Sunday, June 17, 2007
拚英文？台灣托福、多益亞洲倒數！
拚英文 拚進多益後段…
【聯合報╱曾泰元／東吳大學英文系副教授（台北市) 2007/06/17】
日前美國語言測驗社發布亞洲各國在商用英語多益成績表現，台灣的成績遠不如理想，屬後段班；在一般英文的托福測驗方面，台灣歷年來排名更是令人汗顏。難道這就是全國上下許多人努力拚英文的成果？
七月一日起即將舉行大學指考，本人擔任英文考科非選擇題閱卷委員多年，發現考生每年的問題都大同小異：空白卷的比例偏高，所犯的錯誤既基本又嚴重。成績公布後我們總會發現，低分群人數眾多，明顯偏離了常態分布的鐘形曲線。
多益、托福會有這樣的表現，一葉知秋。
當然我們可以不要拚英文，不懂英文對某些人生活也不會造成不便或就業上的困擾。但若要取得更專業的知識，勢必要讓英文達一定水準。我們所能做的，就是想辦法投其所好，誘發他們興趣。學生有了興趣，就會有學習動機，再適時引導，把評量目標設低一點，讓學生易於達成，在良性循環下，英文能力必能提升。這個建議雖然充滿了理想性，但是值得我們認真思考。
至於指考英文，我務實地建議考生少錯為贏，簡單就好。翻譯和作文用有把握的單詞，寫簡單的句型。單詞拼對了，句子寫對了，篇章段落就不致離譜。在錙銖必較的指考分數裡，這個穩健的策略，可能就會讓考生多了幾分！
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老師好
老師好 端午節有沒有和家人們吃吃粽子呢
難得四天的假
很幸運也很感恩
祝福老師有美好的假期！
端午佳節快樂唷
Actually, I am not surprised at all. Lately, I found that students in Taiwan are highly motivated to learn English by tests. They study for higher grades. They are not well-informed of the aim of learning a 'foreign' language, and they are not well aware of language attrition, either. I believe the mojority of Taiwan students studies or learns English as a subject, not as a language. When they are not prompted by any force, they don't learn at all. I once visited a university in mainland China, and I found that they are required to take English class all the way through their undergraduate life. This is a good way to maintain students' interest in learning a language or to turn learning a 'foreign' language into a 'passively formed' habit, regardledd of the teaching methodolgy adopted there. I think this may be the reason why they can take the lead in TOFEL or TOEIC. I am not sure if the teachers there do a good job or if they teach English really effectively. Still, this passively formed habit drives students to study or use English often so that they all become 'hypnotized' into using English or keeping learning English. Maybe students in Taiwan are way too 'aware' or 'alert' that it is hard to get them 'hypnotized' into learning English spontaneously. So, first thing first, teachers may need to try all their best to make their students 'hypnotized'.
我今天到菜市場買菜，路過一家社區小書店，看到了天下雜誌才剛出版的專刊「教出英語力」，立即買了下來，回家花了一些時間讀完，大力推薦給諸位格友。
天下雜誌這塊台灣雜誌業界的金字招牌，竟然以整本厚達 250 頁的雜誌來探討英語教學、英語學習、以及更廣泛的「英語力」，實在是令人欽佩。我這篇讀者投書（包含了之前其他相關的文章）有很多想法都在這本專刊裡得到了共鳴。時間點、觀點都如此接近，真巧！
去買一本珍藏吧！這裡面的觀點可以影響你幾十年喔！
Mr. Eubin,
Tell me why you had to talk in English? The problem in English education is actually that some people like to talk in English while it is totally unecessary!
祝大家:
端午佳節愉快!!
^_^
不懂 為什麼一定要強調學好英文! 追求更專業的知識確實需要英文沒錯 但是 又不是所有的人都要追求更專業的知識 不懂為什麼 英文要是國民教育的一部分 不懂 大家到底知不知道位啥要學英文? 托福多益考差又如何? 日本人托福考的比臺灣人差 有啥差別 人家國家還是比我們強盛 民主又如何 獨裁的新加坡 繁榮富庶 英文要好已經像"民主"一樣 變成 大家都在喊卻根本不知道意義在哪裡的口號...
「語國一方」開放匿名留言，但請留言者本諸善念，說話不要太衝。格主是個溫和的人，請大家幫忙維持這樣一個理性平和的園地！
Reply to Eubin
If you know there is a school called New Oriental School you will not surprised at toefl grade in Mainland. :-)
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