TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT NECESSARY TO TEACH EXPLICIT RULES OF USAGE TO FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS?

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 1996,（1）
• 页码范围: 20-27
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: H319.3

摘要

IntroductionNowadays English teachers feel that teaching grammar is a tough problem to solve.Languageteaching is no longer regarded simply as imparting knowledge about the target language,but teachinglearners how to actually use the target language in real-life communication.Developments in modernlinguistic and teaching methodologies have challenged traditional teaching perspectives,however,inChina English teaching is still generally conducted in the traditional way.This is especially so forgrammar teaching.Grammar is so much the main concern in class that it is explained explicitly,andthe language materials and samples are arranged to highlight it.English is taught by giving studentsdetailed explanations of the grammatical points in isolation.Teachers make a careful analysis of thetexts to make sure that students have understood every single word of the text they are learning.Somepeople might think that these students should learn English very well,because they are learningEnglish so systematically,but this is not the case at all.