基于CLIL提升商务英语专业学生跨文化能力的行动研究

An Action Research on Using CLIL Instruction to Promote Business English Students'Intercultural Competence

聚焦新商科背景下商务英语人才的培养质量,探索如何利用内容语言融合教学提高商务英语专业学生的跨文化能力,开展了三个阶段的行动研究,包括设计以内容为驱动的教学、提供多维输入、强调情境化输出。在此过程中收集并分析了教师日志、学生反思日志、学生作业、抽样访谈和教学录像等资料。研究结果表明,内容语言融合教学能够实现商务英语专业学生跨文化能力的有效提高,主要体现在态度、知识和技能等方面的提升;同时学生使用有意义的语言机会增加,商务语言运用能力也得到了协同发展。

Against the backdrop of new business education,to ensure the quality of business English talents,as well as in an attempt to explore how to use CLIL instruction to promote business English students’intercultural competence,a three-phrase action research is conducted,where the content-driven instruction is geared towards multiple inputs and context bound outputs.Data collections include teaching logs,learning logs,student assignments,group interviews and teaching videos.It is found that CLIL instruction can develop students’intercultural competence in terms of attitude,knowledge and skill.In addition,the synergy effect of the instruction contributes to the enhancement in business language use as well,since students are opened up to ample opportunities to use English in intercultural business settings.