高中英语教材的语用教学活动例析

An Analysis of Pragmatics Activities in Senior High School English Textbooks

如何提高课堂语用教学水平是英语教师所面对的重要课题之一。教材在英语课程实施和教学实践过程中起着关键性作用。本文通过分析一套广泛使用的高中英语教材的语用教学活动后发现,教材活动主要聚焦于一些常用的言语行为,但其在各册的分布较为随意且缺乏系统性;教材活动对言语行为实现方式和策略的呈现未能较好地体现有关言语行为理论发现,且极少提供必要的语境和元语用信息。研究发现对英语教材的编写修订和教师课堂语用教学具有启示意义。

English teachers are faced with the important undertaking of how to improve formal instruction of pragmatics in classrooms.Textbooks play a key role in English curriculum implementation and pedagogical practice.This article reports on the finding of a study which analyzes and evaluates the pragmatic-oriented pedagogic activities in a widely adopted series of textbooks intended for use in senior high schools.The analysis reveals that the activities in the examined textbooks cover a number of common speech acts,but their distribution across the textbooks seems patchy and unsystematic;realization forms and strategies presented in the activities do not seem to match what previous research has found about the speech acts in question,and neither is necessary contextual and metapragmatic information adequately provided to facilitate the effective learning and teaching of these speech acts.These findings have implications for English textbooks development and teachers’classroom instruction of pragmatics.