新一代大学英语教材的需求分析与反思

For a New Set of College English Textbooks: the Needs Analysis and Reflections

本文首先从国家、社会、教师、学生4个方面入手分析当前我国各方对新型大学英语教材建设的需求。在此基础上,笔者指出:我国外语界近期立足上述4方立场所作的需求分析普遍存在笼统而不具体的局限,根据这些需求分析编写新一轮的大学英语教材很容易步人后尘,难以取得突破。当今大学英语教学应改变现有框架,借鉴国外优秀高校和国内部分中外合作教学的成功经验,改革教学模式,通过在具体教学过程中不断调查和分析具体学习者需求,瞄准学生实际应用能力的培养,唯有如此,才能形成一套切实超越以前的新大学英语教材。

In this article, we first take a look at four perspectives, namely the state, the society, teachers and students, while conduc- ting an overall needs analysis for a new set of college English textbooks. We retlect that recent analyses like this are many and too general in nature and they often don＇ t get at the true needs of the textbook users. Textbooks thus developed, it is argued, often cannot break away from pre-existing models. It is pointed out that any new set of textbooks compiled for this generation of students must learn from successful experiences from both home and abroad, and stay focused on the real needs of the actual learners in the classroom. To help cultivate college English learners＇ practical competence, it is perhaps important to start reforming the present teaching model and any new set of textbooks should go hand in hand with such reformation.