英语教学理论和方法5.pptVIP

Lecture 5 A Brief History of Foreign Language Teaching Methods of Language Learning 1. A Brief History of Foreign Language Teaching The history of foreign language teaching can be traced back to the ancient Roman when Latin was taught as a second language. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to present here a complete picture of the historical development of foreign language teaching because of its poor documentation. To facilitate our discussion, we will arbitrarily divide the short history into 4 periods and introduce the main trends, events and important figures in those periods. ?The Reform Movement (1882-1906) ??By the end of the 18th century, nearly all the European languages had been studied as foreign languages in schools. The principal aim of foreign language teaching at that time was to help learners to acquire a reading knowledge of the target languages. To satisfy the requirements of group teaching in schools, Grammar-Translation Method was devised and developed. For the next scores of years, Grammar-Translation Method dominated the foreign language teaching. Although there were individual endeavors to reform the foreign language teaching in those years, none of them was successful in shaking the position of the Grammar-Translation Method. However, they helped to pave the way for the Reform Movement. Then, in the second half of the 19th century, as communications among the European countries became more and more frequent, people were not satisfied with a mere reading knowledge of foreign languages. They wanted to be able to talk in a foreign language and they become more and more interested in reforming the teaching methods. A movement of reform started all of a sudden. The principles of the movement were the primary of speech, and the absolute priority of an oral methodology in the classroom. ?More language teaching and research (1906-1940) ?The teaching of English as a second/foreign language in Britain made great progress during this period. It be