1. English Teaching & Integration of Teaching Resources By Liu Zhaohui Guizhou College of Education frank_land2001@yahoo.com Beijing, July 2005

2. I.New National Curriculum Standard A. Five Points Required by the NNCS 1.Knowledge 2.Skills 3.Culture 4.Strategies 5.Emotion How to change or implement the insufficient situation: through the development of resources! B.Three Concepts Concerning the Integration of Resources

3. 1. Make full use of and create any useful teaching resources so as to offer students information familiar and close to their won:audio & visual,CAI, Newspaper, Magazines, Internet etc 2., The curriculum reformation should begin with consideration of students own learning interests, life experience and sponsor the idea of experience,practice, participation, cooperation, communication and task-based teaching method.

4. 3. The manipulation and development of teaching resources should be in accordance with the the local economic developing level and the financial supporting power of the parents so as to avoid adding economic burden to the students on one hand and wasting the resources on the other.

5. II. Teaching Resources 1.What Is Curriculum Resource? General Understanding: Teaching Material 2. What Is Teaching Resource? Broadened Understanding: Any useful material designed under the guidance of the New National Curriculum. 3. Types of Teaching Resources

6. a.Resources offering materials containing teaching goals & suggestion, typical examples, teaching plans, extending capacity etc. b. Media resources Resources offering materials supplying audio & visual, music, graphs & pictures, CAI soft wares, internet etc. c.Resources on competence training Resources focusing on task-based exercises, research activities.

7. d.Latent resources Individual deposit of knowledge, skills, experience, methods, emotional attitudes etc Eg: A teachers accent----imitated by students; Students can be useful to each other and may help teachers in some aspect. As for the resources mentioned above, in practice we should use them creatively and sometimes redesign the established ones to meet the local needs.

8. III. Significance of Integration of Resources & English Teaching 1.The development of resources will greatly enlarge the narrow education content, and will promote the development of students to full extend. 2. The development will lead to the reformation in education, such as in teaching methods and the organization of teaching etc. 3. The abundance of resources will be sure to activate students interests so as to increase the efficiency of learning power.

9. IV. Problems about Resources 1.Unbalanced distribution of resources--- more exercises, but less useful resources for preparing lessons, audio & visual etc. 2.The time of teaching arrangement is sometimes not in accordance with the issue of materials by some resources. 3.Teachers usually have strong interest and need in using resources, but are frustrated at these unsystematic resources.

10. 4.Contents in some resources are stale while some resources are not practical in either teaching methods or improvement of teachers qualities. 5. Some resources are not proper for common cases. 6. Few resources are offered in consideration of the minority area.

11. V. Integration of Resources 1.Comprehensively utilize the present resources: Combine the four kinds of resources into one lesson design. a. Choice of the resources---not only using the resources provided by the publisher of the textbooks, but also making good use of some extra resources: Eg: English Learners Lighthouse( (www.ell.net) English Teachers Net(www.enteacher.cn)www.enteacher.cn b. Allocate the mature resources reasonably and try to localize the ready made resources---School- complied materials

12. Eg: Go for It---resources offered by the Peoples Publishing House; School-based materials---individualities 2. Static supplements & Creative Development a.Static supplement Teaching resources should be added with some new information from time to time so that the validity of the resources can be extended and the quality of teaching can be guaranteed. b. Creative development of useful resources

13. (1)The solidity of the present resources---- insufficient design (2)The limitation of the present resources---- designed for all but ignore the uniqueness of individuality (3) So abstract that it is hard for teachers to operate it in practice

14. VI. Sample of How to Integrate Internet Resources with Your English Teaching 1. Preparing a Lesson a.Reading tools---internet Explorer, Netscape, QQ explorer etc b. Searching Engines--- Goggle, Sina search engine, tom search engine, bai du etc. c. e-mail sender or receiveryahoo messenger, msn, hotmail, g-mail etc d. Media player---real player, window player etc e. pptpower point

15. 2. Teaching a lesson a. Email---teaching how to write b. Media player/real audio--- teaching how to do listening comprehension c. Video-conferencing/chat-room(keyboard chat): Oral English d. voa.com/bbc.com, cnn.com etcgo to the given websites------reading practice

16. VII. Useful Websites A.Language Knowledge & Skills 1. www.english.ac.cn www.english.ac.cn 2. www.esl-lab.comRandalls ESL Cyber Listening Labwww.esl-lab.com 3.www.eslcafe.com Dave Sperlings ESL Cafewww.eslcafe.com 4.www.eric.edu Educational Resources Info Centerwww.eric.edu 8.www.enteacher.cn 9. www.ell.net etc.www.ell.net

17. B. Cultures 1. www.cnn.comwww.cnn.com 2. www.bbc.netwww.bbc.net 3.The websites of the English speaking countriess embassies through goggle search engines etc. 4. www.ipl.org/reading/books/ www.ipl.org/reading/books/ 5. www.aitech.ac.jp/-iteslj/www.aitech.ac.jp/-iteslj/ C. Teaching & Research(Learning & Teaching Strategies) 1. www.accesseric.org/resources www.accesseric.org/resources 2. www.eric.syr.edu/virtual/lessonswww.eric.syr.edu/virtual/lessons

18. 3.www.eol.com.cn 4. www.teacher.edu.cn www.teacher.edu.cn 5. www.k12.com.cn www.k12.com.cn 6. www.pep.com.cn www.pep.com.cn 7. www.hongen.com www.hongen.com 8.www.rr365.com www.rr365.com

19. D. Movies & Dramas websites: 1.www.oscar.com www.oscar.com 2.www.ziyue.com www.ziyue.com 3.www.owl.teacher.xjtu.edu.cn www.owl.teacher.xjtu.edu.cn

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