- Jim Banks;
<正> This is the second edition of Teaching English in China to come out this year.To judge by the responsewhich we had to issue 27,which came out in March,our decision to increase the printing run from 3000to 5000 was a wise one.I have received letters from literally hundreds of teachers and other members ofthe profession asking to be put on the mailing list for future editions of the journal.One of the moststriking things about many of the letters is that they come from newly qualified teachers who are just aboutto start their careers in the classroom.Most o f these teachers have praised the practical orientation ofTEIC and the guidance many of the articles it contains give them in their day-to-day work.Once againthis edition contains articles of a mostly practical nature.
1996年02期 5-6页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 36K] [下载次数：16 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionIt is no joke that kindergarten and primary,school pupils often refute their parents'correction of whatevertheir teacher has taught them.A parent,who might be a professor,might find it hard to help his or herchild‘shake off’something learned at school even if it is inappropriate or outdated because‘My teachertold me so.’In short,a child in China believes the teacher more than his or her own parents.
1996年02期 7-8页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 38K] [下载次数：30 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] - Michael Agelasto;
<正> IntroductionThe Foreign Language Department(FLD)of Shenzhen University(SZU)incorporates several computersoftware applications into its writing sequence for undergraduate English majors.Computers not onlyhelp the students self-develop their writing skills but also free up the instructor's time so he or she candevote more attention to the students'individual needs.The FLD writing program includes sequential courses taken during the four-year program.Freshmenstart out with the fundamentals,including sentence and paragraph construction.Emphasis is placed ongrammar and syntax as well as idiom and preposition use.During the sophomore year,students compose
1996年02期 9-10页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 40K] [下载次数：43 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionAs theories of language and psychology have developed,new teaching approaches and methods haveemerged to accompany them.The appearance of these approaches and methods has not only met theneeds of contemporary language teaching,but also aroused the interest of the second and foreign languageteachers.Though there have been many controversies among applied linguists and teachers,uniquecharacteristics of each method can be identified.Some methods have been adopted universally.others areconfined to limited areas.Whatever the situation may be.a general review of these approaches andmethods is necessary,in order to get some insights into their nature,strengths and weaknesses.The resultwill hopefully be more effective language teaching.
1996年02期 11-14页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 99K] [下载次数：228 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionThe literature classroom in China is often compared to a huge dull cage where we generously spend ourtime spoon-feeding the sweet birds of youth who usually have a hard time before becoming fully-fledged.Although they may be fully-fledged by the end of their study,they are,more often than not.unfortunatelyidentical in that they seem unable to think critically.Deeply rooted in our traditioual values and powerfully influenced by the particular ways our social andacademic institutions are organised,we teachers,consciously or unconscionsly.do contribule to themaking of this undesirable reality.Always ready to accept authority,most of our students are too shy to
1996年02期 15-19页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 105K] [下载次数：209 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionTeaching English reading in a non-English speaking situation is a very.challenging job.Despite greatefforts made,not much effect is shown.As the importance of reading comprehension is once againstressed,all the teachers and language workers in the college English world in China have been trying todeal with the issue of how best to teach reading comprehension.During the past few years,someimprovement has been made in this field.As ESL workers,we have been teaching English to Chinese medical students,and have also had theexperience of teaching English to Spanish speakers in the USA.What impresses us most is that no matterwhat native language our students speak,they are all very well motivated to learn English in order to meettheir specific needs.Our goal is not only to improve their English language competence,but to makethem become efficient English readers.
1996年02期 20-22页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 49K] [下载次数：85 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionThe need for ESP English teaching for Specific Purposes for non-English majors has long beenrecognized in China.However,it has developed slowly,especially in non-key universities.This is duenot only to a lack of teachers who are good at both English and a particular subject and the lack of suitabletextbooks:it is also due to the lack of effective approaches to motivate and orientate students towards thereal goal of ESP training.The goal of ESP training,according to the national syllabus,is to enable students to read authenticmaterials in their fields,at an appropriate speed and with adequate understanding.They should be able touse English as a tool to get information in their specific areas.
