文档介绍：Unit Eight
Learning to Learn
Teaching plan
Situation: Final Exam
Pattern: Oral
Situation: A Lecture on the campus
Pattern: Writing
Situation: Study methods
Pattern: Report
Task1: Ways to propose
Task2: Notice writing
Task3: Summary of study methods
Background Information
Learning a Foreign Language
Methods of Study
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The Makeup of Language
Communicative Approach
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Learning a Foreign Language
There are many important reasons for learning a foreign language. Among them are the following:
(1) Learning a foreign language increases your range munication. For example, if you learn English, you municate with over 400 million other people. If you also learn Spanish, you can also speak to any of the 371 million Spanish-speaking people in Latin America, Spain, and other parts of the world.
(2) An additional foreign language can help add to your knowledge of the one you are learning or know. For example, by studying Latin, you can improve your understanding of many of the thousands of English words that have Latin roots.
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(3) Learning a foreign language helps you add to your general stock of information. A foreign language can be a key that unlocks new fields of knowledge. If you learn German you will be able to read books that are written in German on almost any subject you may wish to study.
Learning any language involves four different skills: (1) speaking, (2) understanding, (3) reading, and (4) writing. If you understand a foreign language, and make yourself understood in speech and writing, you have mastered it.
Methods of Study
No language is easy or difficult in itself. The ease or difficulty of any language depends on the age of the person learning it. Before the age of 10, all languages are equally easy when learned by the natural speaking method (listening and imitating). After 10, learning a language es more difficult. Therefore, it is desirable to learn foreign languages as early as possible. Some school