英语学科教学论期末考试(整理)

yingyu英语学科教学整理

一．缩写

PPP: presentation, practice, and production

TTT : Teacher Talking Time

STT: Student Talking Time

EAP：English for Academic Purposes

ESP：English for Specific Purposes

ESEA: Engage-Study-Engage-Activate

IATEFL: The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (P185)

EFL: teacher a teacher who teaches English as a foreign language p2

ESA：engage study activate

TQ：teaching aids

SA: means stages where the teacher leads a question and answer session with the students

SS: means pairwork

TQ---SA: it means stages where the teacher leads a question and answer session with the students

OHP: the overhead projector

二．Definition

1.Schema: schema is a structured cluster of pre-conceived ideas about a specific theme, it helps us to organize our background knowledge about the reading material.

2. skimming and scanning：Skimming is a kind of reading skill which means getting a general idea of what the reading material is about. Scanning is a kind of reading skill which means searching for particular bits of information.

3. language acquisition and language learning：language acquisition: gaining use of a language without any conscious learning

4. Stereotype: Stereotype is a popular and highly exaggerated concept of a particular group of people. Concentrating on just a few features of the particular group, it is an image, conception, or belief which exaggerates, oversimplifies, and thus distorts the characteristics of people and their behavior. For example, one group might consider another to be backward, belligerent, sexy, or arrogant. In those traditional Chinese films, thieves and criminals are always those who have ugly faces and look violent. But in reality, people with ugly faces may also have a kind heart like the cartoon film ―The Beauty and the Beast‖. This kind of misconception is the result of stereotype.

5. Gist listening: Listening exercise which require students to listen for the main idea

6. comprehensible input: language which is certainly above the students’productive level, but which they can more or less understand

7. attention span: the length of time you can concentrate on some idea or activity(internet P11)

8. plateau effect: the phenomenon that people sometimes find they don’t improve much or as fast as before.(P13)

9. rough-tune: exaggerate the voice tone and gesture to help get the meaning across/ rough-toning is that unconscious simplification which both parents and teacher use by exaggerating tones of voice, speaking with less complex grammatical structures than they would if they were talking to adults. When rough-toning, their vocabulary is generally more restricted. They don’t set out to get the level of language exactly correct for their audience, but to rely on a general perception of what