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课程名称：现在教英语！基础原则 课程概述： 本课程致力于帮助未来和现有的英语作为外语（EFL）/英语作为第二语言（ESL）教师，识别、总结和评估七种基本语言学习范式。学员将通过生动的隐喻和故事了解到诸如动机、冒险精神、两种不同的学习模式以及教师职业平衡等基础原则。同时，学员还将掌握基于这些原则的基本技巧，如教师语言、为了降低情感阻力而“看起来很可笑”的方法，以及网络建设。通过对这些基础原则的认识，EFL/ESL教师将对语言学习的常见假设进行深入分析，与基于研究的核心原则进行比较。 课程大纲： 1. 模块1：明确意义 - 本模块介绍教师在激励和吸引学生方面的角色，使用隐喻“语言是蛋糕”来说明语言的呈现方式至关重要。教师应关注改进教师语言、支架语言和身体语言的应用，以帮助学生理解和增强学习动力。 2. 模块2：学习和互动模式 - 本模块强调学习与习得之间的区别，以帮助学生理解语言需要实践的重要性。通过对专注模式和散漫模式的讨论，教师可以促使学生在专注学习的同时，也重视实践与应用。 3. 模块3：冒险与学习策略 - 本模块通过语言学习专家Francois Gouin的经历展示语言学习的复杂性，强调学习者需要理解语言的学习过程，并采用有效的语言学习策略。教师可以通过提供好的语言学习原则来支持学生的学习。 4. 模块4：翻转语言学习模式 - 随着互联网的发展，远离英语国家的学习者也能够实现英语沉浸。教师可以利用互联网和其他资源，采用翻转课堂的方式，让学生在课外接触重点材料，在课堂上进行项目和讨论。 5. 模块5：避免教师倦怠 - 本模块介绍了教师倦怠的概念和预防技巧，包括建立教师网络、掌控教学环境以及寻找核心信念以保持能量。 6. 模块6：评估 - 本模块回顾课程内容，帮助学员理解支撑本课程基础原则的不同隐喻。 通过本课程的学习，教师将能更好地理解并应用语言学习的理论和实践，提高教学效果和学生的学习体验。
Name:Module 1: Making Meaning Clear
Description:This course introduces learners to the role of a teacher in helping to motivate and properly engage learners. It begins with a metaphor: language is cake, meaning that language must be presented well in order to be enjoyed (we will actually perform a skit to show this meaning clearly). This module will demonstrate how a teacher can encourage a student and increase motivation by paying attention to techniques such as improving teacher talk, scaffolding language, and the use of body language to make meaning clear. All of these skills, while gained over the course of a lifetime as a language teacher, must be considered primary goals from the very beginning. And all of these skills help a teacher recognize that presentation skills make a difference to learners not only in motivating them, but in allowing them to understand the concepts presented.
Name:Module 2: Modes of Learning and Interaction
Description:In this module, learners are introduced to the distinction between learning and acquisition. The distinction is made to help give learners context for the principle that language requires practice. To introduce the importance of practice, the distinction between a focused and diffuse mode of learning demonstrates that students who simply learn through memorizing vocabulary and grammar structures (i.e., focused mode) often don’t acquire language structures. On the other hand, teachers who engage students in both a focused and diffuse mode, like a basketball coach with his players, are able to instruct but give time for that instruction to “sink in” through dedicated practice.
Name:Module 3: Taking Risks and Learner Strategies
Description:Using language-learning expert Francois Gouin’s experience of going to Germany and failing to learn German, this module demonstrates the need for learners to understand how a language is learned. Gouin’s experience demonstrates not only the need for a diffuse mode of learning wherein practice is valued, but it also demonstrates the psyche of many second language learners. Francois, in some sense, was too smart for his own good, relying on techniques for learning material that don’t apply to language use and application. Students must use techniques and strategies that are proven to help someone acquire language, like those from the good language learner studies. Teachers can facilitate student learning by helping to demonstrate good language learner principles.
Name:Module 4: The Flipped Model of Language Learning
Description:While it was once considered impossible to be immersed in English outside of an English-speaking country, with the advent of the internet, the world has changed and continues to change significantly. This module presents ways in which to use the internet and other resources to a teacher’s advantage, and helps a teacher recognize their ability to engage students on cell phones, tablets, and computers. Introduction of the flipped classroom, meaning that learners can engage in focused material (videos, readings, etc) outside the classroom, and then engage in projects, exercises, and discussions within it.
Name:Module 5: Avoiding Teacher Burnout
Description:This module introduces the concept of teacher burnout, and several techniques to avoid it. The first technique is the creation of a network. By creating a network of teachers to help you understand your field, you can learn new ideas and have a resource for solving difficult problems. The second technique, maintaining control of your teaching environment, demonstrates the need for teachers to understand how to best make a difference and avoid the pitfalls of complaining. Finally, the third technique, finding your core, explains that teachers can paradoxically maintain energy by working tirelessly for the principles they most believe in.
Name:Module 6: Assessment
Description:This review of the course guides learners to understand the different metaphors that serve as guides to understanding the foundational principles presented in this course.
Through a series of engaging metaphors and stories, prospective and current EFL/ESL teachers will identify, summarize, and evaluate 7 basic language learning paradigms. Learners will be presented information on such foundational principles as motivation, risk taking, two different modes of learning, and balancing the teacher profession. Learners are also given an understanding of basic techniques founded on those principles, such as teacher talk, looking “ridiculous” in order to lower the affective filter, and networking. With these foundational principles in mind, ESL/EFL teachers will scrutinize common assumptions about language learning by comparing how they stack up to research-based core principles.
