An Outline for Lecture on Learning Spoken English
1.Why should we learn spoken English?
To communicate with people to make us understood/to understand the others perfectly (purpose)
The medium we use to achieve this purpose effectively:live, direct, colorful, concise, full of feelings (uh-uh, uh-huh, uh-oh, oops, ouch, Gosh, Gee )
To promote one's image (job interview/visa interview/intra-office communication )
2.What's wrong with ur way of learning spoken English?
Several years of learning, butFive aspects of English learning:
listening/speaking/reading/writing/translating
English learning as knowledge obtaining vs. English learning as skill acquiring (Zhuang Ziˇs remarks: life is momentary, but knowledge is boundless; to conquer the boundless with a bound, what a terrible mistake we are making.)
3.How did we Chinese learn English in the past?
A historical retrospect:
a see the attached Lecture Outline for ¨From the Devil's Talk to the Human Talk...
Free discussion/English corner/listen to the radio/listen to the tape/watch English movies/recite articles/talk to English speaking people Good: ¨environment〃Bad: cannot have a complete control over the environment/hard to"standardize〃 one's English
4.Why should we change our conventional perspective of learning spoken English?
Language determines meanings? Absolutely NOT! A baby tries to say "dad〃 or"grandson〃
Zhao Yuanren's joke (old ladies from various countries)
Think in American English!
Way of thinking determines meanings!
"broken English〃 will work!
a.somewhere /anywhere
b.five talks, four beauties, and three lovers
c.love message sent from the corners of oneˇs eyes
d.send/receive telegrams
5.The skills to be acquired
To define /to explain /to describe/ to express in idioms/ to interpret /to guess
a.To do presentation
b.Zhu Tong‘s example: how to interpret (try to have a better understanding of Chinese) /Beijing Ren’s talks.
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