15、body language in English teaching and learning. Body language is so important that we should attach importance to it and put it into practice. Most educators have realized this point, but how to do it needs further research. 2. Literature ReviewIn “Language and Human Behavior” (Bickerton:1995), Bick 。

16、erton points out that the term language has been put to a variety of uses as well as misuses. So many people confuse language with communication. Generally speaking, language is the most important communicative tool, as to some certain situations, language may become the obstacle of communication. A 。

17、nd communicative language teaching was introduced into China in the early 1980s and has become popular since then. But what are the issues in applying communicative language teaching in Chinese teaching context? Many scholars have discussed a lot on this topic. For example, one scholar proposed that 。

18、 traditional grammar translation method should be complemented by communicative method in China for the following reasons:(a) The communicative approach ignores the communicative competence which the adult already has when he acquires his first language.(b) It is difficult to evaluate the students o 。

19、nly by the communicative approach.(c) China can hardly provide foreign language teachers that traditional grammar method can meet the high requirements of the communicative approach.According to this scholar, despite all the above mentioned disadvantages, the communicative methods also have its uniq 。

20、ue advantages. It can replace boring, mechanical and monotonous exercises with exciting, engaging, and interesting activities. And if the classroom is studentcentered, it will greatly arouses the initiative and motivation of the students. It also introduces various kinds of practical material to the 。

21、 students, such as advertisements, shopping, making a telephone call, seeing a doctor and news report. And the communicative method seems to be able to make up for the weakness of the traditional grammar translation method.Another scholar, however, argues that communicative language teaching is best 。

22、 for China. First, the adoption of communication language teaching is the Chinese governments opinion. The Chinese government feels that the use of communicative language teaching will be helpful to China. By introducing communicative language teaching, teachers can keep up with the developments in。

23、English teaching methods outside China. If not, teachers may return to the traditional way of teaching, where the process of language teaching is reduced to the mere grammar and vocabulary.Second, we all know that China dose not have its own teaching methods. In the recent history of English languag 。

24、e teaching in China, most teachers have adopted some western methods, such as “grammar-translation” method, the “direct method”, and the “audio-lingual method”. Although some methods have been created by Chinese people, they are not really methods at all, and these methods can not equal to the forei 。

25、gn methods. For example, the “Zhang Sizhong Method” is all about personal experience;
it has no “approach” and “no design”. To sum up, the adoption of communicative language teaching in China will definitely bring about a positive effect on English teaching and learning.Third, proper non-verbal comm 。

26、unication- body language can make the English class harmonious. As a matter of fact, teachers friendly appearance can greatly encourage the students studying enthusiasm. If the teacher smiles while the students did a good job, the students will feel confident. If the teacher have no reaction to the。

27、students who improve quickly, he or she will be sad. And day after day, they will lose interest in learning English. Particular to the middle school students, because the teachers praise is the best prize to them. And the teachers encouragement can stimulate the bad students to work hard to catch up 。

28、 with other students, because all the students like the kind, and warm hearted teacher.As English is an international language of the science and technology and 85% of the information in worldwide information storage and retrieval networks is in English, even in China, English has become one of the。

29、most important school subjects. But due to the testoriented education, very little emphasis has really placed on communicative English skills, because there is a discrepancy between communicative language teaching and the examinations taken in China. For example, the practical reason for Chinese mid 。

30、dle school students to learn English is to pass the college entrance examination, so now it is the primary duty of the Chinese middle school teachers to help the students pass the examination. As a result, the English teachers pay no attention to the students feelings;

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