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Trends in Second and Foreign Language Teaching by Professor ZhaoHong Han from Columbia University. Held at Columbia Centres East Asia, in Beijing, July 2014.

10 emerging trends in teaching adult learners a foreign language over the past 15 years, according to Professor Han:

1. Viewing teaching as a science and hence evidence-based rather than intuition- or experience-based.

2. Adopting an analytic approach rather than a synthetic approach in planning and organising teaching.

3. Implementing a focus on form rather than a focus on forms in classroom interaction.

4. Comprehensively fostering complexity, accuracy, fluency, and communicative adequacy of learner language rather than formal accuracy alone.

5. Contextualising rather than decontextualising teaching

6. Using authentic input rather than modified input

7. Engaging learners in real world tasks rather than artificial metalinguistic exercises

8. Respecting students’ processing needs rather than imposing teaching on learning

9. Teachers primarily leading from behind rather than leading in the front.

10. Teachers assuming multiple, dynamic roles rather than a singular role in the classroom.

第二语言和外语教学的发展趋势. 在哥伦比亚大学全球中心 （东亚）。2014年7月17日. 按照韩照红博士，过去的15年中，从研究中我们获得了很多关于教成年学习者学习第二语言和外语。十个主要的转变包括有：

1。视教学为基于证据，而非基于直觉或经验的科学。

2。在计划和组织教学过程中采纳分析性，而非综合性的方法。

3。在课堂互动中聚焦于一种，而非多种形式

4。全面提升学习者语言使用的复杂性、精确性、流畅性和交流的充分性，而非单纯提升其对于正式用语使用的精确性。

5。采用情境化，而非去情境化的教学。

6。使用原始性，而非修正性的输入。

7。使学习者参与并进入到真实的场景，而非模拟的、元语言的练习中。

8。尊重学生学习过程中的实际需求，而非将授课强加于学习之上。

9。教师主要从后方，而非前方领导教学进程。

10。教师在课堂上担当多元且动态的，而非单一的角色。