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Children as language learners and
foreign language teaching methods
and approaches
(儿童语言学习与外语教学法）
广西师范学院初等教育学院
蓝卫红
Stage 1: Experience
• Step 1: Please describe how a child
learns his first language or how a
person learns his second language in
one or two sentences. Don’t repeat
what others have said.
• Step 2: Can you name some foreign
language teaching methods or
approaches? Try it.
• Step 3: Take part in the following
activities as language learners and
tell what method each activity uses.
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• Activity 1: Listen and do.
Activity 2: Listen and repeat.
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Shake, shake, shake your
shoulders
• Shake them up and down
• Shake, shake, shake your shoe
• And stamp it on the ground.
Activity 3: Let’s act
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Five little elephants
Standing in a row
Five little trunks
Waving hello
‘Oh’ said an elephant
‘Time to go ’
Four little…
Activity 4: Let’s talk
1: What sports do Chinese people
often go in for?
2: What sports do you often go in for?
3: What sports does he/she often go
in for?
Activity 5: Let’ ask and report
• 1. Interview at least three others by
using this sentence: “What have you
learned from the above activities? ”
• 2. Report the result of your interview
to the class.
Stage 2: Exploration
1. In the above activities, what have
been transferred from the way a child
learns his first language or the way a
person learns his second language?
• 2. What underlie a good or an
effective teaching method or teaching
technique?
Stage 3: Exchange
• 1. In groups, exchange the result of your
exploration like the following:
• － According to my knowledge,
foreign language teaching methods or
approach include: _______.
• － How a child learns his mother
tongue or how a person acquires his
second language are good examples of
successful language learning. So the
way people _______ should be
transferred to ___________. So a good
or an effective teaching method or
teaching technique must be based on
_________.
• 2. One reporter of each group
reports to whole class by summing
up individual opinions.
Look at the following and note
down what is new to you.
 Grammar-Translation Method (1890s1930s)（语法翻译法）
 Cognitive Approach (1940s-1950s)
（认知法）
 Audio-Lingüal Method (1950s-1960s)
（听说法）
 The Direct Method (1970s)（直接法）
 The Natural Approach （自然法）
 视听法（Audio Video Method）
 情景教学法（The Situational Approach）
 Communicative Approach / (1960s2000s)（交际法）
 The notional /functional approach
（功能法）
 Total Physical Response/TPR (1960s2000s)（全身反应法）
 The Silent Way (1960s-2000s)（沉默法）
 Suggestopedia (1960s-2000s)（暗示法）
 Community Language Learning/CLL
(1960s-2000s): （社区学习法）
 “Total immersion technique”（沉浸法）
 Whole Language Approach （整体语言教学
法）
 Task-based language teaching (任务法)
 双重活动教学法 （广西师大 王才仁）
 The English “Four-in-One”Teaching
Approach 英语“四位一体”教学法 （包
天仁，英语辅导报社社长）
 张思中英语教学法
 马宏双语游戏教学法
 21三文治儿童英语故事英语教学法
Stage 4: Extension
• 1. How are the above teaching methods or
approach influence the English textbooks
you used to have?
• 2. Can you tell what methods or approaches
your former English teachers used to teach
you English?
• 3. What should you or what shouldn’t you
learn from the way you learned English when
you teach English in primary schools?
Stage 5: Evaluation
• 1. One by one, use one sentence or two
to sum up what you have learned from
this topic.
• How a child learn his mother tongue or
how a person acquire his second
language are good examples of
successful language learning. So the
way people learn their mother tongue
or a second language should ________.
• And a good or an effective teaching
method or teaching technique must be
based on _________. There are so
many foreign language or English
teaching methods and teaching
approaches. The principle we should
follow is:_________.
• 2. After class, search on the
Internet for details of the teaching
approaches and teaching methods.
Focus on the one you are
interested in and search for more
relevant information.