我国外语教育中的思维研究:基于语料库的回顾和展望

Researches on Foreign Language Thinking in China: Corpus-Assisted Review and Prospect

本文取样于1964年至2014年国内17种外语类期刊上发表的论文、国内公开出版的著作,以及国家社科基金和教育部人文社科基金立项,自建语料库,并使用汉语词语自动切分器ICTCLAS(2013),考察近50年来我国学界对中国学生的外语思维方式、外语思维能力现状和外语思维发展途径等研究进行回望。结果发现:1该领域日渐成为我国外语教育的持续研究热点;2研究主要以写作、口语、翻译等实践为端口发现问题、寻找出路;3实证研究方法正在被普遍运用,研究的科学性和客观性进一步增强。但是,研究也存在不足:1具体思维能力的培养、非英语专业学生和教师的外语思维的训练与发展等在专业和文本选择上尚需细化;2思维类型研究不仅应重视批判性思维和语篇思维培养,也要向形象思维、灵感思维等其他类型研究扩展、深入。

This paper makes an empirical study of the status quo of the domestic research（ 1964-2014） of Chinese students＇ critical thinking skill,thinking pattern and thinking development in foreign language teaching environment by analyzing the published papers and books and two major important national projects with ICTCLAS（ 2013）. This paper finds that（ 1） the research is fruitful and the number of papers and books is increasing;（ 2） the major topics are discourse,metaphor,writing,spoken language and translation,etc.;（ 3） the empirical approach is generally applied,strengthening the scientificness and objectivity of the research. However,this paper also finds problems：（ 1） specific thinking pattern,thinking skill of non-English major students and teachers need enrichment based on different majors and texts;（ 2） the research focus shall be effectively expanded from critical thinking and discourse to figurative thinking,inspirational thinking,etc.