1.1.2A Typical English Class
The following description of a typical English class in most schools prents a picture of how English-language teag is ducted in a（The description is bad upon both the rearch by Mei Deming（2004）and the author''s discussions with the MOE scholar students of a（to be introduced in Chapter 4）.）.
New words and phras listed after each text are studied first.In the cour of lexical study,the teacher explains the usage of some difficult items and provides example nteo show its u in a syntactical text.Then students read the words and phras aloud after their teacher to learn the correct pronunciation.In the less developed areas,pronunciation bee a rious barrier to language development as the teachers themlves do not provide proper role models and some areas are even short of basic equipment such as a tape recorder.In a language classroom,pronunciation is not given much attention; grammar and vocabulary are the focus of teag.After the vocabulary study,the teacher explains the text to the whole class.Sentences are translated into e one by one; plex nteructures are analyzed and studied carefully.The study of the text is then followed by a detailed explanation of target grammatical items listed before the exerci .After class,the students are required to do grammar（usually in the form of multiple-choice questions）and translation exercis（from English to e and vice versa）in the retly studied unit.
1.1.2A Typical English Class
The following description of a typical English class in most schools prents a picture of how English-language teag is ducted in a（The description is bad upon both the rearch by Mei Deming（2004）and the author''s discussions with the MOE scholar students of a（to be introduced in Chapter 4）.）.