Language Intuition in English Language Teaching

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1. Introduction English language study requires learners mastering several parts including phonology, grammar, vocabulary etc. Among them, grammar studying plays an increasingly vital role in English language learning in secondary school. Generally, the traditional way of teaching involves a teacher-commanding class which teacher spent half class on the certain grammar points and using exercises to evaluate whether students fully master them. However, the old approach usually results in a class s filled with bored and exhausted students who may give wonderful result in tests but failed in communicating events. Since language functions on communicating, new teaching method should consider this purpose more than in the old days. As Wu (2012) mentioned, there's no agreed-upon method of teaching English conditionals so far. Consequently, the research of new and personal approach is going to be made through this proposal. Language intuition has long been discussed in English language teaching. Also known as sense of language, the definition comes from According to Terrence(1998),he indicates the definiton of intuition refers (rather vaguely) to the presence of feelings and affective states in their non-quantitative dimension by the theory of Shanahan. However, the use of intuition in language teaching is seldom discussed among western scholars. On the contrary, in the field of language studies, it is commonly mentioned by Chinese linguistics. Li&Ma&Wang(2006) promoted that “The intuition of language is the direct capacity of sense. It comes from the long term of language studying and practicing.” They also indicated that the intuition could help language studying and preforming more efficiently. The gap in the previous literature is... ... middle of paper ... ...bstitute traditional grammar teaching (lecture and exercise)? 6. What is the most useful way do you think could foster language sense better? 7. To what extent do you think the language sense could contribute to your English study and scores in exams? 8. What are the most common ways to nurture language intuition in the secondary school of China? Questionnaire for Group 2: 1. Would you give students listening, speaking or reciting exercises for homework? If yes, how much and how often do you do it? 2. What is the grammar teaching approach you often used in class? 3. How many grammar exercises would you give to students after a grammar class? 4. What is the most efficient and useful way do you think to foster language intuition? 5. Could fostering language intuition substitute traditional grammar teaching in English language teaching in secondary school of China?

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