本书不只简单地给出教授外语的方法和技巧，并非单纯罗列不同的教学方法和观点，更重要的是，它向读者提供了反思的空间。所以，在使用本书时，读者最终的阅读目的不应该在于学习怎样教词汇，怎样组织学生开展课堂口语练习，而应该在自身的教学环境中，反思自己的教学观，探讨发现新的教学理论和技巧，最终提高自身的专业素质。

本书所针对的读者是外语教学研究者、大学外语教师、中小学外语教师，以及在读外语教师教育专业大学生。

Unit One General Issues about Teaching and Learning

Pre-reading

1.How to Be a Cood Teacher

2.Know Your Students

3.How to Manage Teaching and Learning

4.Effective Presentation，Explanation，and Instruction

5.How to Lead Practice

6.How to Teach Large Class

7.Teaching Plan

8.Evaluating the Success versus Failure of Lessons

9.Language Tests

Unit Two How to Teach the Language

Pre-reading

1.How to Teach Pronunciation

2.How to Teach Vocabulary

3.How to Teach Grammar

Unit Three How to Teach Skills

Pre-reading

1.How to Teach Reading

2.How to Teach Writing

3 How to Teach Speaking

4.How to Teach Listening

Unit Four Foreign Language Teaching Methods

Pre-reading

1.The Grammar-Translation Method 

2.The Direct Method

3.The Audio-Lingual Method

4.The Silent Way

5.Desuggestopedia

6.Community Language Learning

7.Total Physical Response

8.Communicative Language Teaching

9.Content-Based，Task-Based，and Participatory Approaches

Unit Five Related Issues

Pre-reading

1.A Discussion of the Problems in China's EFL Teacher Education

2.Preparing Student Teachers for Future Development

3.Adapting Focus on Form for the Chinese EFL Teaching

4.Teaching EFL Pronunciation in China

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