英语教学法复习.doc

PAGE PAGE 5 Revision contents: 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 language” 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 communic