英语语法术语汉语译名之商榷

英语作为一门语言,遵循一定的语法规则。英语语法和汉语语法一样是语言运用范畴中的一种纽带和桥梁。对于中国学生来说,学好英语掌握一些基本的语法知识就显得尤为必要。然而,在当前畅销的众多英语语法著作中,不少英语语法术语的汉语译名晦涩难懂,许多学生和老师对其望而却步。基于这种现状,笔者在大量参考国内外英语语法专著的基础上,根据自己多年从教经验以及对英语语法的体悟,对目前存在异议的几个英语语法术语的汉语译名进行商榷。同时,借此机会抛砖引玉,以期促进英语语法术语汉语译名的准确、统一,以便于学生更容易理解掌握,最终实现提高英语语法教学实效性的目的。     

Reading/Writing Multilingualism: language,literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom

This article examines the relationship between the discipline of ‘English Literature’ and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that, although our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the ‘problem’ of language diversity by helping to teach language norms, literature can – and should – be made a preeminent space for students to reflect on their own experiences of language diversity, and to translate this into self‐reflexive critical tools to think about language in literature. As an example of this kind of practice in action, the article discusses the experience and outcomes of a project in the English Literature department at Queen Mary University of London, Reading/Writing Multilingualism, which involved year 10 and 12 students from two local secondary schools who have English as an additional language.     

多模态话语课件在外语语法教学中的实证研究

近年来,多模态话语理论在外语教学界引发越来越多的关注,基于其理论进行设计的教学软件受到外语界的普遍关注。该研究旨在探讨高中生对多模态英语语法教学的适应性,采用了实验法、调查法和个别访谈法,并以116名高中生为被试对象。实验结果表明,多模态英语语法教学具有传统语法教学无法比拟的优势,能把文字、图像及其他听觉、视觉符号相结合来引导学生发现和分析语法规则,进而深刻理解、准确使用语言形式。     

Native-English Speaking Instructors Teaching Writing in China

This article presents two separate but related studies on native-English speaking (NES) instructors’ teaching writing practice in Chinese universities. One study is a case study that explores the teaching practice of three NES instructors’ writing instruction in a southern Chinese university as well as students’ responses to their practice. Another study takes on an auto-ethnographic approach, in which the researcher retrospectively examines his own writing instruction as a college NES instructor in China with his new understanding of Bakhtin’s dialogic theory and theories of multi/biliteracy. The pairing of these two studies, methodologically and conceptually, illustrates the NES instructors’ teaching experiences in China from both an outsider and an insider’s perspectives. The findings of the studies indicate that one of the key factors that hinder the effectiveness in teaching writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts is the doctrine of ‘native fallacy’ widespread in the EFL field. This is an ethnocentric view of treating English as a hegemonic practice that drives EFL students to reach native-like English proficiency in both their English speaking and writing. The article concludes with a call for a paradigm shift in teaching and learning in the EFL field, which requires fundamental changes in the view of English from ‘native English’ to World Englishes or an international language for today’s globalized community.     

利用图式理论提高中学生英语阅读能力

阅读理解在中学英语教学中一直处于十分重要的地位。但当前的中学英语教学过分强调阅读材料本身的文本表达,忽视了学生对目标语言文化背景知识的理解,以致阅读教学效果不理想。该文从中学生阅读理解的过程及图式理论的起源和发展出发,分析图式理论对于提高中学生阅读能力的重要性,进而提出科学帮助中学生习得丰富多彩的图式的途径和有效激发学生大脑中潜在的图式策略,以达到提高中学生阅读能力的目的。     

中职英语口语教学策略探究

加强中职学生的口语训练,提高英语应用能力是中职学生英语学习的基本要求。目前,中职英语口语教学仍存在学生口语表达能力差异大、教学缺乏真实的语言环境和材料等诸多问题。文章探索多种教学策略在中职英语口语教学中的具体应用,突出中职英语教学的实用性和针对性,以期提高学生在职场和生活场景下的综合语言应用能力。     

