A study on the efficiency of centering theory in evaluating local coherence of english learners'written language

摘要：

以中国学生英语口笔语语料库为语料来源,分析比较了向心理论的四项原则分析法用于评价议论文、记叙文和说明文三种不同体裁书面语语篇局部连贯的有效性.结果发现:(1)不同体裁二语写作人工评分与Kibble评分之间的相关性存在差异.议论文中人工评分与Kibble评分显著相关;记叙文和说明文人工评分与Kibble评分的相关性相对较弱.(2)除衔接性原则外,四项基本原则在二语写作中的比例分布因作文体裁不同而各有特点.议论文中延续性原则所占比例较高,显著性原则和低价性原则占比较低;记叙文中显著性原则和低价性原则占比较高,延续性原则占比较低;说明文各项原则占比多介于议论文和记叙文之间.(3)四项基本原则和人工评分之间的相关性因体裁而异.议论文中衔接性原则与人工评分显著相关;记叙文中各项原则与人工评分之间的相关性受评分员影响较大;说明文中各项原则与人工评分无显著相关关系.四项原则分析法对议论文语篇局部连贯的评价效度优于记叙文和说明文,其中衔接性原则与议论文语篇局部连贯质量相关度最高,可作为议论文二语写作语篇局部连贯评价指标纳入自动评分系统.

The thesis extracted texts from Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners and then respectively analyzed validities of Four Principle Model in evaluating argumentation,narration and exposition.The results are shown as follows:(1)There are discrepancies in the correlation between manual score and Kibble score of second language writing with different genres.In argumentation,Kibble score and manual score are significantly correlative;nevertheless,the correlation between the two variables is not significant in narration and exposition.(2)Except the principle of cohesion,the other principles in the Four Principle Model have different percentages with the variations of genres.The principle of continuity has higher proportions in argumentations than narrations while the principle of salience and the principle of cheapness have lower proportions in argumentations than narrations.In addition,the proportions of the three principles in expositions are mostly between the proportions of them in argumentations and narrations.(3)The degree of correlation between the four basic principles and the manual score varies with the changes of compositional genres.The principle of cohesion and manual score are significantly correlative in argumentations;in narrations,the degree of correlation between principles and manual scores changes with the variations of scorers;and in expositions,the correlation between the two variables is not significant.In conclusion,the Four Principle Model is more effective in evaluating local coherence of argumentations than that of narrations and expositions.What’s more,the principle of cohesion is closely connected to qualities of argumentations and it can be regarded as an index of automatic essay scoring system to evaluate local coherence of argumentation.

作者：

刘国兵 常芳玲

Liu Guobing;Chang Fangling(Faculty of International Studies,Henan Normal University,Xinxiang 453007,China;School of Chinese Language and Literature,Beijing Foreign Studies University,Beiijng 100089,China)

机构地区：

betway官方app 外国语学院 北京外国语大学中国语言文学学院

出处：

《betway官方app 学报：自然科学版》 CAS 北大核心 2020年第4期19-28,F0002,共11页

基金:

河南省哲学社会科学规划项目(2017BYY008)。

关键词:

向心理论 局部连贯 四项原则分析法 二语写作 作文体裁

centering model local coherence Four Principle Model second language writing compositional genre

分类号:

H08 [语言文字—语言学]

向心理论应用于英语学习者书面语语篇局部连贯评价的有效性研究.pdf