WHY TRADITIONS DIE HARD
WHY TRADITIONS DIE HARD向建光
提要：大纲在变，教材在变，为什么相当一部分教师的传统教学方法不变？本文从考试制度、教学班级、教师负担、教师外语水平等六个方面来分析传统的教学方法目前仍旧占据大部分中学英语课堂教学的原因。同时，作者从培训教师、推广新的教学方法、完善考试制度、支持教学方法改革等方面提出了四项建议。
With the coming of the information age, advanced technologies, and media including computers and internet, in which English functions as a vehicle for communication, a large number of people with good command of English are greatly needed. In order to meet the demand of the modern society, the English teachers are supposed to pay more attention to our students' development in their communicative competence and abandon the traditional methods which do not fit with the current circumstances. However, as we observe today's English classes, it is obvious that the traditional approaches to the English language teaching still dominate our classroom. Why do traditional methods remain so strong? The author of the paper would like to show the personal opinion about it and make some suggestions as well.
1. What does the traditional approach refer to ?
1.1.It mainly refers to the grammar-translation method. In grammar-oriented classrooms, all the teacher has to do is to cover the text, explain the rules, and finish the exercises. S/He spends most of the class time in long and elaborate explanations and analysis of the text and complicated grammar rules. The following is what occurs during the teaching of a middle school English language lesson:
TEACHER STUDENTS
gives some background to the text listen to T
practices pronunciation of the new words repeat after T
explains the words listen to T
explains paragraph by reading sentence by sentence ( may translate some senten- ces into Chinese.) listen to T and take some notes (in Chi- ese) read paragraph out aloud or ask T questions
asks Ss to do written exercises do exercises
1.2. Advantages and disadv
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