专八模拟题—听力原文.doc

Model Test Section A Mini-Lecture Teaching Methods for Effective Communication Good evening, everyone. A few months later, you will start to teach international students. Today, we will talk about the teaching methods for effective communication, which are generally helpful for your future teaching career. Teaching methods can help increase communication effectiveness. (1) Clearly organizing ideas and writing an outline on the chalkboard that lists the main points to be covered during the class helps students follow along with the organization of ideas. (2) It is also very helpful for students when teachers write technical terms or theoretical concepts on the board as they are mentioned. Students need and appreciate this effort. When a teacher is unsure about the pronunciation of certain words, those words should also be written on the board. The importance of writing words on the board is illustrated in the following experience of an undergraduate student. “I had a biology professor from Latin America. He gave a lecture on hung trees. I had never heard about that kind of tree before…After class a bunch of us students were talking about the hung trees. The American teacher heard us and asked us what we were talking about. It was really funny. He said the lecture was about young trees, not hung trees!” (3) This example of miscommunication points out the necessity for student participation in the international teacher’s classroom. (4) By setting aside class time for students to explain and discuss their understanding of the course material and the teacher’s lecture or explanations, many communication errors can be corrected before they interfere with student learning. Of course, some difficulties may be assumed to result from language problems when in fact the problem lies elsewhere. “For the foreign teacher, we have a problem with the language. (5) When students don’t understand, it could be a language problem, but it also could be that the teacher doesn’t have go