高中英语写作中词汇衔接的使用情况研究的中期报告AbstractThisreportdiscussesthepreliminaryfindingsofastudyontheuseofvocabularylinkinginhighschoolEnglishwriting.Thestudyaimstoinvestigatehowhighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasestoconnectideasintheirwrittenassignments.Theresearchmethodinvolvesanalyzingacorpusofhighschoolstudentessays,whichwerecollectedfromdifferentschoolsacrossthecountry.Thedataanalysisprocessinvolvescategorizingtypesofvocabularylinkingusedbythestudents,identifyingcommonpatterns,andevaluatingtheeffectivenessoftheiruse.Thereportprovidesanoverviewofthemethodology,researchquestions,andtheinitialresultsofthestudy,whichsuggestthathighschoolstudentsusealimitedrangeofvocabularylinkingwords,andoftenstruggletoconnectcomplexideas.Thereportconcludeswithadiscussionoftheimplicationsofthefindingsforteachingandcurriculumdesign.IntroductionWritingisasignificantpartofhighschoolEnglishcurriculum,anddevelopingstrongwritingskillsiscrucialforstudents’academicandcareersuccess(Huddleston&Pullum,2002).Effectivewritingrequiresnotonlyaccurategrammar,properpunctuation,andspelling,butalsotheabilitytoconnectideasfluentlyandlogically.Thisiswherevocabularylinkingcomesin,asitplaysafundamentalroleinensuringthecoherenceandcohesionofwrittentexts(Halliday&Hasan,1976).Vocabularylinkingwordsandphrasessuchas“however”,“incontrast”,“similarly”,“therefore”,“nevertheless”,and“moreover”areusedtosignaltherelationshipsbetweenideas,transitionbetweenparagraphs,andpresentargumentseffectively.Therefore,investigatinghowhighschoolstudentsusethesevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesintheirwritingiscrucialforunderstandingtheirwritingproficiencyandforimprovingtheirwritingskills.ResearchQuestionsTheprimarypurposeofthisstudyistoinvestigatehowhighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesintheirwrittenassignments.Thestudyaimstoanswerthefollowingresearchquestions:1.Whatarethemostcommonvocabularylinkingwordsandphrasesusedbyhighschoolstudentsintheirwriting?2.Howdohighschoolstudentsusevocabularylinkingwordsandphr