Communicative-ability oriented teaching mode Li Liqun

Factors may affect communication Personality Knowledge and vision Occasion and participants Oral English---practice---what

Spoken English and Written English Common words ---useful (esp. for oral expression) and difficult to learn Rare words ---possible to guess the meaning from context

Focus on those useful and difficult e.g. issue,way, hard, above,fit Various meanings for the words How --- how words combine (collocations) When --- what register they usu. appear in why --- what they tell us about the speaker ’ s attitude

Receptive and Productive Central core of around both receptive and productive for advanced learners Most common of around the whole advanced dictionary is based on

Other reasons Persistent problems for Chinese students: 1. prepositions and adverbs, articles, modal word, gerunds, participles, to infinitive, clauses … 2. Exam orientated education in high school, pronunciation, intonation

Possible Solution Teaching and learning material --- focus on those common words teaching mode --- translation, corpus, 100

海伦：我真搞不懂人们怎么会认为凯渥肯医生所做的事情是正当的。 迪克：呃，帮助人死得有尊严不是件坏事，是不是？ 海伦：你难道不知道吗？留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。 迪克：算了吧。想法要实际一点。那些寻死的人饱受折磨。还是不要让 他们受到痛苦，快快地死去比较好。 海伦：你们男人都是铁石心肠。 迪克：你们女人都没脑子。

H: I don ’ t understand how people can think Dr. Kevorkian is doing the right thing. D: Well, helping people die with dignity is not that bad, is it? H: Don ’ t you know? Where there is life, there is hope. D: Come on. Be realistic. Those people who want to die are suffering. It ’ s better that they go quickly and painlessly. H: All you men have no hearts. D: All you women have no brains.

Worries? Lack of vocabulary? --- those 7500 core words are sufficient in speaking and reading original text less → more Shallow? common → deep

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