主题意义统领的语篇练习讲评课教学设计研究
江苏省常州高级中学 潘正凯
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摘要:针对教学实践中练习讲评课重讲授、轻内涵、碎片化等不足,本文结合一个教学实例的分析,提出以主题意义统领语篇练习讲评的教学设计思路。具体而言,教师以特定的话题为线索,设计相关的探究任务,引领学生对练习语篇进行二次加工,将习题讲解与主题探究加以融合,并基于此进行信息的整合与输出,从而实现知识学习、技能训练、思维发展与文化培育的融合统一,服务于学科核心素养的长足发展。
关键词:语篇练习讲评、主题意义、教学设计、核心素养
一、引言(问题的提出)
语篇练习是高中英语最为重要的练习形式,完形填空与阅读理解则是语篇练习最为普遍的题型。对于完形填空的讲评,教师不能仅仅满足于根据语境选用恰当词汇能力的培养;对于阅读的讲解,教师也不能仅限于答案依据的查找与分析。教师应该从主题探究的高度带领学生重新审读语篇,将解题技巧转化为意义理解的工具,梳理、整合语言知识与文化知识,深化对语篇内涵的理解,同时还要关注科学做题习惯的培养,以及学习效果自我评估与反思意识的养成。这样,练习讲评才有可能摒除碎片化、轻内涵、中讲授的弊病,进而服务于学科核心素养的发展。本文尝试以一个教学案例的深入分析,阐述主题意义统领的语篇练习讲评设计的理念与操作,以期能为广大教师提供一个实践参照。
文献、观察、专家观点验证自己的判断。
二、案例简述
1、教学内容
案例涉及的完形填空是一篇记叙文,描述了作者反复尝试与失败、但最终成功减肥的曲折历程。作者体态臃肿、体重超标,多次减肥均未能成功。后受人启发,发起了“As We Heal, the World Heals”活动,通过自己的减肥努力为慈善项目筹集资金,最终获得成功。作者将减肥行动与公益服务相结合的减肥方法值得学生从效用机理的角度对文本进行深刻、批判的分析。该题主要考察学生根据语篇内涵选用恰当词汇、短语以准确表达意义的能力。
案例涉及的阅读理解是一篇事理阐释类说明文。该文从生理学角度解释了不良习惯难以根除的原因(immediate reward,即时奖励机制),以及与此相关的生化物质(dopamine,多巴胺),并据此提出了一些培养良好习惯的科学建议。文本后面设置了3道选择题,分别考察学生文本主题理解、词义猜测和具体信息对比等三方面能力。
两篇练习文本均涉及良好生活习惯的养成,与单元主题(Growing pains)和学生生活体验密切关联。不同的是,两个语篇分别从社会学视角和生物学视角探讨了良好习惯的形成机理。据此,课例尝试以“改正不良习惯的科学方法”(the scientific way to kick bad habits)为主题,联系单元主题对两个语篇进行二次加工,要求学生基于文本的深度理解设计一个改正自己某些不良习惯的行动方案,并进行展示。
2、学情分析
学生通过单元话题的讨论和课文的研读,已经比较深刻地了解了青少年身上普遍存在的过渡关注外貌形体、不惜牺牲健康减肥等不良心态和习惯,认识到平衡膳食、积极锻炼、充足睡眠等良好习惯的重要性。尽管如此,很多学生还是无法通过行动践行这些理念和认识,知与行相互割裂。问题产生的原因之一,在于学生未能科学认识不良习惯难以革除的真正原因,而这些原因往往涉及社会、心理、生理等多个层面。课例涉及的两个阅读文本,恰恰可以作为拓展单元话题的语篇。通过文本的理性分析,教师可以引导学生设计更为科学、实用、有趣的(scientific、practical、enjoyable)不良习惯解决方法,建立语篇理解与思维培养、生活改善的内在关联,有机渗透积极生活态度和价值观的培育,激发语言学习的内部动机。
3、教学目标
通过本节课的学习,学生能够:
(1)准确理解文本内涵,选用恰当的词汇、搭配表达意义;
(2)准确理解文本大意和关键信息,识别文本的结构和信息的组织方式;
(3)分析、反思练习错误产生的原因,形成正确的做题与订正习惯;
(4)依据两个文本的深度解析,建构良好习惯培养的科学方法并加以评价;
(5)清楚描述自己的不良习惯,依据前述科学方法设计具体的行动方案,并大胆、清晰地阐述方案的具体内容。
4、教学过程简述
教师在课前公布正确答案,要求学生对自己的错题先行思考,分析犯错的原因以及正确答案的含义和依据。
Step 1 讲解阅读理解
阅读理解部分包含3道单选题。由于错误率整体较高,教师决定对文章进行全面梳理。
首先,教师要求学生查找主题段,并用自己的语言概括文章大意,分析第3、第4段的关系(Paragraph 4 further explains the key concept of Paragraph 3)。鉴于immediate reward是理解全文的关键概念,教师要求学生再次阅读第3、4段,并举例说明immediate reward的确切含义(此恰是第1题考点)。
其次,概括文章主题、理解关键概念后,教师引导学生概括第7至9段的主题(养成良好习惯的建议)。教师由此带领学生概括文章行文的逻辑:概念阐释——实际应用(此恰是第2题考点)。
