Children as language learners and foreign language teaching methods and approaches ( 儿童语言学习与外语教学法） 广西师范学院初等教育学院 蓝卫红 蓝卫红

Stage 1: Experience Step 1: Please describe how a child learns his first language or how a person learns his second language in one or two sentences. Don’t repeat what others have said. Step 2: Can you name some foreign language teaching methods or approaches? Try it.

Step 3: Take part in the following activities as language learners and tell what method each activity uses. Activity 1: Listen and do.

Activity 2: Listen and repeat. Shake, shake, shake your shoulders Shake them up and down Shake, shake, shake your shoe And stamp it on the ground.

Activity 3: Let’s act Five little elephants Standing in a row Five little trunks Waving hello ‘Oh’ said an elephant ‘Time to go ’ Four little…

Activity 4: Let’s talk 1: What sports do Chinese people often go in for? 2: What sports do you often go in for? 3: What sports does he/she often go in for?

Activity 5: Let’ ask and report 1. Interview at least three others by using this sentence: “What have you learned from the above activities? ” 2. Report the result of your interview to the class.

Stage 2: Exploration 1. In the above activities, what have been transferred from the way a child learns his first language or the way a person learns his second language? 2. What underlie a good or an effective teaching method or teaching technique?

Stage 3: Exchange 1. In groups, exchange the result of your exploration like the following: － According to my knowledge, foreign language teaching methods or approach include: _______.

－ How a child learns his mother tongue or how a person acquires his second language are good examples of successful language learning. So the way people _______ should be transferred to ___________. So a good or an effective teaching method or teaching technique must be based on _________.

2. One reporter of each group reports to whole class by summing up individual opinions.

Look at the following and note down what is new to you.  Grammar-Translation Method (1890s- 1930s) （语法翻译法）  Cognitive Approach (1940s-1950s) （认知法）  Audio-Lingüal Method (1950s-1960s) （听说法）  The Direct Method (1970s) （直接法）  The Natural Approach （自然法）  视听法（ Audio Video Method ）

 情景教学法（ The Situational Approach ）  Communicative Approach / (1960s- 2000s) （交际法）  The notional /functional approach （功 能法）  Total Physical Response/TPR (1960s- 2000s) （全身反应法）  The Silent Way (1960s-2000s) （沉默法）

 Suggestopedia (1960s-2000s) （暗示法）  Community Language Learning/CLL (1960s-2000s): （社区学习法）  “Total immersion technique” （沉浸法）  Whole Language Approach （整体语言教学 法）  Task-based language teaching ( 任务法 )  双重活动教学法 （广西师大 王才仁）

 The English “Four-in-One”Teaching Approach 英语 “ 四位一体 ” 教学法 （包天 仁，英语辅导报社社长）  张思中英语教学法  马宏双语游戏教学法  21 三文治儿童英语故事英语教学法

Stage 4: Extension 1. How are the above teaching methods or approach influence the English textbooks you used to have? 2. Can you tell what methods or approaches your former English teachers used to teach you English? 3. What should you or what shouldn’t you learn from the way you learned English when you teach English in primary schools?

Stage 5: Evaluation 1. One by one, use one sentence or two to sum up what you have learned from this topic. How a child learn his mother tongue or how a person acquire his second language are good examples of successful language learning. So the way people learn their mother tongue or a second language should ________.

And a good or an effective teaching method or teaching technique must be based on _________. There are so many foreign language or English teaching methods and teaching approaches. The principle we should follow is:_________.

2. After class, search on the Internet for details of the teaching approaches and teaching methods. Focus on the one you are interested in and search for more relevant information.