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PromotingDynamicInterplaybetweenStudyandResearchinELTPractice
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Abstract:
Thispaperfirstexploresthesignificanceofresearchincomparisontotheothertwosourcesofhumanknowledge(i.e.experienceandreasoning)inthecontextofELTpracticeinChina.Itthenelaboratesthefourkindsofstudy:
receptivestudy,productivestudy,criticalstudyandcreativestudy,andproposesapracticeofever-advancingintegrationofvarioustypesofstudywithdifferentlevelsofdepthofinformationprocessing.Itfinallydiscussespossiblerelationshipsbetweenstudyandresearchandsuggestsresearch-basedstudyandstudy-orientedresearchastwopotentialapproachestomutualstimulationbetweenstudyandresearchinELTpracticeinChina.
Keywords:
study;research;Englishlanguageteaching
摘要:
本文首先结合中国英语教学实际探讨了研究在教学中的重大作用,指出它是人类知识三大来源中最重要的一项;然后阐述了学习的四个层次,即接受性学习、运用性学习、评析性学习和创造性学习,还提出英语学习的全过程应当是一个在学习层次上包容性不断提高的实践,即能够融汇越来越多高层次学习的过程;最后讨论了学习与研究间的关系,并提出了在英语教学中实现学习研究相互促进的两种途径,即以研究为基点的学习和以学习为前导的研究。
关键词:
学习;研究;英语教学
Contents
PartOne.Introduction2
PartTwo.Threesourcesofknowledge2
2.1Experience2
2.2Reasoning3
2.3Research4
PartThree.Fourtypesofstudy6
3.1Receptivestudy6
3.2Productivestudy6
3.3Criticalstudy7
3.4Creativestudy7
PartFour.Promotingdynamicinterplaybetweenstudyandresearch9
4.1SomepossiblewaysofELTpracticeconcerningstudyandresearch9
4.2TwoapproachestomutualstimulationbetweenstudyandresearchinELT9
PartFive.Conclusion10
Bibliograpy11
PromotingDynamicInterplaybetweenStudy
andResearchinELTPractice
PartI.Introduction
Studyandresearcharetwoofthemostconfusingtermsusedineducationalsettingsbecausetheycansometimesusequiteinterchangeablywhileonotheroccasionstheymayrefertosomethingremarkablydifferent.Whenwesay,“We’redoingastudyintohowmuchtimemiddleschoolstudentsspendlearningEnglish”,wemeanthatwearedoingresearchintothisissue.However,inthesentence“Aftersixyearsofstudyinschool,hesuccessfullyenteredZhejiangUniversityattheageof17”,the“study”usedhereisgenerallynotinterpretedas“research”.
Nowadays,itisreasonablyacceptabletosaythatstudentscannotonlystudybutalsoresearch.Researchersneedtostudyinthecourseofresearch.Tobeteachers,theyshoulddosomeresearchwhilecontinuingtheirstudyofwhattheyareteachinginfurthereducation.InordertopromoteEnglishlanguageteaching(ELT)inschoolsandcollegesinChina,thispaperwillfirstdiscusstheroleofresearchintheacquisitionofknowledge,thenexaminethekindsofstudy,andfinallyexplorethedynamicinteractionbetweenstudyandresearchintermsofeducationaltheoryandpracticeinELTsettings.
PartII.Threesourcesofknowledge
Researchisoneofthethreemajormeansforhumanbeingstoacquireknowledgeoftheenvironmentincludingthenaturalworldandourhumansociety.Theothertwoare“experience”and“reasoning”(CohenandManion,1989).Theroleofresearchintheacquisitionofhumanknowledgecanhardlybeunderstoodfullywithoutbeingstudiedinconnectiontothatofexperienceandreasoning.Forthepurposeofachievingabetterunderstandingofresearch,theroleofexperienceandreasoningwillbeconsideredbeforethatofresearch.
2.1Experience
Experienceisakindofdevelopmentofpersonalknowledgeoftheworld.Itisregardedasanindividuallyaccumulatedbodyofknowledge(CohenandManion1).Inaproblem-solvingsituation,peopletendtoresorttopersonalexperiencefirst.However,wheresolutionstoproblemsclearlyliebeyondthisbodyofpersonalexperience,itisoftenhelplesstoresorttopersonalexperience.
Inthecaseofforeignlanguagelearning,thelearner’snativelanguageofteninterfereswithorfacilitatesthelearningofthetargetlanguage.Thiscanbeconsideredasaclearindicationofthelearner’srelianceonthepersonalexperienceinhisorherfirstlanguage.Itisarguablethatthepersonalexperienceisbynomeansreliablealthoughitissometimeshelpfulbecauseitcannotguaranteesmoothprogressandsuccessinforeignlanguagelearning.
AsforEnglishlanguageteaching,ourexperienceofEnglishexaminationscanberesortedtowhenwehelpourstudentsprepareforthecollegeentranceexaminationofEnglish.However,itisdifficultforustoresorttoourpreviouspersonalexperiencewhenwearefacingtheproblemofhowtomotivatemiddleschoolstudentsincommunicativelanguageteachingasmanyofthemcanhardlyseeanychancetocommunicatedirectlywithnativespeakersofEnglish.
