Interest is the key role in English learning. Thus, English teachers should take effective ways to raise students'interests in teaching classes. Scientific investigation has proved that using effective approaches ...Interest is the key role in English learning. Thus, English teachers should take effective ways to raise students'interests in teaching classes. Scientific investigation has proved that using effective approaches certainly helps arousing students'interests in English teaching.展开更多
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
With the fast development of science and technology, English is becoming more and more important. Concerning English learning, we should focus our attention on listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. Co...With the fast development of science and technology, English is becoming more and more important. Concerning English learning, we should focus our attention on listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. Comparatively speaking, listening and speaking skills are more practical. But how to improve these skills? Everyone knows that the only effective way to improve language skills is to use the language. In reality, however, we know that there are many reasons why people don’t want to speak in another language——they are afraid of making mistakes, they can’t express their real meaning easily, they are shy, they are afraid people will laugh at them. We feel this way sometimes, but if you are sure that you really want to improve your English, try some of the suggestions that have been made here.展开更多
Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integ...Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integration of tea culture into college English teaching not only helps to enhance students’cultural self-confidence,but also helps to effectively carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.Therefore,according to the tea culture,this paper describes in detail the practical significance of integrating tea culture into college English education,and then puts forward that tea culture has become an effective way of college English teaching,hoping to bring the students’English learning ability to a certain extent.At the same time,it can further promote and develop China’s tea culture.展开更多
Language information output plays an important role in students' language acquisition process and is an important way to improve students' comprehensive language using ability and language level. Because college stu...Language information output plays an important role in students' language acquisition process and is an important way to improve students' comprehensive language using ability and language level. Because college students' English foundation is weak in our country at present stage, there are many problems in the process of language information output. In this case, we can increase the application of Intemet technology as a way to expand language output in English language teaching. This article is to explore college English teaching language information output ways in the Internent age.展开更多
Many of the Chinese primary school students often ask such a question,'I can read and usually understand the English I read,but why can’t I follow the English speakers or the recording of English most of the time...Many of the Chinese primary school students often ask such a question,'I can read and usually understand the English I read,but why can’t I follow the English speakers or the recording of English most of the time?'The answer is that you are an English learner,not an English language native speaker.Since you can usually understand the English you read,you are very good at languages.展开更多
Business English is a field in English for Special Purposes (ESP). However,Business English differs from other varieties of ESP in that it is often a mix of specific content and general content. So,Business English te...Business English is a field in English for Special Purposes (ESP). However,Business English differs from other varieties of ESP in that it is often a mix of specific content and general content. So,Business English teachers are not only required to teach the basic English language skills but also the professional language and skills used in business. What can help the teachers carrying out the teaching successfully? This paper discusses on how to make Business English teaching more effective according to its special learning aims and learners.展开更多
As one of the three major elements (sound, vocabulary and grammar), the vocabulary plays a decisive role in English learning and everyday communication. However, many students, especially the students at the junior mi...As one of the three major elements (sound, vocabulary and grammar), the vocabulary plays a decisive role in English learning and everyday communication. However, many students, especially the students at the junior middle school regard remembering words as a heavy burden. In view of this situation, the thesis narrates the English lexicology's related theories that can help the students remember words; mainly introduces seven kinds of words'memory methods; and puts forward six proposals about the teaching of English vocabulary. The aim is that the teachers and students can attach full importance to the English vocabulary's teaching and learning .Mastering enough vocabulary is the key to apply English successfully. Here, I hope that all of us can make joint efforts to raise the quality of the English vocabulary's teaching. Let it develop towards the direction of positiveness, effectiveness and relaxation, and let the students'remembering words not be dry and dull any more.展开更多
Based on the questionnaires and interviews, this paper, in terms of target needs and learning needs, analyses the needs of professional development of the middle school English teachers in rural areas of western China...Based on the questionnaires and interviews, this paper, in terms of target needs and learning needs, analyses the needs of professional development of the middle school English teachers in rural areas of western China. The analysis shows that all the subjects need to improve the Basic English language skills and knowledge. In-service training and retraining are the effective ways to help develop their professionalism, but due to the limitations of all kinds of obstacles, their learning needs cannot be met. Only by the concerted efforts by the society and the teachers themselves, the problems arising in their professional development can be solved.展开更多
