A Case Study on the Effectiveness of Pre-Class Activities in Higher Vocational English Classes: Taking Pingliang Vocational and Technical College as an Example

Based on Bloom’s“effective teaching theory,”this paper proposes pre-class activities to improve students’enthusiasm and autonomy in English learning.These include sentence construction,situational dubbing,famous quotes,English songs,English games,Chinese stories,regional cultures,and theme debates,which combine life,interest,and inspiration as the main characteristics.The activities can enhance the sense of participation and achievement of all students to achieve the purpose of effective teaching.

Improving students' spoken English through PBGS activity

Twenty-first century is the age of knowledge economy,with the increase of the cooperation with a lot of countries where English is the native language,there are more and more joint corporation and foreign invested companies.So it is important for our students to have a mouth of fluent oral English,but now there is a problem in our college that students can not grasp the chances provided by the college to practice their oral English,and at this time with the effort of all oral English teachers,an activity of PBGS(Project Based Group Study) has produced and in this paper I mainly talk about how to carry it out effectively and let students get benefit from it.

A Study on the Design of Task Activity in the Post- task Stage of Middle School English Classroom

The task activity in the post-task stage is mainly to enable the students clearly aware of their own language learning process in the existing problems and effectively solve them through the ＂do-it-again＂ , language focus and other activities, and at the same time the focus of this lesson, difficulties are more clear and clear. It can be said that post-task activities play a vital role in highlighting priorities, breaking through difficulties, and achieving effective goals for teaching goals. The design of the activities in the post-task stage is to complete the task and language focus together, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of task-based teaching. The design of the activities in the post-task stage can be achieved through evaluation, language focus, and extra-curricular activities.

The Application of Goal-Setting Theory in the Second Classroom Teaching Activities of College English

Interest is the precondition and motivation for people's accomplishment.However,due to the exam-oriented system,millions of parents and teachers neglect the interests of children,and our children nearly forget their interests or hobbies.Based on different interests of children,the thesis analyzes how to apply the goal-setting theory in the second classroom teaching activities of College English,using the example of Lushan College of Guangxi University of Technology.

Create Effective Activities for Students to Learn English Literature

Rather than only learning English grammar and some other language knowledge about English,learning English litera ture is another effective way for students to learn English since they can not only learn the native English by reading some English literature but also get familiar with different cultures and background knowledge of English countries.As an English teacher,the main job in the literature class is to design effective activities for students in order to let them comprehend texts that they read and improve their critical thinking.This paper is tend to discuss some activities,including pre-reading,reading and post-reading ac tivities,which was used in my literature class and how they help the students learn English and improve their critical thinking.

To Be Active Readers-A Suggested Way to Teach College English Reading

Reading plays a very big role in the college English course in China.Teaching reading in a college English classroom aims at helping students develop the skills they need to read more effectively.A way is suggested to teach reading in a college English class.Through this way,students become active readers who predict before reading,scan for specific information,confirm or reject their predictions while reading,answering comprehension questions in their own words,etc.Their reading skills are sharpened in such a reading class.

Investigating the Use of Strategic Reading Activities in College English Class: A Case Study

This paper,by adopting a qualitative research method,investigated the use of strategic reading activities by two female teachers in College English classes.Results showed that their commonly-used strategic reading activities in college English classes reflected three types of reading comprehension strategies including use of prior knowledge,use of text elements with a high information value,and use of structure-marking elements in the text.Pedagogical implications were also discussed.

Auditory cerebral activation patterns of Chinese English learners by fMRI

Objective:To identify the cerebral activation patterns associated with the processes that occur during viewing Chinese and English words in native Chinese English learners. Methods:12 right-handed Chinese English learners were divided into two groups equally,namely English majors and non-English majors,and took semantic judgement tasks of both English and Chinese words, for whom the fMRI images were collected.Results:To various degrees, all subjects demonstrated activation of associated cerebral regions in both hemispheres and the left hemisphere activation was more significant for most subjects. Except for classical regions involved in language processing,such as Wernicke areas and Broca areas,there were other activated cerebral regions, including cerebellum, limbic system and basal ganglia nucleus, etc. To sum up,there were apparent overlap for cerebral activation distribution and no specific processing areas for both tasks. The analysis of ROI(region of interest)suggested that subjects in specialized group were more dependent on right hemisphere to perform English words task. Conclusion:Language cognition is dominated by left hemisphere,which is also shared by the right hemisphere to various degrees and thus two hemispheres work by ways of both dissociation and coordination. It is possible that working strategy of the right hemisphere in English task is related to proficiency of the second language. A variety of distinctions are shared by each subject for language cognitive patterns.

