王蔷主编的《英语教学法教程》第二版-unit1

Unit 1 Language and Language LearningAims of the unitIn this unit we will discuss some general matters about language learning and teaching. We are going to discuss five questions on particular:1.How do we learn language?2.What are the common views on language?3.What are the common views on language learning?4.What are the qualities of a good language teacher?5.How can one become a good language teacher?1.1How do we learn languages?Mach of human behavior is influenced by their experiences. The way language teachers teach in the classroom is to some extent influenced by the way they learned languages. This is especially true in foreign language teaching. Before we discuss language learning theories, let us first reflect on our own language learning experience.Task 1Below is a list of interview questions on how people learn a foreign language. In the first column, write down your own responses. Then interview three other students in your class and enter their responses in the other columns. Discuss your findings in group of 4 and draw someFrom the above task, you may have found that 1) people started learning a foreign language at different ages; 2) people have different experiences in learning a foreign language, some find it easy, some find it difficult;3) people learn languages for different reasons; 4) people learn languages in different ways; 5) people have different understandings about language learning; 6) people have different capacities in language learning; 7) learning can be affected by the way it is taught; 8) learning is affected by the degree of success one is expected to achieve; and more. Thus the challenge confronting language teaching is how teaching methodology can ensure successful learning by all the learners who have more differences than the commonality.1.2views on languageThe question that all approaches to language teaching should answer is, ‘what is language?’ The answer to this question is the basis for syllabus designs, teaching methodology, teaching and assessment procedures in the classroom. Different views on language generate different teaching methodologies.Task 2Work in group of 4. Brainstorm possible answer to the question: what isTo give a concise definition of language has always been difficult for linguists and philogists. Although there has been an enormous amount of research in language in the past century, no authoritative answer has been given to ‘what is language?’ rather, people have settle down to talk about views of language, seemingly allowing for or accepting different theories for the moment. However, language teachers clearly need to know generally what sort of entity they are dealing with and how the particular language they are teaching fits into that entity (Brown, 1994a). for sample definition of ‘language’ , please refer to Appendix 1.Structural viewThe structural view of language sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems (Larsen-Freeman & Long, 1991): the sound system (phonology); the discrete units of meaning produced by sound combinations (morphology), and the system of combining units of meaning for communication (syntax). Each language has a finite number of such structural items. To learn a language means to learn these structuralitems so as to be able to understand and produce language. When this structural view of language was combined with the stimulus-response principles of behaviorist psychology, the audio-lingual approach to language learning emerged.Functional viewIn the 1960s, British linguists developed a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learner (Johnson and Marrow, 1981) and proposed a syllabus based on communicative functions. The functional view not only sees languages as a linguistic system but also a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc. therefore, learners learn a language in order to be able to do with it. In order to perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions. Examples of notions are the concept of present, past and future time, the expressions of certainty and possibility, the roles of agents, instruments with a sentence, and special relationships between people and objects.Interactional viewThe interactional view considers language to be a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people. Therefore, learners not only need to know the grammar and vocabulary of the language but as importantly they need to know the rules for using them in a whole range of communicative contexts.These three views present an ever wider view of language. The structural view limits knowing a language to knowing its structural rules and vocabulary. The communicative or notional-functional view adds the need to know how to use the rules and vocabulary to do whatever it is one wants to do. The interactional view says that to know how to do what you want to do involves also knowing whether it is appropriate to do, and where, when and how it is appropriate to do it. In order to know this, you have to study the patterns and rules of language above the sentence level to learn how language is used in different speech contexts.The understanding of the nature of language may provide the basis for a particular teaching method (Richard and Rodgers, 1986), but more importantly, it is closely related to the understanding of language learning. If language is considered to have a finite number of structural items, learning the language probably means learning these items. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantlya tool then to learn the language learning. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantly a tool, then to learn the language means to use it, rather than just study what it is and how it is formed. The next section discusses some current theories about language learning.1.3 Views on Language learning and learning in generalA language learning theory underlying an approach or method usually answers two questions; 1) What are the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes involved in language learning? 2) What are the conditions that need to be met in order for these learning processes to be activated?Task3Work in groups of 4. Brainstorm the answers to the two questions stated above.Although these two questions have never been satisfactorily answered, a vast amount of research has been done from all aspects. The research can be broadly divided into process-oriented theories and condition-oriented theories. Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mind organizes new information such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization. Condition-oriented theories emphasize the nature of the human and physical context in which language learning takes place, such as the number of students, the kind of input learners receive, and the atmosphere. Some researchers attempt to formulate teaching approaches directly from these theories. For example, the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, and the Silent Way are based on one or more dimensions of processes and conditions. At this level, it is too early to formulate a specific approach, because some aspects are still too vague, for example, what is done in these processes.Behaviorist theoryThe behaviorist theory of language learning was initiated by behavioural psychologist Skinner, who applied Watson and Raynor’s theory of conditioning to the way human acquire language (Harmer, 1983). Based on their experiments, Watson and Raynor formulated a stimulus-response theory of psychology. In this theory all complex forms of behavior—motions, habits and such—are seen as composed of simple muscular and glandular elements that can be observed and measured. They claimed thatemotional reactions are learned in much the same way as other skills. The key point of the theory of conditioning is that ‘you can train an animal to do anything (within reason) if you follow a certain procedure which has three major stages, stimulus, response, and reinforcement’ (Harmer, 1983:30).Based on the theory of conditioning, Skinner suggested that language is also a form of behavior. It can be learned the same way as an animal is trained to respond to stimuli. This theory of learning is referred to as behaviorism, which was adopted for some time by the language teaching profession, particularly in the U.S. One influential result is the audio-lingual method, which involves endless’listen and repeat’drilling activities. The idea of this method is that language is learned by constant repetition and the reinforcement of the teacher. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised. This method is still used in many parts of the world today.Cognitive theoryThe term cognitivism is often used loosely to describe methods in which students are asked to think rather than simply repeat. It seems to be largely the result of Noam Chomsky’s reaction to Skinner’s behaviorist theory, which led to the revival of structural linguistics. The key point of Chomsky’s theory is reflected in his most famous question: if all language is a learned behavior, how can a child produce a sentence that never been said by others before?According to Chomsky, language is not a form of behavior, it is an intricate rule-based system and a large part of language acquisition is the learning of this system. There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with a knowledge of these an infinite number of sentences can be produced. A language learner acquires language competence which enables him to produce language.Though Chomsky’s theory is not directly applied in language teaching, it has had a great impact on the profession. One influential idea is that students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules. This idea is clearly in opposition to the audio-lingual method.Although people are pretty much still in the dark as to what language is and how language is learned, it is believed that general knowledge about language and language learning will help language teachers do a better job.Constructivist theoryThe constructivist theory believes that learning is a process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his/her own experiences and what he/she already knows. Although constructivist theory was not developed for the understanding of language learning, it is widely applicable to learning in general. It is believed that education is used to develop the mind, not just to rote recall what is learned. John Dewey provided a foundation for constructivism. He believed that teaching should be built based on what learners already knew and engage learners in learning activities. Teachers need to design environments and interact with learners to foster inventive, creative, critical learners. Therefore, teachers must balance an understanding of the habits, characteristics as well as personalities of individual learners with an understanding of the means of arousing learner’s interests and curiosity for learning (Archambault, 1964).Socio-constructivist theorySimilar to constructivist theory, socio-constructivist theory represented by Vygotsky (1978) emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context based on the concept of ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD) and scaffolding. In other words, learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner and between learners. With the teacher’s scaffolding through questions and explanations, or with a more capable peer’s support, the learner can move to a higher level of understanding and extend his/her skills and knowledge and knowledge to the fullest potential.1.4 What makes a good language teacher?Some people with an excellent command of a foreign language may not be able to teach the language well while others with a general command of the language can teach it very effectively. What do you think might account for this phenomenon?Task 4Work in groups. Reflect on your own learning experience from early school years to the university. Have you had an excellent English teacher? Try to identify as many qualities as possible of your best English teacher(s). Note down all the qualities that you think are important for a good EnglishIt is clear that whether someone can become a good foreign language teacher does not solely depend on his\her command of the language. There are a variety of elements that contributes to the qualities of a good language teacher. These elements can be categorized into three groups: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles (Parrot, 1993).Task 5Ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles jointly contribute to the making of a good English teacher. All the adjectives in the box below could be used to characterize these three aspects.1. Work in groups of 4 and decide which adjectives describe ethic devotion,which describe personal styles and which describe professional qualities. Please write your answers on a separate piece of paper.2. Add any adjectives to the list which describe further qualities thatyou feel are missing.3.These adjectives are intended to describe positive qualities or styles.Do you feel that any of them could have a negative side as well? If yes, in what way? For example, an authoritative teacher may make the students feel assured, but may also make the student less free to disagree with him\her.1993)From the above activities we can see that a good English teacher should have ethic devotion, certain desirable personal styles, and more importantly, he or she should have necessary professional qualities. These three aspects constitute the professional competence of a good English teacher. A person who has a good command of English is not necessarily a good teacher because he has only one of the elements of professional competence.It is assumed that all responsible English teachers have ethic devotion, and they are supposed to make their personal styles compatible with their work. These two aspects, which are beyond the scope of this book,can be achieved as long as the teacher himself\herself has the willingness to do so.A question that many teachers often ask is: I like my job, and I love the students, but how can I become a good English teacher? Our answer is that they need professional competence, which we are going to discuss in the next section.1.5How can one become a good language teacher?The most important and most difficult part of the making of a good language teacher is the development of professional competence, which is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of skills, strategies, knowledge, and ability.Task 6Work in pairs and discuss how one can become a professionally competent teacher of English. For example, we have to develop our English proficiency first and also we may need to learn from experienced teachers through observations. What else can you think of? Make a list and then pool all your ideas together to find out about your common beliefs.A language teacher’s professional competence is much more difficult than a driver’s skill to handle a car, and is more complicated than a student’s competence of speaking foreign language. It involves more factors and longer learning time, and may never be finished.Some people think teaching is a craft; that is, a novice teacher can learn the profession by imitating the experts’techniques, just like an apprentice. Others hold the view that teaching is an applied science, based on scientific knowledge and experimentation. By making a compromise between these two views, Wallace (1991) uses a “reflective model” to demonstrate the development of professional competence. The following model is an adapted version to illustrate the process of becoming a professionally competent teacher.(Adapted from Wallace, 1991:15)From the above model, we can see the development of professional competence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2 and Goal. The first stage is language development. All English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. As language is the subject matter for language teachers and also because language is always changing, language development can never come to an end.The second stage is the most crucial stage and it is more complicated because it involves three sub-stages: learning, practice, and reflection. The learning stage is actually the purposeful preparation that a language teacher normally receives before he\she starts the practice of teaching. This preparation can include:1. learning from others’experiences (empirical knowledge gainedthrough reading and observations)2. learning the received knowledge (language learning theories,educational psychology, language teaching methodology, etc.)3.learning from one’s own experiences as a learnerBoth experiential knowledge (others’and one’s own) and received knowledge are useful when a teacher goes to practice. This is the combination of ‘craft’ and ‘applied science’ knowledge. The learning stage is followed by practice. The term ‘practice’ can be used in two senses. In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned to do teachingpractice as part of one’s pre-service education, usually under the supervision of instructors. This practice is also called pseudo practice. The other sense of ‘practice’ is the real classroom teaching that a teacher undertakes after he/she finishes formal education.Teachers benefit from practice if they keep on reflecting on what they have been doing (Stanely, 1999). It should be noted that teachers reflect on their work not only after they finish a certain period of practice, but also while they are doing the practice.When the would-be teachers(trainees) are doing pseudo practice, they are often trying out ideas that they have learned in a methodology class. Therefore, they are likely to reflect on how well a certain idea or technique works and often their instructors may require them to do so. The pseudo practice is beneficial only if the student teachers take reflections seriously. The most difficult thing is to keep on reflecting on one’s work when one moves on to real classroom teaching.Ideally, a teacher should be able to attain his/her professional competence after some period of practice and reflection as shown in Figure 1.1. However, professional competence as an ultimate goal does not seem to have an end. With the ever-deepening of our understanding of teaching and learning, and with the ever changing needs of the society, of education, of students, and of the teaching requirements, one must keep on learning, practicing and reflecting. Actually professional competence is’ a moving target or horizon, towards which professionals travel all their professional life but which is never finally attained ‘. (Wallace, 1991:58)Task 7Work in groups. Discuss possible answers to the following questions in relation to the model presented in Figure 1.1.1.6 An overview of the bookThis second edition of A Course in English Language Teaching has allowed us the opportunity to expand the original 14 units into 18 in order toinclude topics reflecting the recent development in English language teaching both at home and abroad, to revisit a number of areas, to expand an clarify points that we felt were not sufficiently clear in the first edition, and to improve the pedagogical usefulness of the text.Overall, the book aims at introducing practical methods to teachers of English as a foreign language with some basic theories presented in the first two units. It is hoped that classroom teachers or would-be teachers will not simply copy or imitate what are suggested but be able to choose or adapt with an understanding of why.Unit 1 serves as an introduction for setting the scene for this methodology course. It discusses issues concerning views on language and language learning or learning in general with the belief that such views will affect teachers’ways of teaching and thus learners’ ways of learning. The qualities of a good language teacher is also discussed in order to raise the participants’ awareness of what is required for a good English teacher.Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) have been the most influential language teaching approaches in the past two decades and they have proven to be effective in a variety of language teaching contexts. In Unit 2 we introduce the basic principles of CLT and activities followed by an introduction to task-based approach. It is intended that most of the methods that we introduce in the remaining units will, to some extent, follow a communicative approach and task-based language teaching.Unit 3 is a new unit which focuses on the new National English Curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the history of English language teaching in China followed by tasks and discussions on the goals, objectives, and design of the new English curriculum and ends with discussions on the challenges facing teachers today.We have arranged lesson planning and classroom management as the next two units of the book-Unit 4 and Unit 5 respectively. With regard to these two units, the new edition has replaced some previous lesson plan samples and added some relevant issues, i.e. giving effective instructions, asking effective questions, and dealing with students’ errors in the classroom. To have these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the reader will use what is covered in these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the reader will use what is covered in these two units to design mini classroom activities for the teaching of knowledge and skills that come in later units.Like the first edition of the book, Units 6, 7 and 8 focus on the teaching of language components, that is, the teaching of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, while Units 9, 10, 11, 12 focus on the teaching of four skills of language, namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing, with Unit 13 discussing the integration of the four skills. Some new examples and new points are added to all these units in the new edition. It should be noted that neither the language components nor the language skills are taught in an isolated fashion. We present the teaching of these language components and skills in separate units so that there is a clearer focus of discussion. In classroom teaching, we hope teachers will be able to integrate all areas.Unit 14 is about moral education. This is a new unit aiming at raising teachers’ awareness of the scope available for moral education in language teaching so that teachers will be able to create opportunities and use relevant materials and activities to help students form positive social values towards life and work.Unit 15 deals with language assessment. We have avoided ‘testing’ and ‘examination’ as our unit title because we believe ‘assessment’ is a broader concept. In this unit we focus on classroom assessment rather than standard tests. Research evidence shows that classroom-based assessment provides a better evaluation of what the students have achieved during the course of study.Units 16 and 17 are also new units. Unit 16 is about learner differences and learner training. As the purpose of teaching is for learning to take place, learners will need to play a major role in the learning process. We think as teachers we need to understand learners and the differences among them so that appropriate methods and techniques can be selected or designed to cater for learner needs. Also, we teach in order not to teach. In this sense, we need to help learners develop awareness of different learning strategies and learn to take responsibility for their own learning . Unit 17 focuses on using and creating resources. It discusses how to use the available resources as well as how to explore hidden resources for teaching and learning.Unit 18 introduces the reader to the most basic things in the evaluation, selection and adaptation of textbooks used in language teaching and learning. In the future, classroom teachers will have to take more responsibility and be given more autonomy in selecting and adopting ELT textbooks for their students.Throughout the book, we provide a number of tasks for each unit. The tasks usually follow a discussion and are aimed at providing the reader with opportunities to relate theory to practice. Most of the tasks are open-ended, that is, they do not have fixed answers or solutions. Sometimes, discussions following the task provide the authors’ further comments. Occasionally, some tasks seem to need more ‘concrete’solutions. In that case, we remove the solutions to Appendix 1 at the back of the book. We intend that users of the book should solve the problems themselves before referring to the authors’ suggested solutions.Most of the tasks involve group work or pair work. If the book is used in class, we consider it very important for students to work in pairs or groups so that they can share knowledge and experience. Individual readers may find it inconvenient to perform the task. We suggest that they discuss the problems with their colleagues wherever possible.。

