基于体裁的教学法在大学生英语演讲稿写作的研究

基于体裁的教学法在大学生英语演讲稿写作的研究

刘博

关键词：体裁教学；英语写作；英语演讲

（此文隶属于项目《英语视听说》（创新创业人才英语演讲能力与思辨能力提升课程）四川省教育厅川教涵[2017]38号）

TheGenre-basedApproachinTeachingEnglishSpeechWriting:aCaseStudyofChengduUniversity

LiuBo

(CollegeofForeignLanguagesandCulture,ChengduUniversity,610106)

Abstract:Foralongtime,teachingstudentstowriteoftenhasbeenfilledwithdifficulties(Firkinsetal,2007).Therefore,duringthelasttwoorthreedecades,thegenre-basedapproachhaswitnessedanincreasingconcernfordevelopingwriting,whichhasalreadybeenprovedtobeasuccessfulapproachtoteachwritinginAustraliancontexts(Martin,2008).However,thissignificantinterestingenre-basedapproachperhapshasnotbeencapturedbyChinesescholarsuntilthelastdecadeintwentiethcentury(Qin,2000).ThereforethisarticleisplannedtoconductthisinvestigationofEnglishSpeechwritingincontextofChengduUniversity,attemptingtorootthisAustralianapproachinChinacontext.

Keywords:genre-basedapproach;Englishwriting;EnglishSpeech

INTRODUCTION

ThepurposeofthisresearchparticularlyfocusonAustraliangenre-basedapproachtoteachEnglishSpeechwritingtoexploreapossibleteachingmethodinChina'seducationcontextamongavailablealternatives.However,sucharelativelynewapproachcouldbeaproblematicissueforteachingEnglishwritinginhighereducationofChina.Itis,therefore,essentialtosetupaninquiryonthepossibilityofthisgenre-basedapproachonsolvingproblemsinChinesestudents'writingseffectively,attemptingtoprovideanvaluableapproachinhighereducationofChina.

RESEARCH

1Methodology

Thegenre-basedapproachderivedfromthetheoreticalworksknownassystematicfunctionallinguistics,developedbyHalliday,viewinglanguageasasetofsystemforcreatingmeaninginsocialcontextandaresourceofcommunication(Halliday,1994).BasedonSFLtheory,genreswereclarifiedandmappedaccordingtotheirdifferentmeaningswithindifferentsocialcontexts,carriedoutbydifferentstages(Martin,2007).Besides,thisgenre-basedapproachhasformedasophisticatedandpracticalpedagogytoteachwriting(Hyland,2007).Amodeldesignedtoinstructstudentstowriteisknownasgenre-basedTeaching-LearningCycle,whichservesaguidancetodesignthisresearchof"scaffolding"studentsintheirspeechcourse.

2Participants

Duringthesix-weekinstruction,thisresearchfollowed28studentsfromZhanglangCollegeinChengduUniversity.Bycomparingtheirinitialandfinaldrafts,thispapertriestofindoutsomevaluableresultsontheapplicationofgenre-basedapproach.

3Analysis

1)Initialdrafts:

Structure:thestructureofspeechdraftisconfused,notclearlydemonstrated

Grammar:Lesspersityandflexibilityinclausestructure;simpleclausesarepredominantinthetext.

Vocabulary:themeaningoftextbecomesobscureandevenincorrect;fewervocabularyoftheexpositionandtherelatedtopic.

Cohesion:manysentencesareindependentandisolated,andsomesentencesstartedorendedabruptly.

2)Finaldrafts:

Structure:structurearewellorganizedaccordingtofeatureofgenre.

Grammar:persityandflexibilitycanbeseeninclausestructure.

Vocabulary:wordsarecarefullyselectedfromlanguageandeducation,givingthereaderanexpressionthatthespeakerwouldbeanexpertofthetopicheorshedelivered;wordsinArgumentativeareusedtodescribespeakers’attitudes.

Cohesion:themeaningsareclearlyexpressedthroughthosecohesivesentenceswithoutanyunnecessaryrepetitionofmanysimplesentences.

IMPLICATIONSANDCONCLUSION

Thisresearchhasgivenasatisfactoryresponsetothepurposethatisplannedtobetriedachieved:Explicitinstructiononhowtoconstructawell-organizedstructureofoneparticulargenreshouldbetakenintoseriousconsiderationbyEnglishteachers;Itisessentialforteacherstoteachgrammarandvocabularyincontext;SincemanyChinesecollegestudentsseldomknowncohesion,instructiononcohesionshouldbeontheteachers'syllabus..

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Firkins,A.,Forey,G.&Sengupta,S.(2007)TeachingwritingtolowproficiencyEFstudents.ELTJournal,2007.Vol61(4).341-352

Halliday,M.A.K.(1994)anintroductiontofunctionalgrammar(2ndEd.).London:EdwardArnold

Hyland,K.(2007)GenreandSecondLanguageWriting.US:theUniversityofMichiganPress

Martin,J.(2007)ConstruingKnowledge:afunctionallinguisticperspective.

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刘博1987.5男汉族四川职务/职称：英语专任教师/助教，学历：硕士研究生，单位：成都大学外国语学院，研究方向:语言学/英语教育。单位信息：成都大学外国语学院