多层次心智技能视域下的英语思维“工具性”  

The Thinking-oriented “Instrumental Nature” of English Viewed from the Theory of Multi-level Intelligential Skills

作　　者：王骏[1] 陆军[1] 

机构地区：[1]扬州大学外国语学院,江苏扬州225009

出　　处：《北京第二外国语学院学报》2015年第8期61-67,35,共8页Journal of Beijing International Studies University

摘　　要：英语既是交流工具,也是思维工具。前者备受关注,已经得到广泛实践,而后者少人问津,目前仅仅属于理论假设。因此,有必要对英语的思维工具性进行研究,探明其内涵,发现其途径,使其从理论迈向实践。本文以多层次心智技能学说作为理论基础,就英语思维工具性的内涵和实现途径展开实证分析和理论探讨。研究发现英语包括以语言符号为操作对象的基础心智技能和以概念为操作对象的高级心智技能。前者是交流工具,后者为思维工具。文章认为当学生英语的基础心智技能达到自动化时,英语教师应当在自上而下概念操作活动中引导学生建构分析、综合、比较和判断等高级心智技能,在此基础上实现英语的思维工具性。English is the instrument of communication and thinking. The former has drawn considerable attention and gained wide practice. The latter, however, draws little attention and still belongs to a kind of theoretical hypothesis. Therefore, it＇s necessary to explore the thinking- oriented instrumental nature of English, probing its internal workings, revealing the channel to practice it and leading it from theory to practice. The paper adopts the multi-level intelligential skills theory as the theoretical foundation and conducts an empirical and theoretical analysis of what the thinking-oriented instrumental nature of English contains and how it can be turned into practice. The study shows that English consists of both basic linguistic-symbol-processing intelligential skills and advanced concept-processing intelligential skills. While the former is the means of communication, the latter is the instrument of thinking. According to the paper, where students can process linguistic symbols automatically, their English teacher should lead them to construct in top-down concept-processing activities such advanced intelligential skills as analyzing, synthesizing, comparing and making a judgment. It＇s on this basis that the thinking-oriented instrumental function of English can be fulfilled.

关 键 词：工具性 思维 心智技能 概念 自上而下 建构主义 

分 类 号：H0-06[语言文字—语言学]