English Teaching

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English Teaching Integration of Teaching
Resources

• By Liu Zhaohui
• Guizhou College of Education
• frank_land2001_at_yahoo.com
• Beijing, July 2005

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New National Curriculum Standard

• A. Five Points Required by the NNCS
• 1.Knowledge
• 2.Skills
• 3.Culture
• 4.Strategies
• 5.Emotion
• How to change or implement the
  insufficient situation through the development
  of resources!
• Three Concepts Concerning the Integration of
  Resources

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• 1. Make full use of and create any useful
  teaching resources so as to offer students
  information familiar and close to their wonaudio
  visual,CAI, Newspaper, Magazines , Internet etc
• 2., The curriculum reformation should begin with
  consideration of students own learning
  interests, life experience and sponsor the idea
  of experience,practice, participation,
  cooperation, communication and task-based
  teaching method.

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• 3. The manipulation and development of teaching
  resources should be in accordance with the the
  local economic developing level and the financial
  supporting power of the parents so as to avoid
  adding economic burden to the students on one
  hand and wasting the resources on the other.

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II. Teaching Resources

• 1.What Is Curriculum Resource?
• General Understanding Teaching Material
• 2. What Is Teaching Resource?
• Broadened Understanding Any useful material
  designed under the guidance of the New National
  Curriculum.
• 3. Types of Teaching Resources

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• a. Resources offering materials containing
  teaching goals suggestion, typical examples,
  teaching plans, extending capacity etc.
• b. Media resources
• Resources offering materials supplying audio
  visual, music, graphs pictures, CAI soft wares,
  internet etc.
• Resources on competence training
• Resources focusing on task-based exercises,
  research activities.

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• Latent resources
• Individual deposit of knowledge, skills,
  experience, methods, emotional attitudes etc
• Eg A teachers accent----imitated by students
• Students can be useful to each other and may
  help teachers in some aspect.
• As for the resources mentioned above, in practice
  we should use them creatively and sometimes
  redesign the established ones to meet the local
  needs.

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III. Significance of Integration of Resources
English Teaching

• The development of resources will greatly enlarge
  the narrow education content, and will promote
  the development of students to full extend.
• 2. The development will lead to the reformation
  in education, such as in teaching methods and the
  organization of teaching etc.
• 3. The abundance of resources will be sure to
  activate students interests so as to increase
  the efficiency of learning power.

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IV. Problems about Resources

• Unbalanced distribution of resources---more
  exercises, but less useful resources for
  preparing lessons, audio visual etc.
• The time of teaching arrangement is sometimes not
  in accordance with the issue of materials by some
  resources.
• Teachers usually have strong interest and need in
  using resources, but are frustrated at these
  unsystematic resources.

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• 4.Contents in some resources are stale while some
  resources are not practical in either teaching
  methods or improvement of teachers qualities.
• 5. Some resources are not proper for common
  cases.
• 6. Few resources are offered in consideration of
  the minority area.

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V. Integration of Resources

• Comprehensively utilize the present resources
• Combine the four kinds of resources into one
  lesson design.
• a. Choice of the resources---not only using the
  resources provided by the publisher of the
  textbooks, but also making good use of some extra
  resources
• Eg English Learners Lighthouse(???????)(www.ell
  .net)
• English Teachers Net(www.enteacher.cn)
• b. Allocate the mature resources reasonably and
  try to localize the ready made resources---School-
  complied materials

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• Eg Go for It---resources offered by the Peoples
  Publishing House
• School-based materials---individualities
• 2. Static supplements Creative Development
• Static supplement
• Teaching resources should be added with some new
  information from time to time so that the
  validity of the resources can be extended and the
  quality of teaching can be guaranteed.
• b. Creative development of useful resources

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• (1)The solidity of the present resources----insuff
  icient design
• (2)The limitation of the present resources----
• designed for all but ignore the uniqueness of
  individuality
• (3) So abstract that it is hard for teachers to
  operate it in practice

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VI. Sample of How to Integrate Internet Resources
with Your English Teaching

• 1. Preparing a Lesson
• Reading tools---internet Explorer, Netscape, QQ
  explorer etc
• b. Searching Engines--- Goggle, Sina search
  engine, tom search engine, bai du etc.
• c. e-mail sender or receiveryahoo messenger,
  msn, hotmail, g-mail etc
• d. Media player---real player, window player etc
• e. pptpower point

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• 2. Teaching a lesson
• a. Email---teaching how to write
• b. Media player/real audio--- teaching how to do
  listening comprehension
• c. Video-conferencing/chat-room(keyboard chat)
• Oral English
• d. voa.com/bbc.com, cnn.com etcgo to the given
  websites------reading practice

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VII. Useful Websites

• Language Knowledge Skills
• 1. www.english.ac.cn ????
• 2. www.esl-lab.com Randalls ESL Cyber Listening
  Lab
• 3. www.eslcafe.com Dave Sperlings ESL Cafe
• www.eric.edu Educational Resources Info
  Center
• 8.www.enteacher.cn
• 9. www.ell.net etc.

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• B. Cultures
• 1. www.cnn.com
• 2. www.bbc.net
• 3.The websites of the English speaking
  countriess embassies through goggle search
  engines etc.
• 4. www.ipl.org/reading/books/ ?????
• 5. www.aitech.ac.jp/-iteslj/
• C. Teaching Research(Learning Teaching
  Strategies)
• 1. www.accesseric.org/resources ????
• 2. www.eric.syr.edu/virtual/lessons

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• 3.www.eol.com.cn ??????
• 4. www.teacher.edu.cn?????
• 5. www.k12.com.cn ???????
• 6. www.pep.com.cn ???
• 7. www.hongen.com ????
• 8.www.rr365.com ?????

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• D. Movies Dramas websites
• www.oscar.com ??????
• www.ziyue.com ??????
• www.owl.teacher.xjtu.edu.cn ????

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The End

• Thanks A Lot