英语教学法复习资料.doc

《英语教学法》纲要 Unit 1 Language Teacher Qualities 主要内容： 1. A good language user 2. Teacher as a language analyst 3. Empathetic quality as a teacher 4. Teacher as an enabler 5. Teacher as a means employer 重点掌握： 1. First of all, a teacher is required to be proficient in the English language. He/she needs to be excellent in listening, speaking, reading and writing. The importance of being a good language user involves four points. First, a language teacher is a modal for students to imitate, to follow and to learn from either consciously or subconsciously. Subconscious learning plays a very important role in students’ acquisition of the language. Second, a good command of English endows a teacher with confidence. A teacher’s confidence positively affects his or her speaking and teaching performance and consequently infects his or her students who may respond with feelings of certainty, respect and also confidence. From this emerges the third point. A teacher can attract students immediately with his or her good English. When admiration is established, students tend to believe in the teacher, cooperate with the teacher, and behave well in class activities. The last point is that good English empowers the teacher to manage class well, try new methods and adapt his or her teaching at any time. 2. Being an effective language analyst means not only the teacher possesses the knowledge about the language but also help students study the nature of the language with learning effects. Being an effective language analyst also means being able to conceptualize language phenomena as English is rich, complex and diverse (Wright 1991). No grammar books or dictionaries can include all language phenomena. So the teacher is required to theorize the language experience. 3. The ability to understand students’ feelings and problems can decide the teacher’s attitudes toward students and build up rapport with his/her students. Considering students’ feelings by putting him/herself in students’ pl