2.2Reasoning
Reasoningistheactofformingconclusions,judgementsorinferencesbythinkinginalogicalmanner.Therearetwobasictypesofreasoning:
oneisinductivereasoningandtheotherisdeductivereasoning.
Inductivereasoningbeginswithobservationsandevidenceofempiricalregularitiesorempiricalrelationships(Howard8).Thisisamentalprocessfromanumberofspecificcasestoageneralideaunderlyingthem.WhenalearnerofEnglishcomesacrossexpressionssuchas“threebooks”,“manyships”,“twominutes”,heorshemayformahypothesisthat“-s”isusedtoindicatetheideaof“twoormore”.Itisnotdifficulttoseethatinductivereasoninginforeignlanguagelearningoftenleadstohypothesisformation.
Deductivereasoningbeginswithbasicbeliefs,theories,assumptions,propositions,andsoon,thevalidityofwhichisassumedanduntested(Howard8).Thisisamentalactivityfromageneralideatospecificcases.Inforeignlanguagelearning,ifwelearnagrammaticalruleoraword-formationrulefirst,thenweapplyittomakeasentenceortocoinanewword.Forexample,accordingtotheEnglishword-formationrulethattheprefix“un-”andanadjectivemaycombinetoformanotheradjectivewithnegativeoroppositeforceinit:
“un-”and“happy”gotogethertoform“unhappy”withthemeaningof“nothappy”.
Thereisanobviouslimitationinreasoningasanactivity.AccordingtoCohenandManion,“it[reasoning]wasnolongerrelatedtoobservationandexperienceandbecamemerelyamentalexercise”(CohenandManion,1989:
67).Thatistosay,thecredibilityofreasoning,whetherinductiveordeductive,willbequestionableoncereasoningisnotconnectedtothereality.Nowconsiderthehypothesisthat“-s”usedwithacountablenounindicatestheideaof“twoormore”again.AsnotedbyQuirkandhisco-authors,“unlikesomelanguageswherepluralimplies‘twoormore’,Englishmakesthedivisionafter‘morethanone’:
onehalfday,onedayBut:
oneandahalfdays,twodays,oneortwodays”(297).Here,itisclearthatreasoningitselfcannotguaranteeitsself-correction.Similarly,theapplicationoftheword-formationruleinthepreviousparagraphcannotpreventlearnersfrommakingunacceptableadjectivessuchas“*unhonest”,“*unactive”.Whensucherrorsoccur,theyareconsideredascasesofovergeneralizationreflectingthelimitationofinductivereasoning.
Althoughreasoninghasitsweaknesses,itscontributionstothehumanknowledgeareenormous.AsCohenandManionstate,theroleofreasoningintheacquisitionofhumanknowledgeisthreefold:
1)thesuggestionofhypotheses;2)thelogicaldevelopmentofthesehypotheses;and3)theclarificationandinterpretationofscientificfindingsandtheirsynthesisintoaconceptualframework(4).Theimplicationoftheirremarkshintsthatreasoningnotonlydirectsbutalsoconstructsthedevelopmentofhumanknowledge,includingourknowledgeoflanguageandlanguagelearningandteaching.
2.3Research
Researchcanbedefinedfromdifferentperspectives.Fromtheviewofinformationprocessing,researchreferstotheprocessofobtainingandanalysinginformation(HitchcockandHughes5).Consideringitsdesignfeatures,research“hasbeendefinedbyKerlingerasthesystematic,controlled,empiricalandcriticalinvestigationofhypotheticalpropositionsaboutthepresumedrelationsamongnaturalphenomena(CohenandManion4).
CohenandManionelaboratethethreeadvantagesofresearchincomparisontoexperienceandreasoning:
First,researchissystematicandcontrolledbecauseitsoperationsarebasedonreasoningwhereasexperiencecannotbesystematicandself-correctingbecauseofitshaphazardmannerindealingwithaproblem.Second,researchisempiricalbecauseitresortstoexperienceforvalidationwhereasreasoningisnotempiricalbecauseofitssubjectivenature.Third,onlyresearchisself-corrective.Thisself-correctivefunctioningisguaranteedintwoways.Ontheonehand,thescientificmethodofresearchhasbuilt-inmechanismstoprotectresearchersfromerror.Ontheotherhand,theresearcher’sproceduresandresultsareopentopublicexaminationbyfellowprofessionals(CohenandManion4).(SeeTable1)
CohenandManion’selaborationrevealsthatresearchcombinesthestrengthsofbothexperienceandreasoningwhileavoidingtheirweaknesses.Therefore,researchcanberegardedasthemostpowerfulmeanstoacquirenewknowledge.ItisbeneficialforbothteachersandstudentstointegrateresearchintotheirstudyandteachingofEnglish.
Table1.AComparisonbetweenExperience,ReasoningandResearch
Experience
Reasoning
Research
Systematicandcontrolled
×
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Empirical
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×
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Self-correcting
×
×
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Whenwecombineexperie