English Christmas Pantomime： Theatre or Community Activism

How is English Christmas panto community activism？ The structure of pantomime has not changed in a hundred years, but allows for local creativity to work within its framework to be both family entertainment and social satire This basic structure is founded on a children＇s story like Puss ＇n ＇boots or Cinderella. The story and character types remain the same; but the community can add their own jokes and commentary to make the play relevant to themselves and their community. What is added by the community says a lot about who they are and what they care about. The company Price-Waterhouse-Coopers produces their pantomime as management training and team building while engaging the community. The Basel Swiss panto raises money for African Charities. The Maplewood, NJ panto raises money for the homeless and the Jaguar Charity panto in Birmingham performs to disadvantaged children and adults. The productions can be extravagant or threadbare, but share the same goal of raising cheer and goodwill to the benefit of the community. What is it, then, about panto that brings a community together in such civic mindedness？

Study on classroom activities in children English class

Though classroom activities in children English class have been studied by many scholars, there is a lack of real class investigation and analysis on this subject. Combining the observations of classroom activities in a real children English class with the interviews with the child students and the teacher in that class, this paper presents various classroom activities used in real children English class. Among all the activities of greetings and free conversations, guessing new words, pair or group work, games, songs, chants, making stories and competition, child students prefer games, role play, making stories, and competitions, in which children can take the initiatives; while the teacher favors greetings, guessing new words, role play, and group work. The problem of the activities that children students like the most is that they may cause some disturbance in class. To solve this problem, the author thinks that these activities are better to be put at the end of the class.

Exploring the Development of English Club Activities in Junior High School English Language Learning

English language activities are enjoyable and respect the students’subjectivity,which stimulates their enthusiasm for using English communication.Therefore,it is widely welcomed by junior high school students.The development of the English club and their activities,such as membership,management systems,event planning,advisory lecturers,and cooperation with school management,among others,all directly affect the club activities.Therefore,it is essential to promote their club activities in junior high school English language learning.This paper analyzes the role of the English club and explores their process of conducting specific activities.It is hoped that this paper will be used as a reference for future studies.

Taking Comprehensive Practice Activities as the Carrier to Improve College English Teaching Efficiency

The so-called comprehensive practice activities refer to that under teachers＇ guidance, students conduct independent comprehensive learning activities, and in activities, students can train practice ability, organically combining theory knowledge and practice knowledge together, in order to have a learning and practice effect. In current college English teaching, it exists module, single and dogmatic and a series of disadvantage trends, taking comprehensive practice activities as the carrier to improve college English teaching efficiency, which has a multiplier effect. This paper first analyzes the importance of comprehensive practical activities in college English teaching activities, and then it proposes a set of practicable activity strategies, hoping to play a valuable role.

How to Design Key Activities in an Oral English Class

Analyzing the current situation of oral teaching and factors against students’progress in oral English of vocational and technological colleges,the essay focuses on three strategies to design key oral English activities,aimed at the improvement of students’oral competence.

A Study of Games and Activities Used in English Lessons

With the process of globalization,English has become more and more important.For non-English-speaking countries,each of them almost has English lessons in their schools for their children.Nowadays,how to make English lessons fun and interesting has been a focused issue for English teachers.This essay illustrates a lot of effective games and activities for English teachers to make their classes active and interesting.Also,the purpose of writing this essay is to try to explore a proper way to combine English lessons and entertainments with each other.

Teaching English through Tasks and Activities in the Young Learners' Classroom

As the concept of"the Belt and Road Initiative"was proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, the importance of learning foreign language for communication started to enter into a higher stage. In the 19^(th) National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned that a nation will prosper only when its young people thrive, indicating the significance of the education of young people. Regarding English education of young people, however, there is still a universal phenomenon of dumb English. This article focus on the task-based language teaching approach to study teaching English through tasks and activities in the young learners' classroom, in order to improve their English communicative abilities.

Warming-up Activities and Their Application in Teaching Listening for College Students

Listening teaching is the weakest part of English teaching in vocational colleges.College students feel the sense of uncertainties derived from language,content,presentation and visual aids,resulting in anxiety and frustration rather than sense of fulfillment.Against the above-mentioned negative uncertainties,this article proposes four warming-up activities in pre-listening stage,aiming to stimulate the students' motivation and improving their listening competence.

On Communicative Activities in English Teaching

This article explains why it is important to organize communicative activities in English teaching, as well as some theories and basic principles related to this respect. It is made up of four parts: 1) General Introduction; 2) How to organize communicative activities; 3) What educational objectives are to be reached through communicative activities and 4) Conclusion.The article is written to exchange ideas on organizing communicative activities in English classes with other English teachers as me.