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BOOK IDENTITY

Title :

Practical Guide to the Teaching of English

as a Foreign Language Author : Robert J. Dixson

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Year of Publication : 1960

Place of Publication : United States of America

TABLE OF CONTENT

PAGES : 95 (Including Reference List of Books)

CHAPTER :CHAPTER 1 : GENERAL PRINCIPLESCHAPTER 2 : THE STUDENT AND THE

TEACHERCHAPTER 3 : THE TEACHING OF

GRAMMARCHAPTER 4 : THE TEACHING OF

CONVERSATIONCHAPTER 5 : THE TEACHING OF READINGCHAPTER 6 : THE TEACHING OF

VOCABULARYCHAPTER 7 : THE TEACHING OF

PRONUNCIATION

THE TEACHING OF GRAMMAR

Grammar which forms the real basis of the language. Grammar structure, primarily, that serves to distinguish one language from another.

This book examines some of the more common points of view about grammar such as Old and New Conceptions of Grammar. In short, the grammar which the foreign student studies and the grammar which the native speaker studies are two different things. The foreign student studies about functional grammar or grammar as language; and the native speaker studies about formalized grammar.

THE TEACHING OF CONVERSATION

In foreign language teaching, when we speak of teaching conversation, we don’t refer to the kind of social conversation that goes on around the family dinner table or when friends gathering. This kind of conversation is rarely achieved in any language classroom. The classroom, as previously mentioned, is a very artificial situation.

Conversation provides students the time to expressing themselves. Teachers should teach about conversation with the same attention or even greater attention than when they teach grammar, reading, pronunciation, or any other phase of language.

THE TEACHING OF READING

In any modern language course where chief emphasis is placed upon teaching students to speak and understand English, reading is positioned in secondary position. But this doesn’t mean that reading by itself is not important to the foreign student.

Students must naturally learn how to read English. In developing students in learning of reading, the teacher can ask various questions based on the reading material. So, the questions will lead the students into different avenues of simple conversation.

THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY

Theoretical or philosophical discussion of vocabulary and related matters, although sometimes interesting in teaching of vocabulary but rarely help a teacher to teach any better.

Like the teaching of any other phase of language, the teaching of new vocabulary is difficult and complicated task. There are no sure and easy ways of teaching new word. So, we need to practice more and more. New words should be both heard and seen, they should also be repeated aloud in written form by the students as many times as possible.

THE TEACHING OF PRONOUNCIATION

The teaching of English pronunciation is both a simple and a complicated procedure. The teacher need to remember all of good pronunciation. Ear training is extremely important in the teaching of any foreign language.

The teacher should never jump from one exercise to another but should continue working on each individual sound until the sound is heard clearly by the students and the proper ear and hearing habits have been established.

However, as already said, there is nothing difficult about teaching. This book also give information about some of the aspects of English speech which relate directly to the correction of foreign accent such as Phonetics, Classification of Speech Sounds, Stress and Rhythm, Aspiration, Voicing and Invoicing of Final Consonants, and General Suggestions and Remarks.

AUTHOR’S THESIS

Practical Guide to the Teaching of English

as a Foreign Language is a book good for

every teacher. This book suggesting to

teachers simple, everyday techniques

which may serve to make their work more

interesting and at the same time more

effective.

MAIN IDEA

The purpose of this book is to provide teachers

with suggestions as to actual classroom procedure.

Although, in the course of the writing, some theory may be

touched upon, the book lays principal emphasis upon the

practical side of English teaching. It deals, in other words,

with the “how” of teaching rather than the “why”. Recently

there has been a great flood of books and articles are often

written in such elevated language and are so obscure in

composition that they merely succeed in bewildering the

reader. It seems time, therefore, that something of a more

realistic and practical nature be offered to guide teachers in

the everyday task of actual classroom teaching.

FACTS AND OPINIONS

FACT : A few years ago, at an International

Seminar organized by UNESCO (United Nations

Educational, Scientific, and Cultural

Organization) to discuss the teaching of modern

languages, the following general principles were

subscribed by the majority of the delegates.

(Chapter 1 – Page 5)

OPINION : The students must spend all of their

time learning a difficult subject matter in the

most intense but practical form possible.

(Chapter 4 – Page 46)

AUTHOR’S ATTITUDE / TONE

Based on the book, we can see

that the tone is Objective. He

presents us about a lot of methods

in teaching of English, such as

Grammar, Conversation, Reading,

Vocabulary, and Pronunciation.

AUTHOR’S ATTITUDE / TONE

Another tone of this book is Reasonable :

“We have been mainly concerned up to this point

with definitions. There remain two other terms to

be clarified. Before we can proceed with our

discussion, we must first understand about whom

we are talking and ton whom we are talking. The

two additional terms which we must define are

the student and the teacher.” (Chapter 2 – Page

13)

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