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英语导入课有效提问的策略研究

2019-04-02陆淑华

关键词:语境工具思维

陆淑华

摘 要:课堂提问是课堂教学的重要组成部分。有效提问对于学生思维品质提高有积极作用。本文通过分析一节市级研讨课中的提问方式,来研究英语导入课的有效提问策略,以期为提高学生思维品质寻找一条实用的路径。

关键词:有效提问;思维品质

中图分类号:G633.41文献标识码:A     文章编号:1992-7711(2019)03-053-2

课堂提问贯穿在整个英语教学过程中,是课堂中教师与学生交流的重要方式和手段。课堂提问是英语课堂教学中最重要的师生互动形式,可以引导学生拓展思维,提高学生的思维品质(黄建良,2018)。

本文通过对牛津八上Unit 4 Do it yourself的第一板块Comic strip&Welcome to the unit一节市级研讨课中的课堂提问方式进行分析,以期探讨在英语单元导入课中有效提问的策略。

一、根据语境提问,提高认识能力

为解决新课中的词汇问题,执教者用图片创设了四个语境,并进行有效提问。首先,直接猜测。师生对第一个图片的提问以及回应如下:T: Look at the picture. What am I trying to make? S: Paper roses. 其次,自然引出。对第二个图片的提问及回应如下:T: Picture 2, what am I going to do? S: You are going to brush the wall. T: Very good. Actually I am decorating the wall. 教师通过先肯定后带出想要的单词的方式来学习新单词。然后,近义替换。第三个图片的提问及回应如下:T: Picture 3. I am going to fix it. Do you have another word for fix? S: Repair. 教师直接通过替换近义词的方式引出新授词汇。接着,理解语境。第四个图片的提问及回应如下:T: Picture4, it's not me. It's one of my best friends. I pay her some money to do something for me. So is this DIY? S: No. T: I pay money to do it. 教師通过将新词出现在语境中帮助学生理解单词pay。

通过设置语境的方式来加强对细节信息的有效提问。语境一:T: I am trying to make a rose paper. What tools do I need? What's this?语境二:T: I am trying to repair things. What do I need? What are these? 语境三: T: Because I can not fix my mobile phone. What can I do? I can search the Internet and get them. 教师展示出来提示instructions的图片,引出instructions这个词。教师带着学生总结做DIY需要的工具:Very good. We need instructions, screwdriver and glue for repairing my mobile phone. 语境四:T: I want to make my room more beautiful. What's this? S: Brush. T: What's this? S: Hammer. T: What do I need for my decorating? 所有学生一起说出所需要的工具,明确所学的内容。

图片的提示、语境的创设和基于语境的有效提问,能够提高学生的认识和理解语境的能力,自然引出所学内容。

二、根据过渡提问,培养目标意识

过渡的语言越自然、越生活化,提问效果就越好。在本课教学中,教师使用贴近生活的自然过渡语,通过有效提问自然引出教学任务。

第一次自然过渡:为完成第二个任务即学习DIY工具,教师说:Now I am starting my DIY work. I need prepare a lot of DIY tools。接着,通过提问扫除学生对于关键词的理解障碍:What does tool mean? 并通过语境学习不同工具。

进行第二次自然过渡:在学习完不同的工具后,教师说:Now I have a new friend. He is called Andrew. Andrew is crazy about DIY. Here are some of his tools. Do you still remember them? Please turn to Page 43. Please write down the names of the tools in Part A. 有效的提问过渡将学生自然而然带入下一项任务。

第三次自然过渡如下:Thank you for helping Andrew. Would you like to read sentences together? Tools are ready. Andrew's got to work. Can you help him find the correct tools? You can discuss with your partners. What tools does he use? 通过承上启下过渡到下一项巩固任务。

第四次自然过渡如下:在介绍Andrew's DIY stories中,教师提问:This is our new friend Andrew. Do you still remember our old friend Hobo? Hobo is crazy about DIY too.Do you remember them? What's this? Can you guess what Hobo is going to make? 通过新朋友和老朋友的介绍自然带入到Comic Strip部分的学习。

第五次自然过渡如下:Not only Hobo, but more and more students like doing DIY. Suzy is one of the students who like DIY very much. Now look, this is Suzy's DIY work. Would you like to listen to the tape between Suzy and Millie and answer the questions? 通过从Hobo到Suzy的自过渡语言,完成故事之间的转换。

