学术英语学习中的困难、对策和收获:学生视角的历时研究

Learning Difficulties,Strategies,and Gains in an Academic English Course:A Longitudinal Study from Students’Perspective

学术英语课程助力国家培养具有世界影响力的学者,课程目标与高等教育的人才培养目标和未来职场的人才需求相契合,却并非始终与大学生的主观学习需求相一致。本文采取历时研究的设计思路,追踪研究学术英语学习者在一个学期中的学习体验。在课程的第4、10和18周,某高校选修学术英语课程的三个班级大学生填写问卷、回答开放式问题并反思学习体验。数据的主题分析法显示了学生在学术英语学习的不同阶段遇到的困难、对策和收获。研究结果将有助于一线学术英语教师更好地理解学生的学习困难并采取相应的教学策略。

Academic English courses help to nurture the academic literacies of future Chinese scholars with international influence.The teaching objectives are in alignment with the objective needs of professional discipline groups and higher education contexts,but are not necessarily aligned with the subjective learning needs of university students.This study explores changes of students’learning experiences in an Academic English course over a semester at a university in China.Three classes of students enrolled in an Academic English course were invited to reflect on their learning in the fourth,tenth,and eighteenth week.Thematic analysis of the data reveals learners’difficulties,strategies,and gains at different phases.The findings foster a better understanding of students’learning difficulties and carry pedagogical implications for teaching academic English in the contexts of Chinese higher education.