文學與英語教學：台灣高中英文教師之認知與作法

Literature and English Teaching: Perceptions and Practices of Senior High School English Teachers in Taiwan

邱慶安(Ching-an Chiou Clement)

指導教授 ： 周中天教授

國立臺灣師範大學/文學院/英語學系/碩士(2002年)

摘要

這項研究旨在調查高中英文教師對文學與英語教學之看法與教學情形。首先，回顧文學在英文為外國語言教學的地位，進而從詩歌、小說、戲劇在教科書中的應用，當今流行的文學教學法、策略與活動等觀點，檢視文學教學在台灣的現況。研究者設計一份問卷，其中涵蓋了文學和英語教學相關的議題，由研究者任教於台北市、台北縣、宜蘭縣、桃園縣及台中縣不同學校的同學親自發給250位高中英文教師。然後以郵寄的方式回收共150份問卷。研究結果發現，大部分的高中英文教師認為在英語教學中，文學是令人感到愉快的、重要的、也是不可或缺的。然而，關於文學的教學內容及教學方法仍有待改進之處。尤其是，教科書裡文學背景知識不足、戲劇內容缺乏、文學相關教學技巧與策略找尋不易。基於這些研究發現，研究者對教師、師資培育機構與當局者、教科書編輯者及出版社提出一些建議，以期望高中的文學教學能達到一個更生動、更成功的境界。

關鍵字

文學教學 ； 高中英文教學 ； 詩歌教學 ； 小說教學 ； 戲劇教學

並列摘要

This study aims at investigating how senior high school English teachers perceive and teach literature in their teaching of English. First, we review the place of literature in EFL literature instruction in Taiwan. Then, we examine literature instruction in terms of the integration of poetry, fiction, and drama into textbooks, current teaching approaches, strategies and activities. A questionnaire containing various issues about literature instruction and English teaching was devised by this researcher and distributed to 250 senior high school English teachers in Taipei City, Taipei County, Ilan County, Taoyuan County, and Taichung County by this researcher’s classmates and schoolmates. The returned questionnaires numbered 150 via mail. The results revealed that literature was generally considered enjoyable, significant and essential. However, inadequacy was revealed concerning the literary components and the methods in which teachers conducted their literature instruction, especially the inadequacy of the literary background information in the textbooks, deficiency of drama instruction, difficulty in obtaining skills and strategies for literature instruction. Based on these findings, we make some suggestions to English teachers, institutions of teacher education, senior high school authorities, textbook writers and publishers in the hope of achieving a more lively and successful level of literature instruction in senior high schools.

並列關鍵字

literature instruction ； senior high school English teaching ； poetry instruction ； fiction instruction ； drama instruction

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