2015英语教学法.ppt

The theoretical basis of foreign language teaching 英语092班 马丽丹 Contents The nature of language theory Language learning theory The model of foreign language learning Theory of education related subjects American Structuralism(美国的结构主义） The background of American Structuralism The three period of American Structuralism Features of American Structuralism Advantages of American Structuralism Problems of American Structuralism Methods of American Structuralism The background of American Structuralism American linguistics developed from the end of the 19th century The three period of American Structuralism Boas-Sapir period(1911-1932) The Bloomfieldian period(1933-1950) The Post-Bloomfieldian period(1952-1956) Features of American Structuralism Synchronic VS Diachronic Descriptive VS Prescriptive Structuralism VS Traditional Grammar Advantages of American Structuralism A great landmark in the linguistics history and comparing with its predecessor—the traditional grammar; Vividly important in documenting the diversity of human languages and vanishing and offering the basic date of developing serious explanatory theories of language. Problems of American Structuralism Neglected Syntax Ignored meaning Bottom –up Interference of mother tongue Methods of American Structuralism Language is speech, not writing so that speaking than writing priorities study ; Take advantage of contrastive analysis to study. British Structuralism（英国的结构主义） British Structuralism was based on Levi-Strauss Structuralism but was more empirical in approach. Many famous Linguists (H. Palmer/ A. S.Hornby) analysis and summary of the main English grammatical structure together and summarized them as certain sentential form . In total : 25 kinds of Verb sentence patterns ; 5 kinds of Noun sentence patterns ; 3 kinds of Adjectives in sentence patterns In short , these sentence patterns provide the evidences for the paraphrasing. Con