王蔷主编的《英语教学法教程》第二版-Unit-1Unit 1 Language and Language LearningAims of the unitIn this unit we will discuss some general matters about language learning and teaching. We are going to discuss five questions on particular:1.How do we learn language?2.What are the common views on language?3.What are the common views on language learning?4.What are the qualities of a good language teacher?5.How can one become a good language teacher?1.1How do we learn languages?Mach of human behavior is influenced by their experiences. The way language teachers teach in the classroom is to some extent influenced by the way they learned languages. This is especially true in foreign language teaching. Before we discuss language learning theories, let us first reflect on our own language learning experience.Task 1Below is a list of interview questions on how people learn a foreign language. In the first column, write down your own responses. Then interview three other students in your class and enter their responses in the other columns. DiscussFrom the above task, you may have found that 1) people started learning a foreign language at different ages; 2) people have different experiences in learning a foreign language, some find it easy, some find it difficult; 3) people learn languages for different reasons; 4) people learn languages in different ways;5) people have different understandings about language learning; 6) people havedifferent capacities in language learning; 7) learning can be affected by the way it is taught; 8) learning is affected by the degree of success one is expected to achieve; and more. Thus the challenge confronting language teaching is how teaching methodology can ensure successful learning by all the learners who have more differences than the commonality.1.2views on languageThe question that all approaches to language teaching should answer is, ‘what is language?’ The answer to this question is the basis for syllabus designs, teaching methodology, teaching and assessment procedures in the classroom. Different views on language generate different teaching methodologies.Task 2Work in group of 4. Brainstorm possible answer to the question: what isTo give a concise definition of language has always been difficult for linguists and philogists. Although there has been an enormous amount of research in language in the past century, no authoritative answer has been given to ‘what is language?’rather, people have settle down to talk about views of language, seemingly allowing for or accepting different theories for the moment. However, language teachers clearly need to know generally what sort of entity they are dealing with and how the particular language they are teaching fits into that entity (Brown, 1994a). for sample definition of ‘language’ , please refer to Appendix 1. Structural viewThe structural view of language sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems (Larsen-Freeman & Long, 1991): the sound system (phonology); the discrete units of meaning produced by sound combinations (morphology), and the system of combining units of meaning for communication (syntax). Each language has a finite number of such structural items. To learn a language means to learn these structural items so as to be able to understand and produce language. When this structural view of language was combined with the stimulus-response principles of behaviorist psychology, the audio-lingual approach to language learning emerged.Functional viewIn the 1960s, British linguists developed a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learner (Johnson and Marrow, 1981) and proposed asyllabus based on communicative functions. The functional view not only sees languages as a linguistic system but also a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc. therefore, learners learn a language in order to be able to do with it. In order to perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions. Examples of notions are the concept of present, past and future time, the expressions of certainty and possibility, the roles of agents, instruments with a sentence, and special relationships between people and objects.Interactional viewThe interactional view considers language to be a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people. Therefore, learners not only need to know the grammar and vocabulary of the language but as importantly they need to know the rules for using them in a whole range of communicative contexts.These three views present an ever wider view of language. The structural view limits knowing a language to knowing its structural rules and vocabulary. The communicative or notional-functional view adds the need to know how to use the rules and vocabulary to do whatever it is one wants to do. The interactional view says that to know how to do what you want to do involves also knowing whether it is appropriate to do, and where, when and how it is appropriate to do it. In order to know this, you have to study the patterns and rules of language above the sentence level to learn how language is used in different speech contexts.The understanding of the nature of language may provide the basis for a particular teaching method (Richard and Rodgers, 1986), but more importantly, it is closely related to the understanding of language learning. If language is considered to have a finite number of structural items, learning the language probably means learning these items. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantly a tool then to learn the language learning. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantly a tool, then to learn the language means to use it, rather than just study what it is and how it is formed. The next section discusses some current theories about language learning.1.3 Views on Language learning and learning in generalA language learning theory underlying an approach or method usually answers two questions; 1) What are the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes involved in language learning? 2) What are the conditions that need to be met in order for these learning processes to be activated?Task3Work in groups of 4. Brainstorm the answers to the two questions stated above.Although these two questions have never been satisfactorily answered, a vast amount of research has been done from all aspects. The research can be broadly divided into process-oriented theories and condition-oriented theories. Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mind organizes new information such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization. Condition-oriented theories emphasize the nature of the human and physical context in which language learning takes place, such as the number of students, the kind of input learners receive, and the atmosphere. Some researchers attempt to formulate teaching approaches directly from these theories. For example, the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, and the Silent Way are based on one or more dimensions of processes and conditions. At this level, it is too early to formulate a specific approach, because some aspects are still too vague, for example, what is done in these processes.Behaviorist theoryThe behaviorist theory of language learning was initiated by behavioural psychologist Skinner, who applied Watson and Raynor’s theory of conditioning to the way human acquire language (Harmer, 1983). Based on their experiments, Watson and Raynor formulated a stimulus-response theory of psychology. In this theory all complex forms of behavior—motions, habits and such—are seen as composed of simple muscular and glandular elements that can be observed and measured. They claimed that emotional reactions are learned in much the same way as other skills. The key point of the theory of conditioning is that ‘you can train an animal to do anything (within reason) if you follow a certain procedure which has three major stages, stimulus, response, and reinforcement’(Harmer, 1983:30).Based on the theory of conditioning, Skinner suggested that language is also a form of behavior. It can be learned the same way as an animal is trained to respond to stimuli. This theory of learning is referred to as behaviorism, which was adopted for some time by the language teaching profession, particularly in the U.S. One influential result is the audio-lingual method, which involves endless’listen and repeat’drilling activities. The idea of this method is that language is learned by constant repetition and the reinforcement of the teacher. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised. This method is still used in many parts of the world today.Cognitive theoryThe term cognitivism is often used loosely to describe methods in which students are asked to think rather than simply repeat. It seems to be largely the result of Noam Chomsky’s reaction to Skinner’s behaviorist theory, which led to the revival of structural linguistics. The key point of Chomsky’s theory is reflected in his most famous question: if all language is a learned behavior, how can a child produce a sentence that never been said by others before?According to Chomsky, language is not a form of behavior, it is an intricate rule-based system and a large part of language acquisition is the learning of this system. There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with a knowledge of these an infinite number of sentences can be produced. A language learner acquires language competence which enables him to produce language.Though Chomsky’s theory is not directly applied in language teaching, it has had a great impact on the profession. One influential idea is that students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules. This idea is clearly in opposition to the audio-lingual method.Although people are pretty much still in the dark as to what language is and how language is learned, it is believed that general knowledge about language and language learning will help language teachers do a better job.Constructivist theoryThe constructivist theory believes that learning is a process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his/her own experiences and what he/she already knows. Although constructivist theory was not developed for the understanding of language learning, it is widely applicable to learning in general. It is believed that education is used to develop the mind, not just to rote recall what is learned. John Dewey provided a foundation for constructivism. He believed that teaching should be built based on what learners already knew and engage learners in learning activities. Teachers need to design environments and interact with learners to foster inventive, creative, critical learners. Therefore, teachers must balance an understanding of the habits, characteristics as well as personalities of individual learners with an understanding of the means of arousing learner’s interests and curiosity for learning (Archambault, 1964).Socio-constructivist theorySimilar to constructivist theory, socio-constructivist theory represented by Vygotsky (1978) emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context based on the concept of ‘Zone of Proximal Development’(ZPD) and scaffolding. In other words, learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner andbetween learners. With the teacher’s scaffolding through questions and explanations, or with a more capable peer’s support, the learner can move to a higher level of understanding and extend his/her skills and knowledge and knowledge to the fullest potential.1.4 What makes a good language teacher?Some people with an excellent command of a foreign language may not be able to teach the language well while others with a general command of the language can teach it very effectively. What do you think might account for this phenomenon?Task 4Work in groups. Reflect on your own learning experience from early school years to the university. Have you had an excellent English teacher? Try to identify as many qualities as possible of your best English teacher(s). Note down all theIt is clear that whether someone can become a good foreign language teacher does not solely depend on his\her command of the language. There are a variety of elements that contributes to the qualities of a good language teacher. These elements can be categorized into three groups: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles (Parrot, 1993).Task 5Ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles jointly contribute to the making of a good English teacher. All the adjectives in the box below could be used to characterize these three aspects.1. Work in groups of 4 and decide which adjectives describe ethic devotion,which describe personal styles and which describe professional qualities.Please write your answers on a separate piece of paper.2. Add any adjectives to the list which describe further qualities that you feel aremissing.3.These adjectives are intended to describe positive qualities or styles. Do youfeel that any of them could have a negative side as well? If yes, in what way?For example, an authoritative teacher may make the students feel assured, but may also make the student less free to disagree with him\her.1993)From the above activities we can see that a good English teacher should have ethic devotion, certain desirable personal styles, and more importantly, he or she should have necessary professional qualities. These three aspects constitute the professional competence of a good English teacher. A person who has a good command of English is not necessarily a good teacher because he has only one of the elements of professional competence.It is assumed that all responsible English teachers have ethic devotion, and they are supposed to make their personal styles compatible with their work. These two aspects, which are beyond the scope of this book, can be achieved as long as the teacher himself\herself has the willingness to do so.A question that many teachers often ask is: I like my job, and I love the students, but how can I become a good English teacher? Our answer is that they need professional competence, which we are going to discuss in the next section.1.5How can one become a good language teacher?The most important and most difficult part of the making of a good language teacher is the development of professional competence, which is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of skills, strategies, knowledge, and ability.Task 6Work in pairs and discuss how one can become a professionally competent teacher of English. For example, we have to develop our English proficiency first and also we may need to learn from experienced teachers through observations. What else can you think of? Make a list and then pool all your ideas together to find out about your common beliefs.A language teacher’s professional competence is much more difficult than a driver’s skill to handle a car, and is more complicated than a student’s competence of speaking foreign language. It involves more factors and longer learning time, and may never be finished.Some people think teaching is a craft; that is, a novice teacher can learn theprofession by imitating the experts’techniques, just like an apprentice. Others hold the view that teaching is an applied science, based on scientific knowledge and experimentation. By making a compromise between these two views, Wallace (1991) uses a “reflective model” to demonstrate the development of professional competence. The following model is an adapted version to illustrate(Adapted from Wallace, 1991:15)From the above model, we can see the development of professional competence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2 and Goal. The first stage is language development. All English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. As language is the subject matter for language teachers and also because language is always changing, language development can never come to an end.The second stage is the most crucial stage and it is more complicated because it involves three sub-stages: learning, practice, and reflection. The learning stage is actually the purposeful preparation that a language teacher normally receives before he\she starts the practice of teaching. This preparation can include:1. learning from others’experiences (empirical knowledge gained throughreading and observations)2. learning the received knowledge (language learning theories, educationalpsychology, language teaching methodology, etc.)3.learning from one’s own experiences as a learnerBoth experiential knowledge (others’ and one’s own) and received knowledge are useful when a teacher goes to practice. This is the combination of ‘craft’and ‘applied science’ knowledge. The learning stage is followed by practice. The term ‘practice’can be used in two senses. In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned to do teaching practice as part of one’s pre-service education, usually under the supervision of instructors. This practice is also called pseudo practice. The other sense of ‘practice’is the real classroom teaching that a teacher undertakes after he/she finishes formal education.Teachers benefit from practice if they keep on reflecting on what they have been doing (Stanely, 1999). It should be noted that teachers reflect on their work not only after they finish a certain period of practice, but also while they are doing the practice.When the would-be teachers(trainees) are doing pseudo practice, they are often trying out ideas that they have learned in a methodology class. Therefore, they are likely to reflect on how well a certain idea or technique works and often their instructors may require them to do so. The pseudo practice is beneficial only if the student teachers take reflections seriously. The most difficult thing is to keep on reflecting on one’s work when one moves on to real classroom teaching.Ideally, a teacher should be able to attain his/her professional competence after some period of practice and reflection as shown in Figure 1.1. However, professional competence as an ultimate goal does not seem to have an end. With the ever-deepening of our understanding of teaching and learning, and with the ever changing needs of the society, of education, of students, and of the teaching requirements, one must keep on learning, practicing and reflecting. Actually professional competence is’ a moving target or horizon, towards which professionals travel all their professional life but which is never finally attained ‘. (Wallace, 1991:58)Task 7Work in groups. Discuss possible answers to the following questions in relation to the model presented in Figure 1.1.1.6 An overview of the bookThis second edition of A Course in English Language Teaching has allowed us the opportunity to expand the original 14 units into 18 in order to include topics reflecting the recent development in English language teaching both at home and abroad, to revisit a number of areas, to expand an clarify points that we felt were not sufficiently clear in the first edition, and to improve the pedagogical usefulness of the text.Overall, the book aims at introducing practical methods to teachers of English as a foreign language with some basic theories presented in the first two units. It is hoped that classroom teachers or would-be teachers will not simply copy or imitate what are suggested but be able to choose or adapt with an understanding of why.Unit 1 serves as an introduction for setting the scene for this methodology course. It discusses issues concerning views on language and language learning or learning in general with the belief that such views will affect teachers’ways of teaching and thus learners’ ways of learning. The qualities of a good language teacher is also discussed in order to raise the participants’ awareness of what is required for a good English teacher.Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) have been the most influential language teaching approaches in the past two decades and they have proven to be effective in a variety of language teaching contexts. In Unit 2 we introduce the basic principles of CLT and activities followed by an introduction to task-based approach. It is intended that most of the methods that we introduce in the remaining units will, to some extent, follow a communicative approach and task-based language teaching.Unit 3 is a new unit which focuses on the new National English Curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the history of English language teaching in China followed by tasks and discussions on the goals, objectives, and design of the new English curriculum and ends with discussions on the challenges facing teachers today.We have arranged lesson planning and classroom management as the next two units of the book-Unit 4 and Unit 5 respectively. With regard to these two units, the new edition has replaced some previous lesson plan samples and added some relevant issues, i.e. giving effective instructions, asking effective questions, and dealing with students’ errors in the classroom. To have these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the reader will use what is covered in these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the reader will use what is coveredin these two units to design mini classroom activities for the teaching of knowledge and skills that come in later units.Like the first edition of the book, Units 6, 7 and 8 focus on the teaching of language components, that is, the teaching of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, while Units 9, 10, 11, 12 focus on the teaching of four skills of language, namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing, with Unit 13 discussing the integration of the four skills. Some new examples and new points are added to all these units in the new edition. It should be noted that neither the language components nor the language skills are taught in an isolated fashion. We present the teaching of these language components and skills in separate units so that there is a clearer focus of discussion. In classroom teaching, we hope teachers will be able to integrate all areas.Unit 14 is about moral education. This is a new unit aiming at raising teachers’awareness of the scope available for moral education in language teaching so that teachers will be able to create opportunities and use relevant materials and activities to help students form positive social values towards life and work.Unit 15 deals with language assessment. We have avoided ‘testing’ and‘examination’ as our unit title because we believe ‘assessment’ is a broader concept. In this unit we focus on classroom assessment rather than standard tests. Research evidence shows that classroom-based assessment provides a better evaluation of what the students have achieved during the course of study.Units 16 and 17 are also new units. Unit 16 is about learner differences and learner training. As the purpose of teaching is for learning to take place, learners will need to play a major role in the learning process. We think as teachers we need to understand learners and the differences among them so that appropriate methods and techniques can be selected or designed to cater for learner needs. Also, we teach in order not to teach. In this sense, we need to help learners develop awareness of different learning strategies and learn to take responsibility for their own learning . Unit 17 focuses on using and creating resources. It discusses how to use the available resources as well as how to explore hidden resources for teaching and learning.Unit 18 introduces the reader to the most basic things in the evaluation, selection and adaptation of textbooks used in language teaching and learning. In the future, classroom teachers will have to take more responsibility and be given more autonomy in selecting and adopting ELT textbooks for their students. Throughout the book, we provide a number of tasks for each unit. The tasks usually follow a discussion and are aimed at providing the reader with opportunities to relate theory to practice. Most of the tasks are open-ended, that is, they do not have fixed answers or solutions. Sometimes, discussions following the task provide the authors’ further comments. Occasionally, some tasks seem toneed more ‘concrete’ solutions. In that case, we remove the solutions to Appendix 1 at the back of the book. We intend that users of the book should solve the problems themselves before referring to the authors’ suggested solutions.Most of the tasks involve group work or pair work. If the book is used in class, we consider it very important for students to work in pairs or groups so that they can share knowledge and experience. Individual readers may find it inconvenient to perform the task. We suggest that they discuss the problems with their colleagues wherever possible.。

