文档介绍：中学英语教学法 Unit 1 Language and Learning
主讲教师:陈道明
(华南师范大学外文学院)
Unit 1 Language and Learning
Views on language
Views on language learning
What is a good language teacher, and how can one e such?
How do we learn language? Task 1 on pp. 1-2
How many foreign languages can you speak?
Did you find learning a foreign language easy?
What difficulties did you experience? Why?
Which skill did you find more difficult to learn?
Did you focus on knowledge or skills? Why?
Why did you learn the foreign language(s)?
Did you find it interesting to learn the foreign language(s)?
What were your mon learning activities?
Did you like the way you learned the foreign language(s)?
Conclusions of the task
People learn a foreign language for different reasons;
People learn languages in different ways;
People have different understandings about language learning; and
People have different capabilities in language learning.
Views on language
The answer to the question ‘What is language?’ is the basis for:
syllabus design,
teaching methods,
teaching procedures, and
teaching techniques
Task 2 (p. 2) What is language?
Sample definitions of “language”(p. 177)
Language:
is a system/set of symbols;
is (primarily) vocal;
is arbitrary and conventional;
consists of a set of rules (and is rule-governed);
is related to culture;
is used for munication or interaction.
Three different views of language
The structural view,
The functional view,
The interactional view
The structural view
The structural view sees language as a linguistic system.
The system of language = the system of sounds + the system of words + the system of grammar
The structural view System of Language
3 sub-systems
Sounds
Words
Grammar
The structural view
Sentences
phrases
Words
Morphemes
(the smallest meaningful unit)
Phonemes
(the smallest unit)