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摘要本文以大二英语专业学生为研究对象，总共收集了三次英语专业四级模拟测试听写部分答卷，通过分析与归类找到英语专业学生在听写部分常犯的九类错误。本文通过相应事例描述这些错误并分析导致这些错误的具体原因。最后基于前人经验以及各种理论，本文提出了几条策略以期帮助学生以及老师完善他们的学习或者教学策略并提高听写的正确率。24451
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Title A Study of Common Errors and Relative Strategies in TEM-4 Passage Dictation
Abstract
This paper takes the sophomores of English major in Nanjing University of Science and Technology as subjects, and collects their dictation answer sheets of three mock tests of TEM-4. Through analyzing and classifying the results of the dictation part in the three mock tests, this paper finds 9 kinds of common errors that English major students tend to make in their tests. This paper illustrates these kinds of errors by corresponding examples and analyzes possible reasons that lead to these errors. Then, based on the previous studies of other researchers and several theories, this paper proposes several strategies in order to help students and teachers to hone their learning strategies or teaching strategies，therefore improving the accuracy rate of dictation.
Keywords TEM4 dictation common errors strategy
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Previous Study of TEM-4 1
1.2 Research Design 2
2 Result of Mock Tests 6
2.1 Changing Words 7
2.2 Omitting Words 8
2.3 Spelling Errors 9
2.4 Adding Words 10
2.5 Punctuation 11
2.6 The Misuse of Singular or Plural and the Misuse of Tense and Voice 12
2.7 Other Kinds of Mistakes 13
3 Strategies for Common Errors 14
3.1 Enhance the Accumulation of Language Knowledge 14
3.2 Improve Test-taking Skill 15
3.3 Improve the Psychological Quality and the Knowledge of Cultural Background 16
Conclusion 18
Acknowledgement 19
Bibliography 20
1 Introduction
The Test for English Majors-Band4 (TEM-4) is designed to exam the capability of sophomore students who major in English. It can illustrate students’ knowledge about English basic skill, vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction. And the standard of this test is regulated in the Examination Syllabus of TEM-4. In order to have a comprehensive result of students’ skills, the test implements multiple examination modes that can ensure the scientificity, objectivity and feasibility of the test.
Dictation, as the first part of “Test for English Majors—Band 4”, takes a proportion of 15% of the total score. This part of test takes about 15 minutes and includes about 150 words, which are pided into 15 chunks or sentence groups for marking. It is an important part in the TEM-4 and in the process of English learning. In his A Language Testing handbook, A. Harrison (1983) said that dictation could reflect all situations that could happen in communication. This part aims at assessing productive and receptive capability of the students. However, from the experience of these years’ test results, the general grade of this part is not as proper as expectation. Therefore, this paper expects to explore common errors through research and investigation, and tries to propose several possible strategies based on these errors, thus it can help to innovate teaching and learning methods to improve the average grade.