科学・技術英語の教育 : 準動詞の頻度

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It is not an easy task for our students to read scietific papers written in English. In order to know how verbals are actually used in scientific papers and to make use of the knowledge, we analyzed the frequencies of verbals in 8 scientific papers and 4 articles taken from the "Newsweek" magazines. From the data obtained through the analyses, two teaching procedures are stressed: (1) to let the learners recognize that "-ed" forms working as postmodifiers appear much more frequently than those of simple past tense, and (2) to familiarize the students with conventional phrases such as "as shown in Figure 1", "as mentioned above," or "as can be seen." It was also admitted that in some grammatical areas of verbals, frequencies in the scientific papers are widely different from those in the articles from the "Newsweek". This suggests the need for special care with which English papers on science and engineering should be dealt with in our classes.
沼津工業高等専門学校の論文
1990-01-30