职业技术学院特殊用途英语专业新生自主阅读现状调查

An Investigation into the Current Situation of Vocational Technical College ESP Major Freshmen’s Autonomy in EFL Reading

本文运用定量和定性的研究方法,调查了职业技术学院特殊用途英语专业新生自主阅读现状和导致该现状的原因。结果表明,学生在英语阅读学习中表现出一定的自主性,其自主程度在阅读的各个阶段基本上都是中等偏低,但存在一定的差异,阅读中较高些,阅读前较低而阅读后最低;导致该现状的原因是多方面的,主要是缺乏内在动机、有一定的外在动机、对老师的过分依赖、较低的自我效能感、没有受过系统的阅读元认知和认知策略的培训。本研究结果对职业技术学院的英语阅读教学有一定的启示。

This study was intended to investigate the current situation of vocational and technical college ESP freshmen’s autonomy in EFL reading, and to explore possible factors accounting for it. Both the quantitative study and the qualitative one were employed. Results show that the subjects display a low-to-medium degree of autonomy, but they show different degrees of autonomy in different reading phases. Many factors contribute to their current situation of autonomous reading; the main ones are their absence of intrinsic motivation, presence of extrinsic motivation, over-dependence on their teachers, low sense of self-efficacy and lack of professional training in reading strategies.