A Pragmatics—Based Study on the Features of Middle School English Teacher Talk.doc

PAGE  基于语用学视角的中学英语教师课堂话语研究 A Pragmatics—Based Study on the Features of Middle School English Teacher Talk Abstract: These years, it has been an inclination that linguists and scholars have shown interests in studying Teacher Talk. In China the researches on it are mostly carried out in the college but seldom in the middle school. This research studies 10 middle school English teachers, who are of different age, gender, and years of teaching. The thesis aims to draw the English teacher’s attention to EFL classroom interactional processes and to focus on the role Teacher Talk plays in promoting learners’ EFL development. It will consider the teachers’ language from the two following Pragmatics Perspectives: Speech act theory and Relevance theory. Based on the pragmatics perspectives, the thesis explores into three questions. Through the analysis of the ten teachers’ talk in class, it’s found clearly that 1) Teacher Talk plays an important role in organizing and maintaining the classroom teaching and learning activities. 2) the distribution of subjects and categories of Teacher Talk is different, which means that the teachers hold different attitudes towards each category. 3)In order to increase learners’ motivation and enhance the efficiency of language learning in the EFL classroom, it is advisable for the teachers to pay great attention to their teaching language in class. Key words: pragmatics；middle school English teachers；teacher talk；TEFL class； 摘　要：教师话语是近几年来语言学家和教育学家研究外语教学的一个重要方面。国内此方面的研究主要集中在大学课堂,而关于中学教师课堂话语的调查与研究很少。本研究是由十名不同年龄,性别及教龄的中学英语教师组成，目的是为了使中学教师认识到课堂话语在组织外语教学和提升学生外语学习过程中扮演着重要的角色。本文基于语用学视角的言语行为理论和相关理论对教师课堂话语进行分析,主要探究并解决三个问题。通过对教师话语类型的数据对比,研究发现1)教师话语在组织和维持课堂教学活动中扮演着重要的角色。 2)各类教师话语的功能不同和教师们课堂话语使用的分布不同。 3)教师应注意课堂语言的组织与运用, 从而调动学生学习的兴趣以及实现课堂语言教学的有效进行。 关键词：语用学；中学英语教师；教师话语；英语课堂教学； Contents Introduction……………………………………..……….…….….…1 A. Research background…………………… ………………………..…1 B. Research purpose………………………………………………………….…1 C. Research significance……………………………………