以英语学科核心素养为导向的教材评估——以人教版七年级上册《英语》为例

On Core Competences-Oriented Textbook Evaluation:Taking the English Textbook of the Seventh Grade( PEP) as an Example

近年提倡的英语学科核心素养是英语教学新的指南针,评估教材能否体现核心素养是一个应该关注的问题。新的教材评估框架以现有教材评估理论和框架为基础,以英语学科核心素养为导向。该框架包括宏观评估和微观评估两方面。宏观评估包含教材的编写原则、教学方法、教学内容组织,微观评估包括语言技能、语言知识、文化知识、思维训练和学习策略。采用新的评估框架对人教版七年级上册《英语》教材进行评估,发现该教材总体上体现了英语学科核心素养理念,但还存在一些不足之处,如中国文化在教材内容中所占比例较低,教学任务之间衔接生硬等。

The recently-introduced core competences in English as a foreign language has been the new instruction for English teaching.It is an issue to evaluate whether the textbooks can realize the core competences or not.The new evaluation framework,which is based on the current theories and frameworks of textbook evaluation,is core competences-oriented.This framework is divided into two sides:macro-evaluation and micro-evaluation.The former includes the principles of writing textbooks,teaching methods and the teaching content organization,while the latter includes language skills,language knowledge,cultural knowledge,thinking training and learning strategies.Through evaluating the English textbook of the seventh grade(PEP)in the new framework,it is found that the textbook generally can meet the requirements for the core competences in English as a foreign language.However,there are still some shortcomings in the textbooks,for example,the proportion of Chinese culture in the textbook culture is low and the connection between some teaching tasks is inflexible.