The Influence of Thematic progression on Coherence in College English Writing

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1、TheInfluenceofThematicprogressiononCoherenceinCollegeEnglishWritingAbstractEnglishwritingisnotonlyaverycomplicatedcourse,butalsooneofthelanguageskillsmostdifficulttoimprove.CollegeEnglishcompositionsarefullofmanyseriousproblems,andincoherenceisoneofthe

2、m.ThecoherenceofanEnglishtextdependsnotonlyonthecohesionofgrammarandlexis,butalsothecoherenceinmeaning.Accordingtotextuallinguistics,thematicprogressionisanimportantfactortoensurethecoherenceofatext.Astotherelationshipbetweenthematicprogressionandcoher

3、ence,manyscholarsfromhomeandabroadhavedonealotofresearch,however,mostoftheseresearchesjuststayatthestageofapplyingthematicprogressioninanalyzingcoherenceoftheparagraph,andtheresearchofapplyingthematicprogressioninanalyzingcoherenceofthewholetexthasnotb

4、eencarriedoutmuch.Basedonthiscognition,thethesisattemptstoapplythematicprogressioninanalyzingcoherenceofthewholetext.Thethesisgivesaclearideaofthematicprogressionfirst,andthenitanalyzescoherenceofexamplesofthecollegestudents’Englishwritingbyapplyingthe

5、thematicprogression.Finallythethesisprovesthatboththewritingcoherenceandthewritingabilityofthestudents’canbeimprovedbyfosteringtheirtextualconsciousnessthroughthetheoryofthematicprogression.Keywords:ThematicProgression;Coherence;CollegeStudents’English

6、Writing摘要近年来，作为最重要的语言能力之一，写作在大学英语教学中受到越来越多的关注。英语写作是一个非常复杂的过程，也是最难提高的语言技能之一。大学英语作文普遍存在许多严重的问题，而文章缺乏连贯性便是问题之一。英语语篇的连贯不仅体现在语法和词汇的衔接上,还体现在语义连贯上,而主位推进又是使语篇语义连贯的重要因素之一。关于主位推进与连贯的关系，国内外许多学者已进行了大量的探讨和研究，但大多是停留在应用主位推进分析段落的连贯性这一层次上，而应用主位推进分析整个篇章的连贯性这种研究还很少进行。基于这

7、一认识，本文尝试着应用主位推进对整个篇章的连贯性进行分析。论文清楚地介绍了主位推进模式，并将主位推进应用于大学生英语写作实例中，分析其连贯性,证明了在大学英语写作教学中,如果注重运用主位推进理论来培养学生的语篇意识,写作的连贯性和学生的写作水平均会得到提高。关键词：主位推进；连贯；大学生英语写作TableofContentsAbstractinEnglish……………………………………………….………………ⅱAbstractinChinese……………………………………………………………….ⅲ1.I

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