大学英语教材编写回眸:实践与探索

Practice and exploration in college English coursebook compilation: A retrospect

本文阐述了作者作为一名资深教材编者关于大学英语教材编写的看法和主张。文章阐明了教材编写的主要指导原则,谈及教材编写流程中的各个阶段,并详述教材编写中应重点关注的编写人员素质、选材、词汇复现率、练习等方面。文章还述及作者对教材编写的个人感悟和对今后教材编写工作的期盼,强调教材应编出特色、坚持正确判断和突显英语语块、搭配及用法的作用,期待我国早日创建适合国情的外语教学理论和教学体系、编出更有特色的精品教材、实现编写队伍专业化和建立具有公信力的教材评估平台。

This article presents the thoughts and views of the author as a senior textbook writer on college English coursebook compilation. It first deals with the guiding principles for textbook writing and their theoretical bases, then elaborates the process of textbook compiling step by step, and further brings up four salient points of concern to editors, i.e. appropriate editor qualifications, material selection, word repetition rates and exercise compilation. Finally, the article expounds on the author’s reflections and expectations about the coursebook compilation. It highlights the importance of editing creatively and sticking to what you think is right, accentuates the roles of lexical chunks, collocations and usage, and proposes that the FLT theory and system in line with the situation of our country be developed soon, still better quality coursebooks be compiled, textbook writers go professionalized, and credible textbook evaluation platforms be established.