劉倩影
摘 ? ?要: 本文基于二語(yǔ)習(xí)得的互動(dòng)理論及思維品質(zhì)的概念和特點(diǎn),以浙派名師暨全國(guó)名師經(jīng)典課堂中某教師的一堂課為例,從教師提問(wèn)、教師言語(yǔ)反饋和學(xué)生回應(yīng)三個(gè)方面探討融入思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)的初中英語(yǔ)課堂互動(dòng)過(guò)程,并嘗試提出課堂互動(dòng)中思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)的相關(guān)教學(xué)建議,為如何在英語(yǔ)學(xué)科中培養(yǎng)思維品質(zhì)提供些許借鑒意義。
關(guān)鍵詞: 初中英語(yǔ) ? ?互動(dòng)理論 ? ?思維品質(zhì)
1.引言
《義務(wù)教育英語(yǔ)課程標(biāo)準(zhǔn)(2011年版)》指出,就工具性而言,英語(yǔ)課程承擔(dān)著培養(yǎng)學(xué)生基本英語(yǔ)素養(yǎng)和發(fā)展學(xué)生思維能力的任務(wù)。新修訂的普通高中英語(yǔ)課程標(biāo)準(zhǔn)更加注重思維品質(zhì),體現(xiàn)了英語(yǔ)學(xué)科核心素養(yǎng)的心智特征。
思維品質(zhì)是英語(yǔ)學(xué)科核心素養(yǎng)的重要組成部分,指思維在邏輯性、批判性、創(chuàng)新性等方面表現(xiàn)的能力和水平。思維品質(zhì)目標(biāo)包括:能辨析語(yǔ)言和文化中的具體現(xiàn)象,梳理、概括信息,建構(gòu)新概念,分析、推斷信息的邏輯關(guān)系,正確評(píng)判各種思想觀點(diǎn),創(chuàng)造性地表達(dá)自己的觀點(diǎn),具備多元思維意識(shí)和創(chuàng)新思維能力(教育部,2018)。思維品質(zhì)在基礎(chǔ)教育中是必不可缺的,目前來(lái)說(shuō)相對(duì)薄弱,如何通過(guò)英語(yǔ)學(xué)科培養(yǎng)思維品質(zhì)是我們亟待解決的問(wèn)題。
課堂互動(dòng)是教學(xué)實(shí)際過(guò)程,課堂互動(dòng)話語(yǔ)分析多年來(lái)一直是二語(yǔ)習(xí)得研究的重點(diǎn)。本文基于二語(yǔ)習(xí)得的互動(dòng)理論及思維品質(zhì)的概念和特點(diǎn),通過(guò)課堂互動(dòng)話語(yǔ)分析探究思維品質(zhì)的培養(yǎng)途徑。
2.課堂互動(dòng)中的思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)教學(xué)案例分析
下面是筆者以浙派名師暨全國(guó)名師經(jīng)典課堂——思維課堂中某教師執(zhí)教的一堂聽(tīng)說(shuō)課為例,探討融入思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)的初中英語(yǔ)課堂互動(dòng)過(guò)程。
2.1教學(xué)內(nèi)容描述。
本節(jié)課的授課內(nèi)容選自人教版英語(yǔ)(Go for it!)八年級(jí)上冊(cè)Unit 7 “Will you have robots?” Section A,文章圍繞“未來(lái)的世界”這一話題呈現(xiàn)了“運(yùn)用一般將來(lái)時(shí)談?wù)搶?duì)未來(lái)的預(yù)測(cè)”的語(yǔ)言功能,包括一般將來(lái)時(shí)(will)的肯定句、否定句、一般疑問(wèn)句和what引導(dǎo)的特殊疑問(wèn)句。該話題對(duì)于初中生來(lái)說(shuō)較為有趣,能夠激發(fā)對(duì)未來(lái)的想象,十分有利于思維品質(zhì)的培養(yǎng)。
2.2課堂互動(dòng)分析。
2.2.1教師提問(wèn)
思維品質(zhì)來(lái)自問(wèn)題的品質(zhì),因?yàn)閱?wèn)題是推動(dòng)思維發(fā)展的源泉(Richard Paul, 2006)。鑒于教師提問(wèn)的廣泛應(yīng)用性和起到的作用,教師提問(wèn)一直是“多年來(lái)語(yǔ)言課堂研究關(guān)注的焦點(diǎn)”(Nunan,1991;劉穎,2016)。為了探究課堂互動(dòng)中教師提問(wèn)的思維層次,我們按照布魯姆的認(rèn)知目標(biāo)分類(lèi),將教師提出的問(wèn)題分為展示型問(wèn)題、參閱型問(wèn)題和評(píng)估型問(wèn)題(梁美珍,2011)。
