scholarly journals Scholastic Grammar in College English Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Yanghua Peng
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Long Time

The research of grammar has been received much concern at home and abroad and the instruction of grammar is a focus and difficulty in English language teaching. The role of scholastic grammar has been paid little attention to for a long time. Some linguists and teachers believe that the traditional or school grammar should be the key in the classroom instruction, but others argue that scholastic grammar is a vital part in language itself. Based on the theories of second language learning and the viewpoints of Otto. Jespersen and H. Poutsma about scholastic grammar, this article conducts a research in colleges and analyzes the stylistic effect of attributive post-position from scholastic grammar perspective and finds that it is necessary to reconsider the important role of scholastic grammar in college English teaching. The paper ends with a conclusion about some implications of the present research for college English language teaching in China.

scholarly journals A Plurilingual Approach to ELT in Primary School: Towards an Ecological Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Alicia Chabert
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Ecological Understanding ◽  
Attitude And Motivation ◽  
Initial Results

Summary This paper aims to demonstrate that using a plurilingual and ecological approach to English language teaching can achieve better results in primary school independently of the mother tongue of the student. This article is based on the initial results of our international research carried out in three very different countries (Norway, China and Spain). While the author´s research project involves 328 participants, we will present the results of the first phase of the experiment, including 133 students. In this paper, we propose a plurilingual communicative approach to English teaching as a foreign language, making a distinction between languages for communication and languages for identification. This research examines the current teaching policies in the participating countries, and analyses cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives in English language teaching while promoting the positive use of the mother tongue as a connecting tool in the students’ communication system. The subjects of this study were divided in control and experimental groups, in which they received traditional and plurilingual approach respectively. After the classes they completed a test and were then supplied with a Likert scale questionnaire focused on understanding their attitude and motivation towards mother tongue and English language learning. Based on observation and results obtained, we can conclude that a plurilingual approach that uses L1 as a tool in English teaching improves English learning, as well as develops an ecological understanding of languages.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Clea Schmidt ◽  
Ellen Pilon ◽  
J.E. King
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching

Reviews of: 'Language Learners as Ethnographers,' by Ana Barro, Michael Byram, Shirley Jordan, Celia Roberts and Brian Street; 'An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching,' by John Corbett; 'Critical Pedagogy: Political Approaches to Language and Intercultural Communication,' by Manuela Guilherme and Alison Phipps; 'Test It Fix It: English Verbs and Tenses Pre-intermediate,' and 'Test It Fix It: English Verbs and Tenses Intermediate,' by Kenna Bourke; and 'Silence in Second Language Learning: A Psychoanalytic Reading,' by Colette A. Granger.

Exploring college English teaching of rhetorical knowledge: A Legitimation Code Theory analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 136216882093163
Author(s):  
Wenchao Zhao
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Code Theory ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
Legitimation Code Theory

Despite a voluminous literature addressing English language teaching, the explorations focused on knowledge-building are rather limited in number. This is particularly the case with China’s tertiary English education. Unlike existing research, this study investigated Chinese college English teachers’ knowledge-building about rhetorical figures by drawing on the ideas of Autonomy and Semantics in Legitimation Code Theory. Designed as sequential mixed-method research with a development purpose, the study takes as its analytical data the pedagogic discourse generated in the finals of China’s National College English Teaching Context. It was found that the knowledge practices about rhetorical figures vary, for one thing, in their likelihood of shifting to introjected codes and returning to the initial sovereign code and the motivations for their possible drift into exotic codes; and for another, in whether they are unpacking-oriented, repacking-oriented, or unpacking-and-repacking-integrated. With this, the study demonstrated how varied knowledge practices in English language teaching or English-medium teaching can be portrayed, distinguished and explicated in terms of autonomy and semantic code shifts and by reference to their display of autonomy pathways and semantic profiles. The study also makes contributions by actualizing the perspectival complementarity between Autonomy and Semantics in describing and interpreting pedagogic practices, shedding light on the design and improvement of knowledge-building in both English language teaching and disciplinary teaching, and highlighting the necessity of developing non-native English teachers’ metalinguistic awareness of Legitimation Code Theory and systemic functional linguistics.

scholarly journals A Literary Approach to teaching English Language in a Multi – Cultural Class - Room

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanju Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Learning

