This paper mainly deals with two mainstreams in teaching listening comprehension:bottom-up processing approach and top-down processing approach.In the first part of the essay the importance of listening comprehension ...This paper mainly deals with two mainstreams in teaching listening comprehension:bottom-up processing approach and top-down processing approach.In the first part of the essay the importance of listening comprehension in language learning will be demonstrated briefly.Then the author will go on to explore the nature of top-down and bottom-up approaches in teaching listening.Lastly,at the third part of the essay,the author shall try to discuss the possibility of applying these approaches into practice,that is,when and why one of them is more useful.Furthermore in this section,a more integrated view will be introduced.展开更多
Different teaching approaches may apply to different types of syllabus.Before the emergence of communicative approach in language teaching in the 1970s,most of the language teaching approaches at that time have used a...Different teaching approaches may apply to different types of syllabus.Before the emergence of communicative approach in language teaching in the 1970s,most of the language teaching approaches at that time have used a structural syllabus,or "grammatical" syllabus (in Nunan,1988,the two terms are interchangeable).In communicative approach of language teaching,there are several types of syllabuses that stress the importance of communication in language teaching and learning may be applied to it.But which type is the most suitable one for this teaching approach? This is the goal of this article.In this essay the author will try to find out the answer and provide arguments through analysis of and comparison between them.展开更多
文摘This paper mainly deals with two mainstreams in teaching listening comprehension:bottom-up processing approach and top-down processing approach.In the first part of the essay the importance of listening comprehension in language learning will be demonstrated briefly.Then the author will go on to explore the nature of top-down and bottom-up approaches in teaching listening.Lastly,at the third part of the essay,the author shall try to discuss the possibility of applying these approaches into practice,that is,when and why one of them is more useful.Furthermore in this section,a more integrated view will be introduced.
文摘Different teaching approaches may apply to different types of syllabus.Before the emergence of communicative approach in language teaching in the 1970s,most of the language teaching approaches at that time have used a structural syllabus,or "grammatical" syllabus (in Nunan,1988,the two terms are interchangeable).In communicative approach of language teaching,there are several types of syllabuses that stress the importance of communication in language teaching and learning may be applied to it.But which type is the most suitable one for this teaching approach? This is the goal of this article.In this essay the author will try to find out the answer and provide arguments through analysis of and comparison between them.
