基于任务复杂度的英语被动语态习得发展研究  

Task Complexity and the Development of English Passive Voice of ESL Learners

作　　者：马渊 MA Yuan(School of Foreign Languages,East China University of Technology,Nanchang 330013,China)

机构地区：[1]东华理工大学外国语学院,江西南昌330013

出　　处：《东华理工大学学报（社会科学版）》2023年第5期487-495,共9页Journal of East China University of Technology(Social Science)

基　　金：2019年抚州市社会科学规划重点项目“基于任务复杂性的英语被动语态习得的发展规律”(19SK04);2020年江西省社会科学基金项目“基于任务复杂度的英语口语语法发展规律的探索研究”(20YY11)。

摘　　要：在第二语言习得领域,学习者的第二语言能力或中介语系统是否会因所开展的任务而发生改变一直备受争议。近年来,Robinson的认知假说为任务分类提供了一些明确的标准。为了调查中国英语学习者在开展不同任务时使用被动语态的能力是否会发生变化,使用了认知假说中提到的任务复杂度这一概念。根据“±少量要素”和“±构想时间”两组任务复杂度变量,设计了三个描述图片的口语任务,并对来自国内某高校的英语专业和非英语专业的96名参与者的语法准确度和句法结构使用情况做了分析。研究结果表明,参与者使用被动语态的能力不会因任务复杂度而改变,但是非英语专业学习者的口语表现会受到影响,英语专业学习者的表现则相对稳定,与任务复杂度无关。In the field of second language acquisition,it has been a long-debated issue whether second language learners'competences or interlanguage systems change according to the tasks they perform.Recently,Robinson's Cognition Hypothesis has provided some clear criteria for classifying tasks according to their cognitive complexity.To investigate whether learners'competence of using English passive voices vary with tasks of different degrees of cognitive complexity,three oral picture description tasks were designed by manipulating the task complexity variables of"±few elements"and"±planning time".Grammar accuracy and the use of syntactic structure of 96 participants of English and non-English majors were analyzed.The results show that their competences of using passive voice do not change under task complexity,but non-English major's performance has been affected,while English major's performance remains stable regardless of task complexity.

关 键 词：任务复杂度 英语被动语态 语言能力 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]