英语专业中国文化课程的教学改革探讨

On the Teaching Reform of the Course Chinese Culture

为了满足中国文化向外传播不断增长的需要,许多高校越来越重视英语专业学生对中国文化课程的学习与掌握。针对教学目标定位、教材编写、教学策略等现存问题,应为一线教师提供新的思路:中国文化课程的教学目标是培养提高学生中国文化素养以及向外译介和传播中国文化的能力;教材的选编必须为教学目标服务,教材内容安排要主次合理、详略得当,凸显中国文化中各子体系的核心思想及其演变历史;教学要讲究策略,应串讲与泛读相结合,抓住重点,突破难点,注重对比分析中西文化中相近似的核心术语或概念以及不同的译文。

In order to meet the increasing needs of spreading Chinese culture,many universities are emphasizing the important role of the course Chinese Culture,which can absolutely foster the abilities of English majors. To offer the related teachers some constructive suggestions and inspire them to think profoundly and then carry out teaching reforms,the article tries to probe into the orientation of the teaching objectives,discuss what contents to choose and how to compile the teaching materials,and find some helpful teaching strategies. The article holds that the teaching objectives are to cultivate English majors Chinese literacy and foster their abilities of translating and spreading Chinese culture. The compiling of the teaching materials should go well along with such objectives,that is,the contents should be arranged reasonably and properly to highlight the core ideas of Chinese culture in each subsystem and their evolutions. Teachers should pay attention to the teaching strategies,including the combination of paraphrastic explanations and extensive readings,the focus on key points and the breakthrough of the difficulty ones,the comparison and analysis of the similar core terms or concepts,and the comparison and analysis of different versions.