论高职基础英语教学与行业英语教学的融合

高职基础英语教学与行业英语教学的融合是高职人才培养改革的应有之义,经济全球化的背景要求高职英语教学应突出实用性,在较短的学制内,将基础英语课的教学计划与行业英语课的教学计划融为一体。本文提出通过设计数个情景内容模块,采用单元教学模式,把语言基本功训练与日常交际能力训练和行业英语能力训练相结合,培养高职学生既具备一定的英语语言技能,又具备一定的行业英语应用能力。     

提高英语口语的方法初探

一直以来,大部分学生在学校里接受的英语学习都是以应试为主,在多年的英语学习过程中,老师给学生教授更多的是词汇和语法方面的知识,而培养学生运用英语流畅地进行交流的实践并不是很多。"哑巴"英语已经越来越成为学习英语最大的障碍。如何克服这种障碍,提高学生的英语口语交际能力就成了英语教师在当今的教学中不断研究和探索的课题。下面笔者根据多年的教学经验,并参考一些专家的理论对如何提高英语口语提供的几个方法。     

暗示教学法在中职英语教学中的应用探究

暗示教学法作为一种学习语言的有效的方法,其在中职英语教学中的应用可以弥补教学效能的不足,帮助学生不断提高英语语言的综合应用能力。教师在中职英语教学中应用暗示教学法时,可以借助活动暗示激发学生的求知欲,借助环境暗示激发学生的想象力,借助音乐暗示激发学生的潜力。     

‘Coherence at Last’: Percival Gurrey’s Contribution to English

Reacting to incoherent English teaching in the 1930s, Percival Gurrey probed the psychological processes involved in literary appreciation. He sought ways of teaching poetry that avoided lifeless tasks such as labelling ‘poetic devices’. Later, in the 1950s, he wrote about the processes involved in learning to write. At a time when psychology dominated educational discourse, he was in touch with new developments in both literary criticism and linguistics, and he evolved a bridging theory of language, learning and development that spanned philosophy, psychology and literary theory. I connect Gurrey’s sense of wholeness of response to his reading in Coleridge. By returning to debates surrounding Coleridge I show how a new appreciation of what language accomplishes emerged. Gurrey discovered that writing has a central place in children’s development as a whole. From such hard-won discoveries a unified theory of development in talking, reading and writing duly emerged.     

Language in Use

The conference set up one commission to look at the particular place of the English lesson within a framework of Language across the Curriculum. Such a view of language in school could have awkward implications for English: that either a pupil's growth in language might be provided for by the work of the whole curriculum, or that the English lesson should ‘service’ a pupil's language for his work in other studies. Two questions arise: are there certain responses and experiences which pupils need time for and which can only be allowed for in the English lesson ? And are there particular studies in language that only the English lesson can take responsibility for ? In order to set this discussion on its way, Peter Doughty was invited to talk about the special work which his team at University College, London, had been doing on language in English, and which has now been incorporated into material known as Language in Use. We print here an extract from his paper, published by the Schools Council, a fuller version of which is available on application from Great Portland Street, London, W.1. Fred Inglis took issue with this point of view about language in English.     

高职学生英语学习中的焦虑及对策研究

随着人本主义心理学的发展,焦虑等情感因素越来越受到重视。从20世纪70年代后期开始,语言教育专家和研究者就开始探索如何把情感发展渗透到语言教学与学习之中以消除焦虑的问题。从自身的教学实践和教学经验谈焦虑对高职院校学生英语学习的影响,并结合自己的教学实践和高职院校学生的特点,提出应对英语学习焦虑的相关策略。     

有声思维——英语专业教师应具备的研究方法

有声思维是英语专业教师应具备的一种研究方法,文章对该研究方法进行了介绍,并以翻译、听力、阅读、写作等课程的教学为例,说明有声思维对英语专业教学的作用.     

