中国英语学习者英语叙事语篇中指称表达使用实证研究的开题报告.docx

中国英语学习者英语叙事语篇中指称表达使用实证研究的开题报告

Title:AnEmpiricalStudyonReferenceExpressionsinEnglishNarrativeDiscoursebyChineseEnglishLearners

Introduction:

ReferenceexpressionsplayacrucialroleinconstructingcohesiveandcoherentnarrativesinEnglish.However,ChineseEnglishlearnersoftenencounterchallengesinusingreferenceexpressionseffectivelyduetothedifferencesbetweentheChineseandEnglishlanguagesintermsofreferencestrategies,grammaticalstructures,andculturalbackground.Therefore,thisstudyaimstoinvestigatetheuseofreferenceexpressionsinEnglishnarrativediscoursebyChineseEnglishlearners.

ResearchQuestions:

1.WhattypesofreferenceexpressionsdoChineseEnglishlearnersuseintheirEnglishnarrativediscourse?

2.WhatarethecommonerrorsmadebyChineseEnglishlearnersintheiruseofreferenceexpressionsinEnglishnarrativediscourse?

3.WhatarethefactorsthatinfluencetheuseofreferenceexpressionsinEnglishnarrativediscoursebyChineseEnglishlearners?

Methodology:

Thisstudywilluseamixed-methodsapproachtoanalyzethedatacollectedfrom50ChineseEnglishlearners’narrativeessays.Thequantitativedatawillbeanalyzedusingstatisticalsoftware,whilequalitativedatawillbeanalyzedusingdiscourseanalysismethods.Thedatawillbecollectedthroughasurvey,whichwillincludenarrativewritingtasksandquestionsaboutthelearners’languagelearningbackgroundsandstrategies.

ExpectedResults:

Basedontheanalysisofthedata,itisexpectedthatChineseEnglishlearnerswillusemoreexplicitreferenceexpressionsintheirEnglishnarrativediscoursethannativeEnglishspeakers.ThecommonerrorsmadebyChineseEnglishlearnerswillberelatedtooveruseofpronouns,ambiguityinreference,andincorrectchoiceofreferenceexpressions.Languageproficiency,priorlanguagelearningexperience,andculturalbackgroundareexpectedtobethemainfactorsthatinfluencetheuse