王蔷《英语教学法教程》笔记和课后习题（含考研真题）详解-第1~3章【圣才出品】第1章语⾔和语⾔学习1.1 复习笔记本章要点：1. The way we learn languages我们习得语⾔的⽅式2. Views on language语⾔观点3. The structural view of language结构主义语⾔理论4. The functional view of language功能主义语⾔理论5. The interactional view of language交互语⾔理论6. Common views on language learning关于语⾔学习的普遍观点7. Process-oriented theories and condition-oriented theories 强调过程的语⾔学习理论和强调条件的语⾔学习理论8. The behaviorist theory⾏为主义学习理论9. Cognitive theory认知学习理论10. Constructivist theory建构主义学习理论11. Socio-constructivist theory社会建构主义理论12. Qualities of a good language teacher⼀个好的语⾔⽼师必备的素养13. Teacher’s professional development教师专业技能发展本章考点：我们如何习得语⾔；结构主义语⾔理论；功能主义语⾔理论；交互语⾔理论；关于语⾔学习的普遍观点；强调过程的语⾔学习理论和强调条件的语⾔学习理论；⾏为主义学习理论；认知学习理论；建构主义学习理论；社会建构主义理论；成为⼀个好的语⾔⽼师所要具备的基本素质；教师专业技能发展图。

本章内容索引：Ⅰ. The way we learn languagesⅡ. Views on language1. The structural view of language2. The functional view of language3. The interactional view of languageⅢ. Views on language learning and learning in general1. Research on language learning2. Common views on language learning and learning in general（1）Behaviorist theory（2）Cognitive theory（3）Constructivist theory（4）Socio-constructivist theoryⅣ. Qualities of a good language teacherⅤ. Development of a good language teacherⅥ. An overview of the bookThis chapter serves as an introduction for setting the scene for this methodology course. It discusses issues concerning views on language and language learning or learning in general with the belief that such views will affect teachers’ ways of teaching and thus learners’ ways of learning. The qualities of a good language teacher are also discussed in order to raise the participants’ awareness of what is required for a good English teacher.这⼀章主要是介绍教学法的⽅法论，其中讨论的问题涉及语⾔和语⾔学习的观点，或者⼀般学习及这些观点对教师教学⽅式和学习者学习⽅式的影响，本章也讨论了⼀个好的英语教师应具备的素质，以提⾼语⾔教学参与者对优秀英语教师相关要求的意识。

Unit 1Further reading⏹Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching: Jack C. Richards & Theodore S. Rodgers 外语教学与研究出版社，2000⏹How to be a good teacher: Scrivener, J. Learning Teaching. Heinemann 1994, Chapter 1⏹Communicative Language Teaching: Nunan, D. Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge University Press 1989⏹How to plan lessons: Ur, P. A Course in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. 1996. Module 15⏹Classroom Management: Gower, R., Phillips,D. and Walters, S. Teaching Practice Handbook new edition. Heinemann 1995⏹How to teach listening: Underwood, M. Teaching Listening Skill. Longman. 1989 .⏹How to teach speaking: Harmer, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.new edition. Longman 1991. Chapter 8⏹How to teach reading: Grellet,F. Developing Reading Skills. Cambridge University Press . 1981 Harmer, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching . new edition. Longman. 1991. Chapter 10 How to teach writing: Tribble, C. Writing. Oxford University Press. 1996.Harmer, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching . new edition. Longman 1991. Chapter 7 & 8⏹How to use textbooks: Grant, N. Making the Most of Your Textbook. Longman. 1987.⏹Keith Johnson. An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2003⏹《外语教学法丛书》20本Shanghai Foreign Language Education PressThe structural viewThe structural view sees language as a linguistic system.The system of language = the system of sounds +the system of words +the system of grammarThe functional view(The functional-notional view)The functional view sees language asa linguistic systemand asa means for doing thingsThe interactional viewThe interactional view sees language asa communicative tool(to build up and maintain relations between people).⏹The interactional view sees language primarily as means for establishing and maintaining interpersonal relationships and for performing transactions between individuals.⏹The target of language learning is learning to initiate and maintain conversation with other people Two things are needed for communication⏹Rules of language form (grammar & vocabulary)⏹Rules of language use in a context (Is it appropriate to use this language item in this context?)Views on Language LearningBehaviorismThree basic behaviorist ideas about learning⏹1. Conditioning (Pavlov and the dribbling dogs): learning is seen as a question of developing connections (known as stimulus-response bonds) between events.⏹2. Habit formation (Skinner and the sporty pigeon)⏹3. The importance of the environment (writing on a clean slate) organism: person or animal that does the learning⏹Environment: an event, a situation or another person (teacher or parent)Environment OrganismThe Cognitive theory⏹Chomsky:⏹Language is not a form of behaviour. It is an intricate (complicated) rule-based system. (Language is rule-governed.)⏹There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with knowledge of these rules an infinite number of sentences can be produced. (Language is generative. )Students should be asked to think rather than simply repeat.Constructivist views⏹Learning is a process in which the learner construct meaning based on his/her own experiences and what he/she already knows.⏹Constructivism is a broad term used by philosophers, curriculum designers, psychologists, educators, and others. Most people who use the term emphasize “the learner’s contribution to meaning and learning through both individual and social activity”.Social constructivism⏹Learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner and between learners.V ygotsky’s theory⏹V ygotsky’ concept of the zone of proximal development: a child can solve a problem with the help (scaffolding) of an adult or more able peer.⏹V ygotsky’s work formed the basis for the cooperative learning programs .He even recommended pairing more competent students with less competent students to elevate the latter’s competence.scaffolding⏹Scaffolding: the technique of changing the level of support over the course of a teaching session; amore-skilled person (teacher or more-advanced peer of the child) adjusts the amount of guidance to fit the student’s current p erformance. When the task the student is learning is new, the teacher might use direct instruction. As the student’s competence increases, less guidance is provided.Think of scaffolding in learning like the scaffolding used to construct a building. The scaffolding provides support when needed, but it is adjusted and gradually removed as the building approaches completion.Researchers found that when scaffolding is used by teachers and peers in collaborative learning, students’ learning benefits.。