展示型問(wèn)題是為了學(xué)生對(duì)文本信息的識(shí)記和理解設(shè)計(jì)的問(wèn)題,教師預(yù)先知道學(xué)生作答的內(nèi)容,學(xué)生作答在很大程度上依賴文本信息。參閱型問(wèn)題指學(xué)生作答需要在一定程度上參閱文本內(nèi)容,同時(shí)結(jié)合已有的認(rèn)知和經(jīng)歷,需要一定的理解和判斷。評(píng)估型問(wèn)題指對(duì)其他人的觀點(diǎn)進(jìn)一步深入思考后做出評(píng)判。
研究者從Swain的“輸出假設(shè)”和Long的“互動(dòng)假說(shuō)”出發(fā),認(rèn)為參考型問(wèn)題優(yōu)于展示型問(wèn)題(轉(zhuǎn)引自劉穎,2016)。評(píng)估型問(wèn)題一般可以為學(xué)生提供表達(dá)獨(dú)立看法的機(jī)會(huì),因此對(duì)發(fā)揮學(xué)生主體性、培養(yǎng)深層思維能力有重要作用(梁美珍,2011)。
在本堂課中,教師提出的展示型問(wèn)題所占比例極少,部分問(wèn)題為參閱型問(wèn)題和評(píng)估型問(wèn)題。教師用參考型問(wèn)題和評(píng)估型問(wèn)題逐步引導(dǎo)學(xué)生表達(dá)個(gè)人觀點(diǎn),并進(jìn)行一定的邏輯訓(xùn)練,最后達(dá)到發(fā)展學(xué)生思維邏輯嚴(yán)密性的目的。由此可見(jiàn),本堂課對(duì)思維培養(yǎng)的借鑒性意義重大。
在本堂課中,教師多次使用“Do you agree with her?”引導(dǎo)學(xué)生對(duì)其他同學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)進(jìn)行評(píng)價(jià)。當(dāng)教師第一次提問(wèn)“Do you agree with her?”時(shí),學(xué)生異口同聲地迅速回答“yes”。顯然,學(xué)生在對(duì)其他同學(xué)的觀點(diǎn)表述看法的時(shí)候沒(méi)有經(jīng)過(guò)思考,隨即教師提問(wèn)“Are you sure?”,學(xué)生沉默。此時(shí),學(xué)生雖然沒(méi)有回答,但是從他們的表情來(lái)看已經(jīng)在思考了。教師在分享了自己的觀點(diǎn)之后,問(wèn)學(xué)生“Do you know why ?”,這是很典型的參考型問(wèn)題,問(wèn)題的答案是開(kāi)放的,沒(méi)有固定模式。雖然這次學(xué)生也沒(méi)有回答,但是這類(lèi)問(wèn)題有利于學(xué)生積極思考,而不是被動(dòng)接受。師生對(duì)話如下:
[教學(xué)片段1]:
T: In 100 years, there will be more or fewer cars?I want your ideas. (Show a picture)
S: In 100 years, there will be more cars because there will be more people in the city.
T: En. In 100 years, there will be more cars because there will be more people in the city. You agree with her?
Ss: Yes.
T: Are you sure?
Ss: (Silence)
T: But I think there will be fewer cars in the future.(fewer--BB) Do you know why?
Ss: (Silence)
T: Ok. I have a different idea. I think in 100years, there will be fewer cars because there will be more planes or flying cars. Is it wonderful?
Ss: Yes.
T: You dont have to drive cars and you will drive planes in the city.
當(dāng)教師在學(xué)生對(duì)他人觀點(diǎn)都表示同意時(shí)幾次提出不同觀點(diǎn)并解釋合理原因后,學(xué)生嘗試對(duì)他人觀點(diǎn)提出異議,而且學(xué)生的觀點(diǎn)非常有創(chuàng)造性,論證也是非常合理的??梢?jiàn),學(xué)生在教師的引導(dǎo)下開(kāi)始積極思考。教學(xué)片斷如下:
[教學(xué)片斷2]:
T: You know robots? Whats your idea about this prediction?
S1: There will be few jobs because robots will do the same jobs as people.
T: There will be fewer jobs. Do you agree with her? Or have a different idea?
