論文題目：Applied Research of College English Writing Based on Contrast between English and Chinese Discourse Cohesive Devices
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ABSTRACT

From the writing score analysis of Chinese CET-4 and CET-6 in recent years, it can be concluded that college students’ English writing competence exists obvious deficiency and needs to be improved. The first part in Chinese CET-4 and CET-6 is writing, and writing is always students’ weak spot with not ideal score. Li Hanqiang ever made statics in 2005. Taking CET-4 and CET-6 in 2002 as an example, according to the statics of CET-4 and CET-6 examining committee, the average score of CET-4 writing in Chinese key universities was 7.28 points, and was only 49 points in hundred-mark system; however, the non-key universities was 6.37 points, and was 42 points in hundred-mark system. According to related survey, in the four tests of listening, speaking, reading and writing, the greater pressure of students comes from the writing test part. Judging from this, it can be concluded that among all the English standardized tests, English writing is a hot potato confronted by students all the time.  
 From perspective of Chinese domestic research to contrast between English and Chinese, the research direction is quite clear. Conducting English teaching and research is based on English and compares English with Chinese. The target of contrastive analysis is to contrast the differences and similarities of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar between learners’ mother tongue and target language, and analyze the source. In teaching process, teacher should contrast the differences of cohesive devices, writing style and text structure between English and Chinese, increase the discussion and analysis to the differences of cohesive devices, promote students to get rid of the influence of Chinese thinking mode, and write out more acceptable English writings. Through emphasizing discourse cohesion knowledge, it can help students master writing conception framework and improve structure planning ability.  
The practical value of this topic lies in cultivating students’ English and Chinese comparative consciousness in writing process, further cultivating the comparative consciousness of any output process, and finally improving students’ English writing level, through the objective carrier of college English writing teaching and practical application of research achievements in contrast between English and Chinese. 

 

摘   要

從近幾年大學英語四、六級寫作成績分析來看，學生的英文寫作能力存在明顯缺陷，亟需提高。大學英語四、六級考試的第一部分就是寫作，這不僅是學生的弱項，而且得分也不近理想。李漢強于2005年對2002年的大學英語四、六級考試的寫作成績做過統(tǒng)計分析，，全國重點大學的四級寫作的平均成績?yōu)?.28分（換算成百分制為49分），然而非重點院校的四級寫作的平均成績僅為6.37分（換算成百分制為42分）。根據(jù)相關(guān)調(diào)查，在聽、說、讀、寫四個部分，學生最大的壓力來源于寫作部分。從這點看來，在所有的英語標準化考試中，寫作確實是學生面對的一大難題。

筆者嘗試將英漢對比的相關(guān)理論運用于大學英語寫作教學當中，以期尋求一種更加有效的大學英語寫作教學的方法。然而，英漢對比的相關(guān)理論繁多復雜，為應用研究選取合適的理論視角特別重要。在綜合分析研究學生寫作水平之后，筆者決定選取英漢語篇銜接手段對比這一切入點來進行分析。對比分析的目標在于對比和比較兩種語言在語音、詞匯和語法等方面的相似點和不同點并分析其原因。因此，教師在教學中應該主動向?qū)W生介紹英漢兩種語言在銜接手段、寫作風格和文章結(jié)構(gòu)等方面的異同，增加學生對英漢銜接手段對比的討論和分析，從而促進學生擺脫中式思維的寫作模式，寫出更加地道的英文作文。
本論文的實際價值在于培養(yǎng)學生在寫作過程中的英漢語篇銜接手段的對比意識，從而提高任何輸出型表達的對比意識，最終提高學生的英文寫作能力。

