关于英语教学法.doc

Basic concepts of foreign langugage teaching( FLT) (1)  
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    Accordingto Hammerly (1982:119), a broad definition of teaching is "helping someone to learn". In this broad sense, not only teachers but also parents, ministers, journalists, even policeman teach. In a narrow sense, teaching is the interaction between a teacher and his students where by planned learning takes place by the latter.
    As we all know, teaching, the attempt to induce learning, does not always eed. In order to teach essfully, one has to be able to answer with considerable precision a lot of questions such as"What is to be learned", "When is it to be learned", "What are thecharacteristics of the learner", "Was it learned", and "If not,what can be done about it". There are other important factors onehas to take into consideration: the instruction setting (classroom,etc.), the time available for instruction, the opportunity for thestudents municate, the availability of technological aids,etc.
2 Foreign Language Teaching
    Language teaching can be defined as the activities which areintended to bring about language learning (Stem 1983:21). ForeignLanguage teaching is a systematic effort by a teacher to induce the learning of a foreign language by one or more students who are native speakers of a different language or languages. It differs in nature and objectives from other school subjects. The main difference is that in foreign language learning, one learns a new code that is quite different from or conflicts with a known code,not something new via a known code. Besides, unlike natural language acquisition, which simply is what it is, foreign languageteaching can be what we make it to be, on the basis of principles we choose because they fit our subject matter and our purposes.
    A teacher's understanding of the nature of language will determine to a large extent how he teaches a language. At the same time, a teacher's under