身份认同与学习投资:中国英语专业学生英语学习与使用的批判性研究  

Identity and Investment:A Critical Exploration of English Major Students’Perceptions of Learning and Using English Language in Contemporary China

作　　者：苑迪 Di YUAN(Faculty of Education,Tianjin Normal University)

机构地区：[1]天津师范大学

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2023年第4期495-517,645,共24页中国应用语言学（英文）

基　　金：2021年天津师范大学教学改革项目“招生-培养-就业联动机制的构建与实践研究”(JG01221011);2022年天津市教委社科重大项目“新课标下中小学英语‘备、教、学、评’一体化改革与实验研究”(2022JWZD26)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：本研究在三个层面展开讨论——宏观层面的全球化背景、中观层面的国家背景和微观层面的学校背景。在这些不同语境影响下,本现象学研究旨在通过半结构化访谈的形式探索某民办地方高校十名英语专业学生英语学习(在学校)和使用(工作中)现象。依此,来了解当今中国英语学习者在英语学习和使用过程中认知形成、身份建构学和习投资施加现状。为了实现这一研究目标,Darvin和Norton(2015)的投资理论模型为研究人员研究这一关键教育现象提供了坚实的理论基础。研究结果不仅包括参与者如何反思他们在不同学习阶段英语学习经历,还包括他们如何在新环境中发挥他们的主导意识(sense of agency)和重建他们的英语语言使用者身份(language identity)。研究结果还显示,当中国英语学习者处于由英语学习到英语教学的过渡阶段时,英美式英语(native English)展现出作为一种”资本形式”的强大力量,以及权威声音(authoritative voices)对这些参与者英语使用感知和语言身份认同过程中的巨大影响。通过提供多角度描述和批判性思考,本研究展示了中国外语教育体系如何将英美式英语(native English)制度化,从而塑造着当代中国英语专业的学生。This study is contextualized onto three levels-the macro-level globalized context,the meso-level national context,and the micro-level of school contexts.Under the influence of these different contexts,this study is designed as a phenomenological study with the aim to understand the phenomenon of English learning and using perceptions,investment,and identity constructions of ten English major students in China through semi-structured interviews.In order to fulfill that goal,Darvin and Norton(2015)’s model provides a solid theoretical foundation for the researcher to investigate this critical educational phenomenon.The findings of the study include not only how participants reflect on their English learning experiences at different learning stages,but also how they exert their sense of agency and re-construct their English language identity in new environment.Findings also show the power of native English as a form of capital and the influence of authoritative voices on students’perceptions and language identity while students enter and transfer their English learning to teaching trajectories.By providing a critical and multi-layered approach,this study demonstrates how Chinese educational system institutionalizes native English and thus shapes English major students in China.

关 键 词：身份 意识形态 学习投资 外语教育 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]