英语教学论复习要点(名词解释、简答).doc

Making inference It means ‘reading between the lines’, which is an important reading skill. It requires the reader to use background knowledge in order to infer the implied meaning of the author. Task (in classroom activity) A task is an activity which requires learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought, and which allows teachers to control and regulate that process. Communicative Approach Communicative Approach is a new method for teaching English compared with other ones. It is developed on the base of Functional approach. It pays emphasis on real language communication in language teaching. With communicative approach, teachers would try to use authentic language materials, to create real situation in daily life, to make use of information gap and task-based activity to develop students’ communicative competence. The connotation（含义）of culture in foreign language teaching (in the National English Curriculum) A language has rich cultural connotations. In foreign language teaching, culture means the history and geography, local conditions and customs, traditional conventions, life styles and modes, literary and arts, norms of the conduct and values, etc. of the country whose language is learnt. The following categories about the countries taking the target language as their native language: Communicative Competence Communicative competence entails knowing not only the language code or the form of language, but also what to say to whom and how to say it appropriately in any given situation. Communicative competence includes knowledge of what to say, whom, how, where, and to whom. Task-based activity Task-based activity is a kind of classroom activity often used in communicative method language teaching. After the teacher assigns a certain task and the students try to get some information to finish the task through communicating with their classmates. The students learn the language while using the language in the pro