第六次自然过渡如下:Now, you know my mother's birthday is coming. I am not going to buy the present and I want to make it myself. I'd like you to help me. Can you help me?通过贴近生活的语境过渡,让学生进入知识的运用阶段。

三、根据层次追问,培养深层思维

在追问的过程中,教师的提问类型从基本的知识类问题,逐步过渡到理解原因的问题,以及判断如何去做的问题,推断分析意义的问题,有利于提高学生批判思维能力,进而提升学生的思维品质。

在Comic strip部分,听后教师提问:What is Hobo going to make? 第一次追问:Will Eddie help him? 第二次追问:Why? 第三次追问:What can Hobo do? 第四次追问:What should Hobo do to finish the DIY? 第五次追问:Now, look, the house is ready. It's nice? 第六次追问:I don't think so. How to make it beautiful?学生说好看,教师却说:I don't think so, 教师第七次追问:He can brush it? 并指出在用词上还可以考虑使用paint。教师引导学生:He had better..., he can use some flowers or grow some trees. You know the house is made of wood. Do you know wood? This is wood。教师一遍敲打边上的木头桌子。接着第八次追问:Can you put it near fire? He had better not...(put the house near fire). 教师带领学生一起得出结论,在语境中使用had better... / had better not...提出建议。这个过程中教师一步步引导出与学生实际生活有意义的内容。

在Your DIY story的部分,教师先进行对话示范,然后学生小组合作练习,第一组展示后,教师提问:One question, what does the boy want to make? 这个问题为知识性问题,采取集体回答方式。第二组展示后,教师提问:What does the girl need for her lucky stars? 学生对工具进行了了解。第三组展示后,教师追问:One more question, when your mother receives your present, how does she feel? 学生回答:I think she will be very happy。问题层次逐渐提升。教师再次追问:Why? 学生回答:Because the present shows your love。通過追问和逐层深入的提问方式,学生联系了自身,思维和情感提到了提升。

四、根据产出提问,引导创新意识

提问需要考虑学生的产出情况,要及时建桥搭梯,如果没有搭建梯子,那只能低效产出。

在Joy' DIY story部分,教师提问:I've got known something about you. Do you want to know something about me? Can you guess what I like to do in my free time? Can you guess?For example, maybe you like...教师第一个提问问学生是否想了解老师,但是学生没有回应,学生没有产出,因此教师直接问第二个问题。分析原因,借班上课的教师与学生的情感联系少,客观上存在距离感。并且学生已经在导入部分了解了她的名字、来自哪个学校,和她的感受。所以这个提问让学生在思考还需要问什么。在设置问题时,要基于学生产出答案的可能性进行分析和判断,进行有效的提问。

如果教师给学生一些图片后提问,就会降低难度,让学生有判断点,能让提问产生积极的效果。如T: I have known some of you can do something yourself. Look at the pictures. Can you guess what I like to do in my free time? 此处要给学生一个梯子,使学生猜测的难度下降,通过给学生提供一些教师真实相关的DIY图片,可以使交流更加真实、有意义和生活化,同时在图片的展示上,可以一个接一个地全屏展示,学生的兴趣度会更高,学生的反应和效果也会更好

在最后部分,教师深入提问:From the five stories, we can see DIY is very meaningful. So what can we get from DIY? 学生对这个问题进行讨论,这是对DIY内容和意义上的总结。在产出部分,学生的回答略有些局限性,产出的内容涉及到的有experience,skills,fun等。教师预期产出的意义:have fun; have a green lifestyle; practise your ability; show more love。这些并没有全部呈现。

如果教师这一部分能够基于生活实际进行拓展并深入提问,就能有效地扩大学生的思维面。如:If we do DIY for our parents / friends / ourselves, how will they / shall we feel? Why? So what can DIY bring our parents, our friends, ourselves or other people around us in our daily lives? 学生有了前面的问题作为铺垫,思维能力就能够得到有效的提升。

这节导入课帮助我们找到了优质并有效的课堂提问的策略:一是要要在语境中提问;二是要在自然过渡中提问;三是要进行有层次的追问;四是要根据产出提问,为学生搭桥建梯使提问能够适合学生的认知水平。这样才能够更好地提高学生的思维品质,更好地提高教学效果。

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