模糊容忍度与大学生英语阅读水平及阅读策略的相关性研究.doc

ABSTRACT

A Correlation Study on University Students’ Tolerance of Ambiguity, English Reading Competence and Reading Strategies 

With the development of foreign language learning, tolerance of ambiguity, as an essential cognitive variable, has gained more and more attention from both home and abroad. Reading competence is considered to be a comprehensive ability of second language acquisition. This study aims to investigate the correlation among university students’ tolerance of ambiguity (TOA), English reading competence and choice of reading strategies. 

The research subjects are composed of 102 non-English-major senior students from Jiangsu University. The instrument used to measure tolerance of ambiguity here is a modified version of Ely’s (1989) Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale; Reading competence is measured by the reading section of the College English Test Band 6 (CET 6); and Chamot & Kupper’s (1989) Reading Strategies Questionnaire is used for measuring utilization of reading strategies. SPSS 17.0 is used here for data analysis. 

Chinese university non-English-major students showed a moderate level of ambiguity tolerance. A positive significant correlation is found between tolerance of ambiguity and reading competence. Also, TOA has a significant impact on reading strategy utilization.

Key words：Tolerance of ambiguity, reading comprehension, reading strategy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

摘 要

模糊容忍度与大学生英语阅读水平

及阅读策略的相关性研究

随着外语教学的发展，模糊容忍度，作为一项重要的认知因素，越来越受到国内外学者的关注。而阅读理解能力被认为是二语习得领域中重要的综合能力之一。本文旨在探究大学生模糊容忍度、英语阅读水平及阅读策略选择之间的相关性。

本文的研究对象由102名江苏大学非英语专业的大四学生组成。修改后的“第二语言模糊容忍度测试量表”和“英语阅读策略”两套问卷分别用以测量模糊容忍度和英语阅读策略的使用，学生英语阅读能力则使用大学英语六级测试(CET-6)阅读部分的成绩测量。并且利用统计软件SPSS 17.0进行数据分析。

研究表明中国非英语专业大学生表现出中等的模糊容忍度水平，模糊容忍度和英语阅读水平显著的正相关关系，并且模糊容忍度对阅读策略的使用有重要的影响，本研究结果对于外语教学有一定的启示。

关键词: 模糊容忍度，阅读理解，阅读策略