Thematic Theory and Teaching of English Writing论文
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【摘 要】写作是测试学生英语水平的有效手段之一，同时也是中国学生英语学习的难点之一。因此，如何在提高学生思想表达和语篇组织能力的基础上，提高学生的写作水平，已外语教学研究的热点，并有了不少相关成果。主位理论是其中之一，尤其是在大学英语教学中的作用受到越来越多的关注。
【关键词】主位理论；写作教学；语篇
Writing is one of the means of measuring the students’ English ability， and one of the difficulties of English learners in China. Though many students may write grammatically correct articles， they can not give a clear idea in expression of ideas and organization of discourses， and the article as a whole is short of integrality. Hence， how to improve students’ ability of expression of ideas and discourse organization， and then to improve students’ writing ability as a whole， has become a hot issue， and some results has been got， in which the role of thematic theory in college English teaching has gained more and more attention.
Thematic theory is the main area of study in discourse analysis. The different types of themes and TP patterns can help us understand the logical and coherent flow of information in a text. Abundant studies he been conducted on thematic theory both at home and abroad for many decades. Some scholars deal with the relationship between thematic theory and discourse coherence， and some conduct contrastive study of thematic structure in Chinese and English discourses. Besides， recently there are some researches on its application in the translation field as well as the application to English teaching. This study is to apply thematic theory to the teaching of college students’ writing and it consists of five chapters.
Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. It introduces the study of thematic theory briefly， summarizes the problems in current college English writing， and presents the aim and organization of the present study.
Chapter 2 is a literature review on the studies of English writing and thematic theory. Current situations of English writing in China， traditional approaches to English writing， and thematic theory are presented in this chapter. The emphasis of this chapter is placed on thematic theory which is studied from 3 aspects， that is， study of theme， study of TP patterns and case analysis.
Chapter 3 describes research methodology， the practical part of the research. Objective， hypothesis， experiment and data collection are dealt with here. The present research aims at probing into the effect of the application of thematic theory to English writing among non-English majors. Two hypotheses are proposed， i.e. 1） The more varied the theme types and TP patterns are， the higher scores of English writing are； the frequency of multiple themes and simple linear pattern of high score compositions is higher than that of low score compositions. 2） The students’ writing ability can be improved through the training of thematic theory. The subjects of the experiment are non-English major sophomores in NEDU. 40 compositions， 20 written before the instruction of thematic theory and 20 written after one term’s instruction of thematic theory， are collected to set up a data base for the analysis.
【关键词】主位理论；写作教学；语篇
Writing is one of the means of measuring the students’ English ability， and one of the difficulties of English learners in China. Though many students may write grammatically correct articles， they can not give a clear idea in expression of ideas and organization of discourses， and the article as a whole is short of integrality. Hence， how to improve students’ ability of expression of ideas and discourse organization， and then to improve students’ writing ability as a whole， has become a hot issue， and some results has been got， in which the role of thematic theory in college English teaching has gained more and more attention.
Thematic theory is the main area of study in discourse analysis. The different types of themes and TP patterns can help us understand the logical and coherent flow of information in a text. Abundant studies he been conducted on thematic theory both at home and abroad for many decades. Some scholars deal with the relationship between thematic theory and discourse coherence， and some conduct contrastive study of thematic structure in Chinese and English discourses. Besides， recently there are some researches on its application in the translation field as well as the application to English teaching. This study is to apply thematic theory to the teaching of college students’ writing and it consists of five chapters.
Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. It introduces the study of thematic theory briefly， summarizes the problems in current college English writing， and presents the aim and organization of the present study.
Chapter 2 is a literature review on the studies of English writing and thematic theory. Current situations of English writing in China， traditional approaches to English writing， and thematic theory are presented in this chapter. The emphasis of this chapter is placed on thematic theory which is studied from 3 aspects， that is， study of theme， study of TP patterns and case analysis.
Chapter 3 describes research methodology， the practical part of the research. Objective， hypothesis， experiment and data collection are dealt with here. The present research aims at probing into the effect of the application of thematic theory to English writing among non-English majors. Two hypotheses are proposed， i.e. 1） The more varied the theme types and TP patterns are， the higher scores of English writing are； the frequency of multiple themes and simple linear pattern of high score compositions is higher than that of low score compositions. 2） The students’ writing ability can be improved through the training of thematic theory. The subjects of the experiment are non-English major sophomores in NEDU. 40 compositions， 20 written before the instruction of thematic theory and 20 written after one term’s instruction of thematic theory， are collected to set up a data base for the analysis.