《英语教学法程》全套教学课件.ppt

The focus for today What makes listening so difficult? What do we listen to in our everyday life? What are the characteristics of the listening process? How do people process information in listening comprehension? What are the principles for teaching listening? How can we teach listening effectively? Textbook PP 136-137 What makes listening so difficult? interviews instructions radio news loudspeaker announcements theatre shows telephone chats committee meetings shopping lessons lectures conversations gossips watching television story-telling (Ur, 1996:105) II. What do we listen to in our everyday life? III. Characteristics of the listening process Informal spontaneous discourse Listener expectation and purpose Looking as well as listening Ongoing, purposeful listener response Speaker attention (Textbook P139) IV. How do people process information in listening comprehension Bottom-up processing Top-down processing PP143-144 Warming-up Discussion Is it very easy to learn English vocabulary? What are the learners’ difficulties in learning English vocabulary? P117 Problems in learning vocabulary Read the paragraph on Page 133 and try to get some ideas about the problems of English vocabulary learning in China. Main Topics for this unit: I. Understanding vocabulary II. What does knowing a word involve? III. Ways of presenting vocabulary IV. Ways of consolidating vocabulary V. Developing vocabulary learning strategies I. What is vocabulary ? Vocabulary refers to the words we teach in the foreign language. A new item of vocabulary may be more than a single word. e.g. post office, mother-in-law,etc. II. What does knowing a word involve? Form: pronunciation and spelling Grammatical properties: verb forms, noun forms, etc. The first aspect of meaning: Denotative meaning (字面含义) Connotative meaning (言外含义) Appropriateness Register (语域) P119 Collocation Synonyms (同义词) Antonym