Whether professor English listening, speaking or reading, writing, ha vision input, learning, using three elements are indispensable important parts. As for how to implement the mode adopted, the teacher may the freedom of choice. ESA overcome the disadvantage of traditional teaching mode with teachers mainly mode of teaching, students from passive to active participation of teaching activities indoctrination, fully mobilize students' learning initiative, and strengthened between teachers and students of the interaction between, make the students master in classroom activities required knowledge and to cultivate the students' positive, cooperation emotion, of reading, writing, listening and speaking ability enhancement is a kind of effective teaching theory and method. Of course, teaching practice not with a constant change everything to million teaching method. Teachers should according to your own style, experience and ability, ready to use all sorts of methods of the most effective ways, to adapt to the teaching of various variable factors, so as to achieve the teaching and learning of double success。
International prestigious British language education experts Jeremy Harmer in "How to Teach spending unfeasibility pointed out: people in social life language acquisition of the same principles for classroom language teaching. After years of intensive research and practice, he summarizes the extracurricular successful language learners have in common: (1) the three continuously contact with certain language, although cannot fully understand or use the language. (2) in order to communicate and interested in learning the language. (3) have the opportunity to learn the language use is being. To these characteristics are summarized and Jeremy Harmer adjusted, the proposed foreign language classroom teaching of three elements: the investment must engage), learning ((of) and use (activate), abbreviation ESA. Input is through different activities and methods such as games, music, discussion by students have the language materials of interest, to students' learning motivation and inspire students' active participation in classroom activities. Learning is through the classroom activities rather than simple sentences explaining and practice to make the students master pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary language knowledge. Using refer through both inside and outside the classroom language activities and make students freely, actual use any suitable for special occasions and topics of language, the typical activities have role-playing, discussion, etc.
Internationally renowned British linguistic expert Jeremy Harmer pointed out in his book 《How to Teach English》that: the same rules that people who learn a language through social lives apply to teaching languages in a classroom setting. After years of research and implementation he summarized the success of those who learn languages outside a school environment into three common characteristics: (1) keep coming in contact with certain languages, even though you may not fully comprehend or use that language. (2) develop an interest to learn that language based on the need to communicate. (3) having the opportunity to actually use the language that you're learning.After arriving at this conclusion and making necessary adjustments, Jeremy Harmer introduced three basic elements that are essential to teaching languages in a classroom: Engage, Study and Activate, namely the ESA. To engage means to stimulate students' interest in the material that they are using to learn, through a variety of activities such as games, music and discussions. To motivate the students and encourage them to actively participate the classroom activities. To study means to allow the students to grasp the linguistic knowledges such as pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary through classroom and extracurricular activities, instead of simply through analyzing sentence structures and practices. To activate menas to allow students to apply at will and in a real sense any languages that are suitable in particular scenarios or topics, typical activities include role plays and panel discussions.