浅析英语阅读中的语块界定以及词汇知识的重要性——基于对“Effect of Frequency and Idiomaticity on Second Language Reading Comprehension”一文的讨论

摘要

The study on chucks has recently drawn more and more attention in the field of linguistics and language learning and teaching, due to the fact that they play an important role in English reading comprehension. Based on the development on corpus linguistics, researchers believe language teachers should focus on those most commonly used words or high-frequency words in their teaching of vocabulary. However, Martinez and Murphy （2011） argued that chunks, or multi-word expressions composed by high-frequency words are possible to be unnoticed and cause negative influence in second language reading comprehension, although readers understand the individual words perfectly. Unfortunately, Martinez and Murphy failed to identify the concept of ＂chunk＂ clearly. Therefore this paper is dedicated to redefine and categorize the concept of ＂chunk＂ and vocabulary as the knowledge base in reading comprehension, in hope that researchers and teachers in our country could pay more attention to the study and teaching in this specific field.%近年来围绕语块的研究层出不穷，而语块对于英语阅读的影响更是受到英语教师和研究者的关注。由于语料库语言学的发展，研究者认为应将最常见的单词，或高频词汇作为词汇学习的重点。然而Martinez和Murphv（2011）通过实证研究发现，即使阅读中的词汇都是由一些简单词汇构成，但是由于这些词汇可以构成无法通过字面意义进行解构的语块，因此阅读效果会因缺乏语块知识而大打折扣。遗憾的是，Martinez和Murphy（2011）在文中并未对“语块”这一概念定义清楚。本文基于对该文的讨论，重新界定了语块的定义以及语块知识对于词汇研究和英语教学的重要性，希望引起国内英语教师和研究者对于语块知识的兴趣和关注。