英语教学法复习

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Unit 1 Language and Learning

Views on language

Views on language learning

1. What are the major views of language? What are their implications to language teaching or learning?

2. Some language teachers argue that we should “teach the l anguage”rather than “teach about the language”. What are the major differences between these two approaches to language teaching?

3. Audiolingual approach to language learning

4.Socio-constructivist theory of language learning emphasizes interaction and engagement with the target language in a social context.

5. The quality of a good language teacher includes ethic devotion, professional quality and personal styles.

6. One influential idea of cognitive approach to language teaching is that students should be allowed to create their own sentence based on their own understanding of certain rules.

Unit 2 Communicative Principles and Activities

What is communicative compentence? Try to list some of its components.

Principles in communicative language teaching/ strong version and week version

List some of the communicative activities.

What is a task/its components

Unit 3

The overall language ability required in the 2001 National English Curriculum includes the following aspects language knowledge, language skills, learning strategies, affects and cultural understanding.

4. Lesson Planning

What is lesson planning?

Principles for good lesson planning

Components of a lesson plan

Unit 5 Classroom Management

What is classroom management?

Types of student grouping and their advantages and disadvantages

The role of the teacher ---- contoller, assessor, organizer, prompter, participant, resource provider

The new curriculum requires the teacher to put on the following new roles: facilitator, guides, and researchers.

Classification of questions

How to deal with errors?

Unit 6 Teaching Pronunciation

Critical Period Hypothesis

The goal of teaching pronunciation should be: consistency, intelligibility, and communicative efficiency.

List some methods of practicing sounds.

Unit 7 Teaching Grammar

Grammar presentation methods

Grammar practice is usually divided into two categories, mechanical practice and meaningful practice.

Unit 8 Teaching Vocabulary

What does knowing a word involve? Receptive vocabulary and productive vocabulary.

List some ways of presenting new words

How to consolidate vocabulary?

Developing vocabulary building strategies

Unit 9 Teaching Listening

Characteristics of listening process

Principles and models for teaching listening

As far as classroom procedures are concerned, the teaching of listening generally follows three stages: pre-listening stage, while-listening stage, and post-listening stage.