摘要
本文试图探讨语法教学的必要性及其重要性,作者尝试着通过多种方式把中学英语语法教学融入交际活动之中,从而使语法教学得到优化。
自从引入交际法教学之后始终有人怀疑中学语法教学的作用,甚至有人质疑语法教学的必要性。作者强调了中学英语语法教学的必要性,系统阐述了以交际为主导的语法教学的重要性。作者从语言本身、交际能力和语法的工具作用三方面论述论诉了高中英语教学中交际法教学和交际式语法教学的差异。
作者通过设计了大量使用交际活动来具体地教学中学英语语法的课堂教学形式,并且通过自己的教学实验,在实验班广泛地使用文中所提及的交际式语法教学来教学高一年级要求的语法项目,而在控制班仍然只使用以前常用的交际法来教授相同的语法内容,通过前测和后测的对比分析,结果证明了运用交际式语法教学可以更有效地进行语法教学,其教学效果优于仅采用课堂交际活动教学。
This paper is an attempt to argue for the necessity and even importance of teaching grammar in Communicative Approach. The author recommends an optimal English grammar teaching method by means of communicative activities in senior middle schools. Communicative Approach has been introduced into China since 1980s. It regards the development of communicative competence as the core of FLT. Communicative Approach has been one of the mainstreams influencing the methods of FLT of our country. Recently, it is necessary to rethink about the role of grammar teaching in the communicative framework. In the view of the author, CA does not involve neglection of the role of grammar teaching but involve integration of communicative activities into grammar teaching to obtain a good knowledge of language form and meaning, and get a balance between accuracy and fluency. It is significant to teach grammar in CA in the middle schools especially in the senior middle school because grammar is an important element of language, a basis of communicative competence and a tool of learning FL.
First, to investigate the current state of adopting CA to the teaching of grammar, a survey of the communicative teaching of grammar in senior schools was conducted from the perspective of designing grammar lessons to motivate students to involve in communicative activities.
Then the author presented a large number of classroom activities to illuminate how to teach grammar in Communicative Approach. These examples integrate sources and techniques such as the use of sentence-pattern-drill with pictures, cards or multi-medium.
At last, the author applied these communicative activities to actual teaching practice, and made an experiment to test whether grammar teaching can be integrated to CA to senior middle school students. The experimental class was treated with CLT activities together with grammar instructions, and the control class was taught with the same CLT activities but without grammar instruction. The pre-test and post-test were conducted to both classes. Results from the experiment indicate that the result of eclectic teaching grammar in Communicative Approach is better than that of communicative activities without grammar instruction because students not only grasp the grammar rules but also know how to use them to communicate. Further implications and suggestions for schoolteachers are included in this thesis.
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