1996年02期 23-27页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 81K] [下载次数：89 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionBlackboard drawings can be a source of motivation for many teaching and learning activities in theclassroom.Some middle school teachers have already recognised the usefulness of simple drawings intheir teaching,made use of them and achieved very satisfactory results.Blackboard drawings have three main advantages in English language teaching.They are convenient;they are easy for both teachers and students to sketch;they make the teaching more effective,communicative and interesting.In this paper we will look at these three advantages of blackboarddrawings in more detail,and suggest some possible ways of applying them to teaching.
1996年02期 28-31页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 75K] [下载次数：94 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionIn China.the method for teaching writing for science students is always regarded as most difficult.Howto teach writing and to comment on or mark students'writing are frequently discussed topics.In thispaper.I will report on what I have done in my writing class.Process ApproachThe‘process approach’to writing is not a new approach:it has been around since the early 1970s.It isalso called a‘multiple drafts process’and consists of generating ideas(pre-writing/input):writing a firstdraft with an emphasis on content(to‘discover’meaning/author's ideas):writing second and third(andpossibly more)drafts to revise ideas and ways to communicate of these ideas.
1996年02期 32-35页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 68K] [下载次数：213 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] <正> IntroductionToday many Chinese students think of English grammar as an unpopular and difficult part of theirEnglish lessons Even more worryingly,that attitude is one they have usually picked up from theirteachers.Namely,grammar seems to be hard work for EFL teachers and students.So should grammarteaching be abolishedWhy do many teachers and students take a negative attitude toward grammarInthis paper,first,I will attempt to discuss the place of grammar in EFL teaching.Next,I will outline thetraditional methods of grammar teaching and the results of this kind of grammar teaching.Finally,I willput forward some suggestions on how to make grammar teaching more interesting in Chinese classrooms.
1996年02期 36-39页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 93K] [下载次数：46 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> Introduction:Chinese English learners were madly enthusiastic about English Corners a few years ago.But theenthusiasm seems to be dropping dramatically nowadays.It is uot because of the loss of the learners'interest in learning English.The reasons seem rooted in poor organisation.At our college,instead ofblaming students for not attending English Corners regularly,we began to try out a well-planned‘WeeklyEnglish Day’.which has proved to be attractive to the students.Why Do English Corners Fail
1996年02期 40-42页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 69K] [下载次数：24 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionWriting in English for Chinese students can be both difficult and challenging.Most of them lack ideasfor writing and knowledge about how to write.Furthermore,students in some universities learn verylittle in their writing courses about methods of writing effectively.They may need more input andguidance in order to write both easily and naturally.In order to solve these problems,the first thing to dois to examine the writing background in some Chinese universities.
1996年02期 43-45页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 57K] [下载次数：141 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionAs the SMSTT(Senior Middle School Teachers Training)trainees enter the Communicative classroomwith a history of eight years of learning and teaching English in the Traditional Approach(Grammar-Translation and Audiolingual)behind them,they are confronted with the problem of transition andadaptation.In the early stages of trying to change from traditional to the communicative approaches,theyface the issue of Instruction Comprehension.Instruction Comprehension(IC)means the skill of identifying a given task's aims and requirements andthen deciding on how best to do the task within the time allowedIC will be discussed in the following sequence:a description of the problem,an analysis of its causes anda set of strategies to tackle the problem.
1996年02期 46-50页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 93K] [下载次数：37 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionI have been teaching ESL in Guangzhou for over ten years,and I find the teaching of oral English a ratherdifficult task.A few years ago,I taught the course to first year English majors,using:‘50 EverydayTopics in English’as the coursebook.The topics include‘Greeting and Farewells’,‘Introduction’,‘Calling on somebody’etc.,each consisting of a few dialogues.In each lesson,there is a list of new wordsand a considerable number of pattern drills.When using the book,I conducted the class using the following procedure:1.Students study the new words before class.2.Teacher presents the dialogue and explains the language points.3.Students read aloud the dialogue after the teacher or the tape recording.4.Students practise the pattern drills or do Chinese to English translation for structural practice.5.Students repeat the dialogue in pairs or individually.6.Students act out the dialogue in class.
