深度教学视角下高校“中国文化”英语课程思政落实研究

以高校“中国文化”英语课程为例,从深度学习课堂进程维度入手,将思想政治教育深度融入教学,以期解决课程思政“怎样做”的问题。具体措施如下:第一,明确高校“中国文化”英语课程思政的目标;第二,梳理课程蕴含的思想政治元素和价值导向;第三,采用展示高挑战项目、深入讨论问题、关联知识体系等教学方式来“落小,落细,落实”课程思政。这既能提高学生英语综合能力和高阶思维能力,全面提升学生文化自信,也能将育人有机融入教学实践,连通课程思政“最后一公里”。     

英语教学中情感因素之探究

外语习得的西方理论研究中表明,情感因素是外语教学中的重要不可或缺的因素。现代教育在高速发展的经济政治的影响下,对外语教学提出了更高的要求。该文结合多年的外语教学和对本学期刚入校的中职一年级的新生近一年的英语教学中情感因素的研究,总结出情感因素对英语教学的影响以及在教学中应注意的情感因素,为提高教学效果服务。     

The effectiveness of teaching science subjects through English medium: A narrative analysis of teacher experiences and perceptions in Sri Lankan secondary schools

This article analyses four narratives told by four teachers teaching science subjects in four different public secondary schools in the district of Gampaha in Sri Lanka. Gampaha is the second most populous district in Sri Lanka, and is known for excellent results in General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) exams which school leavers sit at the end of the secondary school cycle. The teachers’ narratives focus on the policy and practice of teaching science subjects through English at secondary level, which was reintroduced in a small number of selected government schools in Sri Lanka in 2002. After using the two local languages, Sinhala and Tamil, for nearly half a century, the Sri Lankan education authorities decided to bring back the English medium to the teaching of science subjects at secondary level as a third language option. One of the policymakers’ reasons was an apparent decline in the English-language fluency of students at this level. To implement the new policy, science teachers (who had themselves been taught in Sinhala or Tamil) were asked to teach in English. More than a decade into the English-medium option, the author interviewed four of them. Their testimonies about their experiences in teaching science subjects offer valuable insights into the difficulties experienced by both teachers and students when teaching and learning in a foreign language such as English. The author’s analysis of his respondents’ statements reveals hidden realities which challenge the benefits of reintroducing English as a medium of instruction (MOI) for science subjects. Thus, the lived experiences of the teachers may help to inform language policy in education in Sri Lanka, and perhaps also in other countries.     

CBI在地方院校大学英语教学中的应用现状——以渭南师范学院为例

CBI是为了促进学生语言水平的提高将语言和学科知识相结合的教学理念。其目的在于通过学生新知识的学习来提升其语言水平。笔者以渭南师范学院部分教师和学生为调查对象,调查分析了CBI在地方院校大学英语教学中的应用现状及其影响因素,最后提出了促进CBI较好地应用于地方院校大学英语教学中的一些建议,为地方院校大学英语教学改革起到积极地促进作用。     

What do distance language tutors say about teacher motivation?

Research into motivation in education mainly centres on students’ learning motivation. This article reports on an interview study of teacher motivation with the aim of investigating the effects of student-related factors and tutors’ personal factors on the motivation of language tutors in the distance learning context. Findings from the study indicate that external sources of influence include students’ engagement in learning English, motivation to learn English, progress made, foundation in English and appreciation of tutors’ teaching, while tutors’ internal factors are their self-efficacy in teaching, reflection and self-initiated professional development, interest in the profession of teaching English as well as their sense of achievement. Analysis of the data also suggests that more concrete measures are needed to counteract the demotivating effects from these two dimensions. Implications and suggestions are discussed with regard to enhancing tutor motivation more effectively.     

浅谈情感因素对大学英语教学的影响及对策

情感因素是英语教学的重要因素,影响着英语教学的每个环节。目前我国大学英语教学忽视了情感因素的作用,而片面强调语言学习中的认知因素,存在严重的知情分离现象。本文分析了情感因素在语言教学中的作用,揭示了大学英语教学中存在的问题,并在此基础上提出了一些可行性较强的对策。     

The Introduction of English‐language Education in Early Colonial Hong Kong

This article examines the attitudes of the colonial and metropolitan governments towards the promotion of English‐language education on Hong Kong Island between 1842 and 1860. The study, which draws on a range of unpublished primary sources, was conducted in response to Whitehead’s recent call for detailed case studies of colonial education policies. This article explores, within the context of Hong Kong, a centrally important aspect of education in the Empire, and one that has been the subject of surprisingly little archival research: British policies towards the teaching and learning of English as a second language. The article begins by analysing the political, economic and demographic forces that influenced the study and use of English in Hong Kong during the 1840s and 1850s, and then moves on to examine language policies and practices in the colony’s mission schools, with a particular focus on the Morrison Education Society School, the first Western school to be established on the Island after the British occupation. The final section analyses the introduction of English teaching in the government vernacular schools in the early 1850s.     

