公共英语教学定位转移中的专门用途英语教师身份认同研究  

ESP teachers’ identity in the paradigm shift of Chinese tertiary English education

作　　者：蔡基刚 CAI Jigang

机构地区：[1]上海外国语大学贤达经济人文学院,200083 [2]复旦大学外文学院

出　　处：《外语教学理论与实践》2021年第3期64-71,共8页Foreign Language Learning Theory And Practice

基　　金：国家社科基金项目(016BYY027F)“中国大学生学术英语能力及素养等级量表建设和培养路径研究”;上海社科基金项目(SH0174037)“一带一路和双一流建设视野下的我国专门用途教育研究:40年回顾、反思与对策”成果。

摘　　要：了解我国专门用途英语(ESP)教师的身份认同对于公共英语从通用英语向专门用途英语范式转移非常关键。我们对40多所高校109位ESP教师的问卷和访谈调查发现,ESP教师的身份认同度不高,他们教学主要还是停留在通用学术英语,没有花全力去从事与专业相关的ESP教学与研究。主要原因是外语界把ESP看成专业内容教学和ESP从教育部学科设置目录中消失,这使得ESP教师不敢放弃原有的英美语言文学或翻译研究。因此,尽快恢复ESP学科地位,改变以外国语言文学为核心内容的学科评估体系将成为吸引更多愿意从事ESP教学的教师的关键。To have a good understanding of ESP(English for Specific Purposes) teachers’ perception of their new identity is critical to the paradigm shift from teaching general English to ESP. This study draws on the data from a questionnaire and interviews, a survey conducted among 109 ESP teachers from more than 40 tertiary institutes. The result shows that the majority of them fail to recognize their new identity nor to devote themselves to teaching discipline-specific ESP. It also shows that the misunderstanding of ESP as content instruction and the loss of ESP as an independent discipline from the MOE discipline lists renders many of them unwilling to replace their original research interest in literature, linguistics and translation with new one in ESP. It is suggested that to draw more English language teachers to embrace the new enterprise, it is important to restore ESP to its disciplinary status and reform the literature/linguistic-oriented assessment of the foreign language discipline.

关 键 词：专门用途英语 学术英语 身份认同 英语教学 学科地位 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]