WHY TRADITIONS DIE HARD

向建光

提要：大綱在變，教材在變，為什么相當一部分教師的傳統教學方法不變？本文從考試制度、教學班級、教師負擔、教師外語水平等六個方面來分析傳統的教學方法目前仍舊占據大部分中學英語課堂教學的原因。同時，作者從培訓教師、推廣新的教學方法、完善考試制度、支持教學方法改革等方面提出了四項建議。

With the coming of the information age, advanced technologies, and media including computers and internet, in which English functions as a vehicle for communication, a large number of people with good command of English are greatly needed. In order to meet the demand of the modern society, the English teachers are supposed to pay more attention to our students' development in their communicative competence and abandon the traditional methods which do not fit with the current circumstances. However, as we observe today's English classes, it is obvious that the traditional approaches to the English language teaching still dominate our classroom. Why do traditional methods remain so strong? The author of the paper would like to show the personal opinion about it and make some suggestions as well.

1. What does the traditional approach refer to ?

1.1.It mainly refers to the grammar-translation method. In grammar-oriented classrooms, all the teacher has to do is to cover the text, explain the rules, and finish the exercises. S/He spends most of the class time in long and elaborate explanations and analysis of the text and complicated grammar rules. The following is what occurs during the teaching of a middle school English language lesson:

TEACHER STUDENTS

gives some background to the text listen to T

practices pronunciation of the new words repeat after T

explains the words listen to T

explains paragraph by reading sentence by sentence ( may translate some senten- ces into Chinese.) listen to T and take some notes (in Chi- ese) read paragraph out aloud or ask T questions

asks Ss to do written exercises do exercises

1.2. Advantages and disadv

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