This paper discusses using game as an alternative assessment approach to test students' language ability in a foreign language class.In all children's eyes,games are fun and"non-serious"activities wh...This paper discusses using game as an alternative assessment approach to test students' language ability in a foreign language class.In all children's eyes,games are fun and"non-serious"activities where they can safely expose themselves.Language teachers can design reasonable games to assess children's abilities in the four components of language competence and get a reliable result.The strengths and weaknesses of game as an assessment way are also mentioned at the end of the paper.展开更多
The teaching of speaking has been neglected in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） settings throughout language history which led to negative effects on EFL teachers＇ and learners＇ attitudes. While teachers exhibi...The teaching of speaking has been neglected in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） settings throughout language history which led to negative effects on EFL teachers＇ and learners＇ attitudes. While teachers exhibit hesitation having no preset teaching paradigms at their disposal, learners experience withdrawal in speaking situations that demand interactional ease and socio-pragmatic awareness. Indeed, both the type of instruction and the complexity of this skill make of the teaching of spoken language a highly controversial issue especially with the implicit dichotomy that speaking entails and which opposes accurate mastery of linguistic patterns to ease or facility in meaning transmission. This paper aims at reconsidering the way this dormant skill has been tackled and the interfering variables that should be rethought and revisited while dealing with it.展开更多
文摘This paper discusses using game as an alternative assessment approach to test students' language ability in a foreign language class.In all children's eyes,games are fun and"non-serious"activities where they can safely expose themselves.Language teachers can design reasonable games to assess children's abilities in the four components of language competence and get a reliable result.The strengths and weaknesses of game as an assessment way are also mentioned at the end of the paper.
文摘The teaching of speaking has been neglected in EFL （English as a Foreign Language） settings throughout language history which led to negative effects on EFL teachers＇ and learners＇ attitudes. While teachers exhibit hesitation having no preset teaching paradigms at their disposal, learners experience withdrawal in speaking situations that demand interactional ease and socio-pragmatic awareness. Indeed, both the type of instruction and the complexity of this skill make of the teaching of spoken language a highly controversial issue especially with the implicit dichotomy that speaking entails and which opposes accurate mastery of linguistic patterns to ease or facility in meaning transmission. This paper aims at reconsidering the way this dormant skill has been tackled and the interfering variables that should be rethought and revisited while dealing with it.
