班集体和教研室中的英语交际法:一项对比实践共同体的民族志研究

Localizing CLT in a Chinese University as a Danwei Community of Practice

采用教育人类学的民族志方法,对中国大陆一所高校推行英语交际教学法改革30年的历程进行了探索。着重深描了以中国单位文化为特征的班集体和教研室如何与西方的教育理念和实践的碰撞和冲突,以及外教和普通老师在这种冲突中的体验。揭示了个体主义、平等人际关系、自由主义为特征的交际教学理念与集体主义、等级关系、保守主义为特征的传统教学法之间的矛盾。

With life stories of local and international teachers practicing Communicative Language Teaching（CLT） in a university in China,this ethnography reveals how CLT ideological presumptions of individualism,egalitarianism and liberalism have been in a state of tension with the traditional methods and Chinese danwei characterized by collectivism,paternalism and conservatism. This tension explains the strong resistance against pedagogical agents of change in China. The article calls for a more sociological understanding of the seemingly linguistics-based and egalitarian communicative approaches to language teaching/learning.