【摘要】英语教师在阅读课堂上注重阅读文本细节设计与实施有效的教学方式,探索如何采用科学的导学功能,引领学生潜心认知、深入探究、巩固提高、实践提升。同时,提高学生阅读、思考等能力,并延伸课外,指导学生开展有效的课堂实践活动,使学生在课堂上“学”得更有劲,并真正成为学习的主人。

【关键词】阅读文本;课堂效率;课堂实践活动

【作者简介】李春波(1982.09- ),男,汉族,浙江萧山人,浙江省杭州市萧山区第十高级中学,大学本科,中学一级教师,研究方向:英语教学。

一、缘起

笔者从事高中英语教学多年,一直致力于打造生本课堂,让学生做课堂学习的主人,但是却仍旧发现自己的课堂还是很难打破师问生答、一问一答式的课堂现状,学生总还是被教师牢牢地牵着鼻子走,课堂还是教师的课堂,学生的主体性难以体现。笔者不禁深思:作为教师,该如何从自己做起,关注文本细节做好一名学习活动的组织者和引导者?又该如何在课堂细节上突显学生的主体性,让学生主动地学、探究地学?这些都是值得自己深入探究的问题。

二、策略

根据认知学理论,阅读策略可分为认知策略和元认知策略。认知策略包括快速阅读策略(寻读和略读);细读策略(找主题句、找细节,区分重点与次重点和推理)。元认知策略包括读前策略(预习、预测、想象)、读中策略(自我询问和自我调控)和读后策略(自我评价和自我反思)。阅读策略培养的目标是让学生能够有意识地选择和使用恰当的策略,完成不同的阅读任务。

1.导读细节:营造课堂民主氛围、养成学生的提问意识。以必修1,unit 1 friendship的阅读教学为例,笔者在教学此课内容时,提前布置预习任务:要求学生认真预习阅读材料,提出问题,并提供表1作为思维工具:

笔者收集学生的问题,筛选分类,整理成问题单(见表2)

问题单中首先呈现多数学生的共性问题,展示学生提问的成果,鼓舞学生提问的自信心。学生所提出的关于词汇、短语、语法等语言知识的问题也是教师应关注的。任何一个类别的问题,只要得到教师的肯定,只要得到展示,都会使学生获得心理上的满足,增加提问的信心和勇气。

笔者依据整理好的问题单组织有针对性的教学活动。首先,笔者让学生以私人小组的形式通过阅读讨论、分析、解决共性的问题,在理解课文整体内容的基础上实现知识、经验共享。在交流环节,笔者组织学生讨论:What Qualities does a good friend should have?学生给出各种回答:A good friend should be kind and patient./ A good friend should be willing to help others./ A good friend should learn to listen quietly… 在师生交流、生生互动的过程中,学生的疑问逐步化解。

2.导练细节:加强语境的使用,夯实词汇的意义和用法。下面以一节优质课为例,具体阐述如何基于文本阅读和理解来进行词汇教学模式,课型为高一年级阅读课,借班上课,授课过程如下:

Lead in: 利用PPT展示形态各异的宠物狗照片,背景音乐是《巡逻兵进行曲》,板书是本节课的学习目标:

Knowledge: Ss will be able to know the ways dogs in the UK are pampered.

Skills: Ss will be able to guess the words meanings via five reading strategies.

Step I: Pre-reading

T: Why are you happy about dogs as our best friends?

Step II: Fast-reading (main idea of paragraph 1)

T: Now please read the first paragraph and tell me what the main idea is.

S1: The UK is already a nation of dog lovers.

T: Is that all?The beginning word “ however” in the second sentence usually shows much difference between the former and latter sentences.

Step III: Fast-reading 2 ( main idea of para2-6)

T: OK. Please underline these two words. We just keep going and read the following paragraphs. While reading, underline all the unknown words and phrases and try to answer the following three parts. Time limit: 6 minutes.

Para 2 : What will you probably see next to the two singers?

Para 3-4: Why is there no need to shop at websites?

Para 5-6: How will more people deal with dogs for holidays?

T: Now who would like to answer the first question?What will you probably see next to the two singers?

S1: The dogs.

T: Well done! Their dogs will be seen next to the singers.

T: Why is there no need to shop at websites?

S2: Dog fashion is now out in the open.

Step IV: Detailed- reading

T: Just now you underlined some unknown words and phrases. Can you guess their meanings now?

Step V: Guessing Strategy 1 : Finding Examples (例证法)

T: So what are the words in Para 2 you dont understand?

S1: Celebrities.

T: Lets put aside the word and move on to the next sentence. I will show you a picture.(呈现英国伊丽莎白女王像) Who is she?

S2: The queen.

Step VI: Guessing Strategy 2: Using words other meaning/ forms(熟词联想法)

T: So what are the words in Para 3 & 4 you dont understand?

S1: Cashing in on.

