《新视野》与《新标准》大学英语词汇外部对比研究

　　【摘要】本文主要从外部评估的角度评价《新标准大学英语》与《新视野大学英语》词汇各个方面的不同，通过外部问卷和访谈了解学生使用教材后对词汇总量，学习方法方面的评价，定量定性研究相印证，目的是为使用该教材的学生提供参考。
　　【关键字】教材评估 ;词汇 ;学生满意度
　　
　　Tthis paper gathers and analyzes the results on every aspect of the words by means of students’ questionnaires and interviews, since students are the factual users of materials and influential factors to materials development, have the best qualifications to make the vocabulary evaluation separately.
　　In this part, the statistics about the new words collected from the students’ questionnaires will be analyzed, and the information collected from their interviews will be discussed to find out the reasons for such results.
　　In the table 1 two parts are included. The lower part is the original statistics of the results, and the upper part is a histogram of the same statistics to show the difference of ratio vividly. “A” stands for “satisfied”, “B” for “basically satisfied”, “C” for “unsatisfied”. The white column stands for the ratios of NHCE, the grey for ratios of NSCE, and the black for the ratio difference gained by the ratio of NHCE minus that of NSCE.
　　Table 1 Students’ satisfactions towards the volume of vocabularies from the Questionnaires
　　 Firstly, from Table 1, we can see to the volume of words of each book, 59% of the students using NHCE are satisfied with the volume of the new words, so are 59% of the students using NSCE. That is quite the same in the percentage of the students who choose B and C, only 1% difference, but 1% more students are basically satisfied with the word volume of NSCE than that of NHCE and 1% more students are unsatisfied with the word volume of NHCE than that of NSCE. So NSCE does better than NHCE. And in interviews, when the students from the two books were asked if the words are enough in their textbook, nearly every student tells the author that they think the number is enough, even more. Some students even complain that they are busy with memorizing the new words when they learn English. They even say they want to give up learning English because they cannot memorize so many new words.
　　Table 2 Students’ satisfactions towards the ways of learning vocabularies from the Questionnaires
　　
　　From Table 2, it can be seen clearly that 55% of the students using NHCE are unsatisfied with the word learning method, 15% satisfied; on the contrary, 55% of the students using NSCE are satisfied with this aspect, 24% unsatisfied. For the choice “B”, there is not great difference. Therefore, it shows clearly that 30% more students think that learning the new vocabulary in NSCE is easier than that in NHCE. In the interviews, some students using NHCE say the exercises of vocabulary are designed in a traditional way. On the other hand, a lot of students tell that vocabulary learning activities provided in NSCE are quite interesting and even appear in starting point sometimes.
　　From the above discussion, there are enough new vocabularies in both of the books to meet students’ satisfaction. For the approaches applied in the book to help students learn the vocabularies, more students using NSCE are satisfied with the word learning ways.
　　In the interviews, also, the large volume of vocabularies has received some criticism from students of both books. Therefore, some creative methods of memorizing words should be learned by students to provide the solutions of dealing this problem. What’s more, some interesting activities such as Word Puzzle game, word contest and so on should be held among students by teamwork frequently to arouse their interests of learning vocabularies.
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　　 项目名称：《新标准大学英语》与《新视野大学英语》读写教程对比评估
　　基金来源：第五批中国外语教育基金项目