语篇语言知识与阅读技能教学

文本中所有信息都是通过语言形式传递的，阅读理解技巧也是通过一定的语言体系来体现的。本文拟就中、高级英语阅读中易于忽视甚至近乎不予涉及的这一语言体系作一探讨，重点关注的是语篇语言知识=文章详细论述了句与句之间存在着的各种篇章结构方面的语言联系，包括词义联系、句法联系和逻辑联系等文章提示，教师应向学生系统地、目的明确地讲授上述语言特征，这与在阅读教学的初级阶段学生系统地学习单句语法知识道理是一样的

Linguistic knowledge of discourse and the teaching of information gathering skills

All information in a text is signaled linguistically. The successful demonstration of the comprehension skill must therefore depend upon a correct interpretation of the linguistic signals in the text. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that there are areas of linguistic knowledge which we have tended to neglect or even omit from our teaching in the intermediate and advanced reading comprehension class. Stress has been laid here on the linguistic knowledge of what makes a text a text instead of what makes a sentence a sentence. In the paper we have discussed in great detail the linguistic relationships of various kinds set up between sentences which contribute to the overall cohesion of a text,including lexical relationships of inclusion or hyponymy and equivalence or synonymy,syntactic relationships of anaphoric references as well as of comparison,nominal and verbal substitution and summary words,and logical relationships marked by the use of logical connectors. The implication which can be drawn is that the above-mentioned language features must be taught to the students at the intermediate and advanced stage in a systematic and purposeful way,just as sentence grammar was taught systematically in the elementary stage.