How do you think of this course? Is it necessary for you?
How do you think of this phenomenon: in middle schools, a lot of English teachers don’t know any theories of English education, yet they still teach well.
To enable us to identify the difficult nature of English subject education.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Chapter one
Testing:
one of the various means of assessment, a way to collect information through formal and standardized form.
Means-ends model:
an approach to curriculum development ot to teaching in which a distinction is made between ends and mens and which generally employs a cycle of planning activities involving
objects:
To develop integrated personality, to establish a curriculum system balancing consistency and difference, to realize the integration of the knowledge system and to carry out multi-cultural education.
behaviorism
A theory of psychology which states that human and animal behavior can and should be studied only in terms of physical process, without reference to mind. It led to theories of learning which explained how an external event (a stimulus) caused a change in the behavior of an individual (a response),
Empiricism: (All knowledge comes from experience and practice, ultimately from our interaction with the environment through our reasoning or senses.) environmentalist theory (an organism’s nurture, or experience is of more significance to development) The neo-behaviorist S-R learning theory: knowledge is the product of interaction with the environment through stimulus-response (S-R) conditioning. Nativism: language acquisition is innately determined and that we are born with a built-in device which predisposes us to acquire language and predisposes us to a systematic perception of language around us. Chomsky’s innatist language acquisition theory
English subject teaching:
To realized students’ overall development; to lay emphasis on individualized learning; to help students. Learn knowledge positively, actively and independently, and to form a knowledge structure with their own individualized characters.
Teaching Chapter 7 Classroom Practice Chapter 8 English Testing Chapter 9 Teacher Training in English Language Teaching
Discussion
Did you ever be a teacher or have any teaching experience? How do you teach?
The structure of this course
Chapter 1 Basic concepts of English Language Educology Chapter 2 Survey of the History of English Teaching Chapter 3 English syllabus Evaluation and Design Chapter 4 Teaching of Different Language Skills Chapter 5 Learners’ Variables in English Teaching Chapter 6 Cultural Awareness and English Language
English subject learning:
learning is an important means of fitting into the society, seeking self-actualization and striving for self-perfection, is to develop integrated persons.
Assessment/Testing
Assessment:
a systematic approach to collecting information and to making inferences about the ability of a student or the quality or success of a teaching course on the basis of various sources of evidence. It may be done by test, interview, questionnaire, observation, etc.
what do you think you can learn from this course?
The importance of English subject educoloaster the general laws of English education;
Behavioristic view of language acquisition: language development is the process of habit formation, and the result of a set of habits.
Language acquisition/learning theories
the development of the personal and social
Professional competence
Cognition:
the various mental processes used in thinking, remembering, perceiving, recognizing, classifying, etc.
To enable us to solve the problems which are difficulties for English education at special levels;
To explore and promote the theory of English curriculum and teaching;
Basic Concepts of English Language Educology
Introduction to English language educology; The study of education and its relation to language
educology; Language acquisition/learning theories; A brief survey of English teaching models.
Introduction to English language educology
The definition of “educology” and “subject educology” Research objects
general education
cognitive competence
Specific objects
Concepts: FL / SL/TEFL/TESL Foreign language: a language which is not the native language of large