《英语教学法教程》复习提纲（王蔷）Unit 1 Language and Learning1. Language:” Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.” It can be understood in the following six aspects: Language as system;Language as symbolic;Language as arbitrary;Language as vocal;Language as human;Language as communication2. Structural view:The structural view sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: from phonological, morphological, lexical, etc. to sentences.3. The functional view:The functional view sees language as a linguistic system but also as a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: greetings; offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc.4. The interactional view:The interactional view considers language as a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people.5. The language learning theory underlying an approach or method usually answers two questions:1) What are the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes involved in language learning?2) What are the conditions that need to be met in order for these learningprocesses to be activated?6. Although these two questions have never been satisfactorily answered,a vast amount of research has been done from all aspects, which can be broadly divided into process-oriented theories and condition-oriented theories.1) Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mindprocesses new information, such as habit formation, induction,making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization.2) Condition-oriented theories emphasize the nature of the human andphysical context in which language learning takes place, such as thenumber of students, what kind of input learners receive, and thelearning atmosphere.7. Two theories:Some researchers attempt to formulate teaching approaches directly from these theories.1) The behaviorist theory( Skinne r)-- a stimulus-response theory of psychologyThe key point of the theory of conditioning is that "you can train an animal to do anything (within reason) if you follow a certain procedure which has three major stages, stimulus, response, and reinforcement"2) Cognitive theory( Noam Chomsky):The term cognitive is to describe loosely methods in which students are asked to think rather than simply repeat.8. A variety of elements that contribute to the qualities of a good language teacher:1) ethic devotion,道德素质2) professional qualities专业技能3) personal styles个⼈修养Adjectives which describe further qualitiesWallace?s(1991)"Reflective model" to demonstrate the development of professional competence(两种测试法：叙述/填表) Wallace?s(1991)"Reflective model"Stage 1 Stage 2GoalFrom the above model, we can see the development of professionalcompetence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2, andGoal. The first stage is language training. All English teachers aresupposed to have a sound command of English. Of course, language is always changing so language training can never come to an end.The second stage seems to be more complicated because it involvesthree sub-stages:learning, practice, and reflection. The learningstage is actually the specific preparation(that a language teachershould make before they go to practice.)This preparation can be:1). learn from others' experience (empirical knowledge来⾃经验的知识)2). learn received knowledge (such as language theories,psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, educational psychology,language teaching methodology, etc.)3). learn from one's own experienceBoth experiential knowledge (others' and one's own) and receivedknowledge are useful when the teachers go to practice. This is thecombination of "craft" and "applied science". The learning stage isfollowed by practice. The term "practice" can be used in two senses.In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned for student teachersto do teaching practice as part of their education, usually under thesupervision监督of their instructors. This practice is also calledpseudo practice. The other sense of "practice" is the real work that the teacher undertakes when he finishes his education. Unit 2 Communicative Principles and Activities10. The ultimate goal of foreign language teaching is to enable thestudents to use the foreign language in work or life when necessary.11. The goal of CLTThe goal of CLT is to develop students' communicative competence,12. Communicative competence:Competence simply means knowledge of the language system:grammatical knowledge in other words.13. Hymes (1979), communicative competence includes four aspects: 1) knowing whether something is formally possible (grammaticallyacceptable), which is roughly equivalent to Chomsky's linguisticcompetence交流内容是否规范2) knowing whether something is understandable to human beings;3) knowing whether something is in line with与、、、有关social norms;4) knowing whether something is in fact done: Do people actually use language this way?14. Based on the concept of communicative competence and aiming at developing such competence, communicative language teaching has the following features:1) It stresses the need to allow students opportunities for authentic andcreative use of the language.2) It focuses on meaning rather than form.3) It suggests that learning should be relevant to the needs of the students.4) It advocates提倡task-based language teaching. Students should begiven tasks to perform or problems to solve in the classroom.5) It emphasizes a functional approach to language learning (i.e. whatpeople do with language,such as inviting, apologizing, greeting and introducing, etc.).15. Richards and Rodgers(1986:72)three principles of Communicative language teaching1) Communication principle: Activities that involve real communication promote learning.2) Task principle: Activities in which language is used for carrying outmeaningful task promote learning.3) Meaningfulness principle: Language that is meaningful to the learnersupports he learning process.16. Littlewood’s (1981)classification of communicative activities:1). Functional communicative activities:2). Social interaction activities:(1). Functional communicative activities:~ Identifying pictures~ Discovering identical pairs~ Discovering sequences or locations~ Discovering missing information~ Discovering missing features~ Discovering "secrets"~Communicating patterns and pictures~ Communicative models~ Discovering differences~ Following directions~ Reconstructing story-sequences~ Pooling information to solve a problem(2). Social interaction activities:~ Role-playing through cued dialogues~Role-playing through cues and information~Role-playing through situation and goals--Role-playing through debate or discussion~ Large-scale simulation activities~ Improvisation17.Ellis (1990) has listed six criteria for evaluating communicative classroom activities:1). Communicative purpose:2). Communicative desire:3). Content, not form:4). Variety of language:5). No teacher intervention:Unit 3 Lesson Planning18. Lesson planningLesson planning means making decisions in advance about what techniques, activities and materials will be used in the class.19. Why is lesson planning necessary?Proper lesson planning is essential for both novice/beginner and experienced teachers.20. Benefit from lesson planning in a number of ways1). A clear lesson plan makes the teacher aware of the aims and languagecontents of the lesson.2). It also helps the teacher to distinguish the various stages of a lessonand to see the relationship between them so that the lesson can move smoothly from one stage to another.3). The teacher can also think about how the students can be fullyengaged in the lesson.4). when planning the lesson, the teacher also becomes aware of theteaching aids that are needed.5). Lesson planning helps teachers to think about the relative value ofdifferent activities and how much time should be spent on them.6). The teacher soon learn to judge lesson stages and phases with greater accuracy.7). Plans are also an aid to continuing improvement.8). After the lesson, the teacher can add an evaluation to the plan,identifying those parts which went well and those which were lesssuccessful.21. There are four major principles behind good lesson planning:1) variety,2) flexibility,,3) learnability,4) linkage.23. Definitions of variety, flexibility, learnability, and linkage.Variety means planning a number of different types of activities and where possible introducing students to a wide selection of materials so that learning is always interesting, motivating and never monotonous for the students.Flexibility means planning to use a number of different methods and techniques rather than being a slave to one methodology. This will make teaching and learning more effective and more efficient.Learnability means the contents and tasks planned for the lesson should be within the learning capability of the students. Of course, things should not be too easy either. Doing things that are beyond or below the students' coping ability will diminish their motivation (Schumann, 1999).Linkage means the stages and the steps within each stage are planned in such a way that they are somehow linked with one another. Language learning needs recycling and reinforcement.24. Lesson planning should be done at two levels: Macro planning and micro planning:The former is planning over time, for instance, the planning for a month,a term, or the whole course.The latter is planning for a specific lesson, which usually lasts 40 or 50 minutes.25.Macro planning involves:1) Knowing about the course:2) Knowing about the institution:3) Knowing about the learners:4) Knowing about the syllabus:26. The advantage of a concrete teaching plan:Teachers can follow it in the class and check what they have done;The plan will be the basis of a record of what has been covered in class;It will make it easier to make achievement tests later;It will be good records for the entire course.27. What does a lesson plan include? Three components:Teaching aims,Language contents and skills,Teaching stages and procedures.28. The aims of a lesson include:language components to present,communicative skills to practice,activitie s to conductmaterials to be usedteaching aids to be used.29. Language components and skills:By language contents, we mean structures (grammar), vocabulary, functions, topics and so on. By language skills, we mean communicative skills involved in listening, speaking, reading and writing.30. Teaching stages and procedures:Teaching stages are the major steps that language teachers go through in the classroom. Procedures are the detailed steps in each teaching stage.31. Three P's model: presentation, practice and production.(At the presentation stage, the teacher introduces new vocabulary and grammatical structures with reference to their contextualized use.At the practice stage, the lesson moves from controlled practice toguided practice and further to the exploitation of the texts whennecessary.At the production stage, the students are encouraged to use what they have learned and practiced to perform communicative tasks. At this last stage, the focus is on meaning rather than formal accuracy.)32. Another 3-stages frequently advised and adopted in reading lessons: Pre-reading,while-readingpost-reading stages.(This model is also often applied in listening lessons, which havepre-listening, while-listening and post-listening stages.)35. When presenting a new structure (presentation stage), a teacherneeds to consider the following:1) when to focus on the structure and2) when to study it in context;3) whether to present the structure orally or in written form;4) when to give out information and when to elicit from students;5) when and how to use visual aids to help with the presentation;6) what to do if students fail to understand.36. Sample lesson plans 1I. AIMS: a). b). c)….(include function)II. CONTENTS1. PRONUNCIATION2. NEW LEXIS: a). b). c)….3. STRUCTURE/GRAMMAR: a). b). c)….III.TEACHING AIDS:IV. PROCEDURES ( It should be specific )1. WARM-UP (3 minutes): a). b).2. PRESENTATION (approx. 7 mins): a). b). c)….3. EXPLOITATION (approx. 10 mins): a). b). c)….4. PERFORMANCE (approx. 15 mins): a). b). c)….5. OTHER ACTIVITIES: Check yesterday's homework (approx. 5 mins).6. Set homework, page 73, ex. 4.7. RESERVE ACTIVITY: Substitution, game-like:V. COMMENTS: (Filled in immediately after the lesson). a). b).c)….Sample lesson plan 2I. AIMS: a) b) c) .(include function)II. CONTENTS1. NEW VOCABULARY: three new lexical items2. NEW STRUCTURE: How about-ing ...? Function: making suggestion.3. ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: Declining: I don't feel like -ing. III. VISUAL AIDS: Set of flashcards with suggestionsIV. PROCEDURE1. WARM-UP: Game (3 minutes), Going on a Picnic: You bringa/the/some ...!2. PRESENTATION (approx. 10 mins)a) New vocabulary: (three new lexical items above)b) New structure (flash cards)c) First model, spoken (BB drawings of speakers)3. PRACTICE (approx.15 mins)a) Repetition drill (backward build-ups)b) Cued substitution, chorus workc) Public pairs: cued acceptance/refusal and counter suggestions (flash cards)d) Ditto. Books closede) Public check3. PRODUCTION (to end of lesson, 17 mins)a) Public pairs, new suggestions.b) Private pair role play; New suggestion, counter suggestions, agreeing weekend activities.c) Acting out. Volunteer pairs.d) Write out created dialogues.4. HOMEWORK: Complete writing of dialogues.(5. RESERVE ACTIVITY: none)V. COMMENTS: (Filled in immediately after the lesson).Unit 4 Classroom Management37. Teachers’ roles:Before the class---PlannerDuring the class---1 Controller, 2 Assessor, 3 Organizer4 Prompter ,5 Participant,6 Resource-providerAfter the class---Evaluator38. Further comments on the different roles that the teachers play in thelanguage classroom:Controller: The teacher controls:1). the space (activities run smoothly),2) .the time (do lockstep activities)3. the whole class (Ss have equal chance)4. the production ( a degree of accuracy)Assessor: The teacher does two things:1). Correcting mistakes (not making a big fuss⼤惊⼩怪but gentle byHarmer)2). Organizing feedback (discouraging for the teacher to be critical不提倡吹⽑疵, focusing on Ss? success progress) Organizer: The teacher should be important and difficult as it:1). Using creative/unlimited way2). Envisaging设想activities,3). Anticipating the problems4). Giving clear and concise instructions5). Demonstrating6 .Using native language to clarify if necessary7. Walking around and monitoring8. Rectifying订正9. Taking mental notes轮流惦记Prompter: The teacher shoulddo:1). Giving hints (just like time, place…)2). Eliciting more (by saying” and…?”“Anything else?” Yes, but why…?(Ss. read the example)Participant:The teacher shouldn?t dominate or appear to be authoritative. Resource-provider:We have criticized the jug-and-mug method, but the teacher shouldwithhold his/her readiness to provide resources.39. What are the most common types of Ss grouping? And their definitions?Lockstep,Pair work,Group work,Individual study:40. Further suggestions about S groupingLockstepTeacher speaking little, Trying to elicit replies/answers Pair work:Teacher giving clearest instructions,Demonstrating,Keeping eyes on,Rearranging the seating,Explaining the problem,Encouraging SsGroup work:Grouping Ss according to seating arrangement,Ss selecting their own group members,Mixing strong and weak Ss,Giving different tasks to strong and weak Ss separately, Grouping Ss by drawing lots，All these methods have advantages and disadvantages. Individual study: It has some conditions: 1. Self-access centers,。

