The Potential Cultural Differences in Native-speaker Teacher’s Language Classroom

While the majority of nonnative speaker English teachers teach alongside NS teachers,research on the role of native speaker English teachers in China’s teaching context and the attitudes of university students towards them have been rarely conducted.This essay discusses the implications of cultural differences for the language classroom,and the different cultures of learning with regard to language teaching and learning in China and the Wes.The conclusion suggests that it is of great importance to have a good sense of cultural awareness and an open mind for cultural interactions,in order to benefit both language learners and native speaker teachers in the cross-cultural classroom.     

Breathe New Life into English Teaching:A Book Review of Using Corpora in the Language Classroom

The present article provides a critical review of Randi Reppen’s impressing book Using Corpora in the Language Classroom.It’s argued that Randi Reppen’s book,despite a few slight flaws,has a strong practical orientation and is a laudable effort to make English language teachers to realize the importance and practicality of bringing corpora into classroom in digital age.The book is particularly worthy of reading for those language teachers(especially beginner teachers) who want to breathe new life into their English teaching.     

The Description of Effective Classroom Management

Language teachers and researchers have shown high interest in providing effective classroom management. The purpose of this study is to explore successful classroom management from three aspects: effective time management in a classroom, effective teaching in small classes, and effective use of handouts for a lecture. The findings reveal that it is crucial for language teachers to deliver enough knowledge during the limited time. And then small class teaching is an inevitable trend that teachers should focus on. Finally, despite the disadvantages of handouts, using handouts effectively can benefit both teachers and students.     

Teaching about Different Lifestyles in Second Language Learning

Cultural learning is an indispensible part in both first and second language learning.One cannot learn a language without learning the culture where it operates.This literature review aims to clarify the relationship between language and culture and arouse language teachers’ consciousness of the benefits of integrating cultural teaching into language learning in second language classrooms by addressing the question:What are the benefits of combining language teaching and cultural teaching? Consequently it explains the nature of different lifestyles in different cultures and the process of second language learning.Also,it explores the significance of cultural awareness in second language learning and teaching and the strategies to incorporate lifestyles into second language teaching.The findings of this literature review strongly suggest the importance for second language teachers to incorporate culture into classroom teaching.Learning a second language cannot be separated from learning the target culture which facilitates successful language learning and reduces prejudice,misunderstanding and stereotyped notions towards the target language group.     

Intercultural language education: New understanding of EFL teaching and learning

正1 Introduction In twentieth century language teaching classroom,most of teachers tended to stress grammatical rather than cultural purposes and this phenomenon has been recognized by related researchers as a potential severe trap in the EFL(English as a Foreign Language)teaching.Lo Bianco(2003,pp.11-12)presents that culture is always absent from EFL classroom in twentieth century,and teachers just focuses on linguistic knowledge,such as vocabulary and grammar rules,and just introduces a little culture of foreign language in the end of the class which makes language learning lack of connection and deep understanding.Thus,teachers should not solely consider language education as teaching linguistic codes,     

Recap in English Class

This research is concerned with the different ways and techniques used by English teachers to recap the shared learning experience in the classroom.The purpose is to uncover teacher practices when conducting recap activities and to develop a deeper understanding of the value of recaps within the context of foreign language learning and teaching.Three different ways of recapping are revealed and studied in this action research,namely,recapping in interaction,recapping in activities and recapping in homework.     

On teaching strategies in second language acquisition

How to acquire a second language is a question of obvious importance to teachers and language learners, and how to teach a second language has also become a matter of concern to the linguists＇ interest in the nature of primary linguistic data. Starting with the development stages of second language acquisition and Stephen Krashen＇s theory, this paper puts forward teaching strategies： analyzing learner characteristics, signing classroom contracts, creating learner-centered classroom, setting language goals, integrating theory with practice and building learner motivation.     

Analysis of the Advantages and Drawbacks of PPP Approach in Teaching Grammar of a Second Language

This paper is aiming at analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of PPP approach in teaching L2 grammar. PPP approach, referring to the method of Presentation, Practice and Production, is one of the traditional language teaching instructions in classroom. There are advantages and drawbacks using PPP to teach grammar. It can benefit both L2 teachers and learners whereas it limits learner autonomy and the interaction among learners in language grammar teaching classroom.     

An Analysis of Three Dimensions in EFL Teaching

After analyzing the three dimensions(teachers,students and classroom activities) in EFL teaching,it can be found that rapport and delivery are of great importance to a teacher;a quality teacher should comprehensively understand his students and always keep individual differences in mind and modern teachers should also grasp many skills of managing classroom activi ties.In order to activate students’motivation and at the same time keep a high teaching efficiency level,classroom teaching should be carefully shifted from teacher-centered to student-centered when possible.In this process,class activities can greatly reinforce a student-centered class.     

How to Teach Target Culture in EFL Classrooms More Effectively

Teaching culture in foreign language class is already a concept accepted by language teachers all over the world since language and culture are closely connected and inseparable,and this concept has been put into practice for a long time.However,the application of integrating the target culture teaching into EFL classrooms is far from being satisfactory.Therefore,how to incorporate culture into the foreign language classroom and how to teach culture for effective language learning has become a top priority for language teachers.This paper attempts to explore how to teach target culture effectively in EFL classrooms from multiple perspectives in the hope of helping students grasp cultural knowledge,improve their communicative competence,and enrich their linguistic knowledge as well.     

