Language is a special social phenomenon and is always on the changing process with the development of society. During the evolving process of language, new language varieties will continuously emerge due to the change...Language is a special social phenomenon and is always on the changing process with the development of society. During the evolving process of language, new language varieties will continuously emerge due to the changes of some social and cultural factors. Cyber language is universally accepted as one type of the social language varieties. Basically, cyber language can be treated as a complex adaptive system which is influenced by the interaction between users’ cognition, social culture and the surrounding environments. Thus it is safe to say that cyber language is always undergoing a dynamic evolving process. With the usage-based language model as the theoretical foundation, this paper proposes a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) approach to analyze the expression of Appreciation to explore the complex, dynamic and nonlinear development of cyber language from the angle of meaning construction, grammaticalization and functional adaption respectively. It is found that the expression of Appreciation is experiencing adaptively a semantic connotations development and a process of grammatical functions expansion as well. This paper suggests that the emergence and development of cyber language is a novel and trendy social language phenomenon. Network language can achieve its process and evolution under the huge impact of social changes and social promotions. When faced with the changing surroundings, cyber language itself enjoys a timely adaption and responsive development to keep up with the new environments, which reflects the basic principle of language development, namely, language changes with the development of society.展开更多
Task-based language teaching approach(TBLTA), which lays stress on "learning by doing", gained increasing popularity in English teaching in recent years. The design of phonetic teaching calls for more emphas...Task-based language teaching approach(TBLTA), which lays stress on "learning by doing", gained increasing popularity in English teaching in recent years. The design of phonetic teaching calls for more emphasis from English educators since it is one of the basic rounds of English teaching. This paper made a trial on the utilization of TBLTA in the English phonetic teaching context and designed a TBLTA model for English phonetic teaching based on discussions about model and merits of TBLTA.展开更多
Some educators and teachers stated that the reason of the major failures in foreign language teaching was that teachers could not help their students to discover the personal meaning of the information they provided. ...Some educators and teachers stated that the reason of the major failures in foreign language teaching was that teachers could not help their students to discover the personal meaning of the information they provided. To deal with the problem that students were regarded as containers and classroom learning was dull, humanistic approaches were put forward.展开更多
Grammar is an important part of language learning. In order for students to have a functional knowledge of a language (in other words, that they can spontaneously produce language) they must have at least some knowled...Grammar is an important part of language learning. In order for students to have a functional knowledge of a language (in other words, that they can spontaneously produce language) they must have at least some knowledge about the grammatical constructs of the language in question. How grammar can be taught? Considering various second language teaching methods, teaching grammar through Communicative Language Teaching Approach is the most talked. Emphasis in this article is put on the application of Communicative Language Teaching Approach in grammar teaching in college English classes.展开更多
Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach is an effective way of foreign language teaching and suggested to be adopted to promote foreign language teaching in China.This article mainly focuses on introducing In...Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach is an effective way of foreign language teaching and suggested to be adopted to promote foreign language teaching in China.This article mainly focuses on introducing Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach including its signif icance and contents.展开更多
In English language teaching, both the traditional and communicative approaches have their own advantages and shortcomings. So what we need to do is taking the advantages of communicative approaches without upsetting ...In English language teaching, both the traditional and communicative approaches have their own advantages and shortcomings. So what we need to do is taking the advantages of communicative approaches without upsetting the patterns of traditional practices—combining traditional and communicative approaches.展开更多
Language is learned to communicate, but how to use it appropriately is far more important. Since language and culture have an inextricable link in between, to improve the students' Intercultural communicative comp...Language is learned to communicate, but how to use it appropriately is far more important. Since language and culture have an inextricable link in between, to improve the students' Intercultural communicative competence(ICC), issues on integrating an intercultural approach into ELT classroom has been long debated and studied in foreign language teaching field. This paper will start with the definition of ICC, analyze the correlation between language and culture then offer valuable suggestions on how to integrate Ic LL approach into ELT in China.展开更多
By explaining the meaning of"Humanism"and how it influenced the foreign language teaching, this essay discusses about the basic features of the Humanism Approach as well as what we should pay attention to wh...By explaining the meaning of"Humanism"and how it influenced the foreign language teaching, this essay discusses about the basic features of the Humanism Approach as well as what we should pay attention to when using this approach in practical foreign language teaching.展开更多
