English for Careers is a public course for non-English majors,whose objectives are to develop students’basic language skills for work-related activities:listening,reading,speaking,and writing.As far as the four skill...English for Careers is a public course for non-English majors,whose objectives are to develop students’basic language skills for work-related activities:listening,reading,speaking,and writing.As far as the four skills are concerned,most students in higher vocational colleges have the very poor speaking ability.How to improve students’speaking ability is a hard and urgent task for English teachers.This article sets out to analyze the reasons for this problem in English for Careers.Then,based on the second language acquisition and current teaching theory,ways of improving students’speaking ability are suggested.展开更多
The purpose of the paper is to evaluate and analysis on the vocational English coursebook English for Careers 1. EFL(English as a foreign language) materials and textbooks are important factors in many language progra...The purpose of the paper is to evaluate and analysis on the vocational English coursebook English for Careers 1. EFL(English as a foreign language) materials and textbooks are important factors in many language programs and making judgments about their needs meticulous book evaluation. In china, different coursebooks are used for teaching general and technical English to students at the vocational colleges. Despite the great use of these textbooks and dominance of post method in EFL classrooms,it is not yet known to what extent the principles of particularity, possibility, and practicality are observed in the currently practiced EFL coursebooks at the vocational colleges. The main objectives of the present paper are to evaluate and analyze the feature of the course to figure out whether the principles of teaching method have been applied in these coursebooks or not.展开更多
文摘English for Careers is a public course for non-English majors,whose objectives are to develop students’basic language skills for work-related activities:listening,reading,speaking,and writing.As far as the four skills are concerned,most students in higher vocational colleges have the very poor speaking ability.How to improve students’speaking ability is a hard and urgent task for English teachers.This article sets out to analyze the reasons for this problem in English for Careers.Then,based on the second language acquisition and current teaching theory,ways of improving students’speaking ability are suggested.
文摘The purpose of the paper is to evaluate and analysis on the vocational English coursebook English for Careers 1. EFL(English as a foreign language) materials and textbooks are important factors in many language programs and making judgments about their needs meticulous book evaluation. In china, different coursebooks are used for teaching general and technical English to students at the vocational colleges. Despite the great use of these textbooks and dominance of post method in EFL classrooms,it is not yet known to what extent the principles of particularity, possibility, and practicality are observed in the currently practiced EFL coursebooks at the vocational colleges. The main objectives of the present paper are to evaluate and analyze the feature of the course to figure out whether the principles of teaching method have been applied in these coursebooks or not.
