教学实际，提出错误研究对英语写作教学的理论和实际意义，最后本章还指出了此实证研究存在的不足。 第六章是本篇论文的总结，再次重申错误分析研究在二语习得以及外语教学中的重要意义并再次对错误分析和错误研究提出建议和希望。更多还原

【Abstract】 On the theories of Second Language Acquisition, Functional Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and English Writing, this M.A. thesis intends to use the framework of Error Analysis (EA) to look into the insights of linguistic features and the properties of learner errors made in English writing, and further to implicate some new approaches to the treatment of errors and the teaching of writing in the ELT in Chinese context.The thesis provides definitions of error and delimitations of error study. Learners can make errors in both the comprehension level and the production level of the target language. This thesis only attempts to probe the production errors, for, as Corder (1974: 125) says, ’it is very difficult to assign the cause of failures of comprehension to an inadequate knowledge of a particular syntactic feature of a misunderstood utterance’. That is why comprehension errors have received scant attention. Based on the fundamental thoughts that ’to err is human’ and that errors are indispensable with the learner and attributable to learning, the thesis traces the theoretical bases of the study of learner errors, and it reviews different paradigms of or research approaches to the examination of learner errors. The study of learner errors has gone through different stages. Language researchers have adopted different paradigms to investigate learner errors. Generally speaking there are paradigms of Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Interlanguage, and Transfer Analysis, viewed from different psychological and linguistic perspectives like Behaviorism and Structuralism, Cognitivism and Humanism. Then the thesis offers a general understanding of errors, with regard to the definitions, descriptions, and classifications of errors.Secondly, the thesis makes a cross-sectional research of cohesion errors in English writing in Chinese context. Some general rules of cohesion errors are concluded and the result found in this study indicates that Chinese students generally failed in writing coherently. With the analysis of possible causes oferrors and with the theoretical understandings of error causes, the author concludes a three-tier frame oF error reasons, which are classified into individual, internal, and external sources.Finally, relating to the teaching oF English Writing and the importance oF error Feedback, the thesis accordingly gives the implications in the ELT. The thesis holds that learner errors attribute to the success oF language learning. The study oF learners themselves and how and why they make such errors are more important and meaningful than that of the surface linguistic Forms.Though there are still problems and opposite views oF EA, Further work and empirical studies are sure to be carried on to explore its nature, and thus to facilitate the language teaching and learning practices in China. The present thesis is consisted of xix chapters:Chapter One is an introduction of error studies. It has two parts. Firstly, the need to study errors has been slated. The study oF errors in the process of Language acquisition is an indispensable part of linguistic research. The importance of error study has been highlighted since Lado’s publication of Linguistics Across Culture in 1957. Though there have been some criticisms oF error study, more and more researchers have come to revive its importance and more and more related materials have been published. Secondly, the chapter introduces the overall organization of this thesis.Chapter Two is a literature review of error studies. Different approaches and paradigms in the study of learner errors are provided respectively. From contrastive analysis to error analysis, and From transfer analysis to interlanguage, different theories put different emphasis on the study of errors. The chapter can also be seen as a brief historical account of error analysis, along with its heyday and criticism. Finally this chapter gives us a general understanding oF error definitions, descriptions, and classifications.Chapter Three provides us with a methodology, offering更多还原