A Special Strategy for Practical English Teaching: to Find Interesting Linguistic Phenomena of English

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2018 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 5 Issue 5

Year of Publication : 2018

Authors : Peng Yu

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V5I5P102

How to Cite?

Peng Yu, "A Special Strategy for Practical English Teaching: to Find Interesting Linguistic Phenomena of English," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 5,  no. 5, pp. 13-17, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V5I5P102

Abstract:

English class is about a language learning, which means that students have to face hundreds of words every day, and therefore sometimes they will inevitably get tired, and even give up learning. In order to avoid the classroom atmosphere being depressing, students’ enthusiasm getting lower, and in order to improve the teaching effect, to improve the quality of teaching, as English teachers, we should continue to search for interesting phenomenon in the English language, and tries to sum up them, and then put them into practice in the daily teaching, to increase students' interest in learning English, so as to build an interactive, practical and effective classroom-ecology. In college English teaching, practical course is important to stimulate students’ interest in learning language and to improve their competence. However, for many teachers there are some misunderstanding in practical teaching, namely cognitive errors, such as "English practical teaching is just the student's presentation", “practice course must be outside of the classroom”, "practical English teaching is to evade the teaching of grammar and vocabulary" etc. Actually, these opinions are not right, because teacher’s guidance in students’ presentation is considerably crucial, classroom is good enough for most practice course, and the teaching of grammar and words is essential and crucial for students’ language competence. So the author’s idea is that establishing correct cognition of English practice teaching is important for teachers, and then carrying out effective practical teaching courses and cultivating students' practical skills are the top priorities for the “transformation and development” of English teaching in China. The author in this paper is going to demonstrate how the “boring” traditional vocabulary lesson is changed into an interesting practice course, with the learning of auto-antonyms words as a case.

Keywords:

college English, practical teaching, auto-antonyms

References:

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