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT i
TABLE OF CONTENTS iv
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Research Aims 3
1.3 Research Methods 4
1.4 Outline 4
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 6
2.1 Previous Studies on Discourse Cohesion 6
2.1.1 The Definition of Discourse 6
2.1.2 The Definition of Discourse Cohesion 6
2.1.3 Introduction of Cohesion 7
2.1.4 The Studies on Cohesion Abroad 10
2.1.5 The Studies on Cohesion at Home 12
2.1.6 Applied Research in China 14
2.2 Previous studies on College English writing 16
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2.2.4 The Studies on EFL Writing Teaching At Home 25
2.3 Problems in College English Writing 27
2.3.1 Problems 28
2.3.2 Teaching Difficulties 30
CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 32
3.1 Discourse Cohesion 32
3.2 College English writing in the framework of Discourse cohesion 36
3.2.1 Current Situation 36
3.2.2 Suggestions to College English Teaching 38
CHAPTER FOUR EXPERIMENT AND DATA ANALYSIS 40
4.1 Questionnaire designing 40
4.1.1 The Objectives 40
4.1.2 The Subjects 40
4.1.3 The Methods 41
4.2 Experiment 43
4.2.1 The Preparatory Phase 43
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4.5 Analysis in the Framework of Discourse Cohesion 56
4.5.1 Analysis of the Research 56
4.5.2 Reflection of the Research 60
4.5.4 Suggestions for College English Writing 64
CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION 70
5.1 Major Findings 70
5.1.1 Current Research Condition 70
5.1.2 Value of the Research 71
5.1.3 Discourse Cohesion 71
5.1.4 Second Language Writing Teaching 73
5.1.5 Contrastive Analysis 74
5.1.6 College English Writing Teaching 76
5.1.7 Research Method 77
5.1.8 Limitations 78
5.1.9 Recommendations 78
5.2 Recommendations for Future Research 81
REFERENCES 83
中文參考文獻 84
APPENDIX 1 87
APPENDIX 2 90

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 

1.1 Research Background

Along with Chinese entering into WTO and constant changes of international market economy, global exchanges day by day. China has frequently communicate with the outside world; as a result, more institutions and companies put forward higher demands for undergraduates’ English ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among all these abilities, English writing is an important skill. In many fields like science and technology, economy, culture and physical education, people usually use different literary forms (including dissertation, report and letter) to communicate with the outside world. Therefore, University English Syllabus has clear requirements for writing; in order to adapt to this demand, various English examinations list writing as significant content in examination, and CET-4 and CET-6 even set the minimum score for writing (Li Hanqiang, 2003). All of these phenomena require students pay more attention to writing. However, no matter in class, practice after class or all kinds of examinations, students’ general performance in English writing is poor, such as grammatical mistake, expression does not convey the idea, sentence structure is in disorder, genre and form are not clear, viewpoint is ambiguous, and content is inane (Lian Shuneng, 2010). Writing is always an intractable link in college English teaching. On the one hand, many teachers think it is difficult to teach writing, and their great efforts have little effect; on the other hand, students response that writing is difficult, and though after repeated practice, it is not easy to improve the writing competence. 
From the writing score analysis of Chinese CET-4 and CET-6 in recent years, it can be concluded that college students’ English writing competence has deficiency which needs to be improved. The first part in Chinese CET-4 and CET-6 is writing, and writing is always students’ weak spot with not ideal score. Li Hanqiang ever made statics in 2003. Taking CET-4 and CET-6 in 2002 as an example, according to the statics of CET-4 and CET-6 examining committee, the average score of CET-4 writing in Chinese key universities was 7.28 points, and was only 49 points in hundred-mark system; however, the non-key universities was 6.37 points, and was 42 points in hundred-mark system. The average score of CET-4 writing was 7.32 points and 7.18 points (Li Hanqiang, 2003). According to related survey, in the four tests of listening, speaking, reading and writing, the greater pressure of students comes from the writing test part. Judging from this, it can be concluded that among all the English standardized tests, English writing is a hot potato confronted by students all the time. 
From the analysis to writing score in CET-4 and CET-6 in recent years, it can be learned that students’ English writing level has obvious deficiency. English and Chinese belong to different language families with distinctive differences. The author feels that writing does is students’ stumbling block in colleague English writing. There are many students unwilling to write, not good at writing or making short shrift of writing practice. Some surveys find that 75% students think reading is the part they can get the fastest progress; secondly, it is listening; and students regard writing and speaking ability improving has slow rapid (Zou Xiaoling, 2000：26). Cai Jigang also points out that Chinese students’ writing ability lags far behind of their grammar, vocabulary, and reading capacity (Cai Jigang, 2002:51). This also appears in the author’s writing teaching. Most students’ oral expression ability is not equal to their writing (these two parts are members of output of the language).   

 

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