Modern Foreign Language Teaching: Theory, Practice, and Methods

Author: Shu Dingfang
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features:
Chapter 1, Several Important Trends in Contemporary Foreign Language Teaching Research, introduces some important developments in foreign language teaching theory research in recent years, such as the emphasis on the study of the learning subject and the reflection on traditional teaching methods.
Chapter 2, Objectives and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching Research, discusses the relationship between foreign language teaching research and related disciplines, pointing out that foreign language teaching has become an independent discipline, and foreign language teaching theory research should be conducted at three levels: ontology, pragmatics, and methodology.
Chapter 3, Analysis of the Foreign Language Learning Process, analyzes some important factors that affect foreign language acquisition and provides a relatively detailed introduction and evaluation of the main research achievements and methods in contemporary foreign language teaching theory research in this field.
Chapter 4, Cultivating Foreign Language Communicative Competence, discusses the concept of foreign language communicative competence and the importance and main methods of cultivating students' abilities in foreign language grammar, vocabulary, listening, and reading.
Chapter 5, Organization and Implementation of Foreign Language Teaching, introduces the practical processes of foreign language curriculum design, syllabus development, textbook writing, classroom teaching, and testing, and analyzes and discusses the series of theoretical issues involved.
Chapter 6, Methods of Foreign Language Teaching, discusses the relationship between foreign language teaching methodology and specific foreign language teaching methods and techniques, and provides a relatively detailed analysis and introduction to some important teaching method schools that have been popular in recent decades.