Course description (II)--Content
1. A brief history of language teaching 2. Nature of language teaching
approaches and methods 3. Major approaches and methods in
Definitions of Language
Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another. (Random House Dictionary of the English Language)
teaching approaches or methods are built
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Suggested References
1. Larsen-Freeman, Diane. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
4. 束定芳，庄智象. 现代外语教学—理论、实践与方法（修 订版）. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社，2008.
The definition of language
Linguistic fields under the mask of the definition
Language
Understanding the SLA
methods – W3
4. Part III Current communicative
approaches W 4-8
Class Learning Organization
Mini-lecture Task-based workshop Course paper on teaching and learning
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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
Proper Treatment of This Course
1. What’s the purpose of learning this course?
2. How shall we learn this course? 3. There’ve been so many teaching approaches
and methods. How shall we treat them? 4. Why have there been so many language
teaching approaches and methods?
Course description (I)— Objective/Aim
1. To get an idea of the development of language teaching approaches and methods
language teaching, particularly those recent ones
Learning Schedule
1. Introduction – W1
2. Part I Major Teaching Trends – W2 3. Part II Alternative approaches and
2. Stern, H. H. Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Press, 1999.
3. Nunan, David. Second Language Teaching and Learning. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2001.
2. To get an idea of the characteristics of different approaches and methods in language teaching
3. Major approaches and methods in language teaching
Language is a system of communication by sound, operating through the organs of speech and hearing, among members of a given community, and using vocal symbols possessing arbitrary conventional meanings (Pei)
approaches and methods
Preparation for Part I
1. A brief history of language teaching 2. Nature of language teaching approaches
and methods 3. Fundamental elements on which language
Learning
Teaching
HOW learning and teaching interact?
D.H.BROWN
Definitions of Language
Language is a system of arbitrary, vocal symbols which permit all people in a given culture, or other people who have learned the system of culture，to communicate or to interact (Finocchiaro 1964:8)