Trends_in_English_Language_Teaching_and_Research介绍.ppt

Trends in English Language Teaching and Research Jiangxi Normal University Team member: 何慧 余忠军 付国英 卜妹红 罗小宁 徐枫生 钟根佐 文基华 1.Abstract A great deal of research on L2 learning has been carried out since WWII. Over time, as researchers have come to recognize the enormous complexity of L2 learning and its many facets, investigations into this domain of knowledge have become a great deal more diverse and sphisticated. Whereas in the 1940s and 1950s, learning L2 was seen as a “habit” that learners were expected to develop and maintain, today, L2 studies undertake to gain insight into social, political, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and interactional processes entailed in learning a L2. With the expanding influence of English as lingua franca and more recently with the widespread availability of technology, the number of L2 English learners has been continuing to grow dramatically worldwide. However, the rising numbers of L2 learners do not merely result in teaching L2 to more people. The evolving complexities of human societies, political structures, and the ever-increasing pace of globalization have also led to the emergence of new types of learners and learning needs, adding new dimensions to recent research and heightening the need for new knowledge in and a bout L2 teaching and learning. Therefore, this thesis discusses the trend of English teaching and research. L2; English teaching; Research; Trend. 2.Key words In the past 30 years or so, there has been a shift of interest from external factors to internal factors, from objective factors to the human factors. For 100 years we have been searching for the best method, but in vein. Methods, textbooks, teachers, and so on are all external factors. 3.Background of research The sole most importance factor is the human factor -- the learner. In terms of ontology(本体论) , it is the learner that undergoes fundamental changes inside himself in learning another language. All other things are of secondar