王蔷教学法第二版中文对照摘要：一、王蔷英语教学法第二版的概述二、王蔷英语教学法第二版的主要内容三、王蔷英语教学法第二版的特点四、王蔷英语教学法第二版的适用对象五、王蔷英语教学法第二版的价值正文：一、王蔷英语教学法第二版的概述王蔷英语教学法第二版是一本针对英语教学的教材，旨在帮助教师和学生更好地理解和应用英语教学法。

本书详细介绍了英语教学的基本原理和实践方法，包括语言学习、教学方法、课程设计等内容。

二、王蔷英语教学法第二版的主要内容王蔷英语教学法第二版共分为多个单元，每个单元都有明确的主题和目标。

以下是本书的主要内容：1.Unit 1: Language and Language Learning本单元主要讨论了语言学习的基本概念、语言学习的类型、学习者的个体差异等内容。

2.Unit 2: Teaching English as a Foreign Language本单元介绍了英语作为外语的教学方法，包括听说法、语法翻译法、直接法、自然法等。

3.Unit 3: Curriculum Design本单元讨论了课程设计的原则、方法和步骤，以及课程评价的策略。

4.Unit 4: Teaching Grammar本单元重点介绍了语法教学的基本理论和实践方法，包括语法教学的范围、目标、方法和评估。

5.Unit 5: Teaching Vocabulary本单元讨论了词汇教学的重要性、方法和策略，以及如何提高学生的词汇学习效果。

6.Unit 6: Teaching Listening and Speaking本单元介绍了听力和口语教学的原则、方法和活动设计，以及如何提高学生的听力和口语水平。

7.Unit 7: Teaching Reading and Writing本单元讨论了阅读和写作教学的方法、策略和评估，以及如何提高学生的阅读和写作能力。

8.Unit 8: Teaching Culture本单元重点介绍了文化教学的重要性、方法和策略，以及如何培养学生的跨文化交际能力。

Unit 1 language and language teaching1. What makes a good language teacher?● Ethic devotion● Professional qualities● Personal styles2. Views on language learning and learning in general:● Process-oriented theories: concerned with how the mind organizes newinformation such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization.● Condition-oriented theories: emphasize the nature of the human and physicalcontext in which the language learning take place, such as the number of the students and the kind of input learners receive, and the atmosphere.3. How can one become a language teacher? It involves more factors and longer learning time, and may never be finished.Stage 1: all English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. Stage 2: learning, practice and reflection.● Learning:✓ Learning from others’ experience (empirical knowledge gainedthrough reading and observation)✓ Learning the received knowledge (language learning theories,educational psychology, language teaching methodology, etc.)● Practice✓ Pre-service practice (pseudo practice)✓ Real classroom practice● Reflection: take on reflection seriously and keep reflectionGoal: (do not have an end) one can never become a perfect teacher. There is alwaysroom for improvement.language development other's experiencereceived knowledgeown experience Practice Reflectio Professional competence Stage 1 Stage 2 GoalUnit 2 communicative principles and task-based language teaching1.What is communicative competence●Linguistic competenceKnowledge of language itself●Pragmatic competenceThe choice of the vocabulary and structure depends on the setting, the relativestatus of the speakers and their relationship.●Discourse competenceThe ability to understand or to express a topic logically and coherently byeffectively employing or comprehending the cohesive marks, such as first,second.●Strategic competenceSearching for other means of expression, such as using a similar phrase ……●Fluencythe ability to link units of speech together with facility and without strain or inappropriate slowness or undue hesitation)CLT: communicative language teaching2.Principles of communicative language teaching●Communication principleActivities that involve real communication promote learning.●Task principleActivities in which language is used for carrying out meaningful tasks promote learning.●Meaningfulness principleLanguage that is meaningful to the learner support the learning process.3.Main features of communicative activities●Communicative purposeThere must be some information gap that students seek to bridge●Communicative desireA real need to communicate●Content not formThey must have some massage they want to communicate●Variety of language●No teacher intervention●No material controlTBLT: task- based language teaching4.Four components of a task● A purposeMake sure students have a reason for undertaking the task● A contextThis can be real, simulated or imaginary, and involves sociolinguistic issues such as the location and the relationship of the speaker……● A processGetting students to learn some language strategies such as problem solving, reasoning……● A product5.Focus on individual language items –Purposeful and contextualized communication +ThenExercise → task6.TBL:●Pre-taskIntroduction to topic and task●Task cycle✓Task✓Planning✓Report✓Students hear task recording or read text●Language focus✓Analysis and practice✓Review and repeat task7.PPP●PresentationOf single new item; teachers introduces new vocabulary and grammatical structures.●PracticeOf new item: drills, exercise, and dialogue●ProductionActivity, role play or task to encourage ‘free’ use of language8.How to design tasks●Think about students’ needs and interests and abilities●Brainstorm possible tasks●Evaluate the list●Choose the language items●Preparing materials9.Constrains of CLT:●Whether it will meet the needs of learners from different contexts●It is very difficult to design a one to one correspondence between a function aform.10.Constrains of TBLT●Not effective for presenting new languages●Time is limited: teachers are busy●Culture of learning: some students may find it difficult to adapt to TBLT●Level of difficulty: students may find task-base language teaching quitedifficult of they do not have sufficient linguistic resources.Unit 4 lesson planning1.Why is lesson planning important?●It can make teachers aware of the aims and language contents of the lesson.●It helps teachers distinguish the various stages of a lesson and see therelationship between them so that activities of different difficulty levels can bearranged properly and the lesson can move smoothly from one stage to another.●It gives teachers opportunity to anticipate potential problems that may arise inclass, and prepare some solutions to them.●It builds teachers’ confidence in class.●Teachers can also be aware of teaching aids in class.●Planning is a good practice and sign of professionalism.2.Principles for good class planning:●AimIt means realistic goals for the lesson; the things students are able to do at theend of the class.●VarietyPlanning a variety of different activities to introduce a wide selection ofmaterials, so that learning is always interesting.●FlexibilityPreparing some extra and alternative activities and tasks as the class does notalways go according to the plan.●LearnabilityThe contents and tasks planned for the lesson should be within the learningcapability of the students.●LinkageThe steps and steps in each stage are planned in such a way that they aresomeway linked with another one.3.Macro planningA planning over a longer period of time, for instance a whole-year course. It isoften done by a group of teachers who are to teach the same course.●Knowing about the professionWhich language area and language stage should be taught?●Knowing about the institutionThe institution arrangements of the time, frequency of the class……●Knowing about the learners●Knowing about the syllabus●Knowing about the textbook●Knowing about the objectivesponents of a lesson plan●Background informationWho the students are. The time and date of the class.●Teaching aimsWhat students are able to achieve at the end of the lesson(Linguistic and language skills)●Language contents and skills●Stages and procedures●Teaching aidsTeaching aids and resources, and how teachers will use them to aid learning ●End of lesson summaryTake some time to summarize what is learned in class.●Optional activities and assignments●After lesson reflectionUnit 5 classroom arrangement1.Efficient classroom arrangement can be achieved when these six conditions are met:●The teacher plays appropriate roles.●The teacher provides clear instructions●Students are grouped in a way suitable for the learning activities.●The teacher asks appropriate questions.●There is discipline as well as harmony in the class.●The students’ errors are treated properly.2.The different roles of teachers:●Controller✓The teacher controls the pace so that the activities run smoothly and efficiently.✓The more communicative the activity is, the less control it needs.●Assessor✓Correcting mistakes✓Organizing feedback●OrganizerDesign and organize the tasks●PrompterWhen students are not sure how to start an activity, or what to do next, the teacher give appropriate prompts. (and……/anything else?/yes, but why?)●Participant●Resource-provider3.Rules to follow for making instructions effective:●To use simple instructions and make them suit the comprehension level of thestudents. (Also, make your comments as simple and as natural as possible)●To use mother tongue only when it’s necessary.●The best thing to do is to model the task/activity before letting students moveinto groups and pairs.●Demonstration is more effective than words.4.Student grouping:●Whole class work:✓Advantages:➢Everyone feels being together with others.➢It is good for teachers to instruction and explanation together, and also an ideal way to show materials and do presentation together.✓Disadvantages:➢Individuality is not favoured in this sense.➢Not everyone has an opportunity to express himself.➢Some students feel nervous and anxious when they are asked topresent in front of class.➢It favors the transmission of knowledge from teacher to students rather than students discovering things by themselves.➢It is not a good way to enhance real communication. Students cannot communicate with others in this sense.●Pair work✓Advantages➢It dramatically increase students’ speaking time in class.➢It allows students to work together rather than under teachers’ guidance.➢It allows teachers to work with the weak pairs when others are working on their own.➢It can promote cooperation between students.✓Disadvantages➢It is often very noisy and teachers are afraid of losing control of the class.➢Some students may talk in native language or something not related to the topic. It is not very easy for teachers to monitor every pair.➢Some students may not like to work with peers, and they, think they can only learn from their teachers.➢So they refuse to participate in the activities.➢The choice of pair is a problem. Some students don’t like to work witha particular partner while someone may dominate all the time.●Group workingSome groups may finish the task fast while some may be very slow. Teachers may have to prepare some optional activities for the quick group and be ready to help the slower groups all the time.●Individual studyTeachers need to prepare different tasks for different groups.5.Measures for disciplined acts and badly behaving students:●Acting immediatelyIndisciplined acts should be immediately stopped, so that less damage is made.●Stop the classIf the discipline is so disruptive as to hinder the progress of the whole class, the teacher should stop the class and make it clear what is wrong.●Rearrange the seats●Change the activity●Talk to students after class●Create a code of behaviorThe teachers and learners can work together to create some rules for the class during activities.6.Questioning in classroom●Display questions: questions that are already known to teachers and they areasking questions to check if students know the answer.●Genuine questions: questions that are used to find new information. They areoften more communicative.●Lower- order questions: questions that simply require recalling of informationor memorization of facts.●Higher-order questions: questions requiring more reasoning, analysis, andevaluation.7.Dealing with errors:●Dealing with spoken errors:If the task is not focusing on accuracy or fluency, ignore it.●When to correct:It is best not to interrupt students during fluency work, unless communication breaks down. If there are some common mistakes that other students might also have problems with, the teacher can take a note in his/her mind and try to do the correction after the student’s perform.●How to correct:✓Self-correcting is encouraged.✓Indirect correction: repeating; asking other students to answer again……Unit 6 teaching pronunciations1.The role of teaching pronunciation●Students need not able to read and write IPA and to know phonetics.●Adult learners need focus on pronunciations, but young leaners don’t.●Learners who have more exposure to English need less focus on pronunciationthan those who only learn English in the class.2.Realistic goal of teaching pronunciation:●Consistency: the pronunciation should be smooth and natural.●Intelligibility: the pronunciation should be understandable to the listeners.●Communicative efficiency: the pronunciation should help convey the meaningthat is intended by the speaker.3.Focusing on a sound:●Say the sound alone●Get students to repeat the sound in chorus.●Get individual students to repeat the sound.●Explain how to make the sound.If students can produce the sound correctly, after the teacher’s modelling, it is not necessary to explain ‘how’.●Say the sound in a word.●Contrast it with other sounds.4.Perception practice:●Using minimal pairs:will-well till-tell fill-fell lid-led (tell which one is read)●Which orderPit pet bet (1 3 2)●Same or differentMet-meet well-well●Odd one outBit bit bit pit (No.4 is different.)●Complete:_ate_ate_ate_ate_ate_ate(late mate fate date hate rate……)5.Production practice:●Listening and repeat●Fill in the blanks✓Children love to play games.✓Black and white make gray.✓After April comes May.●Make up sentencesLast fast calm dark ……Making a sentence using as many from the given words.●Use meaningful context●Using picture●Use tongue twisters6.Practicing stress:●Using gestures:By clapping hands or using an arm movements as if conducting music.●Use the voice:Raise the voice to indicate stress●Use the blackboard:Highlight the stress parts by underlining them or writing them on the blackboard.Unit7. Teaching grammar1.Different ways to presenting grammar●The deductive methodRelies on reasoning, analyzing and comparingDisadvantages:✓It teaches grammar as an isolate one✓Little attention is paid to meaning✓Practice is more mechanicalAdvantages:✓It can be successful with selected and motivated students.✓It could save time when students are confronted with grammar rule which is complex but which has to learn.●The inductive method✓The teacher provide students with authentic language date and induces the learners to realize grammar rules without any form of explicit explanation.✓Students are to apply the newly presented structure to produce sentences with given visual aids or verbal prompts.✓The teacher may elicit the grammar rule from the students.●The guided discovery method✓Students are induced to discover the rules by themselves but carefully guided and assisted by the teacher.2.Implicit knowledge and explicit knowledge●Implicit knowledge: knowledge that is unconsciously existed in our mind,which we can make use of automatically without making any effort.●Explicit knowledge: our conscious knowledge about the language.3.Successful practice●Pre-learningPractice is more effective when new language is clearly perceived and taken into short-term memory by the leaners.●V olume and repetitionThe more language the leaners are exposed to or perceived the more they are likely to learn.●Success-orientation:●Heterogeneity(异质性)Practice should be able to elicit different sentences and generate different levels of answers from different learners.●Teacher assistance●Interest4.Grammar practice:●Mechanical practice✓Substitution drillsMrs. Green has the largest house in town.(clean house/ green lawn/ pretty garden)✓Transformation drillsChange the following sentence into past tense.Now he lives in London. (last year. Paris)●Meaningful/communicative practiceRank the items on the left column according to the listed on the top.cheap healthy tasty Important BeerWaterFruitcigarettesEg. I think beer is cheaper than fruit.ing prompts for practice:●Using picture prompts●Using mimes (role play) or gestures as prompts●Using information sheet as prompts●Using key phrase or key words as prompts●Using chained phrases for story telling.Unit 8 teaching vocabulary1.What does knowing a word involve?●Knowing its pronunciation and stress●Knowing its spelling and grammatical properties●Knowing its meaning●How and when to use it to express the intended meaning2.According to Hedge, vocabulary learning involves at least two aspect of meaning:●Understanding denotation and connotative meaning:✓Denotation meaningIt refer to those words that we use to label things as regards real objects,such as a name or a sign.✓Connotative meaningIt refers to the attitudes or emotions of a language user in choosing a wordand influence of those on the listener or reader’s interpretation of the word.For example, animal itself has a connotative meaning often related tofriendship and loyalty.●Understanding the sense relations among words✓CollocationsIt is believed that teaching word collocations is a more effective way thanjust teaching one single word at a time.✓Synonyms, antonyms, and hyponyms✓Receptive/passive and productive/active vocabulary3.Ways of presenting vocabulary:●Try to provide a visual or physical demonstration whenever possible●Provide a verbal context to demonstrate meaning●Use synonyms and antonyms and hyponyms to explain meaning●Use word formation rules and common affixes to build up new lexicalknowledge.●Pre-fabricated formulaic items: to teach vocabulary in chunks. Chunks refer toa group of words that go together to form meaning.4.Ways of consolidating vocabulary:●Labelling●Spot the difference●Describe and draw●Play a game●Use word series●Word bingo●Word association●Find synonyms and antonyms●Categories5.Developing vocabulary learning strategy●Review regularly●Guess meaning from the context●Organize vocabulary effectively●Use a dictionaryMonolingual dictionary should be encouraged than bi-lingual dictionary●Students should be guided constantly to self-evacuate the effectiveness of thestrategy.Unit 9 teaching listening1.Listening can be more difficult than reading because:●Different speaker produce different sounds in different ways. (Different dialects,and accents, stress, rhythms, intonations……)●The listener has little or no control over the speed of the input of spokenmaterial;●Spoken material is often heard only once and in most cases, we cannot go backand listen again as we can when we read.●The listener cannot pause to work out the meaning of the hard material as canbe done when reading.●Speed is more likely to be distorted by the media which transmit sounds or thebackground noise that can make it difficult to hear clearly.●The listener sometimes has to deal simultaneously with other task whilelistening, such as formal note-taking, writing down directions or messages from telephone calls, or operating while listening to instructions.2.Characters of listening characters:●Spontaneity: people speaking spontaneously and informally without rehearsingwhat they are going to say ahead of time.●Context: the situation helps us predict what we are going to hear.●Visual clues: most of the time, we can see the person we are listening to. (facialexpressions, gestures, and other body language)●Listener’s response: we can interrupt the speakers and ask for repetition orclarification.●Speaker’s adjustment. (The speaker can adjust the way of speaking accordingto the listener’s reaction.)3.Many published textbooks have tended to focus on listening test rather thanfocusing on improving students’ listening performance. This approach has two problems:●It does not give students opportunities to develop listening skills with otherskills.●Listening comprehension questions only test students’ level of comprehensionbut do not train students how to listening or how to develop effective listeningstrategies.4.Principles for listening:●Focus on process: people must do many things to process information that theyare receiving. It is very important to design tasks which can show how wellstudents comprehend the listening material.●Combine listening with other skills●Focus on comprehension of meaning (traditional textbook test on students’memory)●Grade and difficulty level appropriately:✓Type of language used✓Task or purpose in listening✓Context in which the listening occurs.5.Models for teaching listening:●Bottom-up model: listening comprehension is believed to start with sound andmeaning recognitions. Listeners construct meaning of what they hear based on the sound they hear.●Top-down model: listening for the gist and making use of the contextual cluesand background knowledge to construct meaning are emphasized.●Listening involves both bottom-up model and top-down model.Comprehension is the result of integrate of the information conveyed by the text with information and concepts already known by the listener.6.Three listening stages:●Pre-listening:✓Predicting✓Setting the scene (getting background information)✓Listening for the gist (ask students one or two questions that focus on the main idea or the tone or mood of the whole passage.)✓Listening for specific information✓Most of the time, we would only use only one pre-reading task. It couldn’t take much time.●While listening:✓No specific responses: giving students any task the first time they listening to a passage. It can take anxiety out of listening.✓Listen and tick: the task would be much easier.✓Listen and sequence: can be completed without understanding every word they hear. It can build confidence.✓Listen and act: total physical response✓Listen and draw: it works very well when there is an information gap between pairs. Related vocabulary should be pre-taught.✓Listen and fill: do not overdo this task because it may make students feel that they have to understand every word.✓It is helpful to provide a task for the students to do while they are listening.This gives the students a purpose to listen and helps them focus on thelistening.●Post-listening:✓Multiple-choice questions: the teacher should balance his/her teaching in preparing students for traditional multiple-choice tests and preparing themfor using English in the real world.✓Answering questions: some types might lend themselves nicely to discuss in small groups.✓Note-taking and gap filling: while-listening and post-listening is combined. ✓Dictogloss➢Preparation: teachers introduces the topic and key words or asking general questions about the text.➢Dictation: three times➢Reconstruction➢Analysis and correction✓There are many opportunities to integrate post-listening with other language style.Unit 10 teaching speaking:1.Four common features of spoken language:●Using less complex syntax●Taking short cuts, e.g. incomplete sentences●Using fixed conventional phrase/chunks●Using devices such as fillers, hesitation device to give time before speaking.2.Principles for teaching speaking:●Balancing accuracy-based with fluency-based practices●Contextualizing practice: people use language differently in different context,so it’s important to give students chance to experience language in meaningful contexts.●Personalizing practice: learn something that is close to students’ life●Building up confidence: only when students feel confident to expressthemselves, will they participate actively in the activities.●Maximizing meaningful interactions: (students practice in small groups andpairs)●Helping students develop speaking strategies●Making the best use of classroom learning environment to provide sufficientlanguage input and practice for the students.3.Other factors to consider when design speaking activities●Maximum foreign talk●Even participation●High motivation ( interesting topic/clear objective )●Right language level4.Types of speaking tasks: ( by Littlewood)Pre-communication activities: (controlled and semi-controlled)●Structural activities: pay attention to certain structures or functions so that thesecan be accurately produces.●Quasi-communication activities: focus more on meaning and communicationCommunicative activities: (communicative and more contextualization)●Functional communication activities●Social interaction activitiesStudents are more concerned on meaning.5.Example activities:●Information-gap activities●Dialogues and role-plays (✓Perform the dialogue in different moods.✓Success of role-play: the teachers’ enthusiasm; careful instruction;clear situations and roles; making sure students have the language theyneed.●Cue cards●Activities using pictures (work well with beginning level teachers for its clearobjective and a short time limit)●Problem solving activities (productive: there is a clear objective to be reachedor problem to be solved)●Find someone who●Human scramble.anizing speaking tasks:●Students talk a lot in foreign language●Designing small group speaking tasks (students are often feel shy speaking aforeign language in front the whole class)●Different groups can work at different levels. (Modify a given task to make iteasier for slower students and more challenging for more advanced students.)Unit 11 teaching writing1.What do effective readers do?●Have a clear purpose in reading●Read silently●Read phrase by phrase, rather than word by word●Concentrate on the important bits, skim the rest, and skip the insignificant parts●Use different speeds and strategies for different reading tasks●Perceive the information in the target language rather than mentally translate●Guess the meaning of new words from the context, or ignore them●Have and use background information to help understand the text2.What do we read:●If students have never had the experience of reading a particular type of text,how can they read it with ease in real life●We believe ESL/EFL reading textbook should have a variety of authenticmaterials, as much as the coverage allows3.There are two broad levels in the act of reading:● A recognition task of perceiving visual signal from the printed page througheyes● A cognitive task of interpreting the visual information, relating the receivedinformation with the reader’s own general knowledge, and reconstructing themeaning that the writer had meant to convey.4.Reading strategies:●specifying a purpose for reading●planning what to do / what steps to take●previewing the text●checking the predictions●skimming the text for the main ideas●scanning the text for specific information……5.the role of vocabulary●sight vocabulary: words that one is able to recognize immediately are oftenreferred to as sight vocabulary●The best and easiest way to develop vocabulary to read a great deal. Only whenan individual word is met and understood again and again in different contexts can it become a part of the learner’s sight vocabulary.●Instead of just using textbooks to reach the words and structures to the students,the teacher should try to introduce an extensive reading scheme whenever possible to encourage leaners to read more after class.●This automatic, rapid, and accurate process of word recognition should not beconfused with the strategy of slow, letter by letter, or syllable by syllable。