S2: I dont think so, because there will be more jobs for people because people have to make more robots.
T: Oh,right.(Laugh) People have to make more robots so people have more jobs. I like your idea.
[教學(xué)片斷3]:
T: Whats your idea?
S1: I think there will be more cities because people will build more buildings in the future.
T: Do you agree with him? Ok, you can talk in the group and give us some interesting idea, you can have the same idea or a different idea.
S2: I think there will be more cities because people will build more buildings in the future.
T: Oh, you have the same idea. Ok.
S3: I dont think so. I think there will be fewer cities because there will be fewer people.
S4: I think there will be fewer cities because people will work in the trees or work in the sea.
T: An interesting idea. There will be a lot of tree houses and tree cities. In this way, we should plant more trees.
2.2.2 教師言語(yǔ)反饋
反饋語(yǔ)指在會(huì)話中對(duì)話者對(duì)當(dāng)前說(shuō)話者的發(fā)言做出的反應(yīng),也稱為“反饋話語(yǔ)”。在二語(yǔ)習(xí)得中,言語(yǔ)反饋是第二語(yǔ)言課堂互動(dòng)的一部分,一般包括重復(fù)和評(píng)價(jià)等(Duncan,1973,轉(zhuǎn)引自劉穎,2016)。在本堂課中,教師的言語(yǔ)反饋比較切合地反映了對(duì)學(xué)生思維的引導(dǎo),筆者選取了相關(guān)教學(xué)片段進(jìn)行細(xì)致分析。
2.2.2.1重復(fù)
作為言語(yǔ)反饋的一種形式,重復(fù)在課堂話語(yǔ)中經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)。對(duì)于學(xué)生思維啟發(fā)意義最大的一類(lèi)重復(fù)是暗示改正和話題延續(xù)。暗示改正,即教師對(duì)學(xué)生的部分話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行重復(fù),通常使用問(wèn)句的聲調(diào),暗示學(xué)生對(duì)話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行修正;話題延續(xù),即教師對(duì)學(xué)生話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行部分重復(fù),再加上新的話步,使話題延續(xù)下去(劉穎,2016)。在本課堂中,教師使用重復(fù)引導(dǎo)學(xué)生進(jìn)一步思考的對(duì)話如下:
[教學(xué)片段4]:暗示改正
S: I think in the future, people will live 20 years old, because the air and the water is too dirty.
T: The air and the water is too dirty or will be dirty?
S: Will be more dirty.
教師在學(xué)生回答出現(xiàn)語(yǔ)法錯(cuò)誤時(shí)使用了暗示改正,對(duì)學(xué)生的部分話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行了重復(fù),引導(dǎo)學(xué)生檢查自己的錯(cuò)誤,而不是直接告訴學(xué)生答案,這個(gè)過(guò)程是引導(dǎo)學(xué)生思考的過(guò)程。
[教學(xué)片段5]:話題延續(xù)
T: What will you become in the future?
S: I want to be an actor.
T:You want to be an actor, why?
S: Because I like action movies and comedy.
在學(xué)生回答之后,教師進(jìn)一步用“why”進(jìn)行提問(wèn),增加學(xué)生語(yǔ)言輸出,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生對(duì)自己的話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行佐證,旨在培養(yǎng)學(xué)生思考和分析的能力。
2.2.2.2評(píng)價(jià)
李?lèi)偠穑?007)指出,評(píng)價(jià)是高度支持性言語(yǔ)反饋,是教師對(duì)學(xué)生的回答給予的肯定。一般課堂上,教師評(píng)價(jià)語(yǔ)大多為“Good!”“Interesting!”等簡(jiǎn)單用語(yǔ),但是在本節(jié)課中,教師的評(píng)價(jià)反饋不只是單一的單詞,而是加入了教師個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)的分享,是建立在真正交流基礎(chǔ)上的反饋,是內(nèi)容、語(yǔ)言和思維的結(jié)合,有利于進(jìn)一步促進(jìn)學(xué)生在與教師的交流中思考。以下是關(guān)于評(píng)價(jià)反饋的教學(xué)對(duì)話:
[教學(xué)片段6]:
S: In 50 years, people will have less time because people will be very busy making robots.
T: Oh, interesting. Personally, I think people will have more free time because robots can do some work. And robots will be more and more popular and smarter and smarter.
[教學(xué)片斷7]:
S1: What will you do to protect the environment?
S2: Im going to plant more trees, and walk more and drive less. What about you?
S3: So do I.