<p>Literature is not generally considered as a coherent branch of the curriculum in relation to language – development in either mother tongue or foreign language – teaching. As teachers of English in Multi cultural Indian class rooms we come across students with varying degree of competence in English language learning. Though, language learning is a natural process for natives but the Students of other languages put in colossal efforts to learn it. Despite   their sincere efforts they face challenges regarding Pronunciation, Spelling and Vocabulary. The Indian class rooms are a microcosm of the larger society, so teaching English language in a manner which equips the students to face the cut-throat competition has become a necessity and a challenge for English language Teachers. English today has become the key determinant for getting success in their career. The hackneyed and stereotypical methods of teaching are not acceptable now. Teachers have no longer remained arbitrary dispensers of knowledge but they are playing the role of a guide and facilitator for the students. Teachers of English are using innovative ideas to make English language teaching and learning interesting and simple. Teachers have started using the literary texts and their analysis to explore and ignite the imagination and creative skills of the students. One needs to think and rethink the contribution of literature to intelligent thinking as well as its role in the process of teaching – learning. My paper would, therefore, be an attempt at exploring the nature of the literary experience in the present day class rooms; and the broader role of literature in life.</p>

English Language Teaching

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn D’Arcy Nell
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Market Strategy ◽  
Successful Series ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Access

The chapter assesses the role of the English Language Teaching Department—its structure, management, profitability, and publications—and its impact on the Press as a whole. The extraordinary growth of Oxford’s ELT programme resulted in part from a global shift towards English-language learning in old markets and a rapid growth of new markets around the world to which OUP had good access through its branches and established international trade. New ELT courses were developed or adapted for use in Africa, Central and East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and, most successfully, in Europe. Successful series titles included Crescent English Course, Access to English, Streamline, and Headway. Despite intense competition and some unprofitable partnerships, OUP became the world’s leading ELT publisher through developing reliable titles for children and adults and placing a strong emphasis on market strategy.

scholarly journals Role of Mobile Phone for English Language Teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Sri Yuliani
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Structure Interview ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Semi Structure Interview

Mobile phone is a recent technology in teaching English. Mobile phone provides simple and easy way in developing teaching and learning activities, therefore, the researcher was interested in finding the data information about the role of mobile phone for English language teaching. The utilization of mobile phone offers valuable opportunities for creating an effective teaching strategy. The students' perspectives are crucial for getting their views of role of mobile phone in language teaching. This case study was to find out the students' perspectives of mobile phone role in English language teaching. A qualitative design was employed for the purpose of getting the data. Mainly semi structure interview was used as the research instruments. The result of her research finding showed that most students were having good response towards the usage of mobile phones in language learning but some findings shown that the problems were also occurred at the same moment of using it. These research findings were contributed the next research for more deeply dig for language learning.

scholarly journals Causes and Countermeasures of English Culture Deficiency in College English Language Teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Yu Zhu
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
The West ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
National Spirit ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
English Culture

<p>Culture is the embodiment of national spirit, and language is one of the important carriers of culture, which is the most intuitive way to reflect culture. College English, which aims at cultivating students' comprehensive English application ability, is an important compulsory course in college. However, in the process of English application, due to the huge differences between China and the west in geographical conditions, climate and other conditions, the cultures formed by the two sides are also very different from each other. Therefore, misunderstanding of individual words and sentences may easily occur in the process of English application, leading to misunderstanding between the two sides. Some universities propose to introduce English culture into English teaching. Based on the importance of English culture in college English language teaching, this paper analyzes the reasons for the lack of English culture in college English language teaching and the corresponding countermeasures.</p>

scholarly journals Cultural Resistance to Imported Pedagogy

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Zhuxiu Tan
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Pedagogical Choices ◽  
English Classroom

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is one way of translating some principles of communicative language teaching (CLT) into practice. It offers practical ways of establishing a balance in classroom instruction between developing ‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing what’, the latter of which is caused by the traditional English teaching ‘presentation, practice and production (PPP) model popular in English classrooms in the People’s Republic of China. However, TBLT has failed to make the biggest impact on English language teaching (ELT) as expected in Chinese context as an imported pedagogy. This paper investigates one of the most important potential constraints on the adaptation of TBLT in the English classroom, namely, the Chinese cultural of learning. It argues that TBLT and the Chinese cultural of learning are in conflict in several important aspects mainly including the following relationship: Input-oriented or output-oriented approach to language learning, teacher-centeredness or student-centeredness, language knowledge or language ability and so on. In view of such fundamental differences caused by the Chinese cultural of learning which puts great emphasis on the input of learning for students, this paper contends that it is sometimes counterproductive to adopt the pedagogy which originated and developed in a different sociocultural context. It concludes by arguing for the necessity of adopting a cautious approach to using the imported pedagogy in Chinese context and developing a sensible consciousness facing pedagogical choices in English teaching classrooms.

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