积极反思 终身学习——大学英语教师职业发展的素养要求

时代发展对大学英语教师的能力和素质提出新要求。大学英语教师的教育教学水平成为高校提高外语教学质量的关键。然而,外在原因、个体原因、教学任务重等诸多因素极大地限制了大学英语教师接受正式继续教育的机会。反思型教学能够成为大学英语教师保持与时代同步的有效方法。经常地反思改进就是一种学习。终生的反思与改进就是一种终身的学习。这种终身的学习将益己益人,益教育、益国家。     

English as a symbol of internationalization in higher education: a case study of Vietnam

Vietnam universities have experienced remarkable changes brought about by their internationalization policies. The switch to English as a medium of instruction (EMI) for some academic programs was one of these critical changes. Literature has reported numerous issues related to EMI, including inadequate language proficiency of teaching staff. This paper looks at a qualitative research study on how a government university from Vietnam employs different strategies to enhance teachers’ English proficiency. The study reveals that the introduction of new supporting systems, assessment bodies, recruitment criteria and institutional strategies on training, monitoring and motivation have created cultural change within the teacher community. This cultural change, which includes elements such as self-directed learning, peer learning, professionalism, and ‘open-to-change’ attitudes, has been perceived by both leaders and teachers to be conducive to teachers’ language learning. The findings presented in this paper seek to contribute to the formulation or adjustment of policies related to educational reforms, such as curriculum reform, teacher recruitment and teacher professional development in non-English-speaking countries.     

大学英语线上线下混合式教学中思想政治教育探索

当前复杂的国际形势和大学阶段的特殊性都对思想政治教育提出了迫切的需求.在线上线下混合式教学日益普及的背景下,针对如何让思想政治教育走进大学英语课堂这一问题,从教学理念转变、教学内容思政要素融合及教学模式设计三个方面进行了探索和实践.主要基于超星泛雅和雨课堂两个线上教学平台进行教学模式设计,涵盖课前、课中及课后三个教学环...     

Entrenching the English language in a British Colony: curriculum policy and practice in Trinidad and Tobago

This paper recognizes that the teaching of English was an objective in British colonial expansion, and investigates some approaches used in schools to accomplish this end at a time when learners already had a basic grasp of the language. The Colony used in this example is Trinidad and Tobago, and the period immediately prior to closure of over a century of British rule is the time frame in which the paper is cast. Data were drawn from observations about the English language curriculum used at the time. Log books kept by individual schools, ‘Notes’ and ‘Forecasts’ of lessons devised by individual teachers, and Government Reports on the teaching and learning of English in elementary or first cycle schools provide the main data sources. A historical–structural analysis is used to interpret the data gathered. The investigation reveals adoption of four major strategies to ensure not only dominance of, but also perpetuation in, English language usage locally. These comprise a packaging formula which guaranteed omnipresence of English in the classroom agenda; a pedagogical approach emphasizing the mechanics of grammar and syntax; a grammar syndrome to ensure punctiliousness in language use; and certain ideological frames to entrench supremacy of the English language in the consciousness of learners. The paper concludes that the English-language base in Trinidad and Tobago did in fact become fortified, but that some variants to the standard form also emerged.     

Ambiguous Aims: English-language Voluntourism as Development

English-language voluntourism is a practice whereby people from the Global North teach English in the Global South as an alternative form of travel and means of development assistance. As part of a larger, multisited ethnography, I investigate how in-service and former English-language voluntourism program participants frame short-term English language teaching as development. Findings suggest that the relations among volunteer tourism, English, and development remain largely unexamined. It is widely assumed that English is a commodity, a tool that can help individuals, and by consequence, states connect materially to the global economy. Yet, participants also speak in ways that conflate English language learning with cosmopolitanism, cultural change, and deeper forms of identity transformation. In that sense, English-language voluntourism’s development agenda is unclear, and akin to other forms of volunteer tourism, English-language voluntourism would benefit from moving away from development discourse and reframing its overall aims.     

“Swedishness” as a Norm for Learners of English in Swedish Schools: A Study of National and Local Objectives and Criteria in Compulsory Schools

This paper examines whether the Swedish steering documents for English-language education are ethnically biased, that is, whether Swedish culture and language or “Swedishness” are used as norms when teaching and assessing students. To examine whether such bias exists, the central curricula and syllabi from 1994 and 2000, as well as local steering documents, work plans, and grading criteria for English language studies from 85 Swedish compulsory schools, have been analyzed. The analysis of the steering documents focuses on what they say about grammar, translation, and intercultural understanding. The results of the study suggest that, in many cases, the starting point for schools is still Swedish culture and “Swedishness.” The most noteworthy result of the study is that nearly one third of the schools had objectives and criteria for English language studies that use the Swedish language and Swedish conditions as their reference point. This gives students with Swedish backgrounds better preconditions for attaining the learning goals and receiving better grades in English then those of students with other cultural backgrounds.     

