关于ESP教学理论在舞蹈院校教学中运用的几点思考——以北京舞蹈学院为例

Reflections on ESP-based Practical Teaching of English to Dancing School Students——With Special Reference to Beijing Dance Academy

长期以来,舞蹈院校英语教学一直处于两难境地,既要完成公共必修课的教学要求,又要为学生的专业英语应用能力与跨文化国际交流服务,而学生对后者的兴趣远超前者。如何有效激发学生的学习动机,使其主动参与教学活动,通过英语了解并促进中外舞蹈文化交流与传播,是舞蹈院校英语教学亟待解决的课题。本文分析了北京舞蹈学院近15年来英语教学的开展情况及现状,并基于ESP教学理念和新的教学模式,提出了舞蹈院校的ESP教学方法。

English teaching in dance schools has long been in a dilemma. It should not only meet the requirements for teaching it as a general compulsory course, but also serve the needs of students for cross-culture communication. The students are far more interested in the latter than in the former. How to balance these two aspects and properly motivate the students so that they participate more actively in teaching activities is a question that urgently calls for an answer. This paper analyzes the problems and current situation of English teaching at Beijing Dance Academy in the past fifteen years. As to the ESP teaching ideas it draws on a number of new teaching concepts and models, such as effective group cooperation, classroom management strategies, vocabulary intelligence Dominoes, and proposes ESP teaching methods in dancing schools, which can not only be applied to other dance schools, but also serve as a source of inspirations for teachers of English for specific purposes at other arts institutions.