An Empirical Control Research on the Lexical Approach to Business Correspondence Writing in Vocational Colleges

With the trend of economic globalization, business correspondence plays an increasingly important role in transmitting information, dealing with business activities and better cooperation. However, the current business correspondence teaching approach hasn’t come to a better effect to meet the above requirements. With the development of philosophy, psychology and corpus linguistics, more and more linguists have been aware of the limitation of the traditional approach. Lewis (1997) conducted a series of studies on lexical chunks and considered language is composed of chunks producing continuous coherent texts when they are combined. Chinese scholars have done some research on the appliance of lexical chunks, but how to implement this approach to business correspondence writing for vocational college students, is still at the margins. Accordingly, based on the lexical approach proposed by Lewis, this paper combines characteristics of languages used to compose business correspondence with the current learning status of vocational college students and processes the analyses of significant differences and the relationship between kinds of lexical chunks and the writing competence of vocational college students with the assistant of SPSS. The results indicate that lexical approach could effectively enhance students’ of business correspondence writing competence.