Due to the general promotion of the new English curriculum standards,the training of students'intercultural communication skills has become the main goal of the current English teaching reform.In English teaching,...Due to the general promotion of the new English curriculum standards,the training of students'intercultural communication skills has become the main goal of the current English teaching reform.In English teaching,reading teaching includes all aspects of English country customs,human accidents,political diplomacy,etc.The intensive reading of English reading helps students to understand the culture of English-speaking countries.Therefore,in order to improve the quality of English intensive reading in China,starting from the important role and main principles of"infiltration"intercultural communication teaching in English intensive reading teaching,to explore the application of"infiltration"cross-cultural communication teaching in English intensive reading teaching.展开更多
The text-based and reader-based are two contrasting groups of approaches existed in the field of textual coherence study.On the basis of the integration of the two kinds of approaches,an integrative interpretation of ...The text-based and reader-based are two contrasting groups of approaches existed in the field of textual coherence study.On the basis of the integration of the two kinds of approaches,an integrative interpretation of the nature of coherence is proposed,that is,coherence is both a text-related and reader-related phenomenon.In order to construct coherent interpretation of text meaning more efficiently,readers should not only be able to identify and use text-immanent coherence cues,but also be capable of drawing coherence-related information by perceiving the contextual features and by engaging actively in activating their background knowledge and in using their cognitive skills.Coherence construction based on the integrative interpretation is the key to success in reading comprehension,so it can generate important pedagogical implications in the college English intensive reading classroom.展开更多
This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the t...This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the text challengingly and ingeniously,and spicing up the text.展开更多
In Chian,intensive reading is one of the main methods for teaching English in colleges.One feature of the textbooks is that they all have large quantities of new words in each text,so vocabulary is one of the most imp...In Chian,intensive reading is one of the main methods for teaching English in colleges.One feature of the textbooks is that they all have large quantities of new words in each text,so vocabulary is one of the most important aspects of this,course.At the beginning of thisterm,I made a survey among students who entered our college last term.To the question"What is the greatest problem in your English studies”,18 out of the 21 students answeredthat they could not remember new words——vocabulary.This,to some extent,suggeststhat our approaches to vocabulary teaching should be展开更多
Teaching culture is an indispensable part of English teaching.Teachers should teach western cultures along with teaching linguistic knowledge itself.In college English intensive reading class due to heavy workload,tig...Teaching culture is an indispensable part of English teaching.Teachers should teach western cultures along with teaching linguistic knowledge itself.In college English intensive reading class due to heavy workload,tight schedule and large classes,culture teaching,to certain degree.,seems hard to be realized.In this article,the authors introduce two practical,flexible and user-friendly methods: culture penetration and culture aside which can help teachers to teach culture in intensive reading class so that to improve students' intercultural awareness and competence.展开更多
As an important component of intensive reading teaching, vocabulary teaching not only ties up with the quality of intensive reading, but also with the students'skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. A...As an important component of intensive reading teaching, vocabulary teaching not only ties up with the quality of intensive reading, but also with the students'skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. After discussing the place of vocabulary teaching in intensive reading, this essay provides several proposal strategies according to the current problems in vocabulary teaching in intensive reading class in China. And then it narrates that students'ability of vocabulary acquisition and cognition depends on adopting various and flexible teaching strategies and repetition.展开更多
Many students have difficulties in obtaining the globalmeanings of texts.This paper proposes some suggestions on howto help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensivereading classrooms within the fram...Many students have difficulties in obtaining the globalmeanings of texts.This paper proposes some suggestions on howto help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensivereading classrooms within the framework of modernpsycholinguistics.It mainly discusses the important effect ofprior knowledge on further understanding and provides threemethods to help solve this problem:make good use of pre-reading activities;enrich the students’background information;and analyze the structure of texts.展开更多
