Problems in TEFL Materials Development in China

摘要：

Paralleling the predominant cross-cultural communicative teaching theory, many EFL teaching materials in China claim to be ones focusing on culture. Actually,the main EFL courses and textbooks are not actually communicative but language knowledge-centered or skill-centered; the majority of the cultural contents of the prevailing EFL textbooks in China are of mainly American and British cultures.There are few audio-visual TEFL materials in China. The influence of these EFL materials on the EFL learners is the learners incompetence in productive communicative ability. Partial solutions are: designing more rational English curriculum with more courses of proper contents; organizing Chinese bilinguals to compile systematic English textbooks of Chinese culture such as geography,history, philosophy, Chinese customs, everyday life as another integral component of EFL textbooks. These textbooks offer EFL learners lessons on what to communicate and with what usual language forms.

关键词： receptive skills productive skills cognition

作者: Li Hongbin

作者单位: Tianjin University

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Third Asia-TEFL International Conference(亚洲英语教师协会第三届国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 120-125

在线出版日期: 2005-11-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）