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Teachers Teaching Major Issues I. What is teaching? Teaching is an attempt to help someone acquire, or change some skills, attitude, knowledge, ideal or appreciation. In other words, the teacher’s task is to create or influence desirable changes in behavior, or in tendencies toward behavior, in his students. II. What is English Teaching Methodology? English teaching methodology is a set of methods used for study or action in English teaching. It is the science to research the teaching rules, which will guide the teacher’s teaching to develop the student’s communicative competence. III. Related disciplines Linguistics: Lg Lg use E.g.1: A: Are you going out tonight? B: Yes, I am going out tonight. A: Where are you going to? B: I am going to the cinema. 【 Structure----Unreal 】 E.g.2: A：Are you going out tonight? B: Yes, (I am). A: Where to? B: The cinema. 【 Function----Real 】 2. Psychology Psycholinguistics: how people generate, comprehend and learn a lg 3. Sociolinguistics: lg is used as a social phenomenon Linguistic Competence ↓ Linguistic Performance ↓ Communicative Competence 4. Education Pedagogy: problems ↓ hypothesis ↓ data collection ↓ data analysis IV. Teaching: Science, Craft, or Art? What is it like to be a teacher? Highly demanded! V. What makes a good teacher? Teacher’s qualifications / How to be a good teacher? 【 P.7---- Task 4 】 【 P.8---- Task 6 】 A good teacher should: 1) Know his/her subject matter very well. 2) Have an ability to give interesting classes. 3) Use the full range of his/her personality. 4) Have the desire to empathize with Ss. 5) Treat Ss all equally. Quotes from Ss: “Know all their names” “The teacher needs to have dress sense– not always the same old boring suits and ties!” In short, good teachers care more about their Ss’ learning than they do about their own teaching. It is a question rather about the relationship betw