英语教学法教程教案
A Course in English Language Teaching
教材：《英语教学法教程》
主编：王蔷
出版社：高等教育出版社
陇南师范高等专科学校外语系
2008年6月22日
Introduction
1.The name of this course.
1)Methodology of English Teaching
2)Methodology of English teaching at middle school/secondary school
3)Teaching English as a Foreign Language/TEFL & TESL
4) English, Teach it Better
2.The nature of language teaching
1) What's methodology?
English teaching methodology is a set of methods used for study or action in English teaching. It is the science to research the Teaching rules at middle school, which will guide our teaching to develop the students' communicative competence.
2) The definition of teaching.
Teaching is an attempt to help someone acquire, or change some skills, attitude),knowledge, ideal, or appreciation. In other words, the teacher's task is to create or influence desirable changes in behavior, or in tendencies toward behavior, in his students.
3) The purpose of English teaching
a. To improve their four skills.
b. To cultivate their communicative competence.
c. To show them the way to study themselves.
3.The significance of learning this course.
1) Teaching is a highly demanded art.
(4 skills & sing, play, draw and make)
2) Teacher's qualifications
a. subject matter competence
b. professional competence
c. personal attitude.
3)The aims of this course.
a)to provide you with the rationale of English teaching at middle school, which will be proved necessary and advantageous to the reform of English teaching.
b)to help you to clear the importance as well as the aims of English teaching at middle school in present China.
c)to provide you with chances to familiarize with the graded contents of the textbooks in the junior section, analysis of the textbook and to learn the syllabus for middle school English.
d)to introduce some commonly used techniques and methods adopted in teaching pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and the cultivation of the students' 4 skills.
e)to help you so solve some problems concerning the classroom instruction.
f)to make some preparations for the coming teaching practice.
4.How to present this course.
1) lectures
2) readings
3) discussions
4) watch video demonstrations
5) mini-teaching
6) practice writing teaching plan and peer teaching.
5.The relationship between methodology of English and the other subjects. linguistics, psychology, pedagogy, philosophy,
Question：
1.What qualifications, in your opinion, should a teacher of English possess?
2.Do you think you will perform well in your future teaching? What qualifications have you obtained now? What will you do if you haven't got the required qualifications?
3.Who was your admirable teacher of English at junior school?
What do you think of him/her?
Unit 1 Language and Learning
1.Teaching Aims:
To discuss some general matters about language learning and teaching, such as common views on language and language learning, qualities of a good language teacher.
2.Teaching Content:
How do we learn language?
Views on language
Views on language learning
What is good language teacher?
How can one become a good language teacher?
An overview of the book
3. Teaching Hours: 4 periods
4. Teaching materials:
Textbook
Handout
5.Teaching Methods:
1) Lecture ( Computer-aided Instruction)
2)Demonstration
6. Teaching Procedures:
1) Information about language and language learning
Three views about the nature of language: There are many possible theoretical positions about the nature of language. Here are three different views which explicitly or implicitly is reflected in current approaches to language learning.
A. The structural view of language
The structural view of language is that language is a system of structurally related elements for the transmission of meaning.
a. These elements are usually described as phonological units (phonemes) grammatical units (phrases, clauses, sentences)
grammatical operations (adding, shifting, joining or transforming elements)
lexical items (function words and structure words)
