Overview of Teaching Grammar

Though introducing different attitudes toward teaching grammar and summarizing some practical methods,English learners and teachers can draw on useful experience.     

Overview of Teaching Grammar

Though introducing different attitudes toward teaching grammar and summarizing some practical methods, English learners and teachers can draw on useful experience.     

Teaching How to Use the Language Instead of the Usage of the Language——Brief Introduction to the Teaching Design of Unit 8 Festivals

(1)Content of the material:This unit is the eighth unit in English(Book 1)written by Zhang Yina and published by Jiangsu Education Publishing House.The topic is talking about festivals and customs.The unit consists of the following five parts:warming up,listening,speaking,reading and grammar,the material of which live up to the two     

Application of ＂Inducing-mode Teaching, Exploratory Teaching, Discussion Teaching＂ to Physical Chemistry Teaching

引导式、探究式、讨论式教学方法,可激发学生好奇心,发挥学生主动精神,鼓励学生进行创造性思维,提高物理化学教学效果。     

The Psychic Rewards of Teaching

WPA(William P.Ancker):The scope of your professional experience and service is tremendous,and your longevity is remarkable.How did your career begin?     

The Inquiry of the Junior Graded Teaching Method——A Case Study

Graded teaching divides students into classes in which students are at the same level.Graded teaching is the variant and development of traditional methods.This article makes some introduction of graded teaching,has a review of the theoretical development and tries to analyses its advantages and disadvantages.Lastly,we have some specific requirements for teachers.     

Teaching English For Communication——A Brief Discussion of Some Communication Activities

What do we teach English for? For Language itself? Definitely not. Language is a means of communication. So it is no good teaching English all about its grammar rules and long lists of words without using it in real communication. Very often we have many students,who bave studied English for 6—10 years and acquired a vocabulary of thousands of individual words and a good mastery of hundreds of grammar rules but can not use them as a means of communication.     

Strategies of Teaching Extensive Reading

BernardShaw，EarnestHemingway，MarkTwain，WashingtonIrving，HawthornWilliamShakespeare，WilliamMakepeaceThackeray，JaneAusten，theBrontesistersandsoon．Shortlyafterthat，Iassignedthemtowritethesesafterreadingtheirfavoritenovelsorstoriesorpoemswrittenbythosewell－knownwritersinthepastthreecenturies．Atfirsttheydidnotknowhowtodotheirwork．Ishowedthemsomesampletheses．Forovertwomonths，theyworkedhardonit．Theyreadatleastthreebooks，someevenmorethanfive，onthesubjectstheychose．Beforethede…     

Evaluation of Virtual Teaching Curriculum

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Teaching Physical Activity—a Matter of Health and Equality?

The aim of this study is to understand the mechanisms supporting equality and social health in physical activity (PA) practices by analysing didactic choices. Social health is understood as equal distribution of power. Thereby, a healthy PA practice needs to be inclusive. 3 PA activities are analysed as cases. Issues of inclusion and exclusion are scrutinized. The analysis shows how the power in PA classes may be reallocated by didactic choices and tools such as the teaching content, the rules, the organization, and the leader attitude. Additionally, to increase the possibilities of conducting healthy PA teaching in physical education and health (PEH), humane values need to take precedence before the competitive sport logic governed by a scientific paradigm.     

Minority Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions of Teaching Science: Sources of Science Teaching Strategies

This study explores five minority preservice teachers’ conceptions of teaching science and identifies the sources of their strategies for helping students learn science. Perspectives from the literature on conceptions of teaching science and on the role constructs used to describe and distinguish minority preservice teachers from their mainstream White peers served as the framework to identify minority preservice teachers’ instructional ideas, meanings, and actions for teaching science. Data included drawings, narratives, observations and self-review reports of microteaching, and interviews. A thematic analysis of data revealed that the minority preservice teachers’ conceptions of teaching science were a specific set of beliefs-driven instructional ideas about how science content is linked to home experiences, students’ ideas, hands-on activities, about how science teaching must include group work and not be based solely on textbooks, and about how learning science involves the concept of all students can learn science, and acknowledging and respecting students’ ideas about science. Implications for teacher educators include the need to establish supportive environments within methods courses for minority preservice teachers to express their K-12 experiences and acknowledge and examine how these experiences shape their conceptions of teaching science, and to recognize that minority preservice teachers’ conceptions of teaching science reveal the multiple ways through which they see and envision science instruction.     