第三,教师通过问题“Then, according to the essay, how can we kick bad habits?”带领学生归纳并板书改正不良习惯的科学方法:(1)reward your positive behavior in time;;(2)set up a new routine instead of the old one。(此恰是第3题考点)
[分析] 教师必须根据答题情况,有针对性地对练习文本进行详略得当的处理。错误率较高时,教师有必要对文本进行完整梳理。案例的这一操作,体现了文本意义梳理与练习分析相融合、统一的思路。练习分析完毕后,教师对文本主题进行归纳,以供后继主题探究和语言产出活动使用。
Step 2 讲解完形填空
首先,教师要求学生概括文章大意,并用一些问题引导学生准确理解文章关键细节,比如:
Can anyone summarize the main idea of the story?
Why did he fail again and again?
What did he decide to do later?
Did his project work out?
What factor contributed to his success?
其次,通过机器阅卷,确定错误率较高的题目(第11、13、14、16小题),教师集中讲解这些题项,提醒学生注意旧词新意。比如,讲解11题(struck)时教师说到:“As we know, struck means beat. But here the author said some idea struck me. An idea struck me. Clearly, struck couldn’t mean beat here. Then, what did it actually mean?”教师由此引导学生认清“struck”意为“被想到”。对于由选项陌生所造成的失误,教师直接阐释正确选项的意思和用法。
第三,教师要求学生以填空的形式补全文章、重新审读文本,然后核对正确答案。教师引导学生分析、归纳作者最终减肥成功的深层原因并板书(承接阅读理解部分的板书):(3)combine personal efforts with social contribution;(4)make your resolution public—get pushed。教师补充:“Attracting donations by challenging oneself is a useful way to collect money for charities in the western countries.”教师提醒学生,中外筹集捐款的方式不尽相同,作者的方式值得借鉴。
最后,教师要求学生在两篇文本中圈画重要短语(如resist temptations、strengthen the connection、become deeply rooted,共计21个),齐读并记录意思,供课后识记。
[分析] 在归纳文章大意和关键细节的基础上,教师直接阐释错误率较高的项目。对于因词汇生疏造成的失误,教师直接采用举例、阐述、提问等方式进行讲授。对于重要的词汇,教师也基本采用讲授方式进行教学,但非常注重以语块形式呈现词汇。同样,错题分析完成后,教师引导学生对文本关键信息进行梳理,由此将学生的注意力带回主题语境。教师要求学生“盲填”完形的做法(即不看选项直接根据语境填补缺漏词汇),有效地训练了根据意义选用恰当词汇的能力,同时将形式学习同意义理解深度融合,体现了主题意义为先的理念。
Step 3小组讨论
教师敲击黑板,引导学生再次关注从两个练习语篇中提炼出的改正坏习惯(亦即养成好习惯)的科学、有效方法,然后布置学生结对讨论:Describe one of your bad habits to your desk-mate and work out an action plan to kick it。教师强调:你的行动方案必须科学、实用、有趣(scientific、practical、enjoyable)。
教师板书关键词:“Your action plan: Scientific, practical & enjoyable”,并提醒学生这是行动方案的评判标准。
[分析] 为了保证小组讨论的实效性,教师做了两点安排:(1)明确讨论话题;(2)明确行为标准。前者能够保证学生的探究不偏离轨道与主题,后者能够确保学生的语言作品质量。明确的活动内容和明晰的评价标准有助于提高小组活动的效率,利于学生的自我反思与评估意识的养成。
Step 4小组汇报
教师邀请数名学生汇报同桌的有关情况:习惯描述与方案介绍。当学生描述不清时,教师提出问题加以引导,如:“Can you say that again? Can you use an example to show your point? What else can you do on such an occasion?”