1996年02期 51-54页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 78K] [下载次数：168 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionTwo major components.a syllabus and a communicative methodology constitute the CommunicativeLanguage Teaching Approach.A syllabus specifies what to teach while a methodology deals with how toteach it.A communicative methodology means a methodology based on real language use.in whichlearners are required to use language to achieve real outcomes.Communicative methodology has alwaysassumed a place of central importance in Communicative Language Teaching,which has gainedmomentum in language teaching in Britain as well as in other parts of the globe.Although.there havebeen diverse opinions and proposals concerning communicative methodology,it is possible to identify themethodology,which,I believe,can provide useful guidelines for College English Teaching in China.These principles will be addressed and their pedagogical implications discussed in this article.
1996年02期 55-59页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 105K] [下载次数：55 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionThe majority of English courses books in China provide students with long lists of vocabulary attached tothe end of the texts.Since vocabulary is regarded as central to language learning.Students are supposedto memorise all the new words and expressions on which they will be tested.Teachers rarely considerwhich items may be students active vocabulary and which items may be students passive vocabulary.Therefore.they treat all the new words and expressions with an equal amount of time and care:andstudents tend to treat all the new items as active vocabulary.The consequence of this approach is often:students get bored of memorising the long lists:even if they succeed in memorising all the new items,they are usually still unable to use themactively.This inappropriate method of teaching vocabulary tends to make students lose interest inlearning.
1996年02期 60-61页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 37K] [下载次数：52 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionTeaching vocabulary,is one of the most important tasks in teaching English.With successful teaching ofvocabulary,students will find English classes interesting and words easy to memorise.If English classesare dull,students will not be interested in trying to learn new words.Sometime students find itimpossible to distinguish the difference between so many similar words.In my experience,one of themost effective ways to solve the problems is to make appropriate use of a very simple teaching aid-coloured chalk.Coloured chalk can produce‘sharp contrasts’on the blackboard.‘Sharp contrasts’willhelp students to discover associations between words,word formations,and minor differences in thespelling of some commonly confused words.With coloured chalk,teachers do not have to ask studentsagain and again to pay attention,the‘sharp contrasts’will highlight the key features.Teachingvocabulary with appropriate use of coloured chalk will produce twice the result with half the effort.
1996年02期 62-63页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 31K] [下载次数：41 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] - Jan Van Maele;
<正> BackgroundIt is hard not to be moved buy the fervor Chinese learners of English display in their studies.The EnglishCorner and Tou Pai are just two illustrations of how popular the English language has become.Theformer refers to an informal outdoor gathering where learners practice their phrases and ambushunsuspecting foreigners with stock questions like‘Where do you come from’,‘Do you like China’",‘Do you like Chinese food’Tou Pai(tou as in TOEFL)is a slang term for youngsters whose conversationalways seems 1o come back to emigration law and enrollment procedures at American universities.The desire to learn English,tinged with desperation,has,however,not yet brought about a richerlanguage environment.That is why students often still model their speech on the stilted English found inobsolete textbooks,and imitate teachers whose‘Chinglish’is sometimes incomprehensible to anybody buttheir students.
1996年02期 64-67页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 86K] [下载次数：51 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionI have been teaching English for ten years and like many other teachers in middle schools.I teach threebig classes each year.Before I had the opportunity to further my study in the SMSTT project run jointlyby the British Council and the State Education Commission of China at Southwest China TeachersUniversity.I found it somewhat difficult to correct students homework since I had so many students.Now I still have three big classes.but I have found it casier to correct students homework since I havebeen combining the techniques learned in the project with my own successful experience.In this article.I attempt to discuss my approach to correcting students homework.I hope that it will be of some use tothose who have not vet had the opportunity to further their training.
