基于语言景观的批判性思维能力培养

The Cultivation of Critical Thinking Skills Based on Linguistic Landscape

摘要: 在当前教育语境下，教育者越来越意识到有必要将传统语言课堂转型为兼具分析功能与思想解放的空间。这一转型的核心在于培养学习者的批判性思维能力，并激发他们在学习过程中的主动性，进而形成批判性语言意识。本研究组织20名英语专业本科生参与课外实践活动，收集某市景区范围内的语言景观文本，并引导学习者参与语言景观的分析。通过对学习者互动过程的视频记录以及活动中产生的文本数据进行细致分析，研究发现语言景观教学法有助从不同维度培养学习者的批判性思维能力，但评价和创造这两个高阶思维类别所涉较少。

Abstract: In the current educational context, educators are increasingly aware of the necessity to transform the traditional language classroom into a space that is both analytical and liberating. The core of this transformation lies in developing learners’ critical thinking skills and stimulating their initiative in the learning process, which in turn leads to the formation of critical language awareness. 20 undergraduate English majors were recruited to participate in an extra-curricular activity, in which they were asked to collect linguistic landscape texts within the boundaries of a city’s scenic area, and were guided to participate in analysing the linguistic landscape texts. By carefully analyzing the video recordings of learners’ interactions as well as the textual data generated during the activities, the study shows that the linguistic landscape pedagogy helps to develop learners’ critical thinking skills in different dimensions, but the higher-order thinking categories of evaluation and creation were rarely involved.