初中英语听说课任务失真现象探析

A Study on Inauthenticity of Tasks of English Listening and Speaking Classes in Junior High Schools

本研究对10节初中英语听说课任务失真现象进行了分析。研究发现,任务失真现象较为突出,其中交互失真现象比情景失真现象更明显。情景失真原因为:情景要素或者任务的内容或形式不符合真实生活逻辑;目标语言形式的使用不符合情景需要。交互失真原因为:教师注重语言展示而非语言运用;教师因语言形式的操练与纠正打断学生意义协商过程;教师未为学生互动设置信息差或观点差,或者未提供完整情景要素。本文建议教师设计任务时,创设真实语境和语用目的,确立真实交互语义、交互方式和交际目标。

This study explores inauthenticity of tasks of 10 English listening and speaking classes in junior high schools.The results show that,inauthenticity of tasks is relatively prominent,in which interactional inauthenticity is more obvious than situational inauthenticity.Situational inauthenticity is attributed to the situational elements and the content and form of tasks not conforming to real-life rules,and the use of target language forms not satisfying situational needs.Interactional inauthenticity is ascribed to teacher's focus on displaying target language rather than using language,teacher's interruption of students'meaning negotiation due to practicing and correcting language forms,and teacher's failure to set information/opinion gaps or to provide complete situational elements for students'interaction.It is suggested that,when designing tasks,teachers should create authentic contexts and pragmatic purposes and set authentic semantics,patterns and purposes of interaction.