大学英语任务型教学探索

A Tentative Study of Task-based Teaching in College English Teaching

任务型教学是目前外语课堂教学研究的一个热点。文章研究运用威廉姆斯、博登的社会建构主义理论和Krashen的"输入与互动假设"理论对任务型教学模式进行了积极的探索,将知识教学融入到自身完成一项任务的具体活动当中,让学生不仅能学到英语知识,而且还能亲自体验到"做事"的经历和乐趣,从而提高他们运用英语的能力。

Task-based approach is a hot theme in foreign language classroom teaching and research. This article explores somesuggestions the reformation of teaching mode in College English Teaching by using social constructivism and input and interactionist hypothesis theory. Main characteristic of task-based teaching is to design the real-life tasks according to certain teaching target, encourage and conduct students to participate in these tasks and finish them in the end. Introducing knowledge teaching into a task which needs to be done by oneself makes students not only learn the English knowledge, but also experience how to do something and its fun. Therefore, students can improve their own ability to use English.