Title: English Teaching Methodology
1English Teaching Methodology
- Introduction
- By Ma Guoyou
2I.The name of this course.
- 1)Methodology of English Teaching
- 2)Methodology of English teaching at middle
school/secondary school - 3)Teaching English as a Foreign Language / TEFL
TESL - 4) A Course in English Language Teaching
3II.The nature of language teaching
- 1. What's methodology?
- English teaching methodology is a set of
methods used for study or action in English
teaching. It is the science to research the
Teaching rules at middle school, which will guide
our teaching to develop the students'
communicative competence.
42.The nature of language teaching
- 2. The definition of teaching.
- Teaching is an attempt to help someone
acquire, or change some skills,
attitude,knowledge, ideal, or appreciation. In
other words, the teacher's task is to create or
influence desirable changes in behavior, or in
tendencies toward behavior, in his students.
52.The nature of language teaching
- 3. The purpose of English teaching
- a. To improve their four skills.
- b. To cultivate their communicative competence.
- c. To show them the way to study themselves.
6III. The significance of learning this course.
- 1. Teaching is a highly demanded art.
- (4 skills sing, play, draw and make)
- 2. Teacher's qualifications
- a. subject matter competence
- b. professional competence
- c. personal attitude.
7III. The significance of learning this course.
- 3. The aims of this course.
- a) to provide you with the rationale of English
teaching at middle school, which will be proved
necessary and advantageous to the reform of
English teaching. - b) to help you to clear the importance as well
as the aims of English teaching at middle school
in present China.
8III. The significance of learning this course.
- c) to provide you with chances to familiarize
with the graded contents of the textbooks in the
junior section, analysis of the textbook and to
learn the syllabus for middle school English. - d) to introduce some commonly used techniques and
methods adopted in teaching pronunciation,
grammar, vocabulary and the cultivation of the
students' 4 skills.
9III. The significance of learning this course.
- e) to help you so solve some problems concerning
the classroom instruction. - f) to make some preparations for the coming
teaching practice.
10IV.How to present this course.
- 1. lectures
- 2. readings
- 3. discussions
- 4. watch video demonstrations
- 5. mini-teaching
- 6. practice writing teaching plan and peer
teaching.
11V. The relationship between methodology of
English and the other subjects.
- linguistics,
- psychology,
- pedagogy,
- philosophy,
12QUETIONS FOR DISCUSSION
- 1.What qualifications, in your opinion, should a
teacher of English possess? - 2.Do you think you will perform well in your
future teaching? What qualifications have you
obtained now? What will you do if you haven't got
the required qualifications? - 3.Who was your admirable teacher of English at
junior school? - What do you think of him/her?
13Class is over