English class has many kinds of teaching approach,such as the Traditional Translation Language Teaching Approach,Task-based Language Teaching Approach,Grammar Language Teaching Approach,Communicative Language Teaching...English class has many kinds of teaching approach,such as the Traditional Translation Language Teaching Approach,Task-based Language Teaching Approach,Grammar Language Teaching Approach,Communicative Language Teaching Approach.This article takes the author’s personal experiences as example,to critically examine Communicative Language Teaching Approach which used in the English for Academic Purpose class at INTO Newcastle University in the UK,which involves the evaluation of syllabus design,the role of teachers and learners,the students’first language and the cultural element.It finds out that Communicative Language Teaching Approach has its authority on English teaching in the INTO,however,is has always neglect the context of language teaching.The article could gives references to other English teachers.展开更多
During the process of language acquisition, interlanguage fossilization is a common phenomenon among second language learners. Based on Vygotskian approaches, this paper looks at the causes of interlanguage fossilizat...During the process of language acquisition, interlanguage fossilization is a common phenomenon among second language learners. Based on Vygotskian approaches, this paper looks at the causes of interlanguage fossilization, including social identity, learners' motivation, the influence of one's mother tongue and learning styles. By vividly incorporating my own language learning experience, this paper intends to explain how theory can be applied to practice; thereby attempting to shed light on second language learning and teaching. In conclusion, this paper suggests that teachers should get to know their students by paying attention to the most influential factors and encourage interpersonal interaction.展开更多
It has been a dream for foreign language teachers around the world to make use of the way one's native language is ac quired in foreign language learning.The Natural Approach(NA) is a typical one.Its theoretical b...It has been a dream for foreign language teachers around the world to make use of the way one's native language is ac quired in foreign language learning.The Natural Approach(NA) is a typical one.Its theoretical basis and teaching principles will be reviewed,and then its advantages and disadvantages will be commented,to help the NA applied in China more reasonably and effectively.展开更多
English language teaching and learning in China has achieved enormous prosperity in recent years.It is said that the number of people learning and speaking English in China possibly exceeds the total population of the...English language teaching and learning in China has achieved enormous prosperity in recent years.It is said that the number of people learning and speaking English in China possibly exceeds the total population of the United States and Britain combined.However,the development of English language education in China has experienced several diverse phases and problems and controversies kept emerging especially when a new teaching approach was introduced.Based on the current situation,this paper tries to provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview on English language education in China.This paper is generally divided into two parts.Part one outlines the development of English language education in China with regard to the place of English and the development of teaching approaches.Part two discusses the recent teaching approach promoted official,its progress as well as problems.The focus of the whole paper is on secondary-level education as this is the stage when most students study English.展开更多
Language teaching approaches are always changing according to social needs for various talents and there is no exception for Communicative Language Teaching(CLT).From 1960s,people become more and more interested in co...Language teaching approaches are always changing according to social needs for various talents and there is no exception for Communicative Language Teaching(CLT).From 1960s,people become more and more interested in communicative function of languages.Communicative Competence,Functional Linguistics,Speech Act Theory and related learning theories help the CLT form the teaching aim of cultivating students'communicative ability.Scholars start to regard language communicative competence as the final teaching purpose.This article will explore CLT in terms of language teaching views,advantages and disadvantages.What is more,it comes to the following conclusions:there exists no language teaching approach that is absolutely superior,including CLT.Language teachers should use different approaches flexibly so as to reach the teaching aim.展开更多
Learner Autonomy has been a hot topic in foreign language learning and teaching since 1960s,especially in relation to life-long skills.As the globalization develops,intercultural communication becomes more and more si...Learner Autonomy has been a hot topic in foreign language learning and teaching since 1960s,especially in relation to life-long skills.As the globalization develops,intercultural communication becomes more and more significant for college students.This essay attempts to explore main approaches to cultivate and improve students' autonomous learning ability and intercultural communication competence in foreign language teaching.展开更多
Communicative language teaching(CLT) advances and advocates language is acquired through communications,i.e.,using a language to learn it..Ever since the introduction of CLT in the late 1970s,disparate definitions and...Communicative language teaching(CLT) advances and advocates language is acquired through communications,i.e.,using a language to learn it..Ever since the introduction of CLT in the late 1970s,disparate definitions and interpretations of the communicative approach to language instruction continually come into being.In today's process of language teaching,incorporation of CLT has become mandatory in teaching almost any language.While the majority of descriptions of CLT accentuate the communication of messages and meaning,there is divergence as to whether CLT should be concerned about the analysis and practice of language structures.展开更多
At present,there are still many problems in language teaching in rural primary schools,which will affect the quality of teaching if we don't pay much attention to them.This article focuses on the existing flaws in...At present,there are still many problems in language teaching in rural primary schools,which will affect the quality of teaching if we don't pay much attention to them.This article focuses on the existing flaws in current language teaching and provides some solutions.展开更多
Usage-based theory is a constructive cognitive development method, which is closely related to constructivists who believe that children build grammar knowledge from their experience.
Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching res...Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.展开更多
With the invention and development of computer,Computer-Assisted Language Learning(CALL)and multimedia have been made possible in English language learning and teaching throughout the world.Wikipedia is one of the mos...With the invention and development of computer,Computer-Assisted Language Learning(CALL)and multimedia have been made possible in English language learning and teaching throughout the world.Wikipedia is one of the most popularly used in English language learning and teaching.However,Wikipedia has not been widely used in China's Mainland up to now.This paper intends to introduce the ways of using Wikipedia in English language learning and teaching.展开更多
文摘Language is a special social phenomenon and is always on the changing process with the development of society. During the evolving process of language, new language varieties will continuously emerge due to the changes of some social and cultural factors. Cyber language is universally accepted as one type of the social language varieties. Basically, cyber language can be treated as a complex adaptive system which is influenced by the interaction between users’ cognition, social culture and the surrounding environments. Thus it is safe to say that cyber language is always undergoing a dynamic evolving process. With the usage-based language model as the theoretical foundation, this paper proposes a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) approach to analyze the expression of Appreciation to explore the complex, dynamic and nonlinear development of cyber language from the angle of meaning construction, grammaticalization and functional adaption respectively. It is found that the expression of Appreciation is experiencing adaptively a semantic connotations development and a process of grammatical functions expansion as well. This paper suggests that the emergence and development of cyber language is a novel and trendy social language phenomenon. Network language can achieve its process and evolution under the huge impact of social changes and social promotions. When faced with the changing surroundings, cyber language itself enjoys a timely adaption and responsive development to keep up with the new environments, which reflects the basic principle of language development, namely, language changes with the development of society.
文摘Task-based language teaching approach(TBLTA), which lays stress on "learning by doing", gained increasing popularity in English teaching in recent years. The design of phonetic teaching calls for more emphasis from English educators since it is one of the basic rounds of English teaching. This paper made a trial on the utilization of TBLTA in the English phonetic teaching context and designed a TBLTA model for English phonetic teaching based on discussions about model and merits of TBLTA.
文摘Some educators and teachers stated that the reason of the major failures in foreign language teaching was that teachers could not help their students to discover the personal meaning of the information they provided. To deal with the problem that students were regarded as containers and classroom learning was dull, humanistic approaches were put forward.
文摘Grammar is an important part of language learning. In order for students to have a functional knowledge of a language (in other words, that they can spontaneously produce language) they must have at least some knowledge about the grammatical constructs of the language in question. How grammar can be taught? Considering various second language teaching methods, teaching grammar through Communicative Language Teaching Approach is the most talked. Emphasis in this article is put on the application of Communicative Language Teaching Approach in grammar teaching in college English classes.
文摘Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach is an effective way of foreign language teaching and suggested to be adopted to promote foreign language teaching in China.This article mainly focuses on introducing Intercultural Foreign Language Teaching Approach including its signif icance and contents.
文摘In English language teaching, both the traditional and communicative approaches have their own advantages and shortcomings. So what we need to do is taking the advantages of communicative approaches without upsetting the patterns of traditional practices—combining traditional and communicative approaches.
文摘Language is learned to communicate, but how to use it appropriately is far more important. Since language and culture have an inextricable link in between, to improve the students' Intercultural communicative competence(ICC), issues on integrating an intercultural approach into ELT classroom has been long debated and studied in foreign language teaching field. This paper will start with the definition of ICC, analyze the correlation between language and culture then offer valuable suggestions on how to integrate Ic LL approach into ELT in China.
