三维动态语法教学视角下的高中英语语法教学
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三维动态语法教学;“意义”、“形式”、“用法”;高中英语语法教学
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一、引言
在省培前,我一直在思考一个令人困惑的问题:在高中英语教学中,语法教学投入了相当多的教学时间和精力,但是学生的学习效果却很不理想,明显感觉学生对语法的理解和应用方面都很薄弱,语法仍然是学生语篇理解的障碍之一。尤其是在写作中,学生对语法知识的应用能力更为担忧。这些都是语法教学中出现并有待解决的问题。
二、培训所学相关内容
带着这个思考,在省培过程中,我了解到:语法不仅是语言的组织规律,它给予语言以结构系统,而且人们可以用他来表达适合语境的语意。语法不仅是一种语言知识,更应被视为一种与听、说、读、写并行的技能,一种有意义的﹑动态的系统。在语言使用过程中语法知识是“形式—意义—使用”的统一体,与语音、词汇、语篇和语用知识紧密相连,直接影响语言理解和表达的准确性和得体性。高中阶段英语语法知识的学习应该在更加丰富的语境中通过各种英语学习和实践活动进一步巩固和恰当运用语法知识,在语境中理解和运用新的语法知识,进一步发展英语语法意识。至此,明白了自己之前困惑的原因之所在。同时,我还学到了新的英语语法教学方法——三维动态语法教学。这样还获得了解决这一困惑的方法。仅此一点,就让我此次培训收获满满。
三、实践转化过程
在进一步学习三维动态语法教学过程中,我逐渐形成了自己的个人理解。三维即语法的“形式、意义和用法”,形式即这个语法单位是如何构成的;意义即它表达什么意思;用法即如何运用。所谓“动态”就涉及到如何灵活地将一个目标语法单位的三要素“形式”、“意义”和“用法”适宜地渗透给学生,此处用“渗透”体现的是此教学法的精髓在于以一种润物无声的方式影响学生去感受、体会、理解、探究、运用最终掌握目标语法单元。本文以高中的虚拟语气语法教学为例,结合个人的理解,讨论三维动态语法观在高中英语语法教学中的运用效果。
1.展现语法“意义”。
将目标语法单元悄无声息,不留痕迹地传递给学生,让学生在毫无意识下中招(此时也最容易中招)。比如,如果你想教一个人理解什么是流感,那么最直接有效的方法就是直接让他染上流感。在虚拟语气的语法教学过程中,如果先讲虚拟语气的概念,再讲虚拟语气的形式和用法。教师在解释虚拟语气的概念时,学生就会郁闷、感觉晦涩难懂,接下来的学习就更困难了。倒不如直接抛给学生一段包含数个虚拟语气的段落,诗歌或剧情等。比如,海伦凯勒的文章《假如给我三天光明》里,虚拟语气的句子随手拈来:“Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. If, by some miracle, I were granted three seeing days, I should divide the period into three parts. The first day, I should want to see the people whose kindness and gentleness have made my life worth living. My eyes would rest respectfully on the books which I have read.”学生在被这些句子所感动的时候,他们也就不知不觉地被感染中招了。然后教师再提问:T:Is it possible for we to die tomorrow? S: No. It’s impossible. T: But why we will say “It would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow.”? S: ...... . T: Yes. It’s a kind of assumption. If we want to express a condition or situation that is imaginary or not real, we can use unreal conditionals. 教师一些问题引导,让学生感知到虚拟语气这种“意义”的表达。此时学生可能明白过味了,但也已经身陷其中了。
2.探究语法“形式”
在学生感知理解了目标语法单元的“意义”之后。教师需要给学生展示一些具有代表性的例句,适时地引导学生从目标语法的“意义”的感性理解提升到对目标语法的“形式”的关注。根据这些例句,总结出目标语法的“形式”特点。 如果还以感冒举例的话,那么此阶段就是让目标患者通过自身感知总结流感的具体症状,如头疼、发烧、肉疼,鼻塞等。
3.通过训练熟悉语法“用法”
在学生基本掌握了目标语法的“意义”和“形式”之后,教师要随即设计恰当合适的语法训练语境,在语境中理解和运用新的语法知识,通过各种实践活动进一步巩固和恰当运用语法知识,进一步发展英语语法意识。还以流感为例的话,此时就是通过各种治疗方案来治愈流感同时进一步熟悉流感。比如,在训练虚拟语气时,教师可以以莫泊桑的《项链》为情景依托,简单展示故事情节如下:1.Mathilde received an invitation to attend a ball with her husband.
