活动对学生语言交流的介入作用

出版时间：2012-7  出版社：上海外语教育出版社  作者：梁小华  页数：322  字数：356000  
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内容概要

　　《活动对学生语言交流的介入作用：我国英语沉浸式教学的调查与研究》以“社会文化理论，尤其是“活动理论”为框架，以广东省一所采取英语沉浸式教学的私立小学为个案，从学生的视角对我国英语沉浸式教学环境中活动对学生语言交流的介入作用进行研究。《活动对学生语言交流的介入作用：我国英语沉浸式教学的调查与研究》具体内容包括：学生活动类型和学生语言交流的特点；学生活动的多变性和灵活性以及学生在活动中表现出的主观能动性；学生活动介入的多层面性。研究结果可为中国的英语教学提供重要参考，并为任务型教学中教学活动的组织与参与提出有价值的建议。

书籍目录

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
1.1 Motivation for the Current Study
1.2 ELT in China
1.2.1 Policy of ELT: An Overview
1.2.2 Development of the English Language Teaching Syllabi for
Secondary Schools
1.2.3 Reform of the Curriculum
1.2.4 Changes and Challenges Encountered in ELT
1.2.5 The First English Immersion Program in China -- the
CCUEI
1.3 Aim of the Study and Research Questions
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Outline of the Thesis
CHAPTER TWO IMMERSION EDUCATION
2.1 Immersion Education in Canada
2.1.1 Definition of Immersion
2.1.2 Features of Immersion
2.1.3 Varieties of Immersion Programs
2.2 Immersion Education in Other Western Countries
2.3 English Immersion Program in China-- the CCUEI
2.3.1 Characteristics of the CCUEI
2.3.2 Research on the CCUEI Program
2.4 Challenges to Immersion Education Worldwide
2.5 Research Gap
2.6 Summary
CHAPTER THREE INTERACTION, ACTIVITY AND PEER TALK
3.1 Cognitive and Sociocultural Paradigms in Interaction
3.1.1 Interaction within the Cognitive Paradigm
3.1.2 Interaction within the Sociocultmal Theoretical
Paradigm
3.2 The Role of Tasks and Activities in Interaction
3.2.1 Tasks and Activities from a Psycholinguistic
Perspective
3.2.2 Tasks and Activities from a Sociocultural Perspective
3.3 Poor Talk
3.3.1 Definition of Peer Talk
3.3.2 Peer Talk as a Type of Spoken Interaction
3.3.3 Research Revealing the Features of Peer Talk
3.4 The Conceptual Framework of the Current Study
3.4.1 Components of the Conceptual Framework
3.4.2 Relations among These Components
3.5 Summary
CHAPTER FOUR METHODOLOGY
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A Case Study
4.3 Selection of the Setting and the Participants
4.3.1 The Sampling
4.3.2 The Setting
4.3.3 The Participants
4.4 Data Collection and Data Analysis
4.4.1 Data Collection
4.4.2 Data Analysis
4.5 Trustworthiness
4.5.1 Thick Description
4.5.2 Member Checking
4.5.3 Peer Debriefing
4.5.4 Self Reflexivity
4.5.5 Ethical Concerns
4.6 Summary
CHAPTER FIVE CONTEXT AND PARTICIPANTS
5.1 ELT in China
5.2 The School Context
5.2.1 The School
5.2.2 The Features of the School Context
5.2.3 The Moving of the English Immersion Teachers' Office
5.3 The Participants
5.3.1 The Teacher Participant Ouya
5.3.2 Teacher Ouya's Challenges
5.3.3 Teacher Ouya's Practice of English Immersion
5.3.4 The Student Participants
5.3.5 The Students' Attitudes towards English and the English
Teacher
5.3.6 The Teacher-student Relationship
5.4 Summary
5.5 Preview of the Data Chapters
CHAPTER SIX ACTIVITY TYPE AND PEER TALK
6.1 Activity and Activity Types
6.2 Categorization of the Student Activities
6.3 Variations of the Non-communicative Activities
6.3.1 Variations of RP and Peer TaLk
6.3.2 Variations of QA and Peer TaLk
6.3.3 Variations of Conversation and Peer TaLk
6.4 Summary
CHAPTER SEVEN THE NATURE OF ACTMTY AND STUDENT AGENCY
7.1 The Dynamic and Situated Nature of Activity and Agency
7.2 Different Activities Emerging from the Same Task
7.2.1 The Teacher-assigned Task
7.2.2 Different Activities Conducted by the Students
7.2.3 Comparison of the Three Groups of Students within the
Activity System
7.3 Different Roles Emerging in the Same Activity
7.3.1 Acting as a Tutor, a Learner, a Proposer, and a
Defender
7.3.2 Dynamic Role Relations of Peer Interlocutors in the
Activity
7.4 Learning Opportunities in Side-task/Off-task Activities .
7.4.1 Liuliu and Changqing's Side-task Even Off-task Talk for
Learning
7.4.2 Liuliu and Changqing's Off-task Small TaLk for Fun
7.5 Summary
CHAPTER EIGHT FORMS OF MEDIATION
8.1 Mediation and Mediational Means
8.2 Categorization of the Mediational Means in the Current
Study
8.3 Multidimensional Mediations in the Current Study
8.3.1 Language Play as Mediation
8.3.2 Peer Assistance as Mediation
8.3.3 The Use of L1 and Code-switching as Mediation
8.3.4 Task as Mediation
8.3.5 Activity Type as Mediation
8.3.6 Subject Contents as Mediation
8.4 Constraints of Mediational Means
8.5 Summary
CHAPTER NINE DISCUSSION
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Main Findings of the Current Study
9.2.1 Findings on the School Context
9.2.2 Findings of the Mediations of Student Activities in Peer
Talk
9.3 Understanding the Mediations of Activities in Peer Talk.
9.3.1 Reflecting on the Interrelationships between Activity Type
and Peer Talk
9.3.2 Reflecting on the Multidimensional Nature of
Mediations.
9.3.3 Reflecting on the Students' Agency in the Activities
9.3.4 Reflecting on the Teacher's Role in the Activities
9.4 Understanding the English Immersion in the School Context
9.4.1 Redefining the Context: A Very Partial English
Immersion.
9.4.2 Reflecting on the Emerging Issues in This English Immersion
Context
9.5 Conceptual Framework Revisited
9.6 Summary
CHAPTER TEN CONCLUSION
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Summary of the Study
10.2.1 Summary of the Aim and the Methodology
10.2.2 Summary of the Findings
10.2.3 Conclusions
10.3 Contributions of the Study
10.4 Implications of the Study
10.4.1 Theoretical Implications
10.4.2 Practical Implications
10.5 Limitations of the Study and Directions for Future
Research
REFERENCES
APPENDIX

