美国高中母语课程及其对我国语文课程改革的借鉴意义——以美国蒙特沃德学院的高中英语课程为例

Native Language Curriculum of American High School and Its Significance for Chinese Curriculum Reform in China: Illustrated by the Case of Montverde Academy

以往学界大多关注中美语文课程标准、教材的比较研究,很少深入美国母语课程内部进行剖析。美国蒙特沃德学院开设11门英语课程,体现了多层次的高中英语课程设置、多元文化视角下内容的丰富多样性等美国高中母语课程的特点。美国高中母语教育的实践经验对我国高中语文课程改革具有重要的借鉴意义,突出地表现在重视母语在基础教育中的核心地位、分层教育和自由选课、培养多元文化视野、关注学生批判和创新思维能力发展等方面。

Over the past years, the comparative study on curriculum standards and teaching materials between China and U.S. has been brought into focus.However, there is little done on the native language curriculum analysis in U.S.internally. Montverde Academy offers 11 English courses, featuring in multi-leveled English curriculum design in high schools and rich contents of the course from the multicultural perspective.Generally speaking, the practical experience of American native lan-guage education in high schools is of great significance for high school Chinese Curriculum Reform in China, among which the core position of native language in elementary education, stratified education and free elective system, the cultivation of students＇multicultural views, the focus on the development of students＇critical and creative thinking, and etc.are of great im-portance.