歧义容忍原是心理领域的词汇,近年来,歧义容忍度作为语言学习者的个体差异,也受到了语言学家和语言教育工作者的关注。就歧义容忍度对学生英文写作成绩之间的关系进行了实证研究,发现适度歧义容忍的语言学习者的写作成绩更高,并且适度的歧义容忍更有助于语言学习者写作成绩的提高。 Ambiguity tolerance was originally a vocabulary in the field of psychology. In recent years, as one of the individual differences in language learners, ambiguity tolerance has attracted the attention of linguists and language educators. An empirical study on the relationship between ambiguity tolerance and students’ achievement in English writing shows that students with moderately ambiguous tolerance have higher grades in writing and moderate tolerance of discomfort is more conducive to improving the writing performance of language learners.