教育语言学 概要.ppt

Educational Linguistics: an understanding of language fosters better teachers Prof Jingyu Zhang Shaanxi Normal University Educational Linguistics Educational linguistics, as the name suggests, involves two disciplines: education and linguistics. Educational linguistics is concerned with the study of language in teaching and learning. It has interests in the nature of the linguistic system and its role in learning, as well as in what kinds of knowledge about language should be taught. It highlights areas of linguistics that are most relevant to teachers. In our case, it is the teaching and learning of English as a second or foreign language in primary or secondary schools in China. In other words, the target language is English but working language in Chinese schools is Chinese, the mother tongue or the first language (L1) for both students and most teachers, if not all. Since our students learn English as a second language (L2) when they have already mastered their L1 Chinese, their knowledge about Chinese plays a role in their English learning. This role could be positive or negative. To become a better teachers, English teachers need to know both English and Chinese well. Course Objectives To encourage you to reevaluate your own beliefs and attitudes about language. To make you aware of the complexity of language and able to articulate this awareness. To make you aware of some of the similarities and difference between English and Chinese. To expose you to the “core” sub-fields of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics). To enable you to teach English in a more systematic and effective way. Education and Linguistics Many teachers recognised that “educational failure is primarily linguistic failure” Halliday, McIntosh Strevens (1964) in their The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching (1964). (223-251) identified three types of language teaching: “prescriptive” (referring to practices that prescribed preferred expressions, suc