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High-quality courses gather a variety of teaching tools such as verbal modality, behavioral modality and PPT combination modality, which can better highlight the teaching content and attract students' attention. By analyzing the foregrounding means of teaching in high-quality English courses, we found that teachers use a variety of modalities in their courses to achieve foregrounding teaching effects. In the verbal modality, they often use phonetic deviation, lexical deviation, syntactic deviation, quantitative deviation and content deviation to highlight the teaching content; in the behavioral modality, they make good use of body language and facial expression to enhance the teaching effect; and in the PPT modality, they use underlining, bolding, inserting vivid pictures/concise charts and combining with video and audio to analyze the key points of teaching. The use of these multimodal tools attracts students' attention, responds to their psychology, and assists them in receiving information more effectively.
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