摘要近年来国内外对写作进行的研究逐渐增多，而语言准确性对英语写作起着极其重要的作用。本研究旨在讨论英语专业学生写作语言准确性发展趋势，通过这一定量的研究希望从一个发展的角度探究英语学习者语言准确性的特点。本研究选取了英语专业大二至大四三个年级的同学在两场写作比赛中的作文作为样本。研究表明大二大三大四三个年级学生的写作准确性没有重大差异；虽然总数上呈稍微下降趋势，但高年级学生在某些错误上略多于低年级学生，这可能是因为高年级学生作文使用的句法和词汇更复杂。本论文的意义在于激起人们对于当今中国英语学习者写作的问题的思考并给出一些建议。87588

毕业论文关键词  英语写作 语言准确性 年级水平 发展趋势

毕 业 论 文 外 文 摘 要

Title    A Study on the Development of Linguistic Accuracy of Compositions by English Majors             

Abstract English writing has been paid great attention to by language researchers recently, and linguistic accuracy plays an important role on it。 This paper reports a study on the development of Linguistic Accuracy of compositions by year 2-4 English majors of  in two writing contests。 The present quantitative study was designed to investigate the features of accuracy of learners’ English writing from a quasi-developmental perspective。 The study shows little differences in the numbers of errors among the three grades, and there is almost no great difference of linguistic accuracy。 Although there is a slight downward trend in the amount, students of higher grades have more mistakes in certain kind of errors than those of lower grade, probably because of the complexity of syntax and vocabulary used by upperclassmen。 The significance of the paper is to arouse thinking of the problems existing in Chinese EFL students’ writing products and give some suggestions。源-于,优~尔^论=文.网www.youerw.com 原文+QQ7520~18766

Keywords  English writing   linguistic accuracy   grade levels   development tendency

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

1。2 Research Background 1

1。2 Significance of the Study 1

2 Literature Review 2

2。1 Previous Research in Writing Accuracy 2

2。1。1  Previous Research in Writing Accuracy Aboard 2

2。1。2 Previous Research in Writing Accuracy in China 2

2。2   Measures Applied on Linguistic Accuracy 3

2。2。1  Holistic Scale 3

2。2。2  Number of Error-free Units 4

2。2。3  Number of Errors 4

3  Research Methodology 6

3。1  Research Questions 6

3。2  Participants 6

3。3  Instruments 6

3。4  Data Collection 6

3。5  Data Analysis 6

4  Results and Discussion