Unit 1: language and language learning

What is language: language is a system of signs, which is arbitrarily chosen,

vocal, conventionalized, graphic, and gesture symbol for verbal

communication in a given society.

Design features: refer to defining properties of human language that tell the

difference between human language and any system of animal communication.

They are arbitrariness, duality, productivity, displacement, cultural

transmission, and interchangeability.

Features of language 和views on language 在P-3

Several theories on language learning （behaviourist theory ,cognitive theory,

constructivist theory, socio-constructivist theory ）在P5-P6

A good language teacher’s features (ethic devotion, professional qualities,

personal styles, language competence)

Unit 2：communicative principles and TBLT

CLT(goal在P-16): communicative language teaching

TBLT(在P-27): Task-based language teaching

Goal of foreign language teaching: to enable students to use the foreign

language in work or life when necessary

Difference between language use in real life and traditional pedagogy

Communicative competence (linguistic competence, pragmatic competence,

discourse competence, strategic competence, fluency) 在P-18

Sever linguistics’ ideas about exercise types and activities (Richards, Rodgers,

Finocchiaro, Brumfit, Ellis, Littleword.)在P-23下