Unit 1 Language and Language LearningAims of the unitIn this unit we will discuss some general matters about language learning and teaching. We are going to discuss five questions on particular:1.How do we learn language?2.What are the common views on language?3.What are the common views on language learning?4.What are the qualities of a good language teacher?5.How can one become a good language teacher?1.1How do we learn languages?Mach of human behavior is influenced by their experiences. The way language teachers teach in the classroom is to some extent influenced by the way they learned languages. This is especially true in foreign language teaching. Before we discuss language learning theories, let us first reflect on our own language learning experience.Task 1Below is a list of interview questions on how people learn a foreign language. In the first column, write down your own responses. Then interview three other students in your class and enter their responses in the other columns. Discuss your findings in group of 4 and draw some conclusion.From the above task, you may have found that 1) people started learning a foreign language at different ages; 2) people have different experiences in learning a foreign language, some find it easy, some find it difficult;3) people learn languages for different reasons; 4) people learn languages in different ways; 5) people have different understandings about language learning; 6) people have different capacities in language learning; 7) learning can be affected by the way it is taught; 8) learning is affected by the degree of success one is expected to achieve; and more. Thus the challenge confronting language teaching is how teaching methodology can ensure successful learning by all the learners who have more differences than the commonality.1.2views on languageThe question that all approaches to language teaching should answer is, ‘what is language?’The answer to this question is the basis for syllabus designs, teaching methodology, teaching and assessment procedures in the classroom. Different views on language generate different teaching methodologies.Task 2Work in group of 4. Brainstorm possible answer to the question: what is language? When you are ready, join another group and share your ideas.To give a concise definition of language has always been difficult for linguists and philogists. Although there has been an enormous amount of research in language in the past century, no authoritative answer has been given to ‘what is language?’ rather, people have settle down to talk about views of language, seemingly allowing for or accepting different theories for the moment. However, language teachers clearly need to know generally what sort of entity they are dealing with and how the particular language they are teaching fits into that entity (Brown, 1994a). for sample definition of ‘language’ , please refer to Appendix 1.Structural viewThe structural view of language sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems (Larsen-Freeman & Long, 1991): the sound system (phonology); the discrete units of meaning produced by sound combinations(morphology), and the system of combining units of meaning for communication (syntax). Each language has a finite number of such structural items. To learn a language means to learn these structural items so as to be able to understand and produce language. When this structural view of language was combined with the stimulus-response principles of behaviorist psychology, the audio-lingual approach to language learning emerged.Functional viewIn the 1960s, British linguists developed a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learner (Johnson and Marrow, 1981) and proposed a syllabus based on communicative functions. The functional view not only sees languages as a linguistic system but also a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc. therefore, learners learn a language in order to be able to do with it. In order to perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions. Examples of notions are the concept of present, past and future time, the expressions of certainty and possibility, the roles of agents, instruments with a sentence, and special relationships between people and objects.Interactional viewThe interactional view considers language to be a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people. Therefore, learners not only need to know the grammar and vocabulary ofthe language but as importantly they need to know the rules for using them in a whole range of communicative contexts.These three views present an ever wider view of language. The structural view limits knowing a language to knowing its structural rules and vocabulary. The communicative or notional-functional view adds the need to know how to use the rules and vocabulary to do whatever it is one wants to do. The interactional view says that to know how to do what you want to do involves also knowing whether it is appropriate to do, and where, when and how it is appropriate to do it. In order to know this, you have to study the patterns and rules of language above the sentence level to learn how language is used in different speech contexts.The understanding of the nature of language may provide the basis for a particular teaching method (Richard and Rodgers, 1986), but more importantly, it is closely related to the understanding of language learning. If language is considered to have a finite number of structural items, learning the language probably means learning these items. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantly a tool then to learn the language learning. If language is more than just a system of structures, it is more importantly a tool, then to learn the language means to use it, rather than just study what it is and how it is formed. The next section discusses some current theories about language learning.Views on Language learning and learning in generalA language learning theory underlying an approach or method usually answers two questions; 1) What are the psycholinguistic and cognitiveprocesses involved in language learning? 2) What are the conditions that need to be met in order for these learning processes to be activated?Task3Work in groups of 4. Brainstorm the answers to the two questions stated above.When you are ready, join another group and share your ideas.Although these two questions have never been satisfactorily answered, a vast amount of research has been done from all aspects. The research can be broadly divided into process-oriented theories and condition-oriented theories. Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mind organizes new information such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization. Condition-oriented theories emphasize the nature of the human and physical context in which language learning takes place, such as the number of students, the kind of input learners receive, and the atmosphere. Some researchers attempt to formulate teaching approaches directly from these theories. For example, the Natural Approach, Total Physical Response, and the Silent Way are based on one or more dimensions of processes and conditions. At this level, it is too early to formulate a specific approach, because some aspects are still too vague, for example, what is done in these processes.Behaviorist theoryThe behaviorist theory of language learning was initiated by behaviouralpsychologist Skinner, who applied Watson and Raynor’s theory of conditioning to the way human acquire language (Harmer, 1983). Based on their experiments, Watson and Raynor formulated a stimulus-response theory of psychology. In this theory all complex forms of behavior—motions, habits and such—are seen as composed of simple muscular and glandular elements that can be observed and measured. They claimed that emotional reactions are learned in much the same way as other skills. The key point of the theory of conditioning is that ‘you can train an animal to do anything (within reason) if you follow a certain procedure which has three major stages, stimulus, response, and reinforcement’(Harmer, 1983:30).Based on the theory of conditioning, Skinner suggested that language is also a form of behavior. It can be learned the same way as an animal is trained to respond to stimuli. This theory of learning is referred to as behaviorism, which was adopted for some time by the language teaching profession, particularly in the . One influential result is the audio-lingual method, which involves endless’listen and repeat’drilling activities. The idea of this method is that language is learned by constant repetition and the reinforcement of the teacher. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised. This method is still used in many parts of the world today.Cognitive theoryThe term cognitivism is often used loosely to describe methods in which students are asked to think rather than simply repeat. It seems to be largely the result of Noam Chomsky’s reaction to Skinner’s behavioristtheory, which led to the revival of structural linguistics. The key point of Chomsky’s theory is reflected in his most famous question: if all language is a learned behavior, how can a child produce a sentence that never been said by others before?According to Chomsky, language is not a form of behavior, it is an intricate rule-based system and a large part of language acquisition is the learning of this system. There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with a knowledge of these an infinite number of sentences can be produced. A language learner acquires language competence which enables him to produce language.Though Chomsky’s theory is not directly applied in language teaching, it has had a great impact on the profession. One influential idea is that students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules. This idea is clearly in opposition to the audio-lingual method.Although people are pretty much still in the dark as to what language is and how language is learned, it is believed that general knowledge about language and language learning will help language teachers do a better job.Constructivist theoryThe constructivist theory believes that learning is a process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his/her own experiences and what he/she already knows. Although constructivist theory was not developed for the understanding of language learning, it is widely applicable tolearning in general. It is believed that education is used to develop the mind, not just to rote recall what is learned. John Dewey provided a foundation for constructivism. He believed that teaching should be built based on what learners already knew and engage learners in learning activities. Teachers need to design environments and interact with learners to foster inventive, creative, critical learners. Therefore, teachers must balance an understanding of the habits, characteristics as well as personalities of individual learners with an understanding of the means of arousing learner’s interests and curiosity for learning (Archambault, 1964).Socio-constructivist theorySimilar to constructivist theory, socio-constructivist theory represented by Vygotsky (1978) emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context based on the concept of ‘Zone of Proximal Development’(ZPD) and scaffolding. In other words, learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner and between learners. With the teacher’s scaffolding through questions and explanations, or with a more capable peer’s support, the learner can move to a higher level of understanding and extend his/her skills and knowledge and knowledge to the fullest potential.What makes a good language teacher?Some people with an excellent command of a foreign language may not be able to teach the language well while others with a general command of the language can teach it very effectively. What do you think might account for this phenomenon?Task 4Work in groups. Reflect on your own learning experience from early school years to the university. Have you had an excellent English teacher? Try to identify as many qualities as possible of your best English teacher(s). Note down all the qualities that you think are important for a good English teacher.It is clear that whether someone can become a good foreign language teacher does not solely depend on his\her command of the language. There are a variety of elements that contributes to the qualities of a good language teacher. These elements can be categorized into three groups: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles (Parrot, 1993).Task 5Ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles jointly contribute to the making of a good English teacher. All the adjectives in the box below could be used to characterize these three aspects.1. Work in groups of 4 and decide which adjectives describe ethic devotion,which describe personal styles and which describe professional qualities. Please write your answers on a separate piece of paper. 2. Add any adjectives to the list which describe further qualities thatyou feel are missing.3.These adjectives are intended to describe positive qualities or styles.Do you feel that any of them could have a negative side as well? Ifyes, in what way? For example, an authoritative teacher may make the students feel assured, but may also make the student less free to disagree with him\her.(Adapted from Tasks for Language Teachers, Martin Parrot, 1993)From the above activities we can see that a good English teacher should have ethic devotion, certain desirable personal styles, and more importantly, he or she should have necessary professional qualities. These three aspects constitute the professional competence of a good English teacher. A person who has a good command of English is not necessarily a good teacher because he has only one of the elements of professional competence.It is assumed that all responsible English teachers have ethic devotion, and they are supposed to make their personal styles compatible with their work. These two aspects, which are beyond the scope of this book, can be achieved as long as the teacher himself\herself has the willingness to do so.A question that many teachers often ask is: I like my job, and I love the students, but how can I become a good English teacher? Our answer is that they need professional competence, which we are going to discuss in the next section.1.5How can one become a good language teacher?The most important and most difficult part of the making of a good language teacher is the development of professional competence, which is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of skills, strategies, knowledge, and ability.Task 6Work in pairs and discuss how one can become a professionally competent teacher of English. For example, we have to develop our English proficiency first and also we may need to learn from experienced teachers through observations. What else can you think of? Make a list and then pool all your ideas together to find out about your common beliefs.A language teacher’s professional competence is much more difficult than a driver’s skill to handle a car, and is more complicated than a student’s competence of speaking foreign language. It involves more factors and longer learning time, and may never be finished.Some people think teaching is a craft; that is, a novice teacher can learn the profession by imitating the experts’techniques, just like an apprentice. Others hold the view that teaching is an applied science, based on scientific knowledge and experimentation. By making a compromise between these two views, Wallace (1991) uses a “reflective model” todemonstrate the development of professional competence. The following model is an adapted version to illustrate the process of becoming a professionally competent teacher.Figure Teacher’s professional development(Adapted from Wallace, 1991:15)From the above model, we can see the development of professional competence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2 and Goal. The first stage is language development. All English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. As language is the subject matter for language teachers and also because language is always changing, language development can never come to an end.The second stage is the most crucial stage and it is more complicated because it involves three sub-stages: learning, practice, and reflection. The learning stage is actually the purposeful preparation that a language teacher normally receives before he\she starts the practice of teaching. This preparation can include:1. learning from others’experiences (empirical knowledge gainedthrough reading and observations)2. learning the received knowledge (language learning theories,educational psychology, language teaching methodology, etc.)3.learning from one’s own experiences as a learnerBoth experiential knowledge (others’and one’s own) and received knowledge are useful when a teacher goes to practice. This is thecombination of ‘craft’and ‘applied science’knowledge. The learning stage is followed by practice. The term ‘practice’ can be used in two senses. In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned to do teaching practice as part of one’s pre-service education, usually under the supervision of instructors. This practice is also called pseudo practice. The other sense of ‘practice’ is the real classroom teaching that a teacher undertakes after he/she finishes formal education.Teachers benefit from practice if they keep on reflecting on what they have been doing (Stanely, 1999). It should be noted that teachers reflect on their work not only after they finish a certain period of practice, but also while they are doing the practice.When the would-be teachers(trainees) are doing pseudo practice, they are often trying out ideas that they have learned in a methodology class. Therefore, they are likely to reflect on how well a certain idea or technique works and often their instructors may require them to do so. The pseudo practice is beneficial only if the student teachers take reflections seriously. The most difficult thing is to keep on reflecting on one’s work when one moves on to real classroom teaching.Ideally, a teacher should be able to attain his/her professional competence after some period of practice and reflection as shown in Figure . However, professional competence as an ultimate goal does not seem to have an end. With the ever-deepening of our understanding of teaching and learning, and with the ever changing needs of the society, of education, of students, and of the teaching requirements, one must keep on learning, practicing and reflecting. Actually professional competence is’a movingtarget or horizon, towards which professionals travel all their professional life but which is never finally attained ‘. (Wallace, 1991:58)Task 7Work in groups. Discuss possible answers to the following questions in relation to the model presented in Figure .An overview of the bookThis second edition of A Course in English Language Teaching has allowed us the opportunity to expand the original 14 units into 18 in order to include topics reflecting the recent development in English language teaching both at home and abroad, to revisit a number of areas, to expand an clarify points that we felt were not sufficiently clear in the first edition, and to improve the pedagogical usefulness of the text.Overall, the book aims at introducing practical methods to teachers of English as a foreign language with some basic theories presented in the first two units. It is hoped that classroom teachers or would-be teachers will not simply copy or imitate what are suggested but be able to choose or adapt with an understanding of why.Unit 1 serves as an introduction for setting the scene for this methodologycourse. It discusses issues concerning views on language and language learning or learning in general with the belief that such views will affect teachers’ways of teaching and thus learners’ ways of learning. The qualities of a good language teacher is also discussed in order to raise the participants’ awareness of what is required for a good English teacher.Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) have been the most influential language teaching approaches in the past two decades and they have proven to be effective in a variety of language teaching contexts. In Unit 2 we introduce the basic principles of CLT and activities followed by an introduction to task-based approach. It is intended that most of the methods that we introduce in the remaining units will, to some extent, follow a communicative approach and task-based language teaching.Unit 3 is a new unit which focuses on the new National English Curriculum. It begins with a brief overview of the history of English language teaching in China followed by tasks and discussions on the goals, objectives, and design of the new English curriculum and ends with discussions on the challenges facing teachers today.We have arranged lesson planning and classroom management as the next two units of the book-Unit 4 and Unit 5 respectively. With regard to these two units, the new edition has replaced some previous lesson plan samples and added some relevant issues, . giving effective instructions, asking effective questions, and dealing with students’errors in the classroom. To have these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the readerwill use what is covered in these two parts in the early units, our intention is that the reader will use what is covered in these two units to design mini classroom activities for the teaching of knowledge and skills that come in later units.Like the first edition of the book, Units 6, 7 and 8 focus on the teaching of language components, that is, the teaching of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, while Units 9, 10, 11, 12 focus on the teaching of four skills of language, namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing, with Unit 13 discussing the integration of the four skills. Some new examples and new points are added to all these units in the new edition. It should be noted that neither the language components nor the language skills are taught in an isolated fashion. We present the teaching of these language components and skills in separate units so that there is a clearer focus of discussion. In classroom teaching, we hope teachers will be able to integrate all areas.Unit 14 is about moral education. This is a new unit aiming at raising teachers’ awareness of the scope available for moral education in language teaching so that teachers will be able to create opportunities and use relevant materials and activities to help students form positive social values towards life and work.Unit 15 deals with language assessment. We have avoided ‘testing’ and ‘examination’ as our unit title because we believe ‘assessment’ is a broader concept. In this unit we focus on classroom assessment rather than standard tests. Research evidence shows that classroom-based assessment provides a better evaluation of what the students have achievedduring the course of study.Units 16 and 17 are also new units. Unit 16 is about learner differences and learner training. As the purpose of teaching is for learning to take place, learners will need to play a major role in the learning process. We think as teachers we need to understand learners and the differences among them so that appropriate methods and techniques can be selected or designed to cater for learner needs. Also, we teach in order not to teach. In this sense, we need to help learners develop awareness of different learning strategies and learn to take responsibility for their own learning . Unit 17 focuses on using and creating resources. It discusses how to use the available resources as well as how to explore hidden resources for teaching and learning.Unit 18 introduces the reader to the most basic things in the evaluation, selection and adaptation of textbooks used in language teaching and learning. In the future, classroom teachers will have to take more responsibility and be given more autonomy in selecting and adopting ELT textbooks for their students.Throughout the book, we provide a number of tasks for each unit. The tasks usually follow a discussion and are aimed at providing the reader with opportunities to relate theory to practice. Most of the tasks are open-ended, that is, they do not have fixed answers or solutions. Sometimes, discussions following the task provide the authors’ further comments. Occasionally, some tasks seem to need more ‘concrete’solutions. In that case, we remove the solutions to Appendix 1 at the backof the book. We intend that users of the book should solve the problems themselves before referring to the authors’ suggested solutions.Most of the tasks involve group work or pair work. If the book is used in class, we consider it very important for students to work in pairs or groups so that they can share knowledge and experience. Individual readers may find it inconvenient to perform the task. We suggest that they discuss the problems with their colleagues wherever possible.。

