基于PAD模式高级英语课程教学改革与实践
2021-08-23谭小翠许静雯孟华
谭小翠 许静雯 孟华


摘 要:高级英语是英语专业高年级的核心、必修课程。基于国内该课程教学现状,本教学改革采用了“对分课堂”(PAD)教学模式,内容侧重其高阶性和挑战度,课堂组织采用教师精讲、学生小組讨论等形式。通过问卷、访谈的方式,课程组对改革后的教学效果进行了定性与定量分析,结果显示:PAD教学模式对提高学生学习兴趣卓有成效,对改善教学内容、调动课堂参与度、加大课后投入等方面效果显著,为一流本科课程建设提供借鉴,也为解决我国英语专业教学中的诸多共性问题、推进专业改革提供了实证。
关键词:PAD模式;高级英语;教学改革;一流本科课程;英语专业
中图分类号:G642 文献标志码:A 文章编号:2096-000X(2021)20-0039-04
Abstract: Advanced English, a compulsory course for senior English majors, is one of the core courses in the curriculum. Based on the research about the teaching and learning of this course, this study applies PAD class teaching method (Presentation-Assimilation-Discussion), arranging teaching contents aiming at developing students' high-order thinking capacity, designing assignments requiring students' full efforts, and combining the teachers' lectures and students' discussion in class. The study does a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the results of the reform based upon the data collected in questionnaires and interviews. The founding shows that the PAD class contributes to the enhancement of students' interests in the course, the improvement of the teaching contents, and makes effective requirements from the students to engage fully in the study both in and after the class. This method offers reference to the construction of first-class undergraduate education, with a concrete example of how to solve the common problems in the teaching for English majors and to push the teaching reform further.
Keywords: PAD class; Advanced English; teaching reform; first-class undergraduate course; English majors
高级英语(以下简称“高英”)是高等学校英语专业大学本科高年级的必修课程,也是核心课程。李言荣称:核心课程体系的课必须都是“金课”[1]。《高等学校英语专业本科教学质量国家标准》指出“专业必修课程旨在强化专业知识,训练专业技能,提升人文素质,提高学习能力”。[2]然而,中国英语专业教学中存在诸多共性问题,往往过于专注知识和技能,忽视了对学生人文素质和学习能力的提升,“英语专业的大量教学活动都是在‘机械模仿和低级思维层面展开”。[3]我校采用张汉熙主编的《高级英语》为授课教材,目前有70%的高校采用此教材。该教材内容丰富,体裁多样,主题深刻,根据教材内容和教学实际,每学期选取7-8个单元精讲,充分考虑内容的经典性、前沿性和趣味性,涉及不同体裁,同时辅以丰富的阅读书目和网络资源,并融入思政元素。……
