分析英国孩子爱用美式英语
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The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare， if the findings of a study into children's writing are anything to go by.
Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found that their written work was littered with American English， exclamation marks and references to celebrities. They were increasingly using American words such as garbage， trash can， sidewalk， candy， sneakers， soda， cranky and flashlight.
The writings， written by pupils aged 7 to 13， show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often used for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”.
Celebrity culture also has a powerful influence on children’s work， with Simon Cowell and Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names cropping up repeatedly.
Pupils are let down by basic spelling， punctuation and grammar， according to the study by Oxford University Press， which looked英国孩子爱用美式英语由优秀论文网站www.7ctime.com提供,助您写好论文. at the entries to BBC Radio 2’s “500 Words” competition. Children stumbled over simple spellings such as “does” and “clothes” and are unable to use the past tense correctly， often saying “rised” instead of “rose” or “thinked” instead of “thought”.
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused， especially semicolons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. However， exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35，171 examples in total， with some young writers using five at a time.
Popular US works such as the vampire novels and films are thought to be fuelling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.
Modern technology was also influential. Out of almost 300 references to “blackberry”， nearly half referred to mobile phones.
如果一项对儿童作文的研究结果可靠的话，那么比起狄更斯或莎士比亚的影响，书面英语的未来受好莱坞电影的影响更大。
研究人员阅读了英国作文比赛的参赛作品后发现，这些书面作品中到处都是美式英语、感叹号和名人的名字。作文中越来越多地使用美式英语词汇，如：garbage（垃圾）、trash can（垃圾桶）、sidewalk（人行道）、candy（糖果）、sneakers（运动鞋）、soda（苏打水）、cranky（暴躁不安的）和flashlight（手电筒）。
这些作文是由7岁至13岁的小学生写的，从中可见小学生们用“fairy cake”（仙女蛋糕）来指代“cupcake”（纸杯蛋糕），晚礼服的说法也从“tuxedo”变成了“dinner jacket”。“art”取代英式英语“clever”，“cranky”取代“irritable”（易怒的）。
名人文化对儿童作文也有强大的影响力。“真人秀”评委西蒙·考威尔和阿根廷足球运动员里奥内尔·梅西都是反复出现的名人名字。
牛津大学出版社查看了英国广播公司第二电台举办的“500单词”作文比赛的参赛作品后发现，小学生们在基本拼写、标点和语法上很有理由。孩子们总是弄错一些简单的拼写，如“does”和“clothes”；许多孩子不能准确使用过去时态，常常把“rose”拼成“rised”，把“thought”拼成“thinked”。
研究人员还发现，许多标点该用的时候没有用，尤其是分号和引号。有些孩子不知如何应用大写字母。然而，感叹号却被过度使用。据研究人员统计，滥用感叹号的情况总共出现了35，171次，有些小论文导读：
作者一次用了5个感叹号。
热门美国作品，如关于吸血鬼的小说和电影，促使孩子们越来越多地使用美式英语词汇和拼写策略。
现代科技对英语也有影响。在这些作文中，“blackberry”一词出现了近300次，其中近一半指的是黑莓手机。
Vocabulary
entry：参赛结果
refer to as：被称为；被认为
crop up：突然出现
punctuation：标点符号的使用
stumble over：给……绊倒
semicolon：分号
vampire：吸血鬼
fuel：给……加油
The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare， if the findings of a study into children's writing are anything to go by.
Researchers who looked at the entries to a national competition found that their written work was littered with American English， exclamation marks and references to celebrities. They were increasingly using American words such as garbage， trash can， sidewalk， candy， sneakers， soda， cranky and flashlight.
The writings， written by pupils aged 7 to 13， show how fairy cakes are referred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo. “Smart” is now often used for “clever” and “cranky” for “irritable”.
Celebrity culture also has a powerful influence on children’s work， with Simon Cowell and Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names cropping up repeatedly.
Pupils are let down by basic spelling， punctuation and grammar， according to the study by Oxford University Press， which looked英国孩子爱用美式英语由优秀论文网站www.7ctime.com提供,助您写好论文. at the entries to BBC Radio 2’s “500 Words” competition. Children stumbled over simple spellings such as “does” and “clothes” and are unable to use the past tense correctly， often saying “rised” instead of “rose” or “thinked” instead of “thought”.
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused， especially semicolons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. However， exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35，171 examples in total， with some young writers using five at a time.
Popular US works such as the vampire novels and films are thought to be fuelling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.
Modern technology was also influential. Out of almost 300 references to “blackberry”， nearly half referred to mobile phones.
如果一项对儿童作文的研究结果可靠的话，那么比起狄更斯或莎士比亚的影响，书面英语的未来受好莱坞电影的影响更大。
研究人员阅读了英国作文比赛的参赛作品后发现，这些书面作品中到处都是美式英语、感叹号和名人的名字。作文中越来越多地使用美式英语词汇，如：garbage（垃圾）、trash can（垃圾桶）、sidewalk（人行道）、candy（糖果）、sneakers（运动鞋）、soda（苏打水）、cranky（暴躁不安的）和flashlight（手电筒）。
这些作文是由7岁至13岁的小学生写的，从中可见小学生们用“fairy cake”（仙女蛋糕）来指代“cupcake”（纸杯蛋糕），晚礼服的说法也从“tuxedo”变成了“dinner jacket”。“art”取代英式英语“clever”，“cranky”取代“irritable”（易怒的）。
名人文化对儿童作文也有强大的影响力。“真人秀”评委西蒙·考威尔和阿根廷足球运动员里奥内尔·梅西都是反复出现的名人名字。
牛津大学出版社查看了英国广播公司第二电台举办的“500单词”作文比赛的参赛作品后发现，小学生们在基本拼写、标点和语法上很有理由。孩子们总是弄错一些简单的拼写，如“does”和“clothes”；许多孩子不能准确使用过去时态，常常把“rose”拼成“rised”，把“thought”拼成“thinked”。
研究人员还发现，许多标点该用的时候没有用，尤其是分号和引号。有些孩子不知如何应用大写字母。然而，感叹号却被过度使用。据研究人员统计，滥用感叹号的情况总共出现了35，171次，有些小论文导读：
作者一次用了5个感叹号。
热门美国作品，如关于吸血鬼的小说和电影，促使孩子们越来越多地使用美式英语词汇和拼写策略。
现代科技对英语也有影响。在这些作文中，“blackberry”一词出现了近300次，其中近一半指的是黑莓手机。
Vocabulary
entry：参赛结果
refer to as：被称为；被认为
crop up：突然出现
punctuation：标点符号的使用
stumble over：给……绊倒
semicolon：分号
vampire：吸血鬼
fuel：给……加油