1996年02期 68-70页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 71K] [下载次数：120 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionMost teachers and students in China are quite familiar with the term‘extensive reading’,but how itshould be taught still remains a problem.This paper covers the aims of extensive reading and the methodsand materials used in the course.Then some practical suggestions will be given to make the course moreinteresting and efficient.According to Dzao(1990).extensive reading is‘the course where other reading skills-speed,predictionand making inference-can be developed,’and‘where there is practice in geting the gist,in summarisingmain ideas,in understanding the author's purpose and theme...’.So the aims of this course are todevelop general reading skills,the ability,to read quickly and to grasp the main ideas of the text.Toachieve these,students must enlarge their vocabulary,so this is also regarded as one of the aims.
1996年02期 71-72页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 57K] [下载次数：82 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionAmong the four skills,reading has been viewed as the most basic and useful skill for Chinese learners ofEnglish.Many college students will.after leaving their English class,come into contact largely(andsometimes solely)with the written form of the language.Therefore the instruction of reading has becomevery important in English teaching Although great developments have been made both in the linguisticand pragmatic fields of reading analysis.teaching Chinese students the specific skills of reading inEnglish is still a tough problem.Many English teachers have become more and more aware of theChinese students difficulties and more and more aware of how inefficient the traditional approach is inthe design of teaching materials and leaching methods.As a result,this paper is an attempt to analysesome current theoretical achievements and suggest a revised method for teaching Chinese students.
1996年02期 73-76页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 81K] [下载次数：93 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionDuring the three years of Senior Middle School Teacher Training at Southwest China TeachersUniversity.experiments and experience have shown that it is crucial for middle school English teachers tohave more proper and more effective principles that underpin language teaching activities.As Stern(1983)puts it,teachers need:‘Some criteria characterizing a good language teaching theory:usefulness and applicability;explicitness;coherence and consistency;comprehensiveness;explanatory power and verifiability;simplicity and clarity.’But what can be done to obtain these qualitiesThrough these years of experiments,we have found thatlinguistically-guided language teaching is more effective.
1996年02期 77-80页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 70K] [下载次数：33 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionIn China doctoral candidates have to continue their English courses when they are working towardsdoctoral degrees.The syllabus requires them to have a good command of reading and writing,as well asa certain command of listening and speaking.In order to achieve these objectives,the English teachingfor Ph.D.students should focus on giving the students special training in the practical use of English.Careful Selection of Teaching MaterialsA textbook is an important factor in teaching,Therefore,we should be careful to choose which books weuse as our teaching materials.This means we should survey the interests of the students.Most of thedoctoral candidates have studied English for more than ten years.They are not learners at the first stage
1996年02期 81-83页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 76K] [下载次数：26 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionEvery.year many Chinese scientists,scholars,university teachers,doctors,and other professional go toBritain to do research or continue their education sponsored by various bodies such as the SBFSS(Sino-British Friendship Scholarship Scheme)of the TC(Technical Cooperation)scholarship holders:Most of these people are aged between 30 and 50.They have all passed a screening test called the EPT(theEnglish Proficiency Test)before being nominated as candidates.Most attend one or two sessions of apredeparture training course in one of the three pre-departure training centres in China-Beijing,Shanghai and Chengdu.The purpose of these courses includes improving the candidates'languageskills,preparing them with some study skills for their research/study in Britain,giving them knowledgeand advice about living an studying in Britain,and practice for the IELTS test.Each session of thetraining is 4-5 months long.At the end of the training the candidates are given the IELTS test.Thosewho fail to reach Band 6 have to attend one more session and take the test again.