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　　3.1.2.1　The Vygotskian Key Concepts about Language and Language Leaming 　　Language and Language learning. Sociocultural and cognitive theories perceive language and language learning from different points of view. Language， more than just a means of communication (Ellis， 1994)， is the most important cultural tool， and carries with it the characteristics that mediate the human mind. It is also the most important psychological tool， and mediates human mental activity in learrung and in partiapating in various sociocultural activities (Vygotsky， 1978). Vygotsky (1981b， p.136) draws an analogy between the role of technical and mechanical tools and that of psychological tools， meaning cultural artifacts such as language， mnemonic techniques， algebraic symbols， diagrams， and schemes， all of which serve as mediational means of the individual's mental activity (Lantolf& Appel， 1994a， p.8). Psychological tools， also called symbolic tools or signs (Lantol， 2000a)， are internally oriented， and cause "changes in the behavior ofother people or oneself" (Vygotsky， 1978， p.53). As Lantolf and Appel (1994a) maintain， tools that are created under specific cultural and historical conditions carry with them the characteristics of the culture by showing its state and level oflabor activity. Supporting these views， Mercer (1995， 2000) claims that language is a tool people use collectively to think together， to make sense of experience， and to solve problems， while Gee (1992) states that language is both a product and a process of social interaction， when examined from the sociocultural perspective.　　Language learning is a process that is first soaal， then individual (Mitchell & Myles， 1998， p.147; Vygotsky， 1978， 1981a). Situated in social interaction， language learning is co-constructed through scaffolding and the mediation ofinteraction in the learning process (Lantolf & Appel，　1994a， p.9). Second language acquisition is similarly a socioculturally mediated process rooted in social interaction (Lantolf& Thorne， 2006; Vygotsky， 1978). According to Patthey-Chavez and Clare (1996， p.517)， to leam to use a language means to make appropriate choices about the language， to accept the rules and values which are hidden behind the language and originate in the larger community， and to mediate the social relations implicit in the language. Sociocultural theories contribute new meanings to interaction by defining language and language learning in a broader social and cultural sense， by proposing core concepts in learning and in social interaction， such as the ZPD， regulation， mediation and internalization. To facilitate understanding of this research study， the key concepts and terms are elaborated below.　　Regulation and the zone of proximal development (ZPD). As mentioned above， sociocultural theories maintain that language learning is interactional， moving from the social to the individual. Learning creates the ZPD， the space /n which the learner achieves a new potential level of development through mediation and regulation (Lantolf& Thorne， 2006;Vygotsky， 1978)， in a process that develops dynamically and transforms the social context (Lantolf & Thorne， 2006; Vygotsky，　1978). Vygotsky (1978， pp.85-86) defines the ZPD as "the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers"; and the actual developmental level as "the level of development of a child's mental functions that has been established as a result of certain already completed development cycles" (emphasis in the original). Collaboration with more capable peers (Vygotsky， 1978) may cause transformation in the process of internalization (the internal reconstruction of external operations).　　……