学以致用

【Questions】

1.What do you think are the main causes for the misunderstanding in the argument “English teaching in elementary and middle schools in China cannot be communicative competence oriented”?

2.After reflection on your own English study，identify what your main learning problems are.

• 教师解析：

  1.It ignores the fact that language is the tool for communication and communication is the function of language. It is through interpersonal communication that language remains active and vigorous. Therefore, one of the teaching goals of elementary and middle school English should be to develop student’s communicative competence. If communication is removed from the goals of English teaching, then language learning becomes a boring process of memorization. There’s no fun in it. Besides, without focusing on communication, language learning will be far from effective, since communication is the best way to learn al language.

  2.The main learning problems may include: 1) fear of speaking English, especially in public; 2) lack of motivation; 3) imbalance of fun and homework.