Step VII: Guessing Strategy 3: Remembering life experience(生活再现法)

T: Lets come to para5-6. Any unknown words?

S1: Pamper.

T: Lets read the sentence: And people are not just pampering their pets with the latest clothes and accessories. What does pamper mean?You may have a discussion.

S2: Maybe it means “dress” or “make something beautiful”?

T: Thank you. Do you know this (呈现婴儿用品制造商帮宝适的商标)?Yeah,. So pampers can make baby …?

S3: Look after?

Step VIII: End-of- reading (文本结束)

T: So we have talked about our obsession for dogs in the first six paragraphs. We are crazy about dogs. But loving dogs is just for fashion?Please read the last two paragraphs. Time limit: 4 minutes.

S1: No, dogs are for life. It is neither a gift nor fashion!

T: How do people take the responsibility of owning dogs?

S1: By devoting time, money and love.

从教学流程可以看出,这位教师在阅读课上处理词汇时既不是纯粹地讲解单词,也不是粗枝大叶地让学生理解重点句子,而是采取词汇理解和文本理解互为带动的教学方法,让学生通过阅读学习词汇和扩大词汇量(见Step III)。任何文本没有形象的例子来印证其观点都是空洞、乏味的,教师让学生仔细阅读和理解文本,并适当地呈现图片等提示信息,提供学生领会生词词义的情景,使学生构建对语言的理解(见Step V)。

因此,阅读课的词汇教学应以阅读材料为载体,以语境为依托,通过开展多样化的细节活动,帮助学生感知、理解、操练和运用词汇,使学生从认知到了解,再到灵活运用,从而有效地提高语言运用能力。

3.导思细节:设计深层阅读任务,培养学生的思维能力,阅读的过程就是对语言信息的理解过程,理解就是思考,是分析、综合、比较、概括、判断、推理的过程,也就是思维的全过程。实施深层阅读教学是培养学生思维能力的有效途径。笔者认为,深层阅读教学是指教师运用一定的教学策略,通过设计概括主旨、推理判断、分析篇章结构、领会作者意图等各种深层阅读任务,激发学生思维,帮助学生能动地、创造性地理解文本深层含义的一系列教学活动。

下面的一次课堂细节也给我深刻的印象。在教学Book 1,Unit 4 Earthquake的阅读文本时,教师设计了一个思维图表:

制作思维导图细节可以使复杂的进程直观化。学生通过加工把语篇文字材料转化为图表材料,体现了阅读中的思维过程,为篇章的整体理解搭起了“脚手架”,有助于准确把握篇章主题,理解篇章内容,梳理篇章结构。制作思维导图促使学生既运用左脑的词语、逻辑、数字等功能,又运用右脑的色彩、图像、符号、空间意识等功能,以不同的图解为知识结构提供不同的视觉表征,能有效激发大脑潜能,训练思维能力。

4.导行细节:基于解读文本、提高学生英语语言综合素养。笔者还记得这样的一个细节:在对Book 6,Unit 5,An Exciting Job的阅读文本进行延展设计时:教师自然引出过渡性问题:Whats your opinion to be a volcanologist?然后趁学生踊跃发言呈现讨论题:Though its dangerous, the person loves his job. Why?学生进行小组讨论。教师PPT呈现文本中出现的表达,供学生参考和引用:

Some useful phrases from the text:

… the greatest job in the world

…make me feel alive

Our work has saved many lives because …

It is really exciting to do…

It was an absolutely fantastic …

I am just as enthusiastic about my job as the day I first started.

小组讨论结束后,教师进一步解读文本, 设计提问:What jobs do you think would be suitable for you?Why?教师PPT呈现阅读文本延展词汇:

Some useful phrases to choose a job:

seem dull but are important to society

have ambitious to become successful

be well-paid and interesting jobs

look plain but are necessary to society

help society function well

be suited to ones talents and interests

至此,学生完成以上两个讨论, 教师进行总结,并要求学生课后再课堂讨论基础上完成主题为“My Future Job” 的书面表达任务……这些细节旨在要让学生能运用语言,于是就需要让学生置身于体现语用的情景中。教师利用语言情境让学生理解语言材料,才有可能使学生做出反应、生成思想,从而产生表达的欲望。

教师通过文本解读,设计各种任务帮助学生理解文章,学生会对这些细节印象深刻,并最终学会解读文本,进而提高其英语语言综合素养。

三、思考

高中英语“以学为中心,教学生学”是有效教学在英语阅读课堂上运用的最好体现。注重细节的教师会不断追求“教学常新”,从而真正地走近教育的“本质”,立足“教学现状”,着眼“学生发展”,这与我们致力推行的素质教育始终是并行不悖的。同时,一个能讲出细节的老师一定有创新意识并乐于打破传统教学的桎梏,不断推陈出新,能有效激发学生的“求知潜能”,从而创造出更为实用鲜活的教学素材,其效果直接关系到教学的质量和人才培养的实际价值。

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