A Study On The Correlation Between The College Students' Identification Prefabricated Chunks And Their Reading Comprehension

The prefabricated chunks have drawn a lot of attention these days.Though there have been a lot of research into the correlation between the prefabricated chunks and writing and speaking. Nevertheless, there lacks some research into the students'way of identifying the chunks.The research probes into the relationship between the prefabricated chunks and second language acquisition. The experiments choose 120 students who are sophomore and come from different majors (including English major and non-English major) and just after their CET4 test and their reading comprehension score range from 124 to 198. The reading materials are selected from College English Fast Reading Book 1and Book 4. The topic is different and the length is similar, while we choose Book 1 and Book 4 so that the degree of difficulty for the materials is different.The test has proved that students'ability to identify the prefabricated chunks relates to their second language proficiency level and their reading comprehension proficiency level. When students have better command of second language and tend to achieve higher scores in English test, they could identify more prefabricated chunks.The author of this thesis strongly recommends that the students should acquire the knowledge of the chunks in the specific context, rather than in isolation. Instead of requiring learners to memorize individual words, a teacher could extend the words through their collocations, descriptive partners or contextual expressions.