2010级毕业论文开题模板(英语专业)2010级毕业论文开题模板(英语专业).doc

四川农业大学本科生毕业论文开题报告 毕业论文（设计）题目 An Empirical Study into Lexical Inference and Strategy Use into EFL Reading EFL阅读中的词义推测及策略运用实证研究 选题类型 XXX 课题来源 XXX 学 院 语言学院 专 业 英语 指导教师 XXX 职 称 教授 姓 名 XXX 年 级 2006级 学 号 XXXXXXX 1. Introduction 1.1 Study Background(大约200字左右) The present study is stimulated by both practical and theoretical considerations in the field of second /foreign language learning and teaching. The importance of EFL reading is commonly acknowledged by both teachers and learners in the process of learning and teaching, so the topic of lexical inference strategies is of practical interest to both teachers, who would like to employ pedagogical techniques which can reinforce and develop students’ achievements in EFL reading to better their effects of instruction, and learners themselves, who once master those strategies, are in a better position to infer unknown word meanings in the process of reading. Learners can sometimes deliberately apply those strategies to solve problems they encounter in reading in order to conquer the inherently difficult task of learning a foreign language. definitions of inference, lexical inference, LIA and LS first. 1.2 Definitions of Inference and Lexical Inference Inference refers to the process, in language learning, of arriving at a hypothesis, idea, or judgment on the basis of other knowledge, ideas, or judgments, that is, the process of making inference or inferring (Richards Platt and Platt, 2000:222). In language learning, inference has been discussed as a learning strategy used by learners, especially in reading, to work out grammatical and other kinds of rules (Carton, 1971). According to W. Grabe and F.L.Stoller (2005:260), inference refers to the process of drawing a logical conclusion based on explicit information in text and background knowledge. The mental activity/process involved when readers encounter unknown or unfamiliar words or phrases (hereafter for the sake of convenience we use unknown or un