鲁子问英语教学论课后习题答案详解

鲁子问《英语教学论》（英文版）课后习题详解 【完整内容点击文中链接获取】

Chapter 1——Concepts for English Teaching in Schools

Section 1
1. Based on the theories in this unit, what arethe main educational factors that cause teacher L’s wholehearted enthusiasm tomeet with cold indifference from his students?
Key: In the first place, teaching isan interactive activity in which both teachers and students become moredeveloped. Teacher L conducts a completely exam-oriented teaching, which isboring and mundane. He is ignorant of students’ learning needs and there is nointeraction between them. Secondly, in language teaching, the more importantfactor is students’ positive and active approach to learning. Teacher Lobviously doesn’t care about students’ motivation and incentive; he cramslearning materials and exam content in the students, regardless of students’emotional response. Lastly, teaching should be teacher-led butstudents-centered activity. Here teacher L takes teaching as teacher-led andexam-centered. He is putting the cart before the horse. Only by focusing onstudents’ learning needs and motivation can they perform well in exams andachieve learning goals.
2. In your opinion, whatkind of classroom teaching activity conforms to the essence of education?
Key: The essence of teaching is tolead students to develop and the teacher’s job is to help students to findanswers by themselves and to explore language learning methods by themselves.Therefore, the teaching activity that conforms to the essence of education is aseries of questions thrown to students to help deduce proper answers.
Section 2
1. What do you think are the main causes for themisunderstanding in the argument “English teaching in elementary and middleschools in China cannot be communicative competence oriented”?
Key: It ignores the fact that languageis the tool for communication and communication is the function of language. Itis through interpersonal communication that language remains active andvigorous. Therefore, one of the teaching goals of elementary and middle schoolEnglish should be to develop student’s communicative competence. Ifcommunication is removed from the goals of English teaching, then languagelearning becomes a boring process of memorization. There’s no fun in it.Besides, without focusing on communication, language learning will be far fromeffective, since communication is the best way to learn all languages.
2. After reflection onyour own English study, identify what your main learning problems are.
Key: The main learning problems mayinclude: 1) fear of speaking English, especially in public; 2) lack ofmotivation; 3) imbalance of fun and homework.

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Section 3
1. What do you think is the major mistake in theviewpoint “one’s vocabulary size is the indicator of whether one’s Englishlearning is successful”?
Key: This statement overemphasizesthe role of vocabulary. It should be noted that vocabulary constitutes only apart of language; there is also grammar. Even if one has a good mastery ofvocabulary and grammar, there are still culture and style to bear in mind. Asuccessful English learner should have certain awareness of culture with a goodcommand of vocabulary and grammar. S/he should be able to adjust his or herstyle on different occasions; his or her knowledge of English should be able tosatisfy his or her needs successfully.
2. What do you think the essential differencebetween an English language curriculum and an English literacy curriculum is?How do you understand the instrumental nature of English curriculum and thehumanist nature of English curriculum in the National Curriculum Standards forEnglish in Schools in China (MOE, 2001)?
Key: 1) The essential difference isthat an English language curriculum is to develop students’ overall competencein English. Its teaching and learning process is to cultivate students’proficiency in the basic four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.By the end of the learning, students should be able to communicate effectivelyin English, have certain knowledge of English culture and develop some valueand abilities. However, an English literacy curriculum is to focus on students’reading ability. The main job involved is to teach students to read and perhapsto write. The teaching objective and learning purpose is narrowed down to mastera set of words; communication is absent in this curriculum.
2) It’s instrumental in that it views English as a tool forcommunication. To achieve effective communication, not only vocabulary andgrammar but culture is embodied in the teaching goals. Besides, it isinstrumental in that it sets English as a tool help understand oneself and theworld. The job is not only to learn language but to develop and better oneself.It is humanist in that it concerns not only the learning of language but thedevelopment of children.

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