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1、--------------------------------------------精品文档Word可编辑值得收藏------------------------------------------------AdaptingAuthenticMaterialsforLanguageTeachingAdaptingAuthenticMaterialsforLanguageTeachingbyStevenDarianAdaptingoriginalmaterialsforlanguageteachingisanincrediblysubtleprocesshalfar
2、t,halfscience.Clearly,thekindanddegreeofadaptingdependsontheageandlanguagelevelofthestudent.Inanefforttosimplifytext,itiseasytoslipintotheerroroftalkingdowntothereader.Toillustratetheprocessofadapting,Ihavedrawnonmyexperienceinpreparinganintermediate-level300-pageESLtextforbusiness(Daria
3、n,inpress).Whilesuchmaterialseemsfarremovedfromtheprimaryorsecondaryschoolclassroom,theprocessisbasicallythesameatalllevels.I抳edividedourdiscussionintofoursections:(1)semanticelements,(2)lexicalelements,(3)syntacticelements,and(4)discourseelements.Inthisshortarticle,wecanjusttouchonafewc
4、onsiderationsineacharea.Semantic23----------------------------------------------------精品文档值得收藏-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------精品文档Word可编辑值得收藏------------------------------------------------elementsOnehiddenprobleminad
5、aptingmaterialsisconnotation.Nativespeakersdon抰usuallythinkabouttheprimaryorsecondaryconnotationofaword梩heyjustuseit.Theproblemariseswhenthelanguagelearnerisconfrontedwithasecondaryconnotationofawordand,atbestmayknowthatwordinitsprimarymeaning.Takethisexample:Doyouknowanyjokesthatillustr
6、ateotherpeople抯values?Tothelanguagelearner,theprimaryconnotationofillustratewouldprobablybe“relatedtoartanddrawing.”Whenadaptingmaterials,askyourselfwhetheraword抯primaryconnotationwouldobscurethesecondarymeaning.Ifso,substituteaclearerterm.Theexamplerewrittenis:Doyouknowanyjokesaboutothe
7、rpeople抯values?Hereisanotherexamplethatillustratestheproblemofprimaryandsecondaryconnotation:Original:Oneofthekeystototalqualitymanagement(TQM)isinvolvingtheemployees.Rewrite:Oneofthemostimportantfactorsintotalqualitymanagement(TQM)isinvolvingthe23------------------------
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