【作者】 张桂玲；

【导师】 刘汝山；

【作者基本信息】 中国海洋大学 ， 英语， 2011， 硕士

【摘要】 “可持续发展”始于环境学和经济学。1992年巴西里约热内卢召开的“环境与发展大会”通过的《二十一世纪议程》中第一次明确提出“面向可持续发展重建教育”的导向，从而把这一理念引入教育领域。教育的“可持续发展”概念中，学生的可持续发展是核心环节。所谓非英语专业学生的口语可持续学习能力，是指学生在大学阶段摆脱单纯的知识传授方法，提高英语口语自我学习与自我完善的能力，在以后的求学或职业生涯中也能不断地发展和完善自我的能力。教育者在学生的学习过程当中发挥着重要的作用，应当帮助学生学会学习，而不仅仅是传授知识，正所谓“授之以鱼，不如授之以渔”。因此，有效的教学策略是至关重要的。本文的目的就是通过研究建构主义理论在英语教学中的应用，探讨该理论对学生可持续学习能力的培养能否起到预期的作用。在前人的研究基础上，作者运用建构主义理论下较为折衷的一个分支，即认知灵活性理论，来指导大学英语口语的教学。先提出教学设想，继而设计教学策略及过程，借助统计分析软件，通过对教学过程以及测试结果进行科学分析，得出这个理论的运用对于大学非英语专业的口语可持续学习能力方面具有良好的效果。本文总共有六章。第一章提出本文的研究价值。第二章回顾了当前国内英语口语的情形以及出现的问题分析，指出提高大学非英语专业学生的口语可持续学习能力的必要性。第三章主要介绍认知灵活性的原则以及在实际教学过程当中的应用。第四章是论文的实验部分。本章主要介绍假设的提出、受试对象、实验工具、实验程序、计分系统及数据统计工具等内容。第五章着重探讨实验结果及主要发现。本章通过数据统计工具对数据结果进行分析，检验到实验组与控制组存在着显著差异，从而证明教师运用教学策略能明显地提高学生知识迁移能力。第六章是论文的结论部分,简要总结了整篇论文和研究存在的不足，并就将来的研究提出了一些建议。更多还原

【Abstract】 People are all aware of the fact that language is the most importantcommunicative tool of mankind, and English is in particular the one for today’sinternational communication. The goal of English language teaching (ELT), as manyscholars have pointed out, is to help learners become efficient and competent users ofEnglish. With China’s increasing exposure to the global marketplace, the need forproficiency in spoken English is critical. The real function of English lies in beingused as a tool to talk to the world and exchange ideas.The present paper is an empirical research to testify the effectiveness ofcognitive flexibility theory (CFT) on the improvement of students’ sustainablelearning ability in speaking, the ability to transfer knowledge and skills to novelsituations.Based on CFT, the author of the present thesis attempts to give some tentativesuggestions on how language teachers try their best to help students developsustainable learning ability in speaking. Teachers and educators should focus less onthe transmission of content expertise and more on facilitating the process of learning,particularly the skill of “learning how to learn”.With a view to obtaining scientific statistics，an experimental research aiming totestify the effectiveness of the proposed teaching strategies is conducted followingspecific design and procedures. First, four hypotheses were made, and the experimentlasted for a semester. Then data were collected and results were assessed with the helpof the statistical instrument. Finally, the marked differences of the means between theExperimental Group and the Control Group in the final tests indicated that theteaching strategies mentioned had a significant effect on sustainable learning. The thesis consists of six chapters.Chapter One is a brief introduction about significance and the framework of thispaper.Chapter Two reviews the current situation of English speaking in China andexplains sustainable learning ability.Chapter Three introduces Cognitive Flexibility Theory and its application toteaching instruction.Chapter Four is the research design of the present study including the specifichypotheses, the subjects to be investigated, the test forms, the survey instrument aswell as the statistical instrument used.Chapter Five sums up the findings of the survey.Chapter Six is the conclusion of the thesis, including a brief summary, somesuggestions for teaching, the limitations, and suggestions for future research.更多还原