建构主义视野下的基础英语多媒体教学:一项实证研究

建构主义学习理论强调的"建构"、"协作"、"情境"、"互动"、"过程"与基础英语教学要求的过程性、任务性、协作性与情境性不谋而合;而多媒体技术为两者的契合提供了技术保障。通过实证性综合研究和个案研究,分析基础英语多媒体教学模式及特点,并探讨了基础英语多媒体教学效果及其对培养学生英语综合应用能力的作用。研究表明:多媒体技术从根本上优化了基础英语课堂教学,为学生综合能力的培养起到了积极的作用。     

‘The Trees of Knowledge and Life Growing Together’ in the Educational Vision of C.S. Lewis: Why Medway and Stevens are Almost Right About Enlightenment and Romantic Values in English

Peter Medway’s paper ‘English and Enlightenment’ (Changing English, 2010) and David Stevens’ response to it, ‘Critically Enlightened Romantic Values and English Pedagogy: A Response to Peter Medway’ (Changing English, 2011), address the relative merits of the quest for truth and the place of aesthetic response in English. It is suggested here, however, that each paper contains the kernel of a counter-argument to the one being presented and that, taken together, both papers might be augmented by attention to The Abolition of Man – Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools by C.S. Lewis. This article develops ideas introduced briefly in a previous issue of this journal and considers one important aim of English teaching in schools to be the fostering of ‘just sentiments’. It argues that educational values are necessary to augment Enlightenment and critically enlightened Romantic values if English teachers are to facilitate spiritual as well as moral development and do justice to the diversity of both the texts and the students they teach.     

非英语专业大学生英语口语语料错误分析及纠错策略

在英语口语教学和口语测试过程中,教师们发现学生经常会犯这样或那样的错误。语言学家Dulay和Burt曾说过":不犯错误是学不会语言的",指出了从错误中学习语言的重要性,本文从错误分析理论出发,通过实证研究探讨非英语专业学生在英语口语考试中所犯错误的类型及原因,提出口语中常用的纠错策略,希望对英语口语教学能够有所启发和帮助。     

浅谈中专院校学生英语学习兴趣缺失的原因及其对策

随着国际交流的不断加深,英语作为世界通用语言越来越受到重视,如何提高学生的英语学习兴趣显得尤为重要。文章从学生的英语基础、教师自身的因素、教学环节中的导入模式、词汇的学习以及课堂上的教学方法和教学手段分析了中专院校学生英语学习兴趣缺失的原因,并根据这些原因提出了改进的方法。     

苏格兰英语互动教学模式的理论及其应用研究

英语教学的目的是使学生获得一定培养目标规定的知识以及语言综合应用能力,自主学习能力。介绍苏格兰英语互动教学模式,运用建构主义教学理论和认知教学理论研究适合我国学生实际的英语课堂教学的改革思路,并以此对陕西工业职业技术学院的公共英语课堂教学进行改革试点。结果表明,要推行高职英语互动教学模式必须在一个教学单元内做到以下三点：首先要以教师为主导的传授基础知识和训练基本语言技能为基础;其次是以学生为主体进行互动交流,实现其交际和沟通能力;最后是以师生互动为中心进行团体互问活动来提高学生,巩固、熟练所学的知识和技能,拓展学生的思维空间,培养学生的自主学习能力。     

论英语文学在研究生公共英语教学中的融入效用

文学作品是训练语言和思维技能的载体,阅读英语文学作品,有助于了解英语国家的历史文化、哲学观念和艺术传统。在研究生公共英语教学中融入英语文学阅读与欣赏,可以改变非英语专业研究生拘泥于词汇和语法等语言形式的被动式学习,促使他们主动通过阅读英语文学作品来加深对语言文化的了解,并借助内隐认知的自发性成效更好地掌握语言的内在规则,增强语言学习的自信,体会语言世界的快乐。