Quality of Speaking Activities in English Conversation Textbooks Employed in Taiwanese Universities for Applied English Language Department Students

分析部分挑選的教科書應用在台灣部分大學中應用英語系之英語會話課中口說活動之質化

劉文榮(Wen-Jung Liu)

《臺中教育大學學報：人文藝術類》 30卷2期 (2016/12) Pp. 87-109

摘要

This study evaluates the speaking activities included in six selected textbooks employed in Taiwanese universities for students in Applied English Language Departments. The data for this study comes from evaluations of six randomly selected textbooks and include an in-depth checklist used to check the quality of the speaking activities from six selected units in the selected textbooks. Results of the checklists demonstrate a close relationship between the speaking activities in the textbooks and what the literature identifies as the principles of speaking tasks. Comparing the selected textbooks employed in Taiwanese universities for Freshman English courses, checklist results demonstrate a mismatch between the speaking activities in the textbooks and what the literature identifies as the principles of speaking tasks. The results also indicate limitations in the quality of the selected textbooks. The study suggests that good speaking skills activities should be enhanced through improved selection of textbooks. Furthermore, shortcomings of the currently used textbooks are probably one of the main reasons English major students' English speaking ability is much better than students not majoring in English. Overall, the study provides some suggestions for teaching speaking and selecting textbooks.

關鍵字

TOEFL- Test of English as a Foreign Language ； TOEIC-Test of English for International Communication ； In-Depth Checklists, Which Include Questions for Evaluating Whether the Speaking ； Skills are Practiced Through the Activities

並列摘要

本研究分析部分英語會話教課書運用在台灣的大學之應用英語系學生說的活動，教課書的缺點可能是造成台灣學生英語說的能力無法提升的原因之一，因此本研究主要目的是檢核這一些揀選的教課書是否提供足夠的機會去練習好的說話技巧。本研究資料來自分析五本揀選的教課書且包含一個深度檢核表，這個深度檢核表用來檢核從這些揀選的教課書中挑選五個單元分析其中說的活動之質化，結果顯示這些活動幾乎符合學理部分的闡述，相反地，在分析揀選大一英文的結果顯示大部分說的活動都不符合學理的闡述，這結果也指出大一英文的課本之缺點（劉文榮，2012）。本研究建議當在教英語口說時應加強好地說的技巧，而這也可能是造成應英系同學英語口說能力比外系同學的口說能力強很多的原因之一。綜觀此研究提供一些教口說和選書的建議，同時也給編書者依些想法和意見當他們在寫大一英文教課書時，他們可以從應英系課本中撿選一些說的活動，因此這一些教課書應該包括更多合宜的說的活動為了增進大一新生們英語口說之能力。

並列關鍵字

托福 ； 英語外語能力測驗 ； 多益 ； 英語國際溝通測驗 ； 深度檢核表 ； 用一些問題來檢核說話技巧是否透過這些活動達到練習

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