Learning a language is much more than learning its vocabulary and grammar rules, but also culture, and every culture in each nation has distinct characteristics that made it different from every other culture. This th...Learning a language is much more than learning its vocabulary and grammar rules, but also culture, and every culture in each nation has distinct characteristics that made it different from every other culture. This thesis begins with the relationship of language and culture, then analyses the present situation of culture-introduction in the English teaching, explains and points out its necessity and great significance, further puts forward some effective ways of culture-introduction in the English teaching.展开更多
Based on analyzing the existing situation about Maritime English teachers in China, a qualified maritime English teacher must not only have the good English competence but also be familiar with the related maritime kn...Based on analyzing the existing situation about Maritime English teachers in China, a qualified maritime English teacher must not only have the good English competence but also be familiar with the related maritime knowledge. In this paper, the author proposes some effective ways to improve the qualities of maritime English teachers.展开更多
With the deepening of educational reform and the continuous development of the times,the traditional English teaching model has been difficult to meet the current society’s demand for requirements of English talents....With the deepening of educational reform and the continuous development of the times,the traditional English teaching model has been difficult to meet the current society’s demand for requirements of English talents.Therefore,from the perspective of multi-mode,colleges and universities should recognize the shortcomings of traditional English teaching mode,and actively innovate and reform English teaching through various effective ways,so as to cultivate talents that meet the needs of social development.The author investigates and analyzes the multimodal theory and proposes an effective way to teach English in higher education under the multimodal vision.It is hoped that it will help to improve the quality of English language teaching in higher education institutions.展开更多
Recent years, pronunciation of being native-like is more and more stressed in China; so many scholars have done researches on this area. Researchers explore disparate ways linked with prosody acquisition to try to loo...Recent years, pronunciation of being native-like is more and more stressed in China; so many scholars have done researches on this area. Researchers explore disparate ways linked with prosody acquisition to try to look out the factors that give influence to the English prosody acquisition. Generally concluding, two aspects are taken into account by researchers: linguistics ways and sociolinguistics ways. For instances, the whole features of learning prosody acquisition, semantic ways to learn the prosody; input and output frequency, age and gender effect on the prosody are the important factors.展开更多
As an important part of English learning,vocabulary is always considered to be difficult to master.However if you understand word formation rules and approach it from different aspects and utilize varied methods,it be...As an important part of English learning,vocabulary is always considered to be difficult to master.However if you understand word formation rules and approach it from different aspects and utilize varied methods,it becomes much easier to build vocabulary.展开更多
The linguistic interference of one’s mother tonguealways poses an obstacle to his or her learning of for-eign languages and teachers should try their best to dis-cover means to overcome this.This paper analyzes thefo...The linguistic interference of one’s mother tonguealways poses an obstacle to his or her learning of for-eign languages and teachers should try their best to dis-cover means to overcome this.This paper analyzes theforms and causes of Chinglish,which is created byadult Chinese learners of English through their moth-er-tongue interference.After a contrastive study ofsome linguistic features between Chinese and English,the author lists ten common forms of Chinglish,il-lustrated with examples from his own teaching prac-tice,and points out their respective causes and somepossible measures to eradicate them.展开更多
My Thoughts on University General Education;Debureaucratization of China's Universities: Predicament and the Way Forward;Toward a Cultural Criticism: Reflections on the Theoretical Framework and Future Prospect...My Thoughts on University General Education;Debureaucratization of China's Universities: Predicament and the Way Forward;Toward a Cultural Criticism: Reflections on the Theoretical Framework and Future Prospects of Media Literacy Education; "Back to the Fundamentals" as the Key to the Survival of Core Humanities Disciplines in HEIs: Reflections on the Marginalization of Literature Courses in English Major Programs in China;A Study of the Legal Status of Public University Presidents in Early Modern展开更多
文摘Interest is the key role in English learning. Thus, English teachers should take effective ways to raise students'interests in teaching classes. Scientific investigation has proved that using effective approaches certainly helps arousing students'interests in English teaching.
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With the fast development of science and technology, English is becoming more and more important. Concerning English learning, we should focus our attention on listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. Comparatively speaking, listening and speaking skills are more practical. But how to improve these skills? Everyone knows that the only effective way to improve language skills is to use the language. In reality, however, we know that there are many reasons why people don’t want to speak in another language——they are afraid of making mistakes, they can’t express their real meaning easily, they are shy, they are afraid people will laugh at them. We feel this way sometimes, but if you are sure that you really want to improve your English, try some of the suggestions that have been made here.
文摘Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integration of tea culture into college English teaching not only helps to enhance students’cultural self-confidence,but also helps to effectively carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.Therefore,according to the tea culture,this paper describes in detail the practical significance of integrating tea culture into college English education,and then puts forward that tea culture has become an effective way of college English teaching,hoping to bring the students’English learning ability to a certain extent.At the same time,it can further promote and develop China’s tea culture.