Unit1 Language and Language Learning1.1How do we learn language?（如何学习语言）Much of human behavior is influenced by their experiences. The way language teachers teach in the classroom is to some extent influenced by the way they learned languages.1.2Views on language（学习观）1.3Views on language learning and learning in generalNow, the research about language learning theories can be broadly divided into two parts. They are Process-oriented theories and Condition-oriented theories. Some researchers attempt to formulate teaching approaches directly from these theories. For example, the Natural Approach, Total physical Response, and the Silent Way are based on one or more dimensions of processes and conditions. Here are What is done in these processes.1.4What makes a good language teacher?(好教师的素质要素)①Ethic devotion ②Professional qualities ③Personal styles1.5How can we become a good language teacher?(如何成为一名好的语言老师)The most important and difficult part of the making of a good language teacher is the development of professional competence, which is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of skills, strategies, knowledge, and ability.Teacher’s professional development1.6An overview of the bookUnit2 Communication Principles and Task-based Language Teaching 2.1 Language use in real life vs. traditional pedagogy2.2 What is communicative competence?communicative competence includes both the knowledge about the language and the knowledge about how to use the language appropriately in communicative situation.2.3 Implications for teaching and learning (略)2.4 Principles of Communicative Language Teaching(CLT)1）Communication principle: Activities that involves real communication promote learning.2) Task principle: Activities in which language is used for carry out meaningful tasks promote learning.3) Meaningfulness principle: Language that is meaningful to the learner supports the learning process.2.5 CLT and the teaching of language skills2.6 Main features of Communicative activities2.7 Task-based Language Teaching(TBLT)Task-based Language Teaching is, in fact, a further development of Communicative Language Teaching.2.7.1 Definitions of a task√√2.7.2 Four components of a task.1) A purpose: making sure the students have a reason for undertaking the task.2) A context: this can be real, simulated, or imaginary, and involves sociolinguistic issues such as the location, the participants and their relationship, the time, and other important factors.3) A process: getting the students to use learning strategies such as problemsolving, reasoning, inquiring, conceptualizing and communicating.4) A product: there well be some form of outcome, either visible(written plan, a play, a letter, etc.) or invisible (enjoying a story, learning about another country, etc.)2.7.3 Exercises, exercise-tasks and taskexercise exercise-task task2.8 PPP and Task-based Language TeachingMany teachers may be familiar with the Presentation, Practice and Production(PPP). A typical PPP lesson would start by the teacher introducing a new language item in a context followed by some controlled practice, such as drilling, repetition, dialogue reading, etc. Students then move on to produce the language in a more meaningful way, such as a role play, a drama, an interview, etc. Some teachers may also be familiar with the five-step teaching method, which is quite similar to the PPP model but adding revision at the beginning and consolidation at the end.2.8.1 Differences between PPP and TBL1) The way students use and experience language in TBL is rapidly different from PPP.2) TBL can provide a context for grammar teaching and form-focused activities. PPP is different in this aspect.2.9 How to design tasks?√√2.10 Appropriateness of CLT and TBLT in the Chinese context1)The problems of CLT: ①If CLT is culturally appropriate.（Both its advantages and constraints are recognized by teachers and students.）②It is very difficult to design a syllabus with a one to one correspondence between a function and a form.2)The problems of TBLT: ①It may not be effective for presenting new language items.(Swan,2005) ②Time. Teachers have to prepare task-based activities very carefully. ③The culture of learning. Some students may find it difficult to adapt to TBLT. ④The level of difficulty. Students mayfind task-based learning quite difficult if they do not have sufficient linguistic resources to handle holistic communication.2.11 ConclusionIt is important to remember that a method is effective only when it is appropriate to the teaching context. Therefore, when a new method or approach emerges, it is unwise to simply cast away the traditional and follow the new trend. The best thing to do is to develop one’s own teaching methods based on the context where one teaches and integrates the merits of different methodologies to serve the purpose of one’s teaching objectives and the needs of one’s students.Unit3 The National English Curriculum3.1 A brief history of foreign language teaching in ChinaUnit4 Lesson Planning4.1 Why is lesson planning important?Definition: A lesson plan is a framework of a lesson in which teachers make advance decisions about what they hope to achieve and how they would like to achieve it.Reasons: ①A clear lesson plan makes the teacher aware of the aims and language contents of the lesson.②It helps teachers distinguish thevarious stages of a lesson and see the relationship between them so that the activities of different difficulty levels can be arranged properly and the lesson can move smoothly from one stage to another.③Proper lesson planning gives teachers the opportunity to anticipate potential problems that may arise in class so that they can be prepared with some possible solutions or other options for the lesson. ④Good planning gives teachers, especially novice teachers confidence in class. ⑤When planning the lesson, the teacher also becomes aware of the teaching aids that are needed for the lesson.⑥Planning is a good practice and a sign of professionalism.4.2 Principles for good lesson planning4.3 Macro planning vs. micro planning.（宏观计划vs.微观计划）The components of macro planning:(宏观计划包含的内容)1)Knowing about the profession.2)Knowing about the institution.3)Knowing about the learners.4)Knowing about the curriculum/syllabus.5)Knowing about the textbook.6)Knowing about the objectives.4.4 Components of a lesson planDifferent teachers have different teaching styles and may use different teaching procedures, so ‘every lesson is unique’(Robertson and Acklam,2000:6), and so is every lesson plan. A lesson plan include many parts.Unit5 Classroom ManagementDefinition：Classroom management is the way teachers organize what goes on in the classroom.Goal:To create an atmosphere conductive to interacting in English in meaningful ways.(Gebhard,1996)Conditions for achieving classroom management:1)The teacher plays appropriate roles.2)The teacher provides clear instructions.3)Students are grouped in a way suitable for the learning activities.4)The teacher asks appropriate questions.5)There is discipline as well as harmony in the class.6)The students errors are treated properly.5.1 The role of the teacherWhat are the teacher’s roles defined by Harmer?①controller ②assessor ③organiser ④prompter ⑤participant⑥resource-providerWhat are teacher’s new roles?①facilitators ②guides ③researchers5.2 Classroom instructionsDefinition: Classroom instructions refer to the type of language teachers use to organize or guide learning. They include giving directions to tasks or activities; providing explanations to a concept or language structure; setting requirements; checking comprehension; drawing attention; motivating learners; giving feedback and assigning homework, etc. Generally they include all classroom language that teachers may use for teaching purposes as well as for managing teaching.What are rules to follow for making instructions effective?①To use simple instructions and make them suit the comprehensionlevel of the students.②To use the mother-tongue only when it is necessary.③To be careful not to do all the talking in class.。

