RSSVolume 17

Principled Eclecticism in College English Teaching in China

Principled Eclecticism in College English Teaching in China

| January 5, 2007

In general, eclecticism in language teaching holds that although no single language teaching method manages to meet all the teaching and learning needs, many methods have valuable insights that should be drawn on. But it has been criticized for its lack of principles.

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Three Ways to Motivate Chinese Students in EFL Listening Classes

Three Ways to Motivate Chinese Students in EFL Listening Classes

| January 5, 2007

This paper is a report of an action research project conducted in a listening course for the second-year English majors in one university in China. After finding the existing teaching practice in the listening course not quite interesting and rewarding to my students, a new teaching plan was designed to motivate students in practicing listening.

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