学生表达完毕后,教师追问:“Is the action scientific? Is it practical? Is it enjoyable? Do you have a better one?”以此激励学生不断地依据标准反思同伴所设计的方案,同时提出自己的见解。
[分析] 学习策略的培养需要教师通过具体的语言活动加以渗透。本节的小组汇报突出了交际策略和情感策略的培养。具体而言,“学生汇报同伴情况”这一巧妙设置,能够有效地驱动同伴间的交流合作、相互倾听及资源共享(情感策略),而教师的追问、引导、提醒则在有意识地培养学生的交际策略,示范维持交际的有效方法,与此同时进一步促进了思维活动的持续和深入。
三、主题意义统领的语篇练习讲评设计
案例采用教师讲授与合作探究相结合的教学方法,取得了较好的教学效果。在习题讲解环节,主要采用教师主导的提问方式,引导学生关注关键信息,并据此作出正确判断;在文本解读环节,通过问题引导学生对关键信息进行快速梳理和准确理解,识别文本信息呈现的结构;在问题解决活动环节,教师通过具体的行为标准引导学生小组合作进行探究、设计与表达。不管是细节的处理,还是文本的整体理解,都凸显了主题意义的探究,特别是问题解决任务,能够有效驱动学生整合练习语篇的重要信息内容,围绕主话题建构信息的内在结构。在设计围绕主题意义的练习讲评活动时,教师需要特别关注以下三点内容。
1、依托主题意义、基于练习语篇、实现多维发展
语言学习活动都应该在一定的主题语境下进行,主题意义的探究直接影响学生语篇理解的程度、思维发展的水平和语言学习的成效(教育部,2018)。因此可以认为,主题意义对于语言学习活动具有统领作用。传统上,练习讲评课的重点通常聚焦于词汇语法知识和语言技能,而忽视了知识技能与主题语境的有机融合,进而排除了通过练习讲评发展语言运用能力、渗透情感与策略训练的可能性。对语言学习而言,知识与技能训练、问题分析与解决、文化内涵探究、思维品质提升、情感价值熏陶都是在主题语境的统领下相互融合、渗透的。这就要求教师通过设计适切的语用活动引导学生对语篇进行深度解析并进行必要的语言产出。练习解析所涉及的知识和技能,通常就是语用活动所需要关注的形式重点。由此,练习解析便转化为意义探究的有机部分,服务于学科素养的整体提升。
2、建立教材语篇与练习语篇的内在关联
练习讲评需要重视语篇的二次深度加工,应当能够深化学生对于文本的理解,进而促进学生对教材单元主题意义的深入探究。为了实现之一目标,练习的设计既要考虑其所检测的语言项目,又要考虑练习所用语篇主题之间的关联性,特别是练习语篇与教材语篇主题之间的关联度,以便教师对多个语篇开展整合式处理。课例对两个语篇的再加工以及后继的小组探究活动,均统一于“The Scientific Ways to Kick Bad Habits”这一主题,这一主题又与单元话题“Looking good, feeling good”相关联。这使得所有的知识、技能、探究、策略、思维等学习要素有了内在的线索和灵魂,形成一个围绕主题的完整结构,利于知能的存储与迁移。
3、注重讲评中学生的自主反思与新知的持续学习
就练习讲评本身而言,课前学生自主反思、重点项目集中讲授、重要词汇即时学习确保了讲评课的效率和效果,构成了本节课的一个特点。练习讲评不应该只是知识的简单核对和重复,更应是旧知的巩固、新知的吸收以及知识的整合,而这需要语境的介入。唯有依托统一的语境,在问题解决的活动中,知识和技能方能转变为能力、凝练为素养,成为学生人格的一部分并终身受用。此外,教师需要充分利用技术手段,全面了解学生的答题情况,有的放矢地选择讲解重点,避免面面俱到式的练习讲授,同时重视学生自我订正、自我反思习惯的培养,激励他们通过自主和合作的方式解决一部分学习问题,为课堂中的主题探究活动争取更多的时间。
四、结语
练习讲评课是英语教学实践中最常见的一种课型,但各级各类的评优课、公开课却鲜有它的身影。究其原因,大体是因为练习讲评通常是教师主导的、以知识传授为主体的课堂教学形式,难以体现《普通高中英语课程标准(2017年版)》所倡导的语言教学理念。为了解决这一问题,就语篇练习而言,教师需要围绕主题意义组织习题讲解和语篇二次加工,通过问题解决任务达成知识技能学习与主题意义探究的融合,依托语境进行良好做题习惯、自我反思意识以以及积极情感态度的培养。练习讲评通过这样的设计必能“转型”和“升级”,真正地促进学生学科核心素养的发展,显示其独特的学习价值。
参考文献:
[1] 教育部. 2018. 普通高中英语课程标准(2017年版)[M] 北京:人民教育出版社
附:练习原文
1. 阅读理解(参考答案:BCD)
Uh-oh, the new year’s just begun and already you’re finding it hard to keep those resolutions (决心) to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break—they get connected with our brains.
