文档介绍：Views on Language
Views on language
What is language
Learning contents
Structural view
As a linguistic system made of various subsystems
Structuralrules (phonology,
morphology, syntax)
Functional view
1. As a system
2. As a means for doing things
rules
2. Vocabulary
3. How to use the rules and vocabulary to do whatever it is one wants to do
Interactional view
As a communicative tool, whose main use is to build up and maintain social relations between people
The patterns and rules of language above the sentence level to learn how language is used in different speech context
Constructivist theory:
Learning is a complex cognitive process in which the learner constructs meaning based on his or her own experiences and what he /she already knows.
How can one become a good language teacher?
Language
Development
Other's
experience
Received
knowledge
Own
experience
Practice
Reflection
Professional
competence
Stage 2
Goal
Stage 1
Communicative Competence
Linguistic competence
Concerned with knowledge of the language itself, its form and meaning.
Pragmatic competence
Concerned with appropriate use of the language in social context.
Discourse competence
One’s ability to create coherent written text or conversation and to understand them and ability to initiate, develop, enter, interrupt, check, or confirm in a conversation.
Strategic competence
Strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resources.
The realistic goals for the lesson, which should be based on what students are able to do by the end of the lesson
2. Variety A number of different types of activities and where possible, introducing students to a wide selection of materials
3. Flexibility Planning some extra and alternative tasks and activities as the class does not always go according to the plan
4. Learnability The contents and tasks planned for the lesson s