English Language Teaching in China New Approaches, Perspectives and Standards

by Liu, Jun

• ISBN13: 9780826490360
• ISBN10: 0826490360
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-14
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book examines the importance of English language teaching in China within the global context of teaching English to speakers of other languages, but also the need for this teaching to be modernized in order for China to better join the world economy. The current trend within English teaching in China is towards 'communicative competence' - that is, being able to communicate with linguistic, pragmatic, discourse, and strategic competence. This volume argues that such a theoretical framework of communicative competence needs to be expanded to address both global needs and local contexts, if English language teaching in China is to be successful. The contributors of this volume examine every aspect of language teaching and suggest new ways in which communication and grammar can be balanced. The chapters include coverage of: the importance of English in a global world, the theoretical framework of communicative competence, the role of grammar in learning English, assessing and evaluating communicative competence, the starting age of learning English, teaching language skills in the post-methods era, using multimedia in teaching and testing, online learning and self-learning, teacher training through empowerment.

Table of Contents

Contributing Authors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Teaching English Around the Globe
The place of methods in teaching English around the world	p. 13
Redefining grammar in contextualizing communicative competence	p. 42
The uses of communicative competence in a global world	p. 55
Teaching and learning communicative competence in an e-era	p. 75
Reimagining second-language acquisition as performative practice	p. 91
Empowering non-native English-speaking teachers through collaboration with their native English-speaking colleagues in EFL settings	p. 107
Learning and Assessing Communicative Competence
Assessing communicative competence: from theory to practice	p. 127
Learning communicative competence: insights from psycholinguistics and SLA	p. 150
Critical period hypothesis retested: the effects of earlier English education in China	p. 170
EFL writing: intercultural implications of testing communicative competence	p. 192
Contextualizing Communicative Competence in P.R. China
Sustaining self-directed language learning in the Chinese context	p. 211
Using media to teach culture-specific gestures in the Chinese context	p. 231
Willingness to communicate in the Chinese EFL classroom: a cultural perspective	p. 250
Teaching pronunciation in twenty-first century China: models and methods	p. 270
The effectiveness of anonymous written feedback from peers and the teacher on revisions in China	p. 285
Adaptation of the 'writing across the curriculum' model to the Hong Kong context	p. 311
Epilogue: beyond communicative competence: a pedagogical perspective	p. 329
Index	p. 337
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