Integrating Traditional Teaching Methods with Communicative Language Teaching in English Language Teaching

How to improve English teaching efficiency is a problem that linguists and language teachers are always thinking about.This paper introduces the dominant traditional teaching methods and CLT and their limitations when being adopted in the English classroom in China and how to integrate traditional teaching methods with communicative language teaching in English classes.     

Setting Questions in Class Based on the ＂Wisdom Class＂ Theory

In the process of classroom education, setting questions in class is an important teaching method, which is used in the whole teaching activity and acts as the link between the thoughts of teachers and students. Hence, creating a wisdom class and using according questions to aid the class are of great significance to both students and teachers. In this paper, 40 elementary students from the 9th grade and 10 of their teachers were studied and the result showed that learning requirements facing to the whole class and students＇ learning beliefs are essential principles, and questions should be set by having an exhaustive understanding of the textbook, giving previous homework, creating a thinking atmosphere, and setting a proper difficulty for the students. The proper time to set questions is when the old knowledge and new knowledge of the student conflict in the awareness of the student, when the teacher wants to spread thought, and when the teacher wants to make a conclusion.     

Interactive Techniques Used in Teachers’ Oral Feedback and Its Impact on Students’ Participation

English language teaching is facing a reformation with the emphasis of students-centered learning approach and communicative language learning. Classroom interaction becomes popular especially during teachers’ oral feedback. In order to involve more students to participate, interactive techniques are applied in the classroom such as elicitation and recasts. This essay will focus on the adoption of interactive techniques in teachers’ oral feedback in terms of a specific grammar lesson and try to explore its impact on students’ participation.     

The analysis of the Distinction of NSs and NNSs and its Significance in ELT

The distinction of’native speakers’(NSs) and’non-native speakers’(NNSs),and their roles in English teaching has led to great discussion in the field of EFL and ESL recently.Despite the limitations of this distinction,it is meaningful in the field of language teaching when both groups of speakers’potential advantages and disadvantages in language teaching are equally recognized.The distinction of NSs and NNSs English teachers tells about the background information of the two groups,and therefore enables the teachers and professions to assess the pros and cons of them in real teaching practice,so as to initiate possible cooperation or to design reasonable syllabi for teacher training programs.     

Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching

Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.     

Teacher’s Role in the Oral English Class

English speaking has been paid more attention today, especially in the age of globalization. Teachers are attempting to find out more effective methods to enhance the teaching results of English speaking. Facing the great demands and present difficulties of oral English classes, teachers have to conduct more study and practice to find out what roles that an oral English teacher has to take in the oral English classroom. Compared with the traditional teaching role in the English classroom, an oral English teacher has to fulfill more than one role in the classroom teaching so as to provide better learning conditions for students. Lacking more exposure to the real interaction with native speakers, students expect the oral English teacher to be a creator of the language environment. With various teaching and learning activities in the oral English classroom, the teacher has to be a good organizer to ensure every student to achieve improvement. An oral English teacher also has to correct students’language errors while ensuring the smooth progress of the classroom teaching. Only when an oral English teacher make clear what roles he or she has to take in the classroom can he or she achieve effective teaching.     

An Analysis of Teacher Questions in EFL Classroom

In EFL teaching environment, classroom is the main place where language acquisition occurs. In the classroom, teacher question is viewed as an important constituent of teacher talk. Teacher questions also give impetus to classroom interaction. The quantity and quality of teacher questions have a great influence on learners. However, in China, few aspects of the research on teacher questions have been discussed in some relevant articles. This paper attempts to analyze the characteristics of teacher questions from two aspects: display questions and referential questions. Moreover, it explores the relationship between teacher question and student output. Finally, according to the survey results in this paper the researcher gives some implications and guidance to English teachers.     

Pragmatic Competence in Classroom Teaching

Pragmatic competence is a branch of language education studies within the overall framework of linguistics.The paper discusses relationship between pragmatics and classroom teaching from the perspectives of pragmatic competence,features of class room teaching and how to cultivate pragmatics competence in classroom teaching.It is argued that there are positive role of prag matics in classroom teaching.This thesis tries to finally give some advise from pragmatics for further language education research.     

Language Learning Strategies and Strategic Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom

The results of a great deal of research have suggested that language learning strategies can be taught and that instructing learning strategies and integrating them into regular instruction can greatly facilitate the learning of a second/foreign language.The aim of this article is to draw the readers’ attention to strategic teaching that should be introduced in the foreign language classroom in order to meet the demands of contemporary language education. In particular, it points to the necessity that teachers should change their attitudes towards the roles they play in the classroom to become truly responsible for their learning.     

Multi-Dimensional Thoughts on English Classroom Teaching Techniques

English Language teaching involves various English teaching techniques in terms of listening,speaking,reading,writ ing and the like skills.Traditional teaching ways are mostly discussed from that standpoint.Here,some new English classroom teaching techniques are introduced and evaluated in a dimensional perspective,which relate to such elements as the students,the teacher,classroom organization and management,and instructional strategies,etc.It makes English classroom teaching more effec tive,thus improve English classroom teaching results.So,it’s advisable for English teachers to reconsider and reevaluate their teaching strategy and result in language classroom from a new multi-dimensional angle in order to improve English teaching effi ciency.