A Mandarin presentation featuring a comparison on the use of passive voice between Taiwanese EFL students and British (native and non-native English speakers included) college students

1. Passive Use
between
Taiwanese EFL
Students and
British Writers
言談分析期末報告
410982046 應外三 楊佳翰

2. 大綱
研究背景 研究問題 文獻回顧 研究方法
研究發現 結果討論 參考文獻

3. 迷思與錯誤
 用「華麗句型」拿高分
 95% 臺灣學術寫作者偏
好使用「被動語態」
 被動誤用與濫用頻繁
教學缺陷
傳統／高分
 高中教授多被動語態片語
 著重單句教學缺乏全觀脈絡
參考資料：
992英文論文寫作工作坊：人氣講師Dr. Steve Wallace檢視常見九大英語寫作錯誤 | 政大教發中心電子報 (nccu.edu.tw)
曾郁芬（2009）。台灣大學生英語被動語態的使用。國立政治大學英國語文學研究所碩士論文，台北市。取自 https://hdl.handle.net/11296/bmss5w

5. 示例
https://hdl.handle.net/11296/nhte6v

6. 示例

7. 示例

8. 研究問題
1
3
非英語為母語者使用被動語態的頻率為？
英語為母語者使用被動語態的頻率為？
2
英語為母語者會在哪些情況使用被動語態？
英語非母語者的情況為？

9. 文獻回顧

10. 第二外語學習者運用被動語態的現象
• 使用不當（如前述）
• 語句過長
Active: “Physicians collected data from 5,000 patients.”

11. 第二外語學習者運用被動語態的現象
• 使用不當（如前述）
• 語句過長
• 句型單一

12. 被動語態的分類
Be 動詞被動 Get 被動
Make 被動 Have 被動

13. 近期文獻建議

14. 近期文獻建議

15. 被動語態使用趨勢
2000 年前 2000 年後

16. 研究方法

17. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
LTTC English Learners’ Corpus
Keyword research through “Collocation Search” Under the condition of…
be been is
am are was
were being
Note: In addition to “to be” verbs, causative verbs are
considered. Participial phrases or participle clauses
are not investigated due to their complexity for
research.
0
3/5
Note: The researcher resets the
preconditions to “within 5 tokens right” if
less than 400 results are available. A
random sampling for 400 entries is
conducted when there are over 400
results.

18. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
LTTC English Learners’ Corpus
Keyword research through “Collocation Search” Under the condition of…
be been is
am are was
were being
Note: In addition to “to be” verbs, causative verbs are
considered. Participial phrases or participle clauses
are not investigated due to their complexity for
research.
0
3/5

19. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
LTTC English Learners’ Corpus
Eliminating data failing to meet prerequisites
• Deleting mis-tagged data.
• In the right column of the original spreadsheet is information indicating one’s passing the test or not.
Entries bearing a “B” or below are omitted.
Sampling 200 entries randomly
Reading the entries and making notes

20. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
British Academic English Corpus
Keyword research through “Concordance” Under the condition of…
3/5
Note: The researcher resets the
preconditions to “within 5 tokens right” if
less than 400 results are available. A
random sampling for 400 entries is
conducted when there are over 400
results.
be been is
am are was
were being

21. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
British Academic English Corpus
Keyword research through “Concordance” Under the condition of…
3/5
be been is
am are was
were being

22. Data Collection
• Research Methodology
• The researcher looked in be-passive only due to time constraint. The
study adopted the following methods.
British Academic English Corpus
Eliminating unfit entries for research
As the corpus could not be set for searching for past participles only, the researcher deleted inappropriate
entries for research.
Sampling 200 entries randomly
Reading the entries and making notes

23. 研究發現

24. 非英語為母語者使用被動語態
的頻率為？

25. 非英語為母語者使用被動語態
的樣態為？

26. 範例
• As I know, many charities and orphanages were constructed by
government's financial support.
• His grades were not improved.
• With my belief in [Buddhism], I can devote myself in the
volunteering happily and because I like to travel and like
architecture, I am concerned that I will be a good volunteer and
help people rebuild their houses after serious earthquake, or help
them design their new beautiful houses.

27. 範例
• 多為及物動詞接單一受詞（Monotransitive）
• We’ve been promised an official funeral.
• This is referred to as être-pour-soi.

28. 英語為母語者使用被動語態的
頻率為？

29. 英語為母語者使用被動語態的
樣態為？

30. 範例
• … of a specific messenger RNA in different cell populations, which
can be used to discover whether a genetic mutation is being
expressed in different tissues of the human body.
• The government was preparing to promote a new policy which
should forbid the 'Junk food' advertisement being broadcasted on
the TV's frequency channel.
• They were firmly established in Florence by the second half of the
fifteenth century.

31. 結果討論

32. 回應教學界的省思
• 歐化中文的影響
雖然天賦人權的說法難以被驗證，
但在今天社會已是一個普遍價值。
雖然天賦人權的說法難以驗證，
但現代人一般都不會質疑它的價值。

33. 回應教學界的省思
• 被動語態的教學

34. 回應教學界的省思
• 被動語態的教學

35. 回應教學界的省思
以語境脈絡作教學的圭臬，
而非以翻譯法進行單句練習

36. 參考文獻

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https://www.ilc.cuhk.edu.hk/Chinese/AWOnline/engstyle1.html
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統。https://hdl.handle.net/11296/f5c5p4
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