[Methodics]As conceived by Halliday,McIntosh and Strevens(1964:201),this is'a framework of organization for language teaching which relates linguistic theory to pedagogical principles and techniques'.It entails for ea...
[media resources]Media resourcesi ni clude all the technology,ranging from tape-recorders to PC labs,which is involved in the aiding of learning.They encompass the resourcess(both software and hardware)outlined in fig...
[measurements of second language proficiency]There are two broad areas of ability in SLA:on the one hand,knowledge of the structural properties of the L2 and the conditions under which the L2 is used,and on the other,...
[literature teaching]Traditional views of literature as providing the language learner with access to the best language,to highculture,and1 to profound and accurate observations of life have been challenged in a numbe...
Early Influences Two academic influences on language teaching from the end of the nineteenth century onwards,were philology and phonetics(Howatt,1984:16981).In philology,the discovery of the common ancestry and relati...
[learning strategies]These are techniques used by second language learners for remembering and organizing samples of the L2.Some researchers claim that learning strategies contribute to L2 development.An example of a ...
A distinction made by the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure(18571913)between the abstract language system andits physical manifestations in the production of utterances.
[language testing]Language testing involves many technologies and developments which are different from language teaching,and yet it interacts closely with most aspectsof language teaching.Traditionally,a distinction ...
(接上期)The inserting of pauses into materials,especially in combination with facilities to record student responses in them,enabled the drill to become a much-used technique.The most basic drills involve repetition o...