principles_of_teaching_and_learning.ppt

Principles of Language Learning and Teaching H. D. Brown   张晓雪 2011级  About H. D. Brown D. H. Brown’s opinion on Teaching One of the most invigorating things about teaching is that you never stop learning. The complexity of the dynamic triangular interplay among teachers and learners and subject matter continually gives birth to an endless number of questions to answer, problems to solve, issues to ponder(考虑). Every time you walk into a classroom to teach, you face some of those issues, and if youre a growing teacher, you learn something new yourself. You find out how well a technique works, how a student processes language, how classroom interaction can be improved, how to assess a students competence, how emotions enter into learning, or how your teaching style affects learners. The discoveries go on and on---for a lifetime. About the book Principles of Language Learning and Teaching is designed to give you a picture of both the slipperiness of second language acquisition and the systematic storehouse of reliable knowledge that is now available to us. As you consider the issues, you can led on a quest. As you consider the issues, chapter by chapter, you are led on a quest: a search for your own personal, integrated understanding of how people learn—and sometimes fail to learn ---a second language. The chapters of this book are intended to serve not as a theory of teaching or instruction, but rather as an essential component underlying the subsequent formulation of a theory of instruction. Chapter 1. Introduction D. H. Brown’s Opinion on Becoming Bilingual Becoming bilingual is a way of life. Your whole person is affected as you struggle to reach beyond the confines of your first language and into a new language, a new culture, a new way of thinking, feeling and acting. Total commitment, total involvement, and a total physical, intellectual and emotional response is necessary to the successfully send and