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1、Language?Context?and?the?English?Teaching作者:江蘇省如東縣兵房中學(xué)…????文章來源:人教網(wǎng)????點擊數(shù):591????更新時間:9/8/2005proach.Thatis,thestudentsarerequiredtotransferwhattheylearnedinthetextbooktoreal-lifesituationasfaraspossible.Andinthepresent-daytextbookofMiddleSchool,thecoursesareorganizedinauthenticeverydaysituat
2、ionsinwhichstudentscaneasilyidentify.SointheprocessofEnglishteaching,itisveryimportantfortheteacherstosetthelanguagecontextscorrectlyandflexibly.Ⅰ.ThemeaningsofthelanguagecontextGenerallyspeaking,thelanguagecontextcanbedividedintotwomajortypes:situationalcontextandsocioculturalcontext.Riverssu
3、ggeststhatitemsoflanguageintotalisolationhavenofunction;theyneedasystemandasettingtogivethembothfunctionandmeaning.Childrenoftenaskforthemeaningofawordinisolation,withoutseeingtheneedtoprovideanythingforit;tooquickandtoocasualareplycanoftenhaveunexpectedconsequences.eg.Whenthechildaskswhatcric
4、ketisandyousayitisagame,andthendiscoverthatitwasa“cricket”inthecontextofinsects.Evenifweknowthestrictlinguistics,westillneedtocheckfurtherintothesituationandevenintothesocietyandculturetobesureofwhatitemofthelanguageisappropriateoracceptable.Inanarrowsense,thelanguagecontextmeansthesituational
5、context.InHalliday’sopinion,thesituationalcontextsincludethesetting,thewayoftalking,andparticipants.ButHymesdividesitintoeightelements:setting,role,function,notion,style,stressandintonation,grammar,vocabularyandlanguageaids.Thosefactorsaffecteachotheranddecidewhichlanguageformisappropriate.The
6、situationalcontextandsocioculturalcontextcan’tbeisolatedfromeachother.Incertainsocioculturalcontext,peoplemustobeytheparticularcommunicativeruleswhentheyuseacertainlanguage.Andinacertainsituationalcontext,peopleshouldnotonlypayattentiontothesocialcommunicationrulesbutalsoadjustthemselvesaccord
7、ingtothefactorsofthesituationalcontext.Thatis,thesituationalcontextandsocioculturalcontextaffecteachotherandarecomplementarytoeachother.Ⅱ.Thelanguagecontextandthecommunicativecompetence“Competence”isacentralissueinlinguistics,whetherint