How to Learn English as a Foreign Language Confidently

How to Learn English as a
Foreign Language Confidently
Presenter: Lin, Shin-Chung Ph.D.
Chair of Applied Foreign Languages
National Pingtung Institute of Commerce
Address: 51 Min Sheng E. Road, Pingtung900
Tel: (08)7238700-3300
Fax: (08)7239277
E-mail: [email protected]
October. 06, 2004
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Why are you going to learn English as a foreign
language?
Why so many learners are suffering from
learning English?
How to learn English as a foreign language
confidently—independent study concerned?
How to learn English as a foreign language
confidently—life-time learning concerned?
Conclusion
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1. Why are you going to learn
English as a foreign language?
For what purpose are you going to
learn English as a foreign language?
A. Instrumental motivation
B. Integrative motivation
C. The facts about English
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A. Instrumental motivation
(1) To get a better job or a promotion.
(2) To pass a required examination.
(3) To study in an English-speaking country.
(4) To present a research paper in an
international conference.
(5) To help your students learn English well.
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B. Integrative motivation
(1) To be interested in integrating into the
target language group.
(2) To know more about the culture of the
target language group.
(3) To be able to know another quarter of the
population in the world.
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C. The facts about English I
(1) 80% of the world’s electronically stored
information is in English.
(2) Three-quarters of the world’s mail is written in
English.
(3) 80% of Internet users communicate in English.
(4) English is the main language of books,
newspapers, airports, and air-traffic control,
international business and technology, diplomacy,
sport, international competitions, pop music, and
advertising.
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C. The facts about English II
(5) English has official or special status in at least 75/
195 countries, with a total population of over 2
billion.
(6) English is spoken as a first language by around
345 million, and as a second language by around
300 million people in the world.
From the British Council Website English Worldwide
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2. Why are so many learners
suffering from learning English?
A. The different processes in first and second
language acquisition.
B. The different nature of Chinese and English.
C. The conflict between English learning and
expectation.
D. The impractical orientation of language
learning.
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A. The different processes in first
and second language acquisition.
(1) Exposure time
(2) For surviving / as a tool only
(3) Effort and effortless
(4) First language interferes the acquisition of second
language
a. Interfered by different sound systems. Tones /
stress / ending consonants / intonation
b. Interfered by different language functions.
Auxiliary / transitive V / adj clause / wh-movement
/ tense etc.
c. Interfered by different usage. (用、借、開 etc.) 9
Ex1: The different usage of interrogative sentences
1. Are you a student?
2. Is your father a doctor?
3. Were you there?
4. Was he angry?
5. Do you watch TV everyday?
6. Did you watch the TV program “Sex and the City”
last night?
7. Does he walk to school everyday?
8. Have you done your homework?
9. Will you have done your homework by then?
10. Had he been waiting for you long before you
met him?
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Ex: The different usage of tenses
1. 當他來的時候，我正在看電視。
2. 明天這個時候你將會做什麼？
3. 我等了你大約有二十分鐘了。
4. 我遇見她的時候，她已經等你很久了。
5. 當他到達的時候，我們練習將滿兩個小時。
6. 昨晚九時孩子們全都睡了。
Only 46.8% passed the test.
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Answers to the usage of tenses
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When he came, I was watching TV.
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What will you be doing at this time tomorrow?
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I’ve been waiting for you about 20 minutes.
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When I met her, she had been waiting for you a
long time.
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When he arrives, we’II have been practicing for
two hours.
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The children had all gone to bed at nine last
night.
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B. The different nature of
Chinese and English.
(1) Ideographic language (表意文字語言) vs.
alphabetic language (字母拼音語言).
(2) Limited vs. increasing number of the words.
E.g. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency
syndrome) / tofu / kung fu / Internet / e-mail
愛滋病 (後天性免疫不全症候群) / 叩應 /
電腦 / 手機 / 轟趴
(3) Advanced vs. primary
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松下問童子
言師採藥去
只在此山中
雲深不知處
Asking boy under pine tree.
Saying master going picking up herb medicine.
In the mountains.
Covering under heavy clouds, don’t know where.
(22 words used, 56% spared)
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The possibly acceptable translation
I asked a boy under the pine tree.
He said that his master is going picking
up herb medicine.
He is in the mountains.
Because the mountains are covered
under the heavy clouds, He doesn’t
know where his master is.
(39 words used)
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C. The conflict between English
learning and expectation
(1) Learning English is to pass the exams not to use
the language
(2) Learning English is a subject not a language
per se.
