Chapter One Literature Review
1.1 The Studies of English Grammar Teaching in Senior High School
language input, their accuracy on some grammatical forms cannot reach an ideal level. In Swain & Lapkin’s research, grammar was not taught explicitly. The teaching method here was implicit grammar teaching. Carroll (1967) investigated 2784 seniors who were learning French, German, Russian, or Spanish (郝兴跃，英语论文范文，2017). These participants learned the target language in unnatural condition. At last, their level of target language is low. At the same time, the learners who have learned the target language in natural condition achieved higher than those who haven’t. Celce-Murcia (1991) tried to find out some meaningful results about the implicit approach. Celce-Murcia warned that because of a lack of teaching about language form, learning tended to be fossilized or plateaued easily. When learners achieve a specific level, it is hard for them to make any further progress. In contrast, the systematic teaching, as a characteristic of the explicit approach, made learners organize what they wanted to express accurately, which led to a smooth conversation. In general, there are two trends of grammar teaching, the explicit teaching and the implicit teaching. The former one emphasizes on the form of language, ignoring the meaning of language and the weaknesses of its usage; while the latter highlights the meaning and the context but neglects accuracy. All in all, on one hand, each new teaching model is formed based on the former models’ strong points; on the other, each has its own deficiency to some extent.
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1.2 The Study of English Teaching in Senior High School Based on the Image Schema Theory
In CNKI database, the present author searched with the key words “the application of the Image Schema Theory to instruction” as the topic and got 121 records. The result shows that researches done in China on the application of the Image Schema Theory to instruction increase after 2017; the largest number is in 2017 and 2017, 19 and 17 respectively. These researches do not only concern the field of SLA, but include the analysis of the image schemas found in our country’s ancie，英语论文 |
