Technical University English-major Junior Students' Difficulties and Attitudes toward Using Web-based Corpus in an English Writing Class

科技大學應用外語系學生對於英文作文課中使用線上語料庫的困難與態度調查

吳偉西(Wei-Shi Wu)

《國立虎尾科技大學學報》 27卷2期 (2008/06) Pp. 111-120

https://doi.org/10.6425/JNHUST.200806.0111

摘要

本文旨在探討58位國立科技大學應用外語系大三學生，對於英文作文課中，使用線上語料庫的困難與態度之意見調查。受測學生根據他們英文寫作中所犯的詞語錯誤，組成四人小組，使用線上語料庫來搜尋正確的詞語用法。研究結果顯示應外系學生認爲語料庫對於：1.字彙的使用(83%)；2.字彙意義的習得(80%)；以及3.片語的使用(76%)比較有幫助。只有63%的學生認爲語料庫能改善英語寫作技巧。應外系大三學生使用語料庫最大的困難分別爲：1.搜尋結果有太多不懂的單字(58%)；2.搜尋結果有太多句子(58%)。有關於針對未來英文作文課中使用線上語料庫的教學建議於後文討論。

關鍵字

線上語料庫 ； 外語學習者 ； 英文作文

並列摘要

The study aimed to investigate 58 technical university English-major students' difficulties and perceptions of use of a corpus in an English writing class. The participants were required to form a four-student group to conduct a weekly corpus search practice. The corpus searches were based on their mistakes made in their writing samples. The participants had four weeks to do the corpus search practice outside the classroom. They were required to bring their corpus search results in the class and share with their classmates. The results of the study indicated that the participants believed that web-based corpus were helpful for the following areas: the usage of vocabulary (83%), the learning of vocabulary meaning (80%), and the usage of phrases (76%). Their difficulties in corpus use were unfamiliar vocabulary in the corpus output and too many sentences in the corpus output. Only 63% of the participants believed that the web-based corpus was helpful for improving their English writing skills.

並列關鍵字

Web-based corpus ； EFL learners ； English writing class

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