全英文教学在少儿英语词汇学习中的利弊研究_英语论文

The Effects of Teaching in English on Children’s Vocabulary Acquisition

摘要

随着全球化的不断发展和英语的大范围普及，英语教育已经渗入少儿阶段，在这一阶段的教学中，词汇教学成为了重点。在众多教学法中，全英文教学法能够为学生创造一个良好的听力环境，培养学生运用新词汇的能力。纯正的英文教学能提高学生的口语和听力水平，使得词汇学习事半功倍。然而全英文教学也存在弊端，由于词汇量限制，学生不能够完整地理解知识点，不利于学生的英语能力提高。本文首先介绍了相关研究背景以及文献综述。其次，本文对此次研究所做实验进行了详细阐述。在实验中，45名词汇量相同的11岁儿童被分为三组，分别接受了全英文、全中文和中英文环境下的英语词汇教学，一个月后对所学内容进行词汇测试，测试包括五部分：听力、连线、拼写、填空、阅读理解。本文根据三组学生测试的分数进行分析，研究结果显示,不同的教学语言影响着学生的课堂反应和测试结果。中英文教学相比其他教学语言，更能够在课堂内容的呈现和课堂纪律的维持方面起到积极作用。从测试结果看来，中英文教学环境下的学生的词汇学习能力最强，而全英文教学对于少儿英语词汇学习弊大于利，不适合运用于目前中国少儿阶段的英语课堂。

关键词：全英文教学   少儿英语   词汇学习

Abstract

With the rapid development of globalization of English, English education has already involved children’s English learning. Among various kinds of teaching methods, teaching vocabulary in English aims at cultivating children’s ability of using new vocabularies through creating a pure English listening environment. However, disadvantages exist when children cannot completely understand the new knowledge due to limited vocabulary. Firstly, this paper introduced the background and the literature review of the topic. Secondly, this paper illustrated the whole process of the experiment. In the experiment, 45 11-year-old children with the same amount of vocabulary were divided into three groups to be taught the same content separately under different teaching environment. After a month they had a test on their former learning content which consists of five parts: listening, matching, spelling, writing and reading comprehension. The results of the study confirmed that different teaching languages affected both classroom reaction and test scores. Teaching in Chinese and English had positive effects on the presentation of the teaching content and the controlling of classroom discipline. In the aspect of test scores, students taught in Chinese and English did the best. Therefore, teaching in English is not as efficient as teaching in both Chinese and English in real classes.

Keywords：Teaching in English   Children’s English   Vocabulary Acquisition