The Application of DI in CALL mode——in Vocational College English Teaching

At present,Differentiated teaching is very useful in teaching English.This thesis is to explore the usage of DI in voca tional college English teaching under the CALL mode.60 students were selected to complete the project.And as a result,the stu dents’confidence has developed greatly after the DI.     

A Brief History of Language Teaching

This article, in briefly reviewing the history of language teaching methods, provides a background of discussion of contemporary methods and suggests the issues we will refer to in analyzing these methods. From this historical perspective we are also to see that the concerns that bave prompted modern method innovations were similar to those that have always been at the     

The Role of Emotion in Teaching

Associated with the recent research results of emotion psychology, the paper addresses the role of emotion in teaching from five aspects. The author presents that emotion plays a primary role of internalization and regulation in the process of teaching and directly restricts the accepting of course contents, the mastery of academic knowledge, the internalization of learning motivation, the regulation of students＇ behavior and the construction of teaching strategies while arousing the relevant emotional experience, which is the psychological base of effective teaching.     

University Teachers as Developers of Technology-Enhanced Teaching—Do Beliefs Matter?

Previous research has identified a well-established link between teachers' beliefs and the practical implications of technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Until recently, there have been few studies of teachers' beliefs regarding their own role as developers of TEL in higher education. In this study, 18 university teachers' reflective writings on their role as developers of TEL were analyzed. All the teachers had developed their teaching methods for the instructional use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The findings of qualitative thematic analysis indicated four divergent teachers' roles: (1) active developers, (2) adaptive developers, (3) cautious developers, and (4) reluctant developers. These findings can be used to train teachers in educational change. (Keywords: Teacher beliefs, teacher roles, teaching development, technology-enhanced learning, university teaching, higher education)     

A Constructivist View of Teaching——Taking Preposition “at” as an Example

Language is a dynamically evolving system. A word in its long development will little increasingly extend from a simplex meaning to a number of meanings,resulting in what is generally referred to as lexical polysemy. How to learn these words effectively? In this paper,a constructivist view of teaching and corpus were used to present how to teaching preposition effectively.     

Academics’ Perceptions of Good Teaching: Assessing the Degree of Parity with Student Evaluation of Teaching Questionnaires

ABSTRACT

There is a dearth of studies on academics’ perceptions of good teaching in transitional economies such as Uganda and the degree of parity between academics’ conceptions of good teaching and the items in the student evaluation of teaching (SET) questionnaires. Against this backdrop, the article reports on a study that explored how academics at Makerere University, Uganda, perceive good teaching and compared the resultant perceptions with the items in the SET questionnaires. The study employed a qualitative approach and data was collected by using semi-structured interviews and reviewing documents. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data from the interviews while the data from the documents was analysed using content analysis. The findings showed that academics perceive good teaching as: being knowledgeable; being student-centred; demonstrating good communication skills; undertaking research-based teaching; demonstrating professionalism; being approachable; and being organised. Finally, the findings demonstrated a convergence between academics’ perceptions of good teaching and most of the items in the SET questionnaires.     

Comparison of Teaching Approaches of the Subjunctive Mood—Comparison of Two Grammar Books from Home and Abroad

This study compared the different approaches of introducing the subjunctive mood in Advanced English Grammar and Grammar Dimensions in the hope that it will help ESL teachers to make choice of the proper ways of teaching the subjunctive mood,one of the most serious grammatical problems ever encountered by most ESL learners in China.Also,the main causes of the students’drawbacks in learning subjunctive mood are excavated and some feasible solutions in mastering this difficult item in English grammar are presented in this study.