ABSTRACT

What do we see when we observe an excellent English lesson? What’s going on in the room? Perhaps what stands out is a collaborative making of meanings inspired by stimulating texts. Perhaps what’s most important is an ever-deepening knowledge about, and facility with, the many ways that language works. Maybe what we’re seeing is a carefully sequenced preparation for future hurdles to be negotiated. Or a blend of all three. And perhaps, as this story suggests, there is more. Perhaps every English lesson is affected in all kinds of subtle and sometimes invisible ways by unconscious fears and desires and by half-remembered histories, the territory towards which a story – more easily than a piece of non-fiction – can gesture.

摘要

当我们观看一堂优秀的英语课时，我们会看到什么？房间里怎么了 也许最引人注目的是通过激发文本来协同创造意义。也许最重要的是对语言的许多工作方式不断加深的了解和掌握。也许我们看到的是为要谈判的未来障碍精心准备的准备工作。或这三者的融合。也许，正如这个故事所暗示的，还有更多。也许每门英语课都受到各种潜移默化的，有时甚至是看不见的方式的影响，这些潜意识是由潜意识的恐惧和欲望以及被半数记忆的历史所影响的。