课文在英语综合课上作用的探讨  

On the Role of a Text in the Comprehensive English Class

作　　者：曲卫国[1] 

机构地区：[1]复旦大学外文学院,上海200433

出　　处：《外语电化教学》2016年第3期3-8,共6页Technology Enhanced Foreign Language Education

摘　　要：自从新版《高等学校英语专业教学大纲》提出综合课要强调语言能力、理解能力和思辨能力的训练后,综合课教学已经基本突破了传统的围绕课文反复机械训练语言的做法。然而,目前综合课却有另外一种倾向:课文被边缘化。许多教师对课文的处理非常粗糙,只把课文看成是话题,甚至有些教师不知该如何借助课文训练思辨能力。我们必须厘清课文与文本的区别。但如果对课文到底该起什么作用没有清楚的认识,综合课的改革将大打折扣。本研究认为,不同于文本,课文要传递的不仅是自身的信息,更重要的是文本的元知识,即有关意义传递的知识。通过对文本内在语义复杂性的剖析,我们能有效地借助课文训练学生的三大能力。Since the new syllabus stresses that the comprehensive English class should develop students＇ competence in language,comprehension and critical thinking,the class has now dropped the traditional close reading and mechanical drill practices. Yet the new tendency has marginalized the role of a text in class. Many teachers tend to brush texts aside as topics,and some even do not know how to use a text to develop critical thinking ability. I argue that we need to differentiate a text in a lesson and a text in general. Failure to understand the role of a text will lead to the failure in the reform of the comprehensive English class. The main purpose of a lesson is not simply to convey messages in it but to introduce meta-textual knowledge,i. e.,to reveal how meanings are brought across by a text. We can effectively train students＇ competence by focusing on the semantic complexities in a text.

关 键 词：综合课 课文 文本 元文本知识 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]