1996年02期 84-86页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 49K] [下载次数：52 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] -
<正> IntroductionCurrently China has a variety of English teaching methods and practices.Unhappily,however,manyChinese students'basic English is poor.English courses are overloaded and teachers'tasks are toonumerous to accomplish.Morever in order to fulfill their requirements many teachers have to abandonparts of the syllabus in order to cover all the required material.This‘cover-the lot’approach doesn'tconform to acceptable standards of good English teaching.Consequently,the results are not satisfactory.Although many teachers spend hours of effort preparing and teaching,students seem to retain less andless from their courses,and their interest in English seems to deep gradually decrease.
1996年02期 87-89页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 58K] [下载次数：39 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionThe main goal of studying a foreign language is to be able to communicate.The essence ofcommunication is sending and receiving messages and negotiating meaning.During the communicationprocess,learners may meet problems which hinder their understanding.In order to overcome theselimitations,it is very.important to know and use certain strategies involved in the communicationprocesses.There are three basic activities in the communication process-expressing intensions,interpretation andnegotiation.Expressing intentions is giving information.During communication,every speaker has tofirst send his or her messages and the listener must decode what he or she has heard.This activity may becalled interpretation.During conversation,both listener and speaker must do some negotiation in orderto make sure that they understand each other.Negotiation could be called communication exchange.
1996年02期 90-92页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 61K] [下载次数：25 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionIt was believed in the past that children acquire a language,while adults can only learn.But recentresearch shows that adults also acquire.Many people have the experience that they often suddenly findthemselves being able to sing the songs they often hear and like very much although they do not make anyefforts to learn them at all.For example,during the‘Cultural Revolution’(1966-1976),only eight‘ModelPeking Operas’were allowed to be performed on the stage and to-be broadcast on the radios in China.Thepeople listened to them hundreds of times.As a result,nearly everybody,old and young alike,finally wereable to sing pans of them,although most people never tried to learn them.Some even hated hearing them.The same is true with some advertisements frequently broadcast on the radio or on TV.Few peoplebother to make any efforts to learn and memorise their verses,but when the people hear these
1996年02期 93-95页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 62K] [下载次数：86 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> IntroductionTraditionally in China teachers use the Grammar-Translation Method.This focuses on teaching newvocabulary,and explaining the text sentence by sentence.In this way,most students learn a lot ofvocabulary and knowledge of grammar,and native-like pronunciation.However,when they listen orspeak in a real-world situation,they have no idea how to express themselves appropriately.In otherwords,they need not only to read and write,but also listen and speak in English.In the future,they mayneed to attend international seminars or have discussions with foreign colleagues.Traditional methodsmay not meet these needs whereby the Communicative Approach(C.A.)may be more effective.
1996年02期 96-98页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 53K] [下载次数：80 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> IntroductionIn China,the significance of intensive reading in language learning and teaching is known to allconcerned.For a long period of time,roughly halfa century,there have been no great changes in the wayintensive reading is taught.As a result some schools and colleges continue to place too much emphasis onusage rather than use.The teacher spends a great deal of time explaining language points,paraphrasingdifficult sentence structures,and introducing the author's background.Students,on the other hand,areaccustomed to accepting whatever is presented to them passively.
1996年02期 99-102页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 69K] [下载次数：47 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> The following articles have been submitted for possible publication in TEIC.For reasons of space ofpriority they have not been able to be included.If you are interested in further information about anarticle please contact the author directly at the address given below(if address given).
1996年02期 103页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 9K] [下载次数：12 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> Teaching English in China(TEIC)is a journal aimed at all those who are professionally involved orinterested in the field of teaching English as a foreign language in China.The readership includesthose who teach at junior and senior middle schools and in colleges and universities across thecountry.Thus TEIC is concerned with all the factors that influence the development of ELT in China,whetherthese be practical issues or theoretical issues that are relevant to it.Within this framework articles are welcomed on practical concerns such as the teaching of newmaterials,classroom techniques,methods,syllabuses and the development of new means of assessment.Such articles should have a strong experiential basis,be applicable or of interest to people working in awide variety of contexts and take account of articles previously published in TEIC.
1996年02期 104-105页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 36K] [下载次数：16 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] 下载本期数据