- Evan Davies;
<正> There are five sections to this issue of Teaching English in China . These reflect some of the important challenges facing ELT in China at present, as well as also coming to bear on the broader issues worldwide. The sections include the process of educational change, the teaching and learning of oral English, intensive and extensive reading, the teaching and learning of vocabulary and a last section containng a range of issues within ELT. Researchers in the field of ELT have relatively recently recognized the importance of educational change as well as its inevitability. In this section of seven articles, some of the stages of the process of education-
1998年02期 3-4页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 47K] [下载次数：18 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> This paper is a questionnaire survey on learning strategies used by Chinese non-English majors including good language learners and less successful learners. It is based on English Band Four examination scores and final examination scores of 80 university students. The objective of this study is to find out whether the two groups of students used the same or different learning strategies.
1998年02期 5-12页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 238K] [下载次数：125 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：3 ] -
<正> Introduction After a brief introduction of the two extreme positions in EFL concerning the role of grammar in language teaching, the author introduces the idea that the decision should be made according to two factors. The first concerns learner variables, namely, learning style, age, proficiency level and educational background . The second concerns instructional objective, including learning objectives and the learner's needs. To help illustrate this viewpoint, an example is cited here to help analyze the two factors and thus
1998年02期 13-15页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 71K] [下载次数：82 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> Ⅰ. Introduction. Today, in most English teaching classes, owing to the popularity of the student-centered teaching approach, the traditional teacher-centered teaching approach has gradually lost its dominating place. As far as extensive reading classes are concerned, this is no exception. The more communicative student-centered approach has been popularly adopted. As a result, the teachers' roles in the reading classes are changing accordingly. A qualified teacher should be prepared to take different roles at different stages of teaching. Jeremy Harmer has pointed out that a teacher can be expected to act, for example, as a controller, an assessor, an organizer, a prompter, a participant and as a resource (Harmer, 1983). In this
1998年02期 16-19页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 91K] [下载次数：121 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：2 ] -
<正> To err is human . Since the 1960s, most second language teachers or language theorists have regarded errors as natural and inevitable in the language learning process . Instead of regarding them as terrible and disappointing, teachers have come to realize their value. This paper will consider these values, analyze some errors and propose some effective correction techniques.
1998年02期 20-22页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 68K] [下载次数：36 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：2 ] <正> Last year we put forward a report to establish a state-level trial and applied for ratification by the Central Science Institute of Education and Research. It was a grand and unprecedented trial practice in Tanghe's history of teaching and teaching reform. Based on a good combination of the existing teaching material, the experiment was aimed at students' rapid grasp of language and partial settlement of some of the students' common problems in learning English. The reason for our decision lies in the following issues.
1998年02期 23-25页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 67K] [下载次数：24 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> This paper attempts to give a brief introduction to the TEFL situation in primary and middle schools of Guangdong Province and then put forward some ideas for a TEFL development plan for the coming five years. The points of view and propositions presented are only the author's personal opinions.Guangdong Province, located in the south of China, with a comparatively developed culture and economy, is one of the provinces in China whose trade relations with foreign countries can be traced back to a time as early as the Tang Dynasty. Hence, it not only has the country's most well-known home-towns of overseas Chinese, but also keeps close relations with the outside world and consequently has had a better foundation of foreign language education in the past. Nevertheless, for a long period of time since the founding of the PRC, owing to various reasons, the quality of foreign languages teaching and learning has been very unsatisfactory. The present situation of TEFL is still far from suits the urgent needs of economic and social development today.
1998年02期 26-30页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 113K] [下载次数：57 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> This paper introduces the background of English curriculum change an the serious problems related to the reform of English teaching in the P. R. China. It analyses the major expectation of the curriculum designers and the teachers during implementation. It also discusses the great challenge to teachers in terms of conceptions and practices.
1998年02期 31-33页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 56K] [下载次数：42 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] -
<正> Foreword JEFC Research is one of the ten education research items of the eighth-five- year plan in Xinjiang U. A. R. The research mainly focuses on the new syllabus, JEFC itself, the new methodology, teacher training and problems and solutions of JEFC in Xinjiang. The research has been finished with the hard work of the researchers and the help of some experts and VSO teachers. Many thanks to these kind people. The following is a report of the research into the main problems and solutions of JEFC teaching in Xinjiang.
1998年02期 34-36页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 57K] [下载次数：22 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> The article investigates factors affecting Chinese postgraduate EFL learners' oral proficiency. Little practice, fear of errors and unscientific classroom management are found to be the major factors. Also an overemphasis on written English instruction seems to be another root cause. After the discussion of the results of this investigation a series of methods are suggested for reference.
1998年02期 43-48页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 137K] [下载次数：85 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：3 ] -
<正> Introduction In English teaching, the first task for teachers should be teaching students with clear information about the language they are learning. The presentation stage is the best way to reach this goal. In this essay, we analyze the importance of this stage. How it is different from the traditional methods -grammatical explanation and translations methods- and its advantages.