文摘By explaining the meaning of"Humanism"and how it influenced the foreign language teaching, this essay discusses about the basic features of the Humanism Approach as well as what we should pay attention to when using this approach in practical foreign language teaching.
文摘English class has many kinds of teaching approach,such as the Traditional Translation Language Teaching Approach,Task-based Language Teaching Approach,Grammar Language Teaching Approach,Communicative Language Teaching Approach.This article takes the author’s personal experiences as example,to critically examine Communicative Language Teaching Approach which used in the English for Academic Purpose class at INTO Newcastle University in the UK,which involves the evaluation of syllabus design,the role of teachers and learners,the students’first language and the cultural element.It finds out that Communicative Language Teaching Approach has its authority on English teaching in the INTO,however,is has always neglect the context of language teaching.The article could gives references to other English teachers.
文摘During the process of language acquisition, interlanguage fossilization is a common phenomenon among second language learners. Based on Vygotskian approaches, this paper looks at the causes of interlanguage fossilization, including social identity, learners' motivation, the influence of one's mother tongue and learning styles. By vividly incorporating my own language learning experience, this paper intends to explain how theory can be applied to practice; thereby attempting to shed light on second language learning and teaching. In conclusion, this paper suggests that teachers should get to know their students by paying attention to the most influential factors and encourage interpersonal interaction.
文摘It has been a dream for foreign language teachers around the world to make use of the way one's native language is ac quired in foreign language learning.The Natural Approach(NA) is a typical one.Its theoretical basis and teaching principles will be reviewed,and then its advantages and disadvantages will be commented,to help the NA applied in China more reasonably and effectively.
文摘English language teaching and learning in China has achieved enormous prosperity in recent years.It is said that the number of people learning and speaking English in China possibly exceeds the total population of the United States and Britain combined.However,the development of English language education in China has experienced several diverse phases and problems and controversies kept emerging especially when a new teaching approach was introduced.Based on the current situation,this paper tries to provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview on English language education in China.This paper is generally divided into two parts.Part one outlines the development of English language education in China with regard to the place of English and the development of teaching approaches.Part two discusses the recent teaching approach promoted official,its progress as well as problems.The focus of the whole paper is on secondary-level education as this is the stage when most students study English.
文摘Language teaching approaches are always changing according to social needs for various talents and there is no exception for Communicative Language Teaching(CLT).From 1960s,people become more and more interested in communicative function of languages.Communicative Competence,Functional Linguistics,Speech Act Theory and related learning theories help the CLT form the teaching aim of cultivating students'communicative ability.Scholars start to regard language communicative competence as the final teaching purpose.This article will explore CLT in terms of language teaching views,advantages and disadvantages.What is more,it comes to the following conclusions:there exists no language teaching approach that is absolutely superior,including CLT.Language teachers should use different approaches flexibly so as to reach the teaching aim.
文摘Learner Autonomy has been a hot topic in foreign language learning and teaching since 1960s,especially in relation to life-long skills.As the globalization develops,intercultural communication becomes more and more significant for college students.This essay attempts to explore main approaches to cultivate and improve students' autonomous learning ability and intercultural communication competence in foreign language teaching.
文摘Communicative language teaching(CLT) advances and advocates language is acquired through communications,i.e.,using a language to learn it..Ever since the introduction of CLT in the late 1970s,disparate definitions and interpretations of the communicative approach to language instruction continually come into being.In today's process of language teaching,incorporation of CLT has become mandatory in teaching almost any language.While the majority of descriptions of CLT accentuate the communication of messages and meaning,there is divergence as to whether CLT should be concerned about the analysis and practice of language structures.
文摘At present,there are still many problems in language teaching in rural primary schools,which will affect the quality of teaching if we don't pay much attention to them.This article focuses on the existing flaws in current language teaching and provides some solutions.
文摘Usage-based theory is a constructive cognitive development method, which is closely related to constructivists who believe that children build grammar knowledge from their experience.
文摘Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.
文摘With the invention and development of computer,Computer-Assisted Language Learning(CALL)and multimedia have been made possible in English language learning and teaching throughout the world.Wikipedia is one of the most popularly used in English language learning and teaching.However,Wikipedia has not been widely used in China's Mainland up to now.This paper intends to introduce the ways of using Wikipedia in English language learning and teaching.
