技能法——英语专业基础阶段教学改革的一次试验

Skills Approach—An Experiment in Teaching English at the Basic Stage

一、问题的提出 我们基础阶段的课程设置,象全国其他外语院系一样,多年来都是以精读课为主,辅以泛读和听说。有时,二年级外加写作课(隔周2小时)。精读课的任务主要是“

Dissatisfied with the conventional practice of teaching English mainly through what is calledintensive reading, the English Faculty of the Foreign Languages Department of Nanjing Universityproposed a skills approach, which viewed intensified training of the four language skills as the pre-dominant task at the basic stage. A controlled experiment was started in 1982. For this purposethe curriculum was redesigned on the basis of a theoretical and analytical study of the four skills.Classes were given in the forms of unitary training and comprehensive application simultaneously.The results of the experiment so far are encouraging, with the subject students making better progressthan is usually possible by using the conventional methods. However, it is admittedly far too earlyto reach any definite conclusion at the moment.