文摘Language information output plays an important role in students' language acquisition process and is an important way to improve students' comprehensive language using ability and language level. Because college students' English foundation is weak in our country at present stage, there are many problems in the process of language information output. In this case, we can increase the application of Intemet technology as a way to expand language output in English language teaching. This article is to explore college English teaching language information output ways in the Internent age.
文摘Many of the Chinese primary school students often ask such a question,'I can read and usually understand the English I read,but why can’t I follow the English speakers or the recording of English most of the time?'The answer is that you are an English learner,not an English language native speaker.Since you can usually understand the English you read,you are very good at languages.
文摘Business English is a field in English for Special Purposes (ESP). However,Business English differs from other varieties of ESP in that it is often a mix of specific content and general content. So,Business English teachers are not only required to teach the basic English language skills but also the professional language and skills used in business. What can help the teachers carrying out the teaching successfully? This paper discusses on how to make Business English teaching more effective according to its special learning aims and learners.
文摘As one of the three major elements (sound, vocabulary and grammar), the vocabulary plays a decisive role in English learning and everyday communication. However, many students, especially the students at the junior middle school regard remembering words as a heavy burden. In view of this situation, the thesis narrates the English lexicology's related theories that can help the students remember words; mainly introduces seven kinds of words'memory methods; and puts forward six proposals about the teaching of English vocabulary. The aim is that the teachers and students can attach full importance to the English vocabulary's teaching and learning .Mastering enough vocabulary is the key to apply English successfully. Here, I hope that all of us can make joint efforts to raise the quality of the English vocabulary's teaching. Let it develop towards the direction of positiveness, effectiveness and relaxation, and let the students'remembering words not be dry and dull any more.
文摘Based on the questionnaires and interviews, this paper, in terms of target needs and learning needs, analyses the needs of professional development of the middle school English teachers in rural areas of western China. The analysis shows that all the subjects need to improve the Basic English language skills and knowledge. In-service training and retraining are the effective ways to help develop their professionalism, but due to the limitations of all kinds of obstacles, their learning needs cannot be met. Only by the concerted efforts by the society and the teachers themselves, the problems arising in their professional development can be solved.
文摘Learning a language is much more than learning its vocabulary and grammar rules, but also culture, and every culture in each nation has distinct characteristics that made it different from every other culture. This thesis begins with the relationship of language and culture, then analyses the present situation of culture-introduction in the English teaching, explains and points out its necessity and great significance, further puts forward some effective ways of culture-introduction in the English teaching.
文摘Based on analyzing the existing situation about Maritime English teachers in China, a qualified maritime English teacher must not only have the good English competence but also be familiar with the related maritime knowledge. In this paper, the author proposes some effective ways to improve the qualities of maritime English teachers.
文摘With the deepening of educational reform and the continuous development of the times,the traditional English teaching model has been difficult to meet the current society’s demand for requirements of English talents.Therefore,from the perspective of multi-mode,colleges and universities should recognize the shortcomings of traditional English teaching mode,and actively innovate and reform English teaching through various effective ways,so as to cultivate talents that meet the needs of social development.The author investigates and analyzes the multimodal theory and proposes an effective way to teach English in higher education under the multimodal vision.It is hoped that it will help to improve the quality of English language teaching in higher education institutions.
文摘Recent years, pronunciation of being native-like is more and more stressed in China; so many scholars have done researches on this area. Researchers explore disparate ways linked with prosody acquisition to try to look out the factors that give influence to the English prosody acquisition. Generally concluding, two aspects are taken into account by researchers: linguistics ways and sociolinguistics ways. For instances, the whole features of learning prosody acquisition, semantic ways to learn the prosody; input and output frequency, age and gender effect on the prosody are the important factors.
文摘As an important part of English learning,vocabulary is always considered to be difficult to master.However if you understand word formation rules and approach it from different aspects and utilize varied methods,it becomes much easier to build vocabulary.
文摘The linguistic interference of one’s mother tonguealways poses an obstacle to his or her learning of for-eign languages and teachers should try their best to dis-cover means to overcome this.This paper analyzes theforms and causes of Chinglish,which is created byadult Chinese learners of English through their moth-er-tongue interference.After a contrastive study ofsome linguistic features between Chinese and English,the author lists ten common forms of Chinglish,il-lustrated with examples from his own teaching prac-tice,and points out their respective causes and somepossible measures to eradicate them.
文摘My Thoughts on University General Education;Debureaucratization of China's Universities: Predicament and the Way Forward;Toward a Cultural Criticism: Reflections on the Theoretical Framework and Future Prospects of Media Literacy Education; "Back to the Fundamentals" as the Key to the Survival of Core Humanities Disciplines in HEIs: Reflections on the Marginalization of Literature Courses in English Major Programs in China;A Study of the Legal Status of Public University Presidents in Early Modern