朗读与外语能力测量  

Use of oral reading as an EFL testing task

作　　者：高霞[1] 杨惠中[1] 朱正才[1] 

机构地区：[1]上海交通大学

出　　处：《现代外语》2006年第4期401-408,共8页Modern Foreign Languages

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目(03BYY016)

摘　　要：本文在分析朗读神经传递过程和心理过程的基础上,指出朗读是一个有着复杂心理、生理变化的语言驾驭过程,外语学习者的朗读行为是其整体外语能力的一个表征。针对这一假设,设计实施了一系列实验,收集了125名大学生的朗读录音,并进行了转写、标注和分析。数据表明,朗读是一个复杂的过程,涉及语言能力的各个层面——语音语调、词汇、句法处理能力、句子及篇章的理解能力。如使用恰当,朗读可以用来测试外语学习者的语言能力。Drawing on the insights from neurological and psychological studies of the oral reading process, this paper postulates that oral reading involves a reader,s language perception, comprehension and production, thus reflecting learners, L2 proficiency. This hypothesis was tested in an empirical study using oral reading tasks. Participants were a total of 125 college students. Their oral reading was recorded, transcribed, tagged and analyzed. The results showed that reading aloud was a complicated process entailing a variety of language knowledge and skills, such as pronunciation and intonation, lexical knowledge, syntactic processing, comprehension of sentences and discourse. When properly designed, reading aloud can be used to test a reader,s L2 proficiency.

关 键 词：朗读 语言能力 英语水平考试 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]