English plays a very important role in our daily life and has been a world language for decades, as the global economy is developing so fast nowadays, the learners of English have already realized that the main purpos...English plays a very important role in our daily life and has been a world language for decades, as the global economy is developing so fast nowadays, the learners of English have already realized that the main purpose to learn English is to communicate properly in their real life with the people from other culture, but not to memorize those boring grammar rules and terrible vocabularies which will appear in their English examinations. Consequently, it has become an important task for English teachers to think about how to develop students' language abilities for real communication. Nowadays, Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) has become a very popular teaching approach in China. CLT pays a lot attention to the social and functional elements in language daily use.展开更多
Language errors are significant in three respects： they tell the teacher what needs to be taught； they tell the researcher how learning proceeds； and they are a means whereby learners test their hypothesis about th...Language errors are significant in three respects： they tell the teacher what needs to be taught； they tell the researcher how learning proceeds； and they are a means whereby learners test their hypothesis about the second language（ Corder， S.P. 1967） Learning to swim， to play tennis， to type， or to read all involve a process in which success comes by profiting from mistakes， by using mistakes to obtain feedback from the environment and with that feedback to make new attempts which successively more closely approximate desired goals.However， getting the learners to communicate at all costs may cause the fossilization of language.展开更多
文摘English plays a very important role in our daily life and has been a world language for decades, as the global economy is developing so fast nowadays, the learners of English have already realized that the main purpose to learn English is to communicate properly in their real life with the people from other culture, but not to memorize those boring grammar rules and terrible vocabularies which will appear in their English examinations. Consequently, it has become an important task for English teachers to think about how to develop students' language abilities for real communication. Nowadays, Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) has become a very popular teaching approach in China. CLT pays a lot attention to the social and functional elements in language daily use.
文摘Language errors are significant in three respects： they tell the teacher what needs to be taught； they tell the researcher how learning proceeds； and they are a means whereby learners test their hypothesis about the second language（ Corder， S.P. 1967） Learning to swim， to play tennis， to type， or to read all involve a process in which success comes by profiting from mistakes， by using mistakes to obtain feedback from the environment and with that feedback to make new attempts which successively more closely approximate desired goals.However， getting the learners to communicate at all costs may cause the fossilization of language.
