201205No.05201228JOURNALOFEDUCATIONALINSTITUTEOFJILINPROVINCEVol.28281TotalNo.281。2011—10—141974—。。310033。30。EAPH05A1671—1580201205—0109—03。、12。。、。、、、、、。3MichaelHoey“OntheSurfaceofDiscourse”。4“-”“-”。-Problem-solutionpat-tern-4situation、problem、responseevaluation“---/”“-”1。-General-specificpat-tern。“”“-”2。、630、、。。2008、20092010。、。30。901textualitysequence、-、-“-”“-”。“-”“”“”-“”“”“”“”“-”“---”。“-”-“”topicsentence“”controlideasupportingdetails。。。。Introduction-Method-Results-DiscussionIMRD5“literaturere-view”、“argumentation”“conclu-sion”“”2。4。3-Introduc-tionliteraturereviewMethodsargumen-tation1Resultsargumen-tation2Discussionconclu-sionTotalproblem-solution851311078340620.9%32.3%26.4%20.4%100%general-specific13981697736638%22.1%18.9%21%100%3304-406。8520.9%。。-58.5%-。-380-413936.6%38%-20.9%“-”、。、“”“”。ESPNeedsAnaly-sisSkillAnalysis、、、。。、、、、、、。、、、。。011。、、。、。。“、、、、”-。。。、。“”“”。。1HallidayM.A.K.AnIntroductiontoFunctionalGrammarM.LondonLongman1985.2HasanR.WaysofSayingWaysofMeaningM.eds.C.CloranD.Butt&G.Williams.LondonCas-sell1996.3deBeaugrandeR.&W.Dressler.IntroductiontoTextLin-guisticsM.LondonLongman.1981.4HoeyM.OntheSurfaceofDiscourseM.LondonAllenandUnwin1983.5SwalesJohnM.GenreAnalysisEnglishinAcademicandRe-searchSettingM.CambridgeCambridgeUniversityPress.1990.AStudyonMacroDiscourseFeaturesofBAThesesbyEnglishMajorsJIAOJun-fengSchoolofForeignLanguagesZhejiangSci-TechUniversityHangzhou310018ChinaAbstractTheTheoryoftextpatternisquiteinstrumentalforthestudyofmacrostructureofdiscourse.Basedonthetheoryoftextpatternthepaperanalyzes30BAthesesbyEnglishmajorstoinvestigatethemacrodiscoursefeaturesofthesetheseswithsuggestionsproposedtocultivatestudents’writingability.KeywordsBAthesesforEnglishmajorstextpatternsEAP111