将英文报刊阅读引入英语教学的应用研究

英文报刊内容丰富、语言新颖、题材广泛、文体多样、信息量大、时代性强,是当代英语语言的资料库,与大学生的学习需求和学习兴趣适切,是大学英语教材的有益补充和辅助。将英文报刊阅读引入英语教学,运用一定的教学策略．开展课上快速阅读、课下精读、课前演讲、小组讨论表演等读报教学活动,可以有效地提高学生的英语综合运用能力。     

‘Everyone thinks that I just need to know a few words and sing some songs to teach English to the kids’: primary school English language teachers struggled for their professional legitimacy

Language teachers’ struggles for professional legitimacy have emerged as an area of interest in the field of language teaching research. Grounded in Wenger’s concept of ‘trajectories of learning’, the current study explored the fight for legitimate status of two primary school English language teachers in Vietnam. Data for this article were collected through life-history interviews in which the two participating teachers were encouraged to tell stories about the early days of their teaching careers. The findings of the study reveal that the participants struggled for professional legitimacy during the early stage of their teaching careers. Beyond the school setting, the two teachers encountered negative attitudes towards their teaching profession as teaching languages to young learners was not highly valued in society. Based on the findings, the study pointed to the issue of power relations which, although regarded as a barrier to teachers’ professional legitimacy, is not adequately addressed in the concept of ‘trajectories of learning’. The study also revealed some implications for legitimising language teachers’ professional status.     

发挥辅助教学作用 激发学生学习外语兴趣

我们从三个方面入手为学生建立了外语学习课外辅助教学平台。1.课外英、日语资料库学习平台;2.外语多媒体网络课堂学习平台;3.英、日语课外活动辅助教学平台。这三个辅助平台的应用,为学生自主学习和个性学习创造了条件,提供了开放式的语言学习环境。多种形式的外语辅助教学,在提高学生学习外语的兴趣、主动性、创造性和实际运用语言能力方面发辉了重要的作用。     

挑战性任务教学对大学生外语学习自我效能感的积极作用

高校英语教育目前大都难以突破传统课堂教学模式的框架,而社会不断提高对大学生英语实用能力要求,"教与学"的矛盾尤为突出。在现有的教育资源和环境下,突破传统课堂教学模式,利用挑战性任务教学法,对培养持久的学习动机、将外语学习、性格培养和职业规划统一在外语教学之中有着积极的作用。     

“It Was Because I Could Speak English That I Got the Job”: Neoliberal Discourse in a Chinese English Textbook Series

The issue of neoliberalism has aroused sustained interest among English language teaching (ELT) and applied linguistic researchers who are politically minded. Neoliberalism is a dominant rationality with immense economic, political and ideological consequences in all aspects of social and institutional life in globalization, including foreign language education. This article presents a critical analysis of the neoliberal discourse on English language learning in the Chinese context with a special focus on teaching materials. Informed by a political economy perspective on English language education, the study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a methodological principle. Specifically, it examines the way (a) competence in English is commodified as a desirable linguistic cultural capital, (b) English learning is portrayed as an individualized and asocial undertaking, and (c) a monolingual and monocultural dream is built to include learners in an imagined homogeneous discourse community. Implications for ELT pedagogy and curriculum are discussed.     

EFL teachers’ conceptions of speaking competence in English

The present article lies at the intersection of research on teacher cognition and speaking competence in a second language. It is a qualitative analysis of teacher accounts of speaking in the context of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Iran. More specifically, the study is an exploration of three EFL teachers’ conceptions of learning and teaching the speaking skill in English. The teachers represented varying levels of experience and education and were classified as experts and novices. Through juxtaposing teachers’ views of how students should learn to speak and how the teachers themselves learned to speak English, the research study uncovers the interwoven nature of learning experience with teaching conceptions. It also unveils the images underpinning their conceptions of how to learn and teach speaking in an EFL context. The results also portray teachers as having unique ways of thinking of speaking while at the same time sharing certain patterns.     

英语学习策略调查与分析及对策研究

英语已经成为世界通用语言,越来越多的人通过多种途径学习和应用英语。然而由于多种因素的影响,对于很多学习者来说学好英语是一道难题。我国的英语教学逐渐由传统的应试性和片面强调语言知识的学习转变成教会学生如何学习以及培养学生掌握有效学习的策略。通过对普通高等院校非英语专业三年级学生对英语学习策略的调查,掌握其学习英语的基本情况,便于教师在教学中运用适当的教学理论和方法因材施教,培养学生运用正确的英语学习策略的能力。