This paper is a product of intensive reading teaching reform practice held in Shantou Universityin 1998,under the instruction of Mr.Black(professor of New York City University).It summarises therational and procedures...This paper is a product of intensive reading teaching reform practice held in Shantou Universityin 1998,under the instruction of Mr.Black(professor of New York City University).It summarises therational and procedures we used in the teaching practice of intensive reading.Modes of top-down and bot-tom-up processing are introduced,procedures such as skimming,scanning,careful reading,writing,role-playing,presentation and practice are described,particular importance is attached to group work orpair work.The rationale and procedures we put forward in this paper are not revolutionary but a combi-nation of traditional Chinese teacher-centred mode with contemporary western student-centred approachin the teaching of intensive reading in China.However,they have been proved highly efficient and prac-tical,which makes this paper worth reading.展开更多
本文在Wilga M.Rivers提出的交互式教学原则的基础上,以The Virtue Called Devotion一课的教学设计与教学过程为例,探讨了在多媒体环境下,将交互式教学模式引入预科英语精读课堂教学的可行方法,旨在为学生创造更多使用英语的机会,增强...本文在Wilga M.Rivers提出的交互式教学原则的基础上,以The Virtue Called Devotion一课的教学设计与教学过程为例,探讨了在多媒体环境下,将交互式教学模式引入预科英语精读课堂教学的可行方法,旨在为学生创造更多使用英语的机会,增强学生的学习兴趣,从而提高课堂教学质量。展开更多
This paper intends to critically review and reflect upon the origin and development of Intensive Reading, an English course that has been designed and taught as the leading or 'core' course among all the cours...This paper intends to critically review and reflect upon the origin and development of Intensive Reading, an English course that has been designed and taught as the leading or 'core' course among all the courses related to the training of the English language at tertiary level in China during the past fifty years. This course came into being under the influence of the former Soviet model of foreign language teaching introduced at the end of the 1940s — a shift away from the content-based to skill-based approach. Since the very beginning, the course has seen arguments over its overall objectives, content selection and methodology. Many believed that the development of all the basic language skills — listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation should be incorporated in the objectives of this single 'core' course. Inevitably there have been arguments over the allotment of time for each skill and methodology to be adopted. Such shift occurred partly due to changes in English teaching in high schools. Since mid 1980s, EFL practitioners and researchers in this country have begun to reexamine and reflect upon this model of English teaching against the overall achievement of our students as students' dissatisfaction grew. As a result, opinions against this conventional approach have been voiced. Although being under different names, the course is still listed in the new syllabus in China, with more emphasis on discourse competence. The confusion over its course objectives, however, and difficulty in teaching methodology for the training of so many skills will remain as ongoing reforms in high schools keep posing new challenges.展开更多
The intensive reading class should focus on students’ reading problems and the techniques they need to become efficient readers. A model of reading technique training, including attack skills at the word, sentence an...The intensive reading class should focus on students’ reading problems and the techniques they need to become efficient readers. A model of reading technique training, including attack skills at the word, sentence and discourse level, is presented.展开更多
文摘Due to the general promotion of the new English curriculum standards,the training of students'intercultural communication skills has become the main goal of the current English teaching reform.In English teaching,reading teaching includes all aspects of English country customs,human accidents,political diplomacy,etc.The intensive reading of English reading helps students to understand the culture of English-speaking countries.Therefore,in order to improve the quality of English intensive reading in China,starting from the important role and main principles of"infiltration"intercultural communication teaching in English intensive reading teaching,to explore the application of"infiltration"cross-cultural communication teaching in English intensive reading teaching.
文摘The text-based and reader-based are two contrasting groups of approaches existed in the field of textual coherence study.On the basis of the integration of the two kinds of approaches,an integrative interpretation of the nature of coherence is proposed,that is,coherence is both a text-related and reader-related phenomenon.In order to construct coherent interpretation of text meaning more efficiently,readers should not only be able to identify and use text-immanent coherence cues,but also be capable of drawing coherence-related information by perceiving the contextual features and by engaging actively in activating their background knowledge and in using their cognitive skills.Coherence construction based on the integrative interpretation is the key to success in reading comprehension,so it can generate important pedagogical implications in the college English intensive reading classroom.
