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Liao, Xiaoqing – 1996
It is argued that a method for teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) combining the communicative approach with the traditional grammatical orientation and Chinese teaching traditions may be more effective than any one of these single approaches in the Chinese educational and cultural context. The resulting approach is termed the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cross Cultural Training
Huang, Li-yi – 1998
This paper describes and compares six models for teaching second languages developed and adopted since 1840 (grammar-translation, direct, structural, situational, audiolingual, and communicative methods), and proposes a seventh, the cognitive-linguistic method, incorporating Noam Chomsky's theory of learning. The model takes both extralinguistic…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development