《埃德温历险记》可以让中国孩子更好的掌握语法与词性:
戈登·艾伦:I wasyounger, I was an elementary teacher and I was teaching grade six.And much likethe English teacher in china,The expectation was I have to teach grammar,Andwhat I was finding was that the students first of all didn’t enjoy learninggrammar,And secondly, when they learned it, they learned it almost likemathematics, they memorized it, but their writing and speaking didn’timprove.So, my idea was okay, how can I make them relevant for them?So, theidea was that well they enjoy fantasy, they like reading fantasy books, theylike Harry Potter-style books What if I wrote a fantasy book, in which thecharacters were the parts of speech, those grammatical parts of speech?And soas you suggests, you know, you got peter’s preference, you got beaches arebeautiful, Thomas the, I got buffalo music. And so you got a noun, you gotadjectives, you got verbs, peter preference.And so this helps to bring the bookalive, and it also helps to, um, helps the students to understand the basicparts of speech.
译文:我年轻的时候,是一名小学教师,教六年级。与中国许多英语教师一样,人们希望我教语法,
但我发现,首先,学生们都不喜欢学语法。其次,他们学语法的时候,差不多跟学数学一样,
他们记语法,但是写作和口语并没有提升。所以,我的想法是,怎样才能使语法与他们相关?
我想,好吧,既然他们喜欢奇幻,喜欢读奇幻小说,喜欢哈利波特式的小说。如果我写一本奇幻小说,书中的人物是词性,这些语法词性,会怎样?所以,正如你提到的,书中人物的名字都是一些名词,形容词,动词等等。所以,这使这本书变得有趣,同时也帮助学生更好的理解基本词性。