That’s not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become deeply rooted has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad.
“Why are bad habits stronger? You’re fighting against the power of an immediate reward,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, an authority on the brain's pleasure pathway.
“We all as creatures are hard-connected that way, to give greater value to an immediate reward than something that’s delayed,” Volkow says.
Just how that bit of happiness turns into a habit involves a pleasure-sensing chemical named dopamine. It conditions the brain to want that reward again and again—strengthening the connection each time—especially when it gets the right cue (暗示) from your environment.
People tend to think they have the ability to resist temptations (抵制诱惑) around them, thus weakening efforts to kick bad habits, says experimental psychologist Loran Nordgren.
A movement to pay people for behavior changes may use that connection, as some companies offer employees outright payments for starting better habits.
However paying for behavior plays out, researchers say there are some steps that may help reduce your brain's hold on bad habits.
Repeat, repeat, repeat the new behavior—the same routine at the same time of day. Making up your mind to exercise? Doing it at the same time of the morning, rather than fitting it in once in a while, makes the brain recognize the habit so finally, “if you don't do it, you feel terrible,” says Volkow the neuroscientist, who’s also a running lover.
Reward yourself with something you really desire, Volkow stresses. Stuck to your diet? Buy a book, a great pair of jeans, or try a fancy restaurant.
1. What makes bad habits hard to break?
A. Stronger connection between brain and environment.
B. People’s desire for immediate rewards.
C. Great temptations around people.
D. Huge value they bring people.
2. The underlined word “outright” has the closest meaning to ________.
A. wrong B. delayed C. immediate D. reasonable
3. Which of the following is NOT the effective way to kick bad habits?
A. Doing different exercises. B. Getting paid for good habits.
C. Sticking to new behaviors. D. Treating yourself to what you want.
2. 完形填空(参考答案:CADCB/ABCAD/DABDC/BDABC)
At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to 1 bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of 2 but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my 3 .
When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me 4 . I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this 5 weight any more.
That year, I 6 a seminar where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her 7 story — she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children.
8 by her story, I created the As We Heal (痊愈), the World Heals 9 . My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 10 a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger. This combination of healing myself and healing the world 11 me as the perfect solution.
12 I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would 13 the same difficulties that beat me before. While the 14 hung over my head, there were also signs that I was headed down the right 15 . I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It worked perfectly. Donations began 16 in from hundreds of people.
Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight. I consulted with a physician(内科医生), I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and 17 meals. My fund-raising focus also gave me new motivation to exercise 18 .
A year later, I 19 my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is 20 and enormous.
1. A. add B. mix C. kill D. share
2. A. diets B. drinks C. fruits D. dishes
3. A. height B. ability C. wisdom D. weight
4. A. temporarily B. recently C. seriously D. secretly
5. A. ideal B. extra C. normal D. low
6. A. attended B. organized C. recommended D. mentioned
7. A. folk B. success C. adventure D. science
8. A. Surprised B. Amused C. Influenced D. Disturbed
9. A. project B. business C. system D. custom
10. A. in search of B. in need of C. in place of D. in support of
11. A. scared B. considered C. confused D. struck
12. A. As B. Until C. If D. Unless
13. A. get over B. run into C. look for D. put aside
14. A. excitement B. joy C. anger D. fear
15. A. row B. hall C. path D. street
16. A. breaking B. flooding C. jumping D. stepping
17. A. heavy B. full C. expensive D. healthy
18. A. regularly B. limitlessly C. suddenly D. randomly
19. A. set B. reached C. missed D. dropped
20. A. stressful B. painful C. meaningful D. peaceful