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<正> This article stresses the teacher's role in foreign language classroom teaching according to the modernteaching theory and shows how to help cultivate students' ability to use the language and how one canbecome a qualified facilitator.The development of the four modernizations,the situation of opening our country to the outside world,the progress of the theory and practice of foreign language science and the improvement in the entrancelevel of new students have set an even higher demand on foreign language teaching for non-majors(nowcalled College English).
1999年01期 4-6页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 43K] [下载次数：31 ] |[阅读次数：37 ] |[引用频次：1 ] <正> The present paper has made an analysis of the change of the teachers'role in education as com-pared with that in ancient times and has illustrated the importance of and the implications of training Chi-nese learners of foreign languages,especially of English,to be autonomous in their learning.
1999年01期 7-12页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 120K] [下载次数：300 ] |[阅读次数：55 ] |[引用频次：16 ] -
<正> This paper attacks the conservatism of grammar teaching in China.It takes the example of teachingnon-restrictive clauses in English and demonstrates that a communicative approach can and should beapplied even to such a linguistic subject.A procedure is suggested in which group work and problem-solving activities attempt to raise students'awareness of grammar problems and encourage them to findtheir own solutions.
1999年01期 13-18页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 91K] [下载次数：56 ] |[阅读次数：39 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> This paper examines the approach used by middle school teachers to teaching texts and argues against thetraditional practice of exploiting texts just to teach grammar and vocabulary.A more balanced approach ispresented,involving all four-language skills,concentrating on output as well as input,and training stu-dents to extract relevant information from texts,making them more efficient readers.
1999年01期 19-22页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 66K] [下载次数：31 ] |[阅读次数：31 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> This paper outlines the features of the new senior middle school textbooks:Senior English for China.Itdescribes the need for the change of approach adopted for teaching English in China,the communica-tive basis on which the new books are based and the approaches that the teachers have to take in order touse the books and teach the language more effectively.
1999年01期 23-27页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 102K] [下载次数：86 ] |[阅读次数：55 ] |[引用频次：2 ] <正> This paper examines the problems of teaching English to students from remote under-developed regionsof China,referred to as"directionally-enrolled"students,at Chongqing Medical University.Thesestudents arrive at the university with a lower level of English than their colleagues,which causes themsome psychological problems.The author suggests ways in which these problems can be dealt with sensi-tively and possible solutions for the teachers to follow in order to motivate the students to progress,buildup their confidence and cater to their special needs.
1999年01期 28-30页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 50K] [下载次数：15 ] |[阅读次数：46 ] |[引用频次：0 ] - Ralf Dua;
<正> This paper presents the view that speaking and listening skills should be taught together in way that re-flects real-life communication.Suitable classroom activities are proposed.The authors present theirown experience,as Chinese lecturer and foreign expert,in co-teaching their combined classes in orderto integrate the teaching of speaking and listening skills.
1999年01期 31-36页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 115K] [下载次数：98 ] |[阅读次数：77 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> This paper discuses the inseparability of culture and language,presents three new metaphors regardingculture and language,and explores cultural content in specific language items through a survey ofword associations.The survey has been designed for both Chinese English speakers(CES)and nativeEnglish speakers(NES)(See Appendix).The associated words and expressions are language forms:the free,natural associations involve thinking.Both the language forms and the thinking process con-vey culture.The words and expressions associated by CES and NES are partly similar and partly dif-ferent,because people are by nature alike an d CES and NES have different cultures.
1999年01期 37-42页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 89K] [下载次数：467 ] |[阅读次数：68 ] |[引用频次：5 ] -
<正> The author supposes that there is a big gap between vocabulary and text in the course of second languageacquisition.Ignorance of individual sentence training to acquire language sense in the CET coursemight be one of the reasons to account for the failure of many students to be speakers of English afterthey graduate.Students should be encouraged to read and recite some model sentences and articles so asto gain a certain language sense as hardware and supporting materials in linguitic communication.Thus confidence is obtained and the gap between vocabulary and text can be easily jumped over.
1999年01期 43-47页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 94K] [下载次数：179 ] |[阅读次数：47 ] |[引用频次：1 ] <正> The teaching of English for Specific Purposes has been in existence for over 30 years,and has beenprominence for more than 20 years,and is still in the ascendant.ESP teaching accounts for a consider-able proportion of the teaching of English as a foreign language in China.It is therefore necessary forus Chinese teacher s to know more about ESP.
1999年01期 48-54页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 126K] [下载次数：153 ] |[阅读次数：71 ] |[引用频次：2 ] -
<正> ESP teachers teaching English for mixed subject -specialist groups meet problems such as selecting teach-ing materials,dealing with the subject matter,and teaching methods.The experience in the ATTSR(Advanced Teacher Training in Specialist Reading)project may be a reference point for colleagues whomeet with the same problems.In this paper the author will suggest methods to solve these problems intraining this group:using different subject s
1999年01期 55-62页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 147K] [下载次数：28 ] |[阅读次数：72 ] |[引用频次：3 ] <正> Using video films can be a very effective way of teaching and learning English only when the films areproperly selected and some activities are organized around them.This paper offers the criteria forchoosing films and suggests some activities for a variety of language teaching purposes.As video units and video films in English are now more easily available,the use of video films has becomean increasingly important component of teaching English as a foreign language.Here I use the term"video film"in a loose sense to mean"feature film on video".In recent years,textbooks have appeared inChina,such as English Through Films(Wu Qing,Yang Limin 1993)and English and American Films
1999年01期 63-68页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 96K] [下载次数：126 ] |[阅读次数：55 ] |[引用频次：7 ] -
<正> The paper introduces the use of the Internet for both teacher and learner.It shows how the teacher canuse the Internet both for the selection of authentic materials for classroom use and also as a medium forself-improvement and professional updating through the use of discussion forums and mailing lists.Students can use email for academic contact with their tutors and also for self-study.Email and TheWorld Wide Web are explained and a number of mailing lists and websites recommended.
1999年01期 69-72页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 73K] [下载次数：93 ] |[阅读次数：56 ] |[引用频次：1 ] <正> Levels:Low intermediateProblems:In teaching science students English,one may find it the most difficult to get them to speak inEnglish.Although speaking is one of the four skills required,it is often neglected and given up by moststudents and teachers as well.It is true that there are many difficulties in organizing such a large class as30-40 students to practise within a comprehensive course.Even if a teacher devoted most of the class timeto oral practice,this would only be about two minutes with each student.Using games to force them tospeak is one of the solutions to solve the problem.
1999年01期 73-77页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 52K] [下载次数：22 ] |[阅读次数：36 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> 1.Birth of CALLNET in Shanghai,Feb 1984 Tim Johns of Birmingham University conducted aCALL workshop,the first in China,at Shanghai Jiaotong University.It went so well that the 24 partic-ipants,mostly EFL teachers from 15 universities and institutes,founded an association CALLNET withZhang Yanbing and the author as coordinators and Tim as consultant.Tim brought the news to the Chi-nese University,Hong Kong,and Herbert Pierson joined in.
1999年01期 78-80页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 63K] [下载次数：52 ] |[阅读次数：43 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> It seems that very few people take the trouble reading Guide for Contributors.People continue to ask usabout the word/length limit etc.Please read the following rules carefully.Articles that do not follow therules will be rejected immediately.1.Word limit per article:less than 3000 words(less than 5 pages).2.TEIC will become a quarterly in 1999.Each issue,64 pages,will be published in the mid-month of aseason.
1999年01期 81页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 16K] [下载次数：14 ] |[阅读次数：38 ] |[引用频次：0 ]