【摘要】 本文从学生话题兴趣的角度对教材与学习者匹配情况进行调查研究,探讨中国非英语专业大学生的话题兴趣特点以及他们的英语学习感知倾向、性别及英语水平对于他们话题选择的影响。数据分析结果表明受到学习者青睐的大部分话题与其日常生活密切相关;而他们不感兴趣的话题则主要是那些比较严肃的话题。但是,如果考虑到学习者的英语学习感知倾向、性别及英语水平等因素,话题兴趣的范围则更宽泛。本研究可为中国的大学英语教材编写以及课堂英语教学的话题选择提供有益的探索与参考。更多还原

【Abstract】 In this paper, a research into the match between China’s college English textbooks and the English learners from the aspect of topic interests is carried out through a questionnaire covering learners’ sensory modalities and their topic interests so as to f ind out the interesting topics for China’s college non-English-major students, and how the factors like sensory modalities, gender and English level in? uence their topic choices. Topics from the three popular college English textbooks are collected as the topic interest questionnaire items while the Learning Channel Preference Checklist by Lynn O’Brian (1990) is adopted to group the students in terms of their different sensory modalities. Qualitative data analysis shows that the most popular topics for university students cover those that are closely related to their daily while the uninteresting topics for them are those serious ones they feel. However, when collegians’ sensory modalities, gender and English level are taken into consideration, the range of their topic interests is wider, which includes not only something related to their daily life but social life and technology as well. Although the research is far from perfection, at least it may offer some references for deciding topic choices in the process of compiling new college English textbooks and for English teachers to choose appropriate teaching materials for their language classroom.更多还原