王蔷《英语教学法教程》第2版课后答案

TASK 1

Below is a list of interview questions on how people learn a foreign language. In the first column, write down your own responses. Then interview three other students in your class and enter their responses in the other columns. Discuss your findings in groups of 4 and draw some conclusions.

【答案】

It can be found that

1) people are exposed to foreign language learning at different ages;

2) when learning a foreign language, people feel different degrees of difficulty;

3) people learn new languages with various reasons;

4) people use different ways to learn languages;

5) people show their different understandings on language learning;

6) people show various capabilities in language learning;

7) language learning can be affected by the teaching way;

8) people who are eager to learn a foreign language well are easier to master the new language.

In conclusion, the difficulty of language teaching is to ensure that students who are different in many ways are taught well with reasonable teaching methods.

TASK 3

1) What are the psycholinguistic and cognitive processes involved in language learning? 2) What are the conditions that need to be met in order for these learning processes to be activated?

Work in groups of 4. Brainstorm the answers to the two questions stated above. When you are ready, join another group and share your ideas.

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The psycholinguistic and cognitive process involved in language learning are related to how one’s brain deals with the new information including habit formation, induction, inference, hypothesis, testing and generalization. The physical environment of learning which involves how to input the knowledge, the learning atmosphere and the student number is the key to activate the series of learning processes.

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TASK 4

Work in groups. Reflect on your own learning experiences from early school years to the university. Have you had an excellent English teacher? Try to identify as many qualities as possible of your best English teacher(s). Note down all the qualities that you think are important for a good English teacher.

【答案】

A good teacher should show the excellent moral qualities, he or she is supposed to be responsible, warm-hearted, well-prepared and hard-working.

Attractive personal style is also important. The style could be enthusiastic, humorous and so on.

The strong professional skills are essential as well. Language teachers need to have comprehensive language abilities and professional teaching skills.

TASK 5

Work in pairs and discuss how one can become a professionally competent teacher of English. For example, we have to develop our English proficiency first and also we may need to learn from experienced teachers through observations. What else can you think of? Make a list and then pool all your ideas together to find out about your common beliefs.

【答案】

A competent language teacher needs to continuously learn new teaching methods and collect teaching materials to meet new teaching needs.

In addition, teachers need to summarize experience in teaching practice to improve teaching efficiency.

Moreover, language teachers need to communicate with colleagues of different styles to generate new teaching inspiration and learn different teaching methods.