(3) Daily language is hard to be learned in a classroom
setting and tested.
(4) It costs too much to have a test in speaking ability.
＊The following is what you are going to be tested.
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取材自全民英檢初級
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2.
PLEASE WAIT BEHINE WHITE LINE
What does this sign mean?
A. Stay on the line.
B. Drive inside the line.
C. Keep the line straight.
D. Stand in back of the line
Responsible and friendly high school or college
student is needed to baby-sit active five-year-old on
weekends.
Call 2943-6262 after 6:00
Where might a person see this?
A. On a menu.
B. On street sign.
C. In a newspaper.
D. In a telephone book.
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取材自國中學力測驗
1.
In summer it is ______ to stay in my parents’ room because it is airconditioned.
A. comfortable
B. gentle
C. impossible D. serious
2.
Mother makes me ______ my homework every day before I can play
video games.
A. finish
B. finished
C. finishing
D. to finish
3.
Elsa: Did Eric buy any vegetables in the market?
Bob: No, he didn’t, but he bought ______ fish.
A. no
B. any
C. some
D. both
4.
Rose: It’s time to go to bed. You have to get up early tomorrow, ___?
Nina: Yes, my class is going hiking tomorrow.
A. can’t you
B. don’t you C. aren’t you D. haven’t you
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取材自國中學力測驗
Read Amy’s diary and answer the questions.
May 30, 2003
Today I met an American on my way home. He asked me some
questions in English, but I couldn’t understand him. I was nervous and
couldn’t say a word.
I felt so depressed.
I study English very hard and I usually get the best grades on the
English tests. I am always looking for opportunities to practice speaking
English. But when the opportunity comes, I can’t do anything. I think I have
to study English much harder.
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2.
What does depressed mean in the letter?
A. Sad.
B. Bored.
C. Lucky.
D. Excited
What can we learn from Amy’s experience?
A. It is dangerous to talk to strangers on the streets.
B. English is the most difficult subject for most students.
C. People who get nervous easily cannot get good grades in English.
D. Getting good grades in English does not mean we can use English well.
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取材自大學學測
1.
As the tallest building in the world, Taipei 101 has become a new
______ of Taipei City.
A. incident
B. geography
C. skylight
D. landmark
2.
Jane usually buys things on ______. Her purchases seem to be
driven by some sudden force or desire.
A. accident
B. compliment
C. justification
D. impulse
3.
If people keep polluting the rivers, no fish there will survive
______.
A. at all cost
B. for a long while
C. in the long run
D. by no means
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4. 雖然Lily生來又瞎又聾，但她從來不氣餒。
5. 她的故事證明了，我們只要努力必能成功。
Although Lily was born blind and deaf, she
never felt discouraged.
Her story has proved that we can succeed so
long as we make efforts.
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D. The impractical orientation of
language learning
(1) The starting age mystery.
(2) Language is learned effortless.
(3) Picked up vs. learned process.
(4) The chagrin of environment
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3. How to learn English as a foreign
language confidently—independent
learning concerned?
A. Phonetics, phonology, and phonics
B. Syntax: pedagogical grammar
C. Usage: habit formation
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A. Phonetics, Phonology, and Phonics
(1) Phonetics (語音學): The study of the speech
sounds that occur in all human language to
represent meanings is called phonetics.
(2) Phonology (音韻學): The study of sound
patterns in language or as the sound
patterns themselves.
(3) Phonics (聲學，自然發音學): A method of
teaching beginners to read and pronounce
words by learning the phonetic value of
letters, letter groups, and especially syllables.
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Letter ‘o’ and the Sound it Represents I
“o’ in Words
Phonetics Represented
dog
not
no
of
women
woman
mother
[dCE]
[nAt]
[no]
[Dv]
['w0m0n]
['w?mDn]
['mKMQ]
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Quiz for you
1. How do you pronounce ‘Yots’—the last name of
an American friend?
2. Answer 1. It is pronounced the same as
‘yachts’.
