福师 《英语教学法》期末考试学习资料(一)58

福师《英语教学法》（一）

一、In the past century, language teaching and learning practice has been influenced by three different views on language. what are they? What is their main idea of language?

1) structural view: language is a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: phonology, morphology, lexicology and syntacx. to learn a language is to learn its vocabulary and structural rules.

2) functional view: language is a linguistic system as well as a means for doing things. learners learn a language in order to be able to do things with it (use it). to perform functions, learners need to know how to combine the grammatical rules and the vocabulary to express notions that perform the functions

3) interactional view: language is a communicative tool to build up and maintain social relations between people. learners need to know the rules of a language and where, when and how it is appropriate to use them.

二、List different views on language learning.

behaviorist theory; cognitive theory; constructivist theory; socio-constructivist theory