《跨学科专业英语阅读》课程构建及效果研究——以北京师范大学的“新生研讨课”为例

Course Design of Disciplinary English Reading and Its Teaching Effectiveness:Taking a Freshman Research and Discussion Course Project at Beijing Normal University as an Example

提高学生的学科专业阅读能力是当前大学英语教学改革的迫切要求。长期以来,我国大学英语阅读一直延续以通识教育为目的的教学传统,没有涉及不同学科专业内容。大学英语阅读课能否做到语言教学和专业内容学习合二为一?将采取怎样的教学模式?本课程以北京师范大学的"新生研讨课"项目为契机,构建出一套教师指导下的师生共同合作授课的课程模式;在阅读方法上,本课程以功能语言分析方法为框架,引导学生关注不同学科语言特色,并通过分析帮助其了解不同学科语言构建学科知识过程,从概念意义、人际意义及语篇意义三个方面理解语篇内容,达到提高专业英语阅读能力的目的。一个学期的教学实践表明,本课程构建的教学模式及阅读分析模式能够很好地将学科专业阅读融入大学英语阅读课堂,实现语言能力和专业知识学习的双重目标。

Improving students＇ disciplinary English reading ability is an answer to the call of the college English reform at the present situation. College English reading in China has long been following the tradi- tion of cultivating students＇ general reading ability without taking disciplinary reading into consideration. Is it possible to combine traditional language teaching and disciplinary content into our English reading class？ If yes, what is the possible teaching model？ Encouraged and sponsored by the＂A Freshman Research and Discussion Course Project at Beijing Normal University＂, the present research aims at designing a dis- ciplinary reading teaching course. A teacher-and-students co-teaching model was designed. Drawing students＇ attention to some specific language features of disciplinary subjects and using Functional Language Analysis Approach as the reading framework, this course tried to develop students＇ reading com- prehension ability from three aspects, its content, organization and style/tone. A whole term＇ s practice has proved the possibility of teaching disciplinary reading in the normal English reading class and the effectiveness of this course design for achieving the double-goal of both language ability and disciplinary knowledge.