English Teaching Methodology

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English Teaching Methodology

• Introduction
• By Ma Guoyou

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I.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

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II.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.

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2.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.

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2.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.

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III. 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.

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III. 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.

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III. 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.

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III. 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.

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IV.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.

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V. The relationship between methodology of
English and the other subjects.

• linguistics,
• psychology,
• pedagogy,
• philosophy,

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QUETIONS 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?

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Class is over

• Goodbye!