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语言教学设计Lecture 1 Language and Learning Unit 1 Language and Learning Main concerns: Views on language Views on language learning What is a good language teacher, and how can one become such? 1.1 How do we learn language? Task 1 on pp. 1-2 How many foreign languages can you speak? Did you find learning a foreign language easy? What difficulties did you experience? Why? Which skill did you find more difficult to learn? Did you focus on knowledge or skills? Why? Why did you learn the foreign language(s)? Did you find it interesting to learn the foreign language(s)? What were your most common learning activities? Did you like the way you learned the foreign language(s)? Conclusions of the task People learn a foreign language for different reasons; People learn languages in different ways; People have different understandings about language learning; and People have different capabilities in language learning. 1.2 Views on language The answer to the question ‘What is language?’ is the basis for: syllabus design, teaching methods, teaching procedures, and teaching techniques . A definition of language is always, implicitly or explicitly, a definition of human beings in the world. Raymond Williams ? Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotion and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols. Edward Sapir A set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements. Noam Chomsky?The institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each otherby means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols. R.A. Hall David Crystal: The systematic, conventional use of sounds, signs, or written symbols in a human society for communication and self-expression. Task 2 (p. 2)What is language? Sample definitions of “language” (p. 177) Language: is a system/set of symbols; is (primarily) vocal; is arbitrary and conventional; consists of a set of rules