高中英语写作中词汇衔接的使用情况研究的中期报告.docx

高中英语写作中词汇衔接的使用情况研究的中期报告
Abstract
ThisreportdiscussesthepreliminaryfindingsofastudyontheuseofvocabularylinkinginhighschoolEnglishwriting.Thestudyaimstoinvestigatehowhighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasestoconnectideasintheirwrittenassignments.Theresearchmethodinvolvesanalyzingacorpusofhighschoolstudentessays,whichwerecollectedfromdifferentschoolsacrossthecountry.Thedataanalysisprocessinvolvescategorizingtypesofvocabularylinkingusedbythestudents,identifyingcommonpatterns,andevaluatingtheeffectivenessoftheiruse.Thereportprovidesanoverviewofthemethodology,researchquestions,andtheinitialresultsofthestudy,whichsuggestthathighschoolstudentsusealimitedrangeofvocabularylinkingwords,andoftenstruggletoconnectcomplexideas.Thereportconcludeswithadiscussionoftheimplicationsofthefindingsforteachingandcurriculumdesign.
Introduction
WritingisasignificantpartofhighschoolEnglishcurriculum,anddevelopingstrongwritingskillsiscrucialforstudents’academicandcareersuccess(Huddleston&Pullum,2002).Effectivewritingrequiresnotonlyaccurategrammar,properpunctuation,andspelling,butalsotheabilitytoconnectideasfluentlyandlogically.Thisiswherevocabularylinkingcomesin,asitplaysafundamentalroleinensuringthecoherenceandcohesionofwrittentexts(Halliday&Hasan,1976).Vocabularylinkingwordsandphrasessuchas“however”,“incontrast”,“similarly”,“therefore”,“nevertheless”,and“moreover”areusedtosignaltherelationshipsbetweenideas,transitionbetweenparagraphs,andpresentargumentseffectively.Therefore,investigatinghowhighschoolstudentsusethesevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesintheirwritingiscrucialforunderstandingtheirwritingproficiencyandforimprovingtheirwritingskills.
ResearchQuestions
Theprimarypurposeofthisstudyistoinvestigatehowhighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesintheirwrittenassignments.Thestudyaimstoanswerthefollowingresearchquestions:
1.Whatarethemostcommonvocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesusedbyhighschoolstudentsintheirwriting?
2.Howdohighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphr