Teach or not to teach

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Teach or not to teachphonetic symbols in
primary English classroom

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• 2008-10-18

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Teach or not to teach a real headache

• As the national curriculum standard and most
  newly-published textbooks do not support phonetic
  symbols (PS) teaching while many teachers argue
  that its especially helpful, whether or not to
  teach PS in primary English in China has become a
  problem troubling both teachers, teacher
  trainers.
• There is no simple answer to this teach-or-not
  question.

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Teach or not to teach two surveys

• Do you think teaching PS useful to your
  students?
• Why Do you think so?
• Survey A (2007-2008)
• 1024 teachers (from BJ,TJ,HB,JX,LN,YN,XJ)
• Survey B (2008)
• 5000 teachers (online)

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Teach or not to teach teachers response (I)

• YES!(64.4) and reasons
• better pronunciation
• vocabulary learning (reading/spelling/remembering)
  
• reviewing and self-learning (after class)
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• the problem of fossilization
• use of dictionaries

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Teach or not to teach teachers response (II)

• NO!(35.6) and reasons
• boring
• pressure for both teachers and learners
• kill the children's interests
• cause confusion between letters, pinyin and PS
• difficult/ not suitable for children
• phonics may be a better choice

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Teach or not to teach what specialists say (I)

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Teach or not to teach what specialists say (II)

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Teach or not to teach what specialists say (III)

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Teach or not to teach what specialists say (IV)

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• (Chen Zhang ,2001)
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Teach or not to teach what specialists say (V)

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Teach or not to teach when

• Grade 5 (48)
• Grade 4 (29)
• Grade 6 (14)
• Grade 3 (9)

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Teach or not to teach how much how

• Know of something?
• Read? Write?
• Remember? or not
• Test? or not
• Intensively(Gao2008)? or extensively
• PS? Or phonics

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Teach or not to teach reflection

• There is no right or wrong answers or simple
  solution to the problem.
• What is right?
• What is reasonable?
• What is practical ?
• What is possible?

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Teach or not to teach reflection

• Particularity
• Who? Where? What ? Why?
• Teachers preference and skill.
• Learners and teachers needs.

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Teach or not to teach looking forward

• beyond-method (No more R-or-W question)
• comparative study and case study
• Which is more efficient? Suitable? for whom?
• teacher education
• How much and in what way

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