T: Yes, you can take the subway.Right. I enjoy your ideas very much.
2.2.3學(xué)生回應(yīng)
學(xué)生是學(xué)習(xí)的主體和課堂的主體,課堂互動(dòng)中的學(xué)生回應(yīng)十分關(guān)鍵。一個(gè)典型的課堂“回合”由三個(gè)“話步”構(gòu)成:?jiǎn)?dòng)步、應(yīng)答步和反饋步,學(xué)生對(duì)教師反饋的回應(yīng)基本是對(duì)教師示范性話語(yǔ)的模仿、重復(fù)或重釋(Sinclair & Coulthard,1975;劉穎,2016)。在本堂課中,教師根據(jù)學(xué)生回應(yīng),通過(guò)有層次的提問(wèn)引導(dǎo)學(xué)生一步一步表達(dá)個(gè)人觀點(diǎn),達(dá)到思維訓(xùn)練。
一開(kāi)始,學(xué)生回應(yīng)比較簡(jiǎn)單,因此,教師在反饋中用“I think”主動(dòng)分享自己的觀點(diǎn),并用幽默的方式引起學(xué)生的關(guān)注,為后面學(xué)生分享自己的觀點(diǎn)做了充分鋪墊。師生對(duì)話如下:
[教學(xué)片段8]:
S1: I want to be a philosopher, because I want to answer questions like “Who am I” and “where do I live”.
T: Okey. So Have you found out who you are?
S1: No.
T: This is different and needs a long time. But I think in the future you will find it out.
S1: Thank you.
S2: I want to be an English teacher like you.
T: Really?
S2: Yes. Because I love English and a teacher has vocation. Thank you.
T: Wonderful. I think this is a good chance for you, because today we have a lot of English teachers here, and were coming here to talk about how to teach better, right. And you will learn a lot today.(Laugh)
意識(shí)到學(xué)生回應(yīng)基本停留在陳述問(wèn)題答案的層面后,教師繼續(xù)追問(wèn)“What do you think?”“Why”引導(dǎo)學(xué)生表達(dá)個(gè)人觀點(diǎn),并對(duì)自己的觀點(diǎn)進(jìn)行闡述,旨在引導(dǎo)學(xué)生的應(yīng)答更加具有邏輯性和條理性。
[教學(xué)片斷9]:
T: She doesnt agree with you. What do you think?
S1: I think in 100 years, kids study st school.
T: They will still study at school. Why?
S1: If kids study at school, teachers will have nothing to do.
T: Ok. Right.I think teachers can do one thing. Teachers can prepare a lot of homework at school for students. Thats your job.
在課堂最后階段,學(xué)生語(yǔ)言輸出的時(shí)候不再是單個(gè)的句子,而是觀點(diǎn)加原因佐證,比較有邏輯性和條理性,體現(xiàn)了思維課堂的本質(zhì)。通過(guò)這一階段的學(xué)生回應(yīng),教師便可了解學(xué)生更愿意積極思考,并主動(dòng)用“I think”等表達(dá)和分享個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)。教學(xué)片斷如下:
[教學(xué)片斷10]:
T: Kids study at school now. In 100 years...
S1: In 100 years students wont go to school, because teachers will go to their home.
T:Are you sure?
S1: Im sure. Thats very interesting, you can see many people.
T: But I will be tired.Do you agree with him?
S2: No.
T: She doesnt agree with you. What do you think?
S2: I think in 100 years, kids study st school.
T: They will still study at school. Why?
S2: If kids study at school, teachers will have nothing to do.
T: Ok. Right.I think teachers can do one thing. Teachers can prepare a lot of homework at school for students. Thats your job.
S3: In 100 years,teachers will go to their home. Because teachers will become two or three or four.
T: I see. You mean there will be more teacher robots.
S3: No. Teachers become two or three or four.
T: Em. Like Monkey King?
S3: Yes.
