成人外语教学的误区

A Long-standing Mistaken Idea of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning for Adults

成年人学习外语有自己的特殊性,要求他们放弃母语改为外语思维显然是行不通的。积极探索成年人学习外语的特点,改进教师的教学方式,可以使他们更好更快地掌握一门技能,起到事半功倍的效果,更好地服务于社会。

Adults have their own characteristic of foreign language learning.It＇s obviously unworkable to require them to abandon their mother tongue and think in foreign languages.In order to help them grasp a kind of skill better and more quickly and serve the society better in the future it＇s essential for all foreign language teachers to probe positively the peculiarity of foreign language learners for adults and improve the teachers＇ methods,which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.