learning this course?
a. To provide learners with some current but basic theories related to language, language learning and language teaching.
b. To help learners develop practical skills and techniques in teaching the language.
e. To help learners develop their own ideas about ELT and the awareness of putting these ideas in their own teaching practice in the future.
3. What do you expect to learn or what do you want to learn from this course?
Teaching is a personal activity, and it is not surprising that individual teachers bring to teaching very different beliefs and assumptions about what constitutes effective teaching.
Howatt, A. P. R. A History of English Language Teaching. 上海：上海外语教育出版社, 1999.
Johnson, K. An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社, 2002.
Brown, H. D. (1994b). Teaching by Principles, an Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. New York: Prentice Hall.
Harmer, J. (1983). The Practice of English Language Teaching. Longman. Harmer, J. How to Teach English. 北京：外语 教学与研究出版社, 2000.
I. Warming-up Questions:
1. What kind of course is ELT
Methodology?
a. What is teaching?
Teaching is a complex process which can be conceptualized in a number of different ways. Traditionally, language teaching has been described in terms of what teachers do: that is, in terms of the actions and behaviors which teachers carry out in the classroom and the effects of these on learners.
(See the contents of the textbook)
II. Some Reference
books:
Brown, H. D. (1994a). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. New York: Prentice Hall.
Unit One
1.Objectives of Unit one In this unit, the students are required to master
some fundamental concepts and theories of language learning and teaching. Get to know what kind of course ELT is; understand the main purposes of learning this course; be aware of the main contents of this course.
c. To raise learners’ awareness and prepare them for dealing with practical issues in teaching practice.
d. To develop learners’ reflective and cooperative learning strategies for their future professional development.
Linguistics ↓
sociolinguistics → applied linguistics ← psycholinguistics ↓
sociology → theory and practice of ELT ← psychology
↓ pedagogof
b. Methodology --- method
+ -(o)logy (forming the name of a branch of science) 方法 论
c. What kind of course is ELT Methodology?
ELT Methodology is a typically multidisciplinary (多种不同学科的综合训练方 式的)course which is closely linked to such kinds of disciplinary as philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, linguistics, sociology and anthropology(人类学), etc.