In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts ...In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.展开更多
The identification of effective and appropriate speaking skills seems to be a paradox task for the reason that there exist no consistent criteria for evaluating speaking skills in language teaching and testing.It is c...The identification of effective and appropriate speaking skills seems to be a paradox task for the reason that there exist no consistent criteria for evaluating speaking skills in language teaching and testing.It is claimed in the current article that the teaching and assessment of speaking skills would probably be better based on a comprehensive framework of criteria including four aspects,namely,grammatical competence,strategic competence,sociocultural competence and discourse competence.展开更多
Communicative language teaching has been popular for more than 3 decades but there is still no shortage of argument in cases of how to develop communicative competence as a whole. Strategic competence,one of the four ...Communicative language teaching has been popular for more than 3 decades but there is still no shortage of argument in cases of how to develop communicative competence as a whole. Strategic competence,one of the four components of communicative competence,has been given much priority. The paper reexamines the four components of communicative competence and points out that we need to strike a balance in the process of developing learner's communicative competencein foreign language teaching.展开更多
As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integr...As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integrating the“work for understanding”into the existing pedagogical procedures,both students and the teacher contributed some insightful explanations to this puzzle.With these underling reasons brought to surface,the main players of the classrooms can make some contextually ap?propriate changes to their classroom life.展开更多
There is general agreement that culture should be taught in the foreign language classroom of Higher Vocational College,but just what this means is unclear.The thesis is concerned with why,what and how of teaching cul...There is general agreement that culture should be taught in the foreign language classroom of Higher Vocational College,but just what this means is unclear.The thesis is concerned with why,what and how of teaching culture.Firstly,it will be demonstrated that teaching foreign language is not the same as giving syntactic structures,but mainly incorporates some cultures elements.Secondly,it suggests which culture is taught in the foreign language classroom.Furthermore,by means of some methods an attempt will be made to incorporate culture into the classroom.As a result of the study shows that Culture has taken an important place in foreign language classroom of Higher Vocational College.展开更多
基金funded by the 2022 Hunan Vocational Education Teaching Reform Research Project“Research on the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Ability for Business English Majors in Vocational Colleges Under the Concept of Curriculum Ideology and Politics (Project approval No.:ZJGB2022058)”the 2022 General Funded Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Review Committee“Research on the Development and Diagnostic Evaluation of Critical Thinking Ability Scale for English Learners based on CSE (Project approval No.:XSP22YBZ086).”。
文摘In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.
文摘The identification of effective and appropriate speaking skills seems to be a paradox task for the reason that there exist no consistent criteria for evaluating speaking skills in language teaching and testing.It is claimed in the current article that the teaching and assessment of speaking skills would probably be better based on a comprehensive framework of criteria including four aspects,namely,grammatical competence,strategic competence,sociocultural competence and discourse competence.
文摘Communicative language teaching has been popular for more than 3 decades but there is still no shortage of argument in cases of how to develop communicative competence as a whole. Strategic competence,one of the four components of communicative competence,has been given much priority. The paper reexamines the four components of communicative competence and points out that we need to strike a balance in the process of developing learner's communicative competencein foreign language teaching.
文摘As an Exploratory Practice conducted in the micro-context of language classrooms,this study aims to establish an ex?plicit understanding of the gap between students’grammatical knowledge and competence.Through integrating the“work for understanding”into the existing pedagogical procedures,both students and the teacher contributed some insightful explanations to this puzzle.With these underling reasons brought to surface,the main players of the classrooms can make some contextually ap?propriate changes to their classroom life.
文摘There is general agreement that culture should be taught in the foreign language classroom of Higher Vocational College,but just what this means is unclear.The thesis is concerned with why,what and how of teaching culture.Firstly,it will be demonstrated that teaching foreign language is not the same as giving syntactic structures,but mainly incorporates some cultures elements.Secondly,it suggests which culture is taught in the foreign language classroom.Furthermore,by means of some methods an attempt will be made to incorporate culture into the classroom.As a result of the study shows that Culture has taken an important place in foreign language classroom of Higher Vocational College.