文摘This paper presents four teaching techniques of activating the textbook for intensive reading which include:injecting contemporary elements into the text,relating the text to students' life,questioning about the text challengingly and ingeniously,and spicing up the text.
文摘In Chian,intensive reading is one of the main methods for teaching English in colleges.One feature of the textbooks is that they all have large quantities of new words in each text,so vocabulary is one of the most important aspects of this,course.At the beginning of thisterm,I made a survey among students who entered our college last term.To the question"What is the greatest problem in your English studies”,18 out of the 21 students answeredthat they could not remember new words——vocabulary.This,to some extent,suggeststhat our approaches to vocabulary teaching should be
文摘Teaching culture is an indispensable part of English teaching.Teachers should teach western cultures along with teaching linguistic knowledge itself.In college English intensive reading class due to heavy workload,tight schedule and large classes,culture teaching,to certain degree.,seems hard to be realized.In this article,the authors introduce two practical,flexible and user-friendly methods: culture penetration and culture aside which can help teachers to teach culture in intensive reading class so that to improve students' intercultural awareness and competence.
文摘As an important component of intensive reading teaching, vocabulary teaching not only ties up with the quality of intensive reading, but also with the students'skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. After discussing the place of vocabulary teaching in intensive reading, this essay provides several proposal strategies according to the current problems in vocabulary teaching in intensive reading class in China. And then it narrates that students'ability of vocabulary acquisition and cognition depends on adopting various and flexible teaching strategies and repetition.
文摘Many students have difficulties in obtaining the globalmeanings of texts.This paper proposes some suggestions on howto help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensivereading classrooms within the framework of modernpsycholinguistics.It mainly discusses the important effect ofprior knowledge on further understanding and provides threemethods to help solve this problem:make good use of pre-reading activities;enrich the students’background information;and analyze the structure of texts.
文摘This paper is a product of intensive reading teaching reform practice held in Shantou Universityin 1998,under the instruction of Mr.Black(professor of New York City University).It summarises therational and procedures we used in the teaching practice of intensive reading.Modes of top-down and bot-tom-up processing are introduced,procedures such as skimming,scanning,careful reading,writing,role-playing,presentation and practice are described,particular importance is attached to group work orpair work.The rationale and procedures we put forward in this paper are not revolutionary but a combi-nation of traditional Chinese teacher-centred mode with contemporary western student-centred approachin the teaching of intensive reading in China.However,they have been proved highly efficient and prac-tical,which makes this paper worth reading.
文摘本文在Wilga M.Rivers提出的交互式教学原则的基础上,以The Virtue Called Devotion一课的教学设计与教学过程为例,探讨了在多媒体环境下,将交互式教学模式引入预科英语精读课堂教学的可行方法,旨在为学生创造更多使用英语的机会,增强学生的学习兴趣,从而提高课堂教学质量。
文摘This paper intends to critically review and reflect upon the origin and development of Intensive Reading, an English course that has been designed and taught as the leading or 'core' course among all the courses related to the training of the English language at tertiary level in China during the past fifty years. This course came into being under the influence of the former Soviet model of foreign language teaching introduced at the end of the 1940s — a shift away from the content-based to skill-based approach. Since the very beginning, the course has seen arguments over its overall objectives, content selection and methodology. Many believed that the development of all the basic language skills — listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation should be incorporated in the objectives of this single 'core' course. Inevitably there have been arguments over the allotment of time for each skill and methodology to be adopted. Such shift occurred partly due to changes in English teaching in high schools. Since mid 1980s, EFL practitioners and researchers in this country have begun to reexamine and reflect upon this model of English teaching against the overall achievement of our students as students' dissatisfaction grew. As a result, opinions against this conventional approach have been voiced. Although being under different names, the course is still listed in the new syllabus in China, with more emphasis on discourse competence. The confusion over its course objectives, however, and difficulty in teaching methodology for the training of so many skills will remain as ongoing reforms in high schools keep posing new challenges.
文摘The intensive reading class should focus on students’ reading problems and the techniques they need to become efficient readers. A model of reading technique training, including attack skills at the word, sentence and discourse level, is presented.