第1章Language and language learning一、Views on language1. Structural view sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: phonology, morphology and syntax etc. Each language has a finite number of such structural items. To learn a language means to learn these structural items so as to be able to understand and produce language.2. Functional view sees language as a linguistic system as well as a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc. Therefore, learners learn a language in order to do things with it. To perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions.3. Interactional view refers to language is a communicative tool to build up and maintain social relations between people. Therefore, learners not only need to know the grammar and vocabulary of the language, but also need to know the rules for using them in a whole range of communicative contexts.二、Views on language learning 两个方向，四个理论Two broad learning theories:Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mind organises new information, such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization.Condition-oriented theories emphasise the nature of the human and physical context in which language learning takes place, such as the number of students, and the learning atmosphere.1. Behaviourist theorySkinner suggested that language is a form of behavior. It is based on a stimulus-response theory of psychology. It can be learned the same way as an animal is trained to respond to stimuli. This theory of learning is referred to as behaviourism.One influential result is the audio-lingual method, which involves the “listen and repeat” drilling activities. The idea of this method is that language is learned by constant repetition and the reinforcement of the teacher. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised.2. Cognitive theoryAccording to Chomsky, language is not a form of behavior, it is an intricate rule-based system and a large part of language acquisition is the learning of this system. There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with a knowledge of these rules an infinite number of sentences can be produced. A language learner acquires language competence which enables him to produce language.One influential idea of this theory is that students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules.3. Constructivist theoryThe constructivist theory believes that learning is a process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his own experiences and what he already knows. And education is used to develop the mind, not just to rote recall what is learned.Therefore, teachers must balance an understanding of the habits, characteristics as well as personalities of individual learners with an understanding of the means of arousing learners’ interests and curiosity for learning.4. Socio-constructivist theorySimilar to constructivist theory, it emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context based on the concept of “Zone of Proximal Development” and scaffolding.In other words, learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner and between learners.三、What makes a good language teacher?There are a variety of elements that contribute to the qualities of a good language teacher. These elements can be classified into three parts: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles四、How can one become a good language teacher?Professional competence is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of knowledge, skills, strategies and ability. To develop professional competence, we can use the “reflective model” by Wallace.We can see the development of professional competence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2, and Goal.1. The first stage is language development. All English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. Language is always changing, so language development can never come to an end.2. The second stage seems to be more complicated because it involves three sub-stages: learning, practice, and reflection.①The learning stage is actually the specific preparation that a language teacher should make before they go to practice. This preparation can be learn from others’ experiences, learn the received knowledge and learn from one’s own experiences.②The learning stage is followed by practice. The term “practice” can be used in two senses: In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned to do teaching practice as part of one’s pre-service education, usually under the supervision of instructors. This practice is also called pseudo practice. The other sense of “practice” is the real work that a teacher undertakes after he finishes formal education.③Teachers benefit from practice if they keep on reflecting on what they have been doing. Teachers reflect on their work not only after they finish a certain period of practice, but also while they are doing the practice.3. Professional competence as an ultimate goal does not seem to have an end. Actually professional competence is a moving target or horizon, towards which professionals travel all their professional life but which is never finally attained.Therefore, a language teacher must keep on learning, practicing, and reflecting.。

第1章Language and language learning一、Views on language1. Structural view sees language as a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: phonology, morphology and syntax etc. Each language has a finite number of such structural items. To learn a language means to learn these structural items so as to be able to understand and produce language.2. Functional view sees language as a linguistic system as well as a means for doing things. Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising, apologizing, etc. Therefore, learners learn a language in order to do things with it. To perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions.3. Interactional view refers to language is a communicative tool to build up and maintain social relations between people. Therefore, learners not only need to know the grammar and vocabulary of the language, but also need to know the rules for using them in a whole range of communicative contexts.二、Views on language learning 两个方向，四个理论Two broad learning theories:Process-oriented theories are concerned with how the mind organises new information, such as habit formation, induction, making inference, hypothesis testing and generalization.Condition-oriented theories emphasise the nature of the human and physical context in which language learning takes place, such as the number of students, and the learning atmosphere.1. Behaviourist theorySkinner suggested that language is a form of behavior. It is based on a stimulus-response theory of psychology. It can be learned the same way as an animal is trained to respond to stimuli. This theory of learning is referred to as behaviourism.One influential result is the audio-lingual method, which involves the “listen and repeat” drilling activities. The idea of this method is that language is learned by constant repetition and the reinforcement of the teacher. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised.2. Cognitive theoryAccording to Chomsky, language is not a form of behavior, it is an intricate rule-based system and a large part of language acquisition is the learning of this system. There are a finite number of grammatical rules in the system and with a knowledge of these rules an infinite number of sentences can be produced. A language learner acquires language competence which enables him to produce language.One influential idea of this theory is that students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules.3. Constructivist theoryThe constructivist theory believes that learning is a process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his own experiences and what he already knows. And education is used to develop the mind, not just to rote recall what is learned.Therefore, teachers must balance an understanding of the habits, characteristics as well as personalities of individual learners with an understanding of the means of arousing learners’ interests and curiosity for learning.4. Socio-constructivist theorySimilar to constructivist theory, it emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context based on the concept of “Zone of Proximal Development” and scaffolding.In other words, learning is best achieved through the dynamic interaction between the teacher and the learner and between learners.三、What makes a good language teacher?There are a variety of elements that contribute to the qualities of a good language teacher. These elements can be classified into three parts: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles四、How can one become a good language teacher?Professional competence is the state or quality of being adequately qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of knowledge, skills, strategies and ability. To develop professional competence, we can use the “reflective model” by Wallace.We can see the development of professional competence for a language teacher involves Stage 1, Stage 2, and Goal.1. The first stage is language development. All English teachers are supposed to have a sound command of English. Language is always changing, so language development can never come to an end.2. The second stage seems to be more complicated because it involves three sub-stages: learning, practice, and reflection.①The learning stage is actually the specific preparation that a language teacher should make before they go to practice. This preparation can be learn from others’ experiences, learn the received knowledge and learn from one’s own experiences.②The learning stage is followed by practice. The term “practice” can be used in two senses: In one sense, it is a short period of time assigned to do teaching practice as part of one’s pre-service education, usually under the supervision of instructors. This practice is also called pseudo practice. The other sense of “practice” is the real work that a teacher undertakes after he finishes formal education.③Teachers benefit from practice if they keep on reflecting on what they have been doing. Teachers reflect on their work not only after they finish a certain period of practice, but also while they are doing the practice.3. Professional competence as an ultimate goal does not seem to have an end. Actually professional competence is a moving target or horizon, towards which professionals travel all their professional life but which is never finally attained.Therefore, a language teacher must keep on learning, practicing, and reflecting.。