College English listening teaching plays an essential role in college English teaching. Although traditional listening teaching is quite helpful in improving listening, its disadvantages in teaching are obvious. With ...College English listening teaching plays an essential role in college English teaching. Although traditional listening teaching is quite helpful in improving listening, its disadvantages in teaching are obvious. With the development of the multi-media, more and more disadvantages are popping up in the radio-oriented language lab teaching. College English listening teaching is a must since it can arouse students' interest in learning English and also a great improvement in English teaching.展开更多
Culture plays a very important role in language teaching. A deep study of the relationship between language and culture is not only necessary but also urgent in language teaching and learning. The paper briefly points...Culture plays a very important role in language teaching. A deep study of the relationship between language and culture is not only necessary but also urgent in language teaching and learning. The paper briefly points out that in order to make teaching more effective, teachers should not only teach the language itself, but also teach the culture in the language while teaching the foreign language. It analyzes the differences of language customs reflecting in different cultures among different languages (between European languages such as English, Russian and Asian languages such as Kazakh, Chinese). The analysis of diversity of different social cultures and different language customs of commtmication shows that the culture has a great influence upon the language. It includes the next components: (1) diversity of different geographies, natural environment, and customs, (2) differences of the history, religion, and belief, and (3) diversity of different thoughts of understanding objectivities. Further suggestions concerning how to use culture factors in the teaching procedure are also introduced in detail, such as: (1) the teacher's role; (2) the way of explanation, (3) the way of contrast; and (4) the way of practice. In order to conduct foreign language teaching well, teachers must take up the teaching of culture and the teaching of language at the same time. As long as the emphasis is laid both linguistic skills and communicative competence, the goals of language teaching will be achieved satisfactorily.展开更多
The educational project prepared for students of High School 15-17 years old with the subject of Biodiversity in Minoan Period and Nowadays. It was an interdisciplinary approach of ecological and cultural views of bio...The educational project prepared for students of High School 15-17 years old with the subject of Biodiversity in Minoan Period and Nowadays. It was an interdisciplinary approach of ecological and cultural views of biodiversity. Special educational material was prepared with photos and texts of archaeological excavations and field sampling which was used in real and virtual environment, in t~ discovery teaching of Natural Sciences and History subjects. Students, in a scientific research project with constructive teachings, followed the procedures by which scientists gather, analyze, synthesize, process and evaluate information of organisms of Crete since 4000 years. Crete is located between the natural limits of three continents, having the unique privilege to host permanently or in migration, distinctive species of these three continents. After having the research questions, teachers collected the educational material, organized the work groups, implemented the didactic intervention in the classroom, had the field sampling of plants, recognized the synchronous local and scientific names of the plants, constructed the botany book, photographed the collected organisms and all the concentrated material was delivered to the team members.展开更多
This study was undertaken to investigate the links between a Master of TESOL program and its graduates' diverse teaching contexts through a questionnaire. It was discovered from the participants' responses whi...This study was undertaken to investigate the links between a Master of TESOL program and its graduates' diverse teaching contexts through a questionnaire. It was discovered from the participants' responses which courses were the most contributing, which were irrelevant yet valuable to their teaching, what adjustments were needed as gaps were discovered between what they had learned and their real teaching contexts, whether they believed the outcomes had changed their teaching and contributed to their confidence in teaching, and their comments on their choices. Based on the findings and discussions, a processing model of forging these links is established. In addition, the article also discusses reasons associated with the results, and provides suggestions of solutions for possible implementations of future programs.展开更多
文摘College English listening teaching plays an essential role in college English teaching. Although traditional listening teaching is quite helpful in improving listening, its disadvantages in teaching are obvious. With the development of the multi-media, more and more disadvantages are popping up in the radio-oriented language lab teaching. College English listening teaching is a must since it can arouse students' interest in learning English and also a great improvement in English teaching.
文摘Culture plays a very important role in language teaching. A deep study of the relationship between language and culture is not only necessary but also urgent in language teaching and learning. The paper briefly points out that in order to make teaching more effective, teachers should not only teach the language itself, but also teach the culture in the language while teaching the foreign language. It analyzes the differences of language customs reflecting in different cultures among different languages (between European languages such as English, Russian and Asian languages such as Kazakh, Chinese). The analysis of diversity of different social cultures and different language customs of commtmication shows that the culture has a great influence upon the language. It includes the next components: (1) diversity of different geographies, natural environment, and customs, (2) differences of the history, religion, and belief, and (3) diversity of different thoughts of understanding objectivities. Further suggestions concerning how to use culture factors in the teaching procedure are also introduced in detail, such as: (1) the teacher's role; (2) the way of explanation, (3) the way of contrast; and (4) the way of practice. In order to conduct foreign language teaching well, teachers must take up the teaching of culture and the teaching of language at the same time. As long as the emphasis is laid both linguistic skills and communicative competence, the goals of language teaching will be achieved satisfactorily.
文摘The educational project prepared for students of High School 15-17 years old with the subject of Biodiversity in Minoan Period and Nowadays. It was an interdisciplinary approach of ecological and cultural views of biodiversity. Special educational material was prepared with photos and texts of archaeological excavations and field sampling which was used in real and virtual environment, in t~ discovery teaching of Natural Sciences and History subjects. Students, in a scientific research project with constructive teachings, followed the procedures by which scientists gather, analyze, synthesize, process and evaluate information of organisms of Crete since 4000 years. Crete is located between the natural limits of three continents, having the unique privilege to host permanently or in migration, distinctive species of these three continents. After having the research questions, teachers collected the educational material, organized the work groups, implemented the didactic intervention in the classroom, had the field sampling of plants, recognized the synchronous local and scientific names of the plants, constructed the botany book, photographed the collected organisms and all the concentrated material was delivered to the team members.
文摘This study was undertaken to investigate the links between a Master of TESOL program and its graduates' diverse teaching contexts through a questionnaire. It was discovered from the participants' responses which courses were the most contributing, which were irrelevant yet valuable to their teaching, what adjustments were needed as gaps were discovered between what they had learned and their real teaching contexts, whether they believed the outcomes had changed their teaching and contributed to their confidence in teaching, and their comments on their choices. Based on the findings and discussions, a processing model of forging these links is established. In addition, the article also discusses reasons associated with the results, and provides suggestions of solutions for possible implementations of future programs.