3. Answer 2. [jAts]
4. How do you pronounce ‘entrepreneur’
5. Answer (looking in a dictionary for [`AntrDprD'n"])
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The combined ways
entrepreneur
企業家
phonetics
[`AntrDprD'n"]
phonics
entrepreneur
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Learning vowels I
[ A
e
[ D
G
i
o
0
u ]
C
? ]
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Learning vowels I I
[ A
e
[K D Q "
[ a0
i
$ G
a?
o
0
u ]
C
? ]
C0 ]
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Learning consonants
Bilabial
Stops
Labiodental
Inter- Alveolar Alveo- Velar Glottal
dental
palatal
p
b
Fricatives
t
d
f
v
L
M
s
z
Affricates
Nasals
K
g
N
I
h
tN
dI
m
n
Lateral
l
Glides
r
H
j
w
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Learning the conformation of
the phonemes
Syllable Combination in Chinese Syllable Combination in English
Chinese
Examples
English
Examples
V
愛ㄞˋ
V
eye
CV
替ㄊㄧˋ
CV
tea
CCV
跨ㄎㄨㄚˋ
CCV
qua
CVC
cat
CCVC
what
CCVCC
plant
CCCVCC
springs
Note. V = vowel
C = consonant
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Exercise 1: One syllable
1. [ta0m]
時間
3. [w"k] 工作
Exercise 2: Two syllables
5. ['p0kn0k] 野餐
信
7. ['fr0zbi] 飛盤
2. [hGlp] 幫助
4. [wik]
星期
6. [bD'liv] 相
8. [hD'lo]
哈囉
Exercise 3: Three or above syllables
9. ['ta0p`ra0tQ] 打字機 10. ['Gvr0`hwGr] 到
處
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11.[0m'pCrtDnt] 重要的 12. ['GlDfDnt] 象
Learning Intonation
Good morning?
How are you?
What is it?
Where are you?
Where is John?
Exercise 4: Intonation of the sentences
1. [hwAt '0z 0t↘]
3. [hwAt 'ta0 0z 0t]
'0HEl0N↗]
2. [hwAt 0z jur 'nem↘]
4. [Ar Me stKd0H
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Spelling and pronunciation
Exercise 1: Diphthongs and vowel letters
1.[let] l __ te
3. [ka0t] k __ te
5. [kjut] c __ te
2. [Miz] th __ se
4. [not] n __ te
Exercise 2: Monophthongs and vowel letters
6. [st$nd]
8. [p0k]
10. [bKs]
st __ nd
p __ ck
b __ s
7. [pGn] p __ n
9. [dCE] d __ g
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B. Syntax I
(1) Moods
a. Imperative mood.
(Stand up. / Open your book. / Let’s go.)
b. Indicative mood.
c. Subjunctive mood.
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B. Syntax II
(2) Nine primary sentence patterns of
indicative mood.
a. S + be + N / Adj / Adv
b. S + Linking V + N / Adj
c. S + Intransitive V
d. S + Transitive V + O
e. S + Transitive V + O1 + O2
f. S + Transitive V + O + OC
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B. Syntax III
(3) Tenses
Simple present / past / future tense
Progressive present / past / future e tense
Perfect present / past / future tense
Perfect Progressive present / past / future
tense
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B. Syntax IV
(4) Tenses and the meaning of subjunctive
mood
Simple present / past / future tense
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Ex:
假如我有時間，我會去看你。
假如我是你，我不會給他錢。
假如你昨天在家讀書(study)，你就不會
在街上遇到(meet)她。
If I’ve time, I will visit you.
If I had time, I would visit you.
If I were you, I wouldn’t give him money.
If you had studied at home yesterday,
you wouldn’t have met her on the street.
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C. Usage I
(1) Can I use the credit card?
(2) We are peace maker.
(3) May I borrow your telephone?
(4) I will learn more knowledge after I graduate.
(5) I am glad to have the chance to write for
you.
(6) The birds are on the tree.
(7) I slept at nine last night.
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C. Usage II
(8) The department store is on sale.
(9) She pregnant.
(10) Did you write your homework?
(11) Do you like the movie? Yes, I like.
(12) And thank you for the offering on
recommendation letter, which I think
I will be needing it in the future time.
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4. How to learn English as a foreign language
Confidently—life-time learning concerned?
A.
Attitude—native like is not possible / you are better
than the ones you have to talk in their language if
only you can communicate with them.
B. Sticks on a TV program or a movie that you like very
much.
C. Make the note that keeps the track of the usage of
the target language.
D. Try to have a pen pal who can not read in Chinese to
e-mail each other.
E. Jot down what you read and heard and make sure
that you understand it well.
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5. Conclusion
Learning English is like playing a sport,
or singing a song. It takes time and
effort to achieve the goal.
Methods + achievement + tactics +
motivation + attitudes + time = success
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