有效追问,让学生在自我改错中提高英语水平 陈虹(新昌县实验中学,浙江新昌 312500)在英语课堂教学中,经常会发生学生语言表达错误的现象如学生1说:“Three basket of apples.”教师指出其错误:“Three basket of apples? Is he right?(用目光或手势示意全班学生回答)OK. Please correct it.”学生2回答:“Three baskets of apples.”教师肯定:“Yes.Good. Well done.(转向犯错的学生)OK,do you understand?”对学生所犯的语法错误,教师的纠正不可谓不及时,态度不可谓不耐心然而,马上打断其表达,直接指出存在的问题,字里行间流露出责怪之色甚至冷嘲热讽,学生的自信心势必受打击,学习积极性肯定受影响,久而久之他们可能就不敢表达或不愿表达了学生的错误确实要纠正,否则学生的英语水平就提高不了,关键是要采取合适的甚至巧妙的方法有位教育家曾说过:“教学的艺术全在于如何恰当地提出问题和巧妙地引导学生作答恰当运用各种追问艺术,引导学生自我认识、自我澄清,既保护其学习积极性,又能让他自然地认识到所犯的错误并自愿改正,提高英语水平。
一、复述性追问复述性追问就是当学生出现表达错误时,教师运用正确的句式重复学生所说的话,使学生意识到错误,使其纠正错误,巩固和强化语言知识如在教学《英语(新目标)》七年级下册Unit 8中的“would like”这一句型时,针对笔者“What kind of fruit would you like?”的提问,一学生回答:“I like apples and bananas.”于是笔者进行如下复述性追问T: Oh,I see. You would like apples and bananas.Right? And what kind of fruit would your father like?S: He would like oranges and grapes.T: Sounds good! Your father eats well.这位学生把“1 would like”说成了“I like”,笔者并没有直接指出其错误,而是通过变换人称用正确的表达重复学生的话:“You would like apples and bananas.”再用“Right?”进行追问,使学生在自我确认中得到暗示,认识到表达上的错误,在后面的回答中改正了错误。
二、加强性追问布鲁纳说过:“学生的错误都是有价值的错误让学生认识到自身的不足进而改正;错误让学生对某知识点加深印象,醒悟中获得真知教师应该善于挖掘和发现错误背后隐藏的教育价值,及时把握纠错时机,通过适当的途径与方式引领学生认识错误、分析错误、改正错误笔者深刻体会到,当学生出现错误时,运用加强性追问,对某些词或句子加重音量暗示强调其正确用法,可引起学生注意,在保护学生积极性的同时促进其学习如笔者在教学《英语(新目标)》七年级上册Unit 6中的“Do you like…”这一句型时,出现如下教学场景T: Do you like playing basketball?S1(a boy): Yes,I do.I like playing basketball.T: Do you like playing basketball?S2(a gir): Yes,I do.1 like playing basketball.(Point to SI)T: Does he like playing basketball?S3:Yes. he does. He like playing basketball.T:Uh,I know.He likes playing basketball.(加重likes的声音)How about you? Do you like playing basketball?S3: Yes.I do.I like playing basketball.(Point to S2)T: Does she like playing basketball?(加重Does的声音)S3: Yes, she does. She likes playing basketball,too.针对学生S3“He like playing basketball”中的错误表达,笔者在肯定他的同时,提高likes的音量引起他的注意;为巩固学生对动词第三人称单数的掌握,笔者在追问“Does she like playing basketball?”时又提高Does的音量。
学生S3的正确回答显然已经证实,他认识并改正了语法错误三、核对式追问核对式追问就是当发现学生表达出错时,运用适当提问给学生以信息暗示,引导学生对自己的表达进行自我核对,使其意识到所犯的错误,并通过短暂的自我澄清及时改正错误如笔者曾与学生有这样一个对话T: Nice to meet you again, boys and girls.S1: Nice to meet you, too, Miss Chen.T: How are you feeling now?S1:Exciting.T: Exciting? Exciting or excited?S1:Excited.T: Why? Why are you excited?S1: Because I can meet Miss Chen again.T: Really? That´s great! I´m excited, too.对话中学生一开始将excited用成了exciting笔者运用反问“Exciting?”引起学生注意,再用选择问句“Exciting or excited?”使学生在暗示中及时发现表达错误并予以改正。
核对式追问通常采用反问、选择问或运用“Pardon me?”“You mean…”“What do you mean by…?”“I don´t understand ex-actly. Can you say something more about it?”之类的话,引导学生自我认识与自我纠正四、示范加追问对于学生所犯的语法错误,教师不直接指出,而是示范性地给出正确的句式,借助追问引起学生注意并改正比如:T: What are you interested in?S:I am interesting in learning English.T: That’ good.I am interested in learning Eng-lish, too. What else are you interested in?S:I am interested in playing basketball.显然,一开始的“interesting”用错了笔者通过自己的回答让学生发现问题的存在,再通过进一步的扩展追问,让学生在回答更多问题中纠正错误,从而达到巩固的目的有效追问是提高学生英语水平的一条有效途径。
大量的课堂实践和教学经验表明,运用合适的追问在不伤害学生自尊心、不打击其自信心的情况下,能使他们自觉地知错、析错并改错不过,要更好地发挥追问的成效,英语教师还应合理把握纠错时机和恰当运用停顿过分纠错”和“过分宽容”都不可取,只要不影响师生间、生生间交流表达的,可以先不纠错,待学生完整表达思想之后再纠错追问后给学生留一定的时间思考,使学生在这短短的甚至只有几秒钟的时间内自我认识、自我分析、自我澄清,通过学生内心的思考获得的而不是外部强加获得的感悟、体会是印象最深的苏霍姆林斯基说:“教育的技巧并不在于能预见到课堂的所有细节,而在于能根据当时的具体情况,巧妙地在学生不知不觉中作出相应的变动教师不能掌控课堂中发生的每件事,但可以掌握各种有效追问的技术与方法,可以掌握学生的兴趣、个性、需求,将追问与学生作最合适的匹配 -全文完-。