任何一个学科的学习掌握其基本概念。本章主要介绍了英语教学的相关基本概念，包括教育、教学、语言、语言学习等以下概念。

Education and teaching

1.Education

(1)Education is a kind of human practice that guides people to develop.

(2)Its two most basic elements: “guide” and “develop”.

2.Teaching

(1)A series of well-planned and systematic activities through which teachers guide students to know the world, learn knowledge, master skills, and become fully developed.

3.Pedagogy

(1)Pedagogy studies the fundamental principles, general rules, and major methods in teaching activities.

(2)It aims to enhance teaching efficiency and effectiveness, including the study of teaching goals, teaching content, teaching objectives, teaching procedures, teaching principles, teaching methods, teaching models, teaching evaluation, teaching research, and so on.

Language and language teaching

Language learning as a learning activity refers to the process through which individual language practice leads to changes in an individual's existing language knowledge, language behavior or behavior potential, relevant emotional attitudes and values under the influence of both internal and external factors.

English Teaching in Schools

1.The purpose of English teaching is,

through the education of English language knowledge, language skills and culture knowledge, to develop students' basic skills in using English in communication and self-expression, to enable students to form open and rational intercultural awareness, emotional attitudes and values.

2.English pedagogy

 a collection of basic principles, general rules, and major methods that can be applied in the study of the teaching goals, teaching contents, teaching objectives, teaching procedures, teaching principles, teaching methods, teaching models, teaching evaluation, and research of school English teaching so as to fully develop students' English language proficiency and comprehensive abilities in a foundational sense.

学习了这些内容后，通过本章学习，不仅可以了解英语学习的基本概念，还可以正确理解英语学习的本质。希望同学们将所学到的理论和知识点应用到以后的教学中去。

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