师范院校大学英语课程实践共同体的设计与实践

Design and Experiment of Community of Practice for College English in Teachers College

培养大学生创新创业能力的关键在于构建实践共同体。适合师范院校大学英语课程的实践共同体,是在英语教师的带领下,按照既定的活动设计,开展服务于少年儿童的各学科融合的STREAM活动;以大学生所在的社区作为实践场,实施混合型教学,并建立基于PBL的组织结构。基于以上模式设计的实践共同体活动分别在3个城市、5个地点进行了实践人员分别为师范类理科大学生、师范类英语系大学生和非师范非英语专业大学生的6次儿童STREAM英语实验活动。结果表明:不同大学生的实践活动效果一致,这种实践共同体不仅能使大学生的英语学习连接到一个真实、有意义的目的,而且能满足当下的社会需要,帮助参与大学生与儿童提高英语学习兴趣,扩大英语词汇量,增长STREAM课程知识,练习动手能力。因此,以此为核心的大学英语课程实践共同体的设计是实际可行的。

Building a community of practice is the key to cultivating the innovative and entrepreneurial ability of college English students. The community of practice suitable for normal college English students is to conduct STREAM education activities for children under the guidance of college English teachers according to the established activity design. The community of college students is taken as their practice field, aided with blended learning and PBL-based organizing. This community of practice has been experimented 6 times in 5 places of 3 cities with normal college science majors, English education majors, and non-English and non-education major students. The results show that the effects are the same for different participants, this community of practice can meet the cur-rent social needs, linking English learning of normal college students to real and meaningful pur-poses, it can also help improve the learning interests of both participating college students and chil-dren, expanding their vocabulary, increasing their STREAM knowledge and developing the hand-on capacities. Therefore, this design of community of practice for normal college English is practical and feasible.