Abstract
As a kind of stylized language expression, formulaic sequences are widely used in different spoken language contexts, but the study of English formulaic sequences has always been a difficulty in college students’ oral English learning in China. This paper adopts the computer corpus approach and utilizes its massive storage of formulaic sequences and high-speed data retrieval capabilities to help learners with English formulaic sequence learning. On one hand, learners are able to truly and objectively understand the use of formulaic sequences in English-speaking environment through the computer corpus; on the other hand, learners can improve their memories and increase their formulaic sequence learning efficiency with the help of the structured and regularized and massive amount of use cases of formulaic sequences retrieved by the computer corpus. Finally, in the empirical study, through the comparative analysis of the test group and the control group, this paper proves that the computer-corpus-based formulaic sequences have great significance to oral English teaching.
Highlights
The development of modern information technology has a profound impact on the contents, methods and philosophies of foreign language teaching
Corpus linguistics is just a new discipline emerging after the information technology was successfully introduced into the general linguistics field, which is in turn accelerating the informatization process of general linguistics and being widely applied in foreign language teaching and research [1]
With the rise of corpus linguistics and the rapid development of cognitive linguistics, the essence and roles of formulaic sequences have been recognized by international scholars, and the theory of formulaic iJET ‒ Vol 12, No 8, 2017
Summary
The development of modern information technology has a profound impact on the contents, methods and philosophies of foreign language teaching. The corpus-based preliminary studies show that language is essentially composed of a number of stylized language blocks, i.e. formulaic sequences. These formulaic sequences are an important part of a natural, fluent and authentic language, reflecting three dimensions of language proficiency - complexity, accuracy, and fluency [2]. Searching and learning formulaic sequences based on computer corpus can greatly improve students’ oral English performance. This paper interprets and analyzes the specific formulaic sequences through the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and applies the corpus-based formulaic sequence learning in the actual college oral English teaching cases. This paper analyzes and compares the experimental results and demonstrate that the computer-corpus-based formulaic sequences proposed in this paper have a positive effect on improving college students’ oral English
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