Ⅰ．THE LANGUAGE OF ENGLISH 1
1．The Nature of Language 1
2．The Purpose of Language 5
3．What Is Language For? 7
4．English,the Most Widely Used Language 9
5．The System of English 11
6．Bones of English 13
7．English Study 15
Ⅱ．THE TEACHER OF ENGLISH 19
1．What Makes a Good Teacher? 19
2．The Teacher 24
3．The Function of the Teacher 26
4．An Excellent Teacher 29
5．As an English Teacher 33
Ⅲ．THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH 36
1．The Four Clear Aims 36
2．English Teaching Aims 38
3．Goals of Language Teaching 40
4．Two Problems 42
5．A Good Beginning 43
6．Some Guidelines 46
7．How to Teach Well 48
8．Some Techniques in Teaching English 50
9．Misconceptions in Foreign Language Teaching 55
10．Learning a Foreign Language in a Classroom 57
11．Aids to Reduce the Teacher's Talking 60
12．What Should the Pupils Feel about the Lesson? 61
13．Well-Mastered Lessons 64
14．The Assignment of the Lesson 65
15．Planning and Teaching a Lesson 68
16．Can Chinese Be Used in the Teaching in the Junior Forms? 70
17．Use Your Hands,Arms,Face,and Clothing in Teaching 73
18．Preliminary Factors of Linguistic Pedagogy 76
19．General Principles of Teaching English 82
20．The Use of Visual Aids 84
Ⅳ．THE FOUR SKILLS 88
1．Language Learning Is a Skill 88
2．Four Essential Skills in English Language Learning 90
3．The Order of Presentation of the Language Abilities 93
4．Student's Skills Count for More 96
5．Knowledge versus Skill 97
6．Learning by Listening 99
7．Listening and Comprehension 102
8．Extensive Listening 104
9．Selective Listening 107
10．Speaking English 111
11．Learning to Speak 114
12．Spoken English 116
13．Help the Students Speak 119
14．How to Teach Oral English 121
15．Opposing Views on the Development of Speaking Skill 123
16．The Teaching of Speech and Writing 125
17．Reading English 128
18．The Teaching of Reading 131
19．Two Methods of Reading 133
20．Reading,Intensive and Extensive 136
21．The Teaching of English Reading 141
22．In Defense of Writing 144
23．Learning to Write 147
24．Writing English 149
25．What Is a Good Composition? 151
Ⅴ．FACTORS AFFECTING LANGUAGE LEARNING 154
1．Affective Factors 154
2．Attitudes and Motivation 157
3．Motivation for Learning English 160
4．Personality Factors 164
5．Anxiety and the Language Learner 169
6．Correlates of Language Anxiety 171
7．Ways to Identify Language Anxiety 176
8．Classroom Implications of Language Anxiety 178
9．Are Affective Considerations Relevant to Assessment? 180
Ⅵ．STRATEGIES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING 182
1．View of Language Learning 182
2．Learner Strategies 186
3．Types of Learner Strategies 191
4．Research into Learner Strategies 194
5．Learning Strategies 198
6．Learning Style and Learning Strategies 200
7．Skills and Strategies 203
8．Learning to Learn 205
9．Some Strategies for Facilitating Cooperative Learning for Language Learning 207
10．Language Learning Strategies 210
11．Strategy Training 217
12．The Strategic Teaching Model 219
13．Learner Training in Foreign Language Teaching 223
14．Procedures for Strategy Training in Foreign and Second Language Teaching 225
Ⅶ．CULTURE AWARENESS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING 230
1．Importance of Culture Teaching 230
2．Goals of Culture Teaching 233
3．Content of Culture Teaching 238
4．Different Approaches to Culture Teaching 243
5．Discourse and Culture 249
6．Teaching Language along the Cultural Fault Line 253