詞匯法在法律英語詞匯學(xué)習(xí)中的應(yīng)用研究.pdf

1、 Abstract In teaching English as Foreign Language, traditional teaching methods were not satisfactory, as a result, a different and revolutionary approach, the Lexical Approach, which was put forth in The Lexical Approac

2、h published in 1997, came into being as a necessity. The efficiency of The Lexical Approach has been proved by a lot of researchers. Based on previous research, this thesis, focusing on the following questions, will furt

3、her explore whether the new approach works in ESP learning, especially in legal English lexicon learning: Question 1: Can students memorize more legal English words by using the Lexical Approach? Question 2: Can students

4、 perform better in legal English production if they use the Lexical Approach in vocabulary learning? Question 3: Does mastering more legal English words mean better legal English production? In order to answer these ques

5、tions, or specifically, to find out the co-relationship between Lexical Approach and Legal lexical learning, an experimental study was conducted. The subjects of the study were sophomores from Sichuan International Studi

6、es University. They were divided into two groups randomly: Group A and Group B (the control group). The students of Group A were taught by the author of this thesis with lexical Approach every Saturday morning for two ho

7、urs (focusing on the strategies of identification, memorization and application for lexical chunk learning); meanwhile, the students of Group B were exposed to the traditional methods (focusing on the structure and meani

8、ng of legal English lexicon). The research lasted for one semester. Then, the subjects were asked to undergo two tasks: one lexicon test and one translation test. The former test was conducted to answer Question 1, and t

9、he results suggested that the Lexical Approach was helpful in legal English lexicon learning. While the latter one was designed for Question 2 and Question 3, and what revealed was that the use of the Lexical Approach co