农业学术英语阅读课程设置及教学模式探究

学术英语阅读能力是农业科技人员获取信息的根本能力之一,是中国农业科技事业发展的战略议题,也是农科研究生英语学习的首要需求。为了进一步提升农科研究生学术英语阅读课程的质量与效率,本研究提出以“社会文化理论”为教学指导思想、“体裁教学法”为课程组织框架、“阅读圈”合作学习为课堂教学方式的农业学术英语阅读课程实施框架,并应用于硕士生学术英语阅读课教学。结果显示,接受该课程教学的学生在英文摘要的阅读速度与理解能力上有明显进步。该教学框架不仅能够帮助学生掌握学术英语阅读的体裁意识,提高学生运用英语获取信息的速度与能力,建立学生学术团体的身份与认知。是当前学术英语教学中一种可行方案。

Agricultural Academic English Reading Course: Curriculum and Teaching Mode

Academic English reading ability is one of the fundamental abilities of agricultural science and technology personnel in order to obtain information. It is a strategic issue for the development of agricultural science and technology in China, and it is also the primary requirement for agricultural graduate students. In order to further improve the quality and efficiency of academic English reading course for agricultural graduate students, this study proposes a teaching model with the “sociocultural theory” as the guidance, with the “genre teaching method” as the curriculum organization framework and with the “reading circle” cooperative learning as the classroom teaching method. The teaching model is applied to the academic English reading course for master students. The results show that students’ competency is improved significantly in speed and comprehension of English abstract reading. The teaching framework can not only help students gain genre awareness of academic English reading, improve their speed and ability to obtain information in English, but also construct their identity and cognition in academic community. It is one of the feasible plans to teach academic English reading.