解決當今英文閱讀教學問題

Dealing with Current English Reading Teaching

In Taiwan, the importance of a person's reading competence has pedagogically captured islandwide attention over the last decade. Reading competence is also globally regarded as one of the interdisciplinary requirements in our high-tech society. However, the traditional approaches, teacher-oriented and/or text-oriented approaches have long been questioned. In the Western world, many researchers and instructors pointed out that Louise Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory which encouraged the transaction between the reader and the text, offered effective ways in helping students to become active readers. Here in Taiwan, Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory is relatively novel to many EFL teachers and researchers, not to mention its application to classroom instruction. This emerging insight has inevitably led to the advent of changing the ways of English reading teaching in this era.個人英文閱讀能力的重要性，過去數十年來，已經在台灣引起全國教育界的矚目。於此一高科技的社會，全球相關人士也一致公認英文閱讀能力是跨領域的必備能力。然而，傳統教學法－以教師和／或文本為中心的教學法，長久以來一直備受質疑。西方的許多研究學者與教學者相繼指出，美國路意斯·羅森布萊特的「相互作用理論」－一種鼓勵讀者與文本之間相互作用的理論，提供了教師協助學生成為主動讀者的有效方法。然而，相形之下，她的理論對台灣許多外語教師和研究學者而言，則顯得比較新穎，認識極其有限，遑論將其理論普遍應用於課堂教學中。雖然如此，羅森布萊特的「相互作用理論」，確已日漸影響當今海內外的英語閱讀教學。