Analysis of the Current Situation of Spoken Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Ethnic Regions

With the enhancement of friendship between different nations, foreign language learning has become more and more important. In particular, spoken language is playing a vital role in foreign language learning and practice. In order to improve foreign language teaching and learning proficiency in ethnic regions, the author analyses the current situation of spoken foreign language teaching and learning in ethnic regions and suggests some ways to solve the existing problems.

A Situated Learning Practice for Language Teaching Classes： Teaching Spoken English With Authentic Sketches

SL （situated learning） is a term first proposed by Lave and Wenger （1991） as a model of learning in a community of practice. According to Lave and Wenger （1991）, learning should not be viewed as simply the transmission of abstract and decontextualised knowledge from one individual to another, but a social process whereby knowledge is co-constructed. The exposure to spoken language and cultural elements of foreign language is the best way of teaching the language itself rather than grammatical patterns and rules of the language. In this study, we aim to review ＂situational learning approach＂ in context with its role and efficiency of teaching spoken language. An experimental study was conducted on the university students in the preparatory classes at the School of Tourism of Erzincan University. Twelve male and 11 female students in the control group and 14 male and 10 female students in the experimental group took part in the research. The language levels of the students were determined by a language proficiency test which is used as pre-test of the study. Language proficiency test composed of mainly dialogues including spoken language patterns. After eight weeks of lectures with authentic sketches which were used as reading materials in experimental group and classical reading materials in control group, the students were given the same language proficiency test as post-test. When pre- and post-test results were evaluated, significant difference was found between the pre- and post-test results of the subjects on behalf of the students in the experimental group. It is concluded that spoken language can be achieved by authentic sketches which are designed to serve as a situated learning setting.

Research of Spoken Language Learning Strategy in the Second Language Communication Process

Spoken language learning strategy study is everlasting and often fresh topic, which can come to different conclusions from different point of views. This paper focuses on the second language communication process, trying to find out the possible spoken language phenomenon and the corresponding spoken language learning strategies. At the same time, the factors influencing the learners＇ adoption of spoken language learning strategy as well as the hints for teaching spoken language in class are hopefully to be summarized.

Research on the Construction and Practice of College English Spoken Language Network Training Camp under the “Let’s talk” Model

Based on the"Understandable Output Hypothesis"a practical study on the construction of college oral English network training camp is set up,through speech learning and imitation,building language input in natural environment,exploring effective output mode based on information technology platform,providing foreign language learners with opportunities to express language and get feedback.Students use relevant resources on the Internet to complete the oral activities of"thematic activities"together,so as to cultivate students'cooperative learning,communication skills,team spirit and language communication ability.

Mastering the Oral-Written Speech by Six- and Seven-Year Olds

The object of this article is to develop instruments for the study of the interest of six- and seven-year olds, pedagogues and parents about children＇s books and computers. By way of elaborating children＇s books and writing on a computer or tablet, it introduces illiterate children to oral-written speech--an innovative approach to literacy. This process takes place under the guidance of a pedagogue, in collaboration with parents. Thus, before they start school, children in Bulgaria can master the written and spoken language that encourages them to love the book.

COMPREHENSION OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING LISTENING

Introduction For many years, listening comprehension has been taken for granted as a course and has simply been continuous and constant listening given to the students regardless of the strategies employed, the stages needed to achieve the goal and the appropriateness of the materials. Teachers teach their students listening in the way they themselves were taught. This empirical perspective of teaching, which lacks a sufficiently scientific basis, has been challenged in recent years by evidence from psycholinguistic research. This influential field of study has provided many fresh insights into the nature of the human mind and broadened our view of language teaching.

Intent-Slot Correlation Modeling for Joint Intent Prediction and Slot Filling

Slot filling and intent prediction are basic tasks in capturing semantic frame of human utterances.Slots and intent have strong correlation for semantic frame parsing.For each utterance,a specific intent type is generally determined with the indication information of words having slot tags(called as slot words),and in reverse the intent type decides that words of certain categories should be used to fill as slots.However,the Intent-Slot correlation is rarely modeled explicitly in existing studies,and hence may be not fully exploited.In this paper,we model Intent-Slot correlation explicitly and propose a new framework for joint intent prediction and slot filling.Firstly,we explore the effects of slot words on intent by differentiating them from the other words,and we recognize slot words by solving a sequence labeling task with the bi-directional long short-term memory(BiLSTM)model.Then,slot recognition information is introduced into attention-based intent prediction and slot filling to improve semantic results.In addition,we integrate the Slot-Gated mechanism into slot filling to model dependency of slots on intent.Finally,we obtain slot recognition,intent prediction and slot filling by training with joint optimization.Experimental results on the benchmark Air-line Travel Information System(ATIS)and Snips datasets show that our Intent-Slot correlation model achieves state-of-the-art semantic frame performance with a lightweight structure.