2. But she didn’t have jewels. So she borrowed a necklace from her friend.
3. She attended the ball with the diamond necklace and danced happily on the ball.
4. When she went home, she found the diamond necklace was gone.
5.She borrowed forty thousand francs to buy a necklace like the one she had lost. To pay the debt, she spent 10 years working hard and having no enough food and cloths.
6. Ten years later, she met her friend and knew the necklace she lent from her friend was paste. It was worth only five hundred francs! But she used 10 years.
展示故事情节之后,教师可以引导提问:
T: How do you think about this story?
S: It’s a pity.
T: If only all these hadn’t happened! If Mathilde had not received the invitation, what would happen?
S: If Mathilde had not received the invitation, she would not have borrowed the diamond necklace from her friend.
T: How I wish all these had not happened. Can you follow the example above and use unreal conditionals to describe the heart-breaking story from the opposite direction with the help of the pictures?
S1: If she had not borrowed the diamond necklace from her friend, she would not have attended the ball.
S2: If she had not attended the ball with necklace, she should not have lost the necklace.
S3: If she had not lost the necklace, she could not have borrowed forty thousand francs to buy the diamond necklace.
S4: If she had told her friend the truth and had not borrowed the forty thousand francs to buy the diamond necklace, she should not have spent 10 years working hard and have no enough food and cloths.
S5: If she had not spent 10 years working hard and have no enough food and cloths, she could not looked so old now.
此阶段通过情景创设,学生在鲜活语境环境中尝试运用目标语法的“意义”和“形式”逐渐
树立起目标语法的“运用”方法。以此突破以前语法教学重讲解,轻理解,少运用的特征,所谓三
维动态语法教学中的的“动态”含义之一,就是把语法的三个维度学“活”,给语法附之以“生命”。让学生切身体会到语法做为语言的一部分,都具有着极强的生命力和表现力的。
4.知识技能巩固
通过动态的语法意义展现、语法形式的探究和设置情景训练,学生对目标语法的“意义”、“形式”和“用法”有了全面深入的了解和接受。还需要继续设置灵活多样的生活场景,巩固已学语法知识。在讲虚拟语气时,教师还可以呼应到虚拟语气语法“意义”渗透导入部分,进一步挖掘渗透导入部分的价值。比如教师可以说;“在海伦凯勒的《假如给我三天光明》中还有一句话是这么说的:“I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and def for a few days at some time during his early adult life. ”Now if you were blind and def for three days, can you imagine what would happen? Please make up a short story and try to use more unreal conditionals . The more , the better. 也可以要求学生课下阅读<Three days to see>, 让学生有意识地在故事情节中自己感知虚拟语气的特点。
四、实践转化效果与反思
新学期开学后,我根据自己对三维动态语法教学的理解,调整了传统的语法教学方式,课前投入了大量的时间和精力去重新设计语法教学模式,当我把这一方法运用到课堂语法教学中时,明显感觉到语法一下子活了。这可能就是所谓的“动态”的缘由之一。语法不再是死板的条条框框,而是鲜活的生活语言运用,学生的课堂思维也灵动起来。学习兴趣和效果也有了很大的提高。由此也深刻体会到,教师的教学学要不断地学习和彼此沟通。持续地提升教师自身教学水平。
五、结论
三维动态语法教学观不是一种全新的教学观,而是在英语语法教学实践过程中不断地与时俱进,实事求是,探索创新的结果。之前语法教学中我们也探讨演绎法和归纳法,三维动态语法教学观只是在积累总结之前的语法教学实践中的经验的基础上,使语法教学更贴近生活和语言实际,更具灵活性和生命力,更具实践和应用性。一种好的教学观念的落实,也需要全体教师不断的学习、更新自己的教学理念并不断的开拓创新。教学方法没有最好,只有更好,教学改革,理论创新,我们一直在路上。
参考文献
2017版《普通高中英语课程标准》
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