3.課堂互動(dòng)中的思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)教學(xué)建議
3.1掌握提問(wèn)策略,關(guān)注思維認(rèn)知層次。
提問(wèn)是教師在課堂上最常使用的教學(xué)手段,是引發(fā)學(xué)生思考最直接的推動(dòng)因素,因此,提問(wèn)質(zhì)量直接影響思維培養(yǎng)的有效性。教師在提問(wèn)時(shí)應(yīng)當(dāng)注意所提問(wèn)題的思維含量,注意區(qū)分所提問(wèn)題的思維認(rèn)知層次,掌握提問(wèn)的策略技巧。在認(rèn)知層次方面,根據(jù)認(rèn)知層次的六個(gè)等級(jí)即識(shí)記、理解、應(yīng)用、分析、綜合和評(píng)價(jià),在低級(jí)認(rèn)知層次的基礎(chǔ)上向高級(jí)認(rèn)知層次擴(kuò)展。在問(wèn)題類(lèi)型上,盡量少提問(wèn)展示型問(wèn)題,多涉及參考性問(wèn)題和評(píng)價(jià)類(lèi)問(wèn)題,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生積極思考,發(fā)表個(gè)人觀點(diǎn),而不只是停留在理解課文內(nèi)容的層面。
3.2巧用言語(yǔ)反饋,引導(dǎo)思維深度發(fā)展。
教師言語(yǔ)反饋在課堂互動(dòng)中起著不可或缺的作用,教師的言語(yǔ)反饋不能僅僅停留在簡(jiǎn)單的評(píng)價(jià)層面,應(yīng)當(dāng)進(jìn)一步引導(dǎo)學(xué)生思維深度發(fā)展。一方面,教師要巧用言語(yǔ)“重復(fù)”,當(dāng)學(xué)生的話語(yǔ)出現(xiàn)錯(cuò)誤時(shí),不要著急否定學(xué)生或替學(xué)生說(shuō)出答案,可以對(duì)學(xué)生的部分話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行重復(fù),引導(dǎo)學(xué)生發(fā)現(xiàn)錯(cuò)誤并修正;當(dāng)學(xué)生表達(dá)個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)后,教師可以在對(duì)學(xué)生話語(yǔ)進(jìn)行部分重復(fù)的基礎(chǔ)上,繼續(xù)追問(wèn)”why”等問(wèn)題,進(jìn)一步引發(fā)學(xué)生思考。另一方面,教師的評(píng)價(jià)反饋不應(yīng)只是“Good!”“Amazing!”之類(lèi)的簡(jiǎn)單話語(yǔ),應(yīng)該根據(jù)學(xué)生的話語(yǔ)適當(dāng)表達(dá)個(gè)人的觀點(diǎn)和感受,引導(dǎo)學(xué)生思維向深處發(fā)展。
3.3關(guān)注學(xué)生回應(yīng),推動(dòng)思維持續(xù)發(fā)展。
學(xué)生是學(xué)習(xí)的主體,因此,學(xué)生回應(yīng)在課堂互動(dòng)中扮演著極其重要的作用,是教師調(diào)整教學(xué)步驟的基礎(chǔ),檢測(cè)是否實(shí)現(xiàn)教學(xué)目標(biāo)的重要途徑,但是一些教師忽視了這一重要環(huán)節(jié)。有些教師僅僅按照之前的教學(xué)計(jì)劃上課,但是課堂是千變?nèi)f化的,學(xué)生的具體情況和教學(xué)計(jì)劃不是完全一致的。教師應(yīng)當(dāng)充分利用課堂上學(xué)生的回應(yīng),并根據(jù)學(xué)生的回應(yīng)不斷調(diào)整教學(xué)步驟和教學(xué)話語(yǔ),引導(dǎo)和推動(dòng)學(xué)生思維的發(fā)展。
4.結(jié)語(yǔ)
思維品質(zhì)的培養(yǎng),無(wú)論之于個(gè)人成長(zhǎng)還是社會(huì)發(fā)展都具有十分重要的意義,是目前教育的重中之重,同時(shí)面臨一些困難。本文基于二語(yǔ)習(xí)得的互動(dòng)理論及思維品質(zhì)的概念和特點(diǎn),以浙派名師暨全國(guó)名師經(jīng)典課堂中某教師的一堂課為例,從教師提問(wèn)、教師言語(yǔ)反饋和學(xué)生回應(yīng)三個(gè)方面探討融入思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)的初中英語(yǔ)課堂互動(dòng),并提出課堂互動(dòng)中思維品質(zhì)培養(yǎng)的相關(guān)教學(xué)建議:掌握提問(wèn)策略,關(guān)注思維認(rèn)知層次;巧用言語(yǔ)反饋,引導(dǎo)思維深度發(fā)展;關(guān)注學(xué)生回應(yīng),推動(dòng)思維持續(xù)發(fā)展。關(guān)于如何在英語(yǔ)學(xué)科中培養(yǎng)思維品質(zhì)這一重要課題,仍需要廣大教育者不斷進(jìn)行理論探究和實(shí)踐總結(jié)。
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