1998年02期 49-51页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 57K] [下载次数：30 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> Due to the increasing opportunities for face-to-face communication, students should be able to understand utterances in a particular context. Grice's conversational implicature theory, mainly consisting of the cooperative principle and the maxims, purports to explain what is conveyed by an utterance. Austin and Searle's speech act theories contribute to the functional explanation of language and explore the illocutionary acts beyond the literal meaning of utterances. With these theories as the theoretical framework, the author proposes a way to improve students' ability to interpret utterances, that is, teaching theories of conversational implicature and speech act, creating an appropriate and plausible context and inculcating cultural knowledge of the target language.
1998年02期 52-55页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 79K] [下载次数：29 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> Introduction Extensive Reading, as the name indicates, is a guide for students into the vast sea of knowledge. Reading demonstrates to students that there is no end in learning knowledge. However, reading and language learning based on textbooks is far from enough because the knowledge from them is too narrow, the vocabulary is too limited and the contents are not current enough in these times of information exchange. Throughout my teaching experiments, I have found that newspaper clippings can become a very good way to bring more benefits to students' learning than I expected. It can broaden the students' horizons,
1998年02期 56-57页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 38K] [下载次数：45 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] <正> This paper points out the problems existing in the Intensive Reading Course classrooms conducted under the teacher-centred pedagogy and proposes that varied warm-up activities be applied at the beginning of every class. The purpose is to motivate the students to be active participants in class, provoke communication at different levels, and foster the top-down reading schema, all of which serve to enable the students to become effective readers. The theoretical and applicative considerations of the warm-up activities are discussed in detail in the paper.
1998年02期 58-64页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 150K] [下载次数：96 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] -
<正> This paper discusses the question of how to teach word-formation knowledge effectively. To achieve a better result, teachers may not only be interested in the form, meaning and function of a certain word part, but also in such aspects as the determining factor which governs the choice of variant forms and the various changes brought about by the word-formation process. When teaching word parts, teachers are advised to pay attention to their usefulness and productiveness and draw their learners' attention to various linguistic patterns. A tentative procedure is suggested for the effective teaching of word-formation knowledge.
1998年02期 65-68页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 76K] [下载次数：175 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> Introduction Vocabulary is one of the indispensable components of the language system, and researchers have found that there exists a close relationship between vocabulary and other components in a language system. However, vocabulary is thought to be the most difficult component of language knowledge for a learner to grasp. Gorman (1979) pointed out that there was evidence showing that as students become more proficient in a second language, problems caused specifically by syntactical variation become less significant (cited in Crow and Quigley, 1985: 499). That is to say, vocabulary becomes a major problem in the
1998年02期 69-72页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 70K] [下载次数：138 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] -
<正> Introduction Writing is one of the most difficult tasks for language learners. It is very much the case in learning English. Many students who have been learning English for many years are very poor in writing at the sentence level. Some of the compositions are even not revisable, because the sentences written do not make any sense. On the other hand, few students can write well in English. Why? A survey on students' study habit shows that habits of learning really make a difference in students' writing proficiency. Those who can write using good English usually have good study habits, and good reading habits in particular. They pay much more attention to ideas while reading.
1998年02期 73-76页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 91K] [下载次数：48 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：3 ] <正> Introduction Some writing is good in sentence structure but either poor in coherence or in cohesion. The problem of coherence is that the sequence of information is not always clear and the problem of cohesion is that the sequence of information is acceptable, while the connection between it is not so good. The question is how to analyze and improve these different weakness in writing. We have two methods. One to focus on coherence, the other to focus on cohesion. In this essay, the method used is based on the principle that coherence and cohesion should work together. I use this approach as a tool to edit and display the analysis of coherence and cohesion in the passage entitled ' Father & Son". This passage is presented as a guided writing exercise in College English Course, Intensive Reading, Band 3, p271.
1998年02期 77-81页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 108K] [下载次数：89 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：1 ] -
<正> Introduction The proliferation of approaches and methods is a prominent characteristic of contemporary ESL or EFL teaching. From the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, Situational Language Teaching, the Audiolingual Method to Communicative Language Teaching, Total Physical Response, the Silent Way, Community Language Learning, the Natural Approach and Suggestopedia, the discussion has lasted for more than a century. However, the wide variety of method or approach options confuses rather than comforts, because they seem to hold very different views of what language is and how a language is learned (Richards & Rodgers, 1991) . This confusing situation is mainly caused by the myth of the hu-
1998年02期 82-87页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 128K] [下载次数：101 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正>~~
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<正> Brief Introduction to ELTECS-Chi-L ELTECS-Chi-L is a British Council China internet discussion group for Chinese ELT (English language teaching)professionals with an interest in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Launched in Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press by Helena Kennedy QC, Chair of the British Council on 9th October 1998, the network has now over 150 subscribers, among whom more than 40 are from the UK, Belgium, Japan and other countries.
1998年02期 91页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 15K] [下载次数：21 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ] <正> It seems that very few people take the trouble reading Guide for Contributors. People continue to ask us about the word/length limit etc. Please read the following rules carefully. Articles that do not follow the rules 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 a season. 3. TEIC is internationally recognized academic magazine on English Language Teaching (ELT) and its ISSN number is 1005-538X. 4. Anyone can subscribe the four issues of 1999 free of charge by filling the subscription form. Next year (2000), TEIC will charge its subscribers with a minimum printing cost. Nothing can go free forever.
1998年02期 96页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 19K] [下载次数：15 ] |[阅读次数：0 ] |[引用频次：0 ]