The application of formative assessment in college oral English teaching

Teaching assessment is one of the most important components of college English teaching. The traditional assessment system over emphasizes the summative assessment, which used examinations as the main assessment method. Formative assessment focuses on the process assessment during the practice of teaching. It is integrated in the teaching and learning process and cannot be separated as evaluation. The formative assessment aims to confirm the students＇ potential, develop their ability in study and strengthen the students＇ confidence and the spirit of cooperation. It is also a method intended to generate feedback on performance to improve and accelerate teaching and learning effectively. Based on some theories, this paper states the importance of the application of formative assessment in college oral English teaching. It also introduces some principles and measures to apply this assessment. The reasonable and effective application can promote college oral English teaching.

Empirical study on cooperative learning approach to College oral English teaching

As a creative and effective teaching method adopted by many countries, cooperative learning is one of the most widespread and fruitful areas in modern education theory. With the introduction of the concept of cooperative learning among College oral English teaching, students could undergo all-round training in English proficiency, cooperative ability, self-learning ability and sense of competition. This paper mainly focuses on how to make full use of cooperative leaning in College oral English teaching, and tries to verify that cooperative leaning is a practical and effective teaching mode which could enhance the College oral English classroom teaching quality.

Collective Oriented Culture and Its Negative Impact upon Oral English Teaching

As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.

Applying Learning Community Theory to Oral English Teaching in Sport Institutes

Since traditional English teaching method, which merely focuses on language teaching but ignores communicative competence, severely impedes the development of students' oral ability. It is high time that English teachers took measures to find a workable and valuable teaching method which can improve students' speaking proficiency effectively. Learning community theory provides a broad space for this, for it regards learning as a process which takes place in a community where the learners are sharing their experience towards knowledge building in an interactive and cooperative way.

Authenticity and College Oral English Teaching

This paper aims to explore how to bring authenticity into oral English class. By discussing a number of conversational features which are prominent in every day interaction, but are lacking in the standard English material our students are learning every day, we suggest that everyday conversation is different from standard written English, so taking standard written English as a model in our oral English class is not feasible. We believe that applying CL （corpus linguistics） and CA （conversation analysis） into oral English classroom to design the learning material and classroom tasks is a good way to enhance the authenticity of language learning.

On the application of project teaching method in oral English teaching in higher vocational college

Reasonable introduction of "project teaching method" is to improve oral teaching model.Through a great deal of practice,using project teaching method,teachers can improve teaching capacity of oral English courses.On the basis of satisfying students' self-learning interests,it can help them to improve the level of oral English.

Conceptions of Oral English Teaching:A Case Study of Teacher Cognition on Oral English Teaching and Classroom Practice

This paper reports a case study investigating and comparing the cognition and classroom practice of two college English teachers with regards to oral English teaching in an agricultural university. Both consistency and inconsistency between their cognition and practice are examined and reasons especially for inconsistency are explored. Findings suggest that teachers do hold a system of cognition which shapes their classroom practice to a very large extent. However, due to the influence of many other factors, both internal and external, their practice in oral English teaching does not always reflect their cognition.

MY NEW STRATEGIES IN ORAL ENGLISH TEACHING

IntroductionI have been teaching ESL in Guangzhou for over ten years,and I find the teaching of oral English a ratherdifficult task.A few years ago,I taught the course to first year English majors,using:‘50 EverydayTopics in English’as the coursebook.The topics include‘Greeting and Farewells’,‘Introduction’,‘Calling on somebody’etc.,each consisting of a few dialogues.In each lesson,there is a list of new wordsand a considerable number of pattern drills.When using the book,I conducted the class using the following procedure:1.Students study the new words before class.2.Teacher presents the dialogue and explains the language points.3.Students read aloud the dialogue after the teacher or the tape recording.4.Students practise the pattern drills or do Chinese to English translation for structural practice.5.Students repeat the dialogue in pairs or individually.6.Students act out the dialogue in class.

An Examination on the Problems Existing in the Teaching and Learning of Oral English

The published studies on the issues in the teaching and leaming of ESL （English as a Second Language）/EFL （English as a Foreign Language） oral English shed lights on many of the unresolved problems in ESL/EFL teaching and learning. The writer＇s findings through literature review of the issues in the teaching and learning of ESL/EFL oral English indicate that further studies in this area may provide more valuable experiences to aid ESL/EFL speakers in producing fluent and accurate speech.

Research on Backwash Effect of Formative Evaluation in Oral English Learning in Vocational Colleges

The evaluation model which is dominated by formative evaluation can help the teacher diagnose the teaching activity in the process of students learning and timely find the problems, which can timely correct and control the teaching and learning strategies. The questionnaire survey, oral English test, experimental research design and practice prove that establishing a dynamically professional oral English formative evaluation based on student behavior not only has good backwash effect, ensure the enthusiasm and interest of students learning oral English, but also can enhance the autonomic learning awareness and ability of students and improve the cooperative learning and communicative ability of students, which greatly improve the learning effect of students.

An Empirical Study on Problems and Strategies of Spoken English Teaching in Primary Schools——A Case Study of No.3 Primary School in Huanglong

The basic view of Piaget's cognitive development theory is that children's psychological development is the result of the interaction between their inner state of minds and the objective outside world. Based on the theory, the study mainly adopts the ways of empirical research, literature reference and questionnaire survey to explores teachers' and students' problems in elementary school oral English teaching process and puts forward corresponding countermeasures. The paper puts 80 fourth graders No.3 Primary School in Wenzhou Huanglong as subjects, find teachers' teaching problems currently existing in primary English class and pupils' problems they met like negative transfer of mother tongue and low interest in oral English learning through questionnaire survey and analysis data. The study, according to Piaget's cognitive development theory, puts forward advice through careful analysis of the problems to improve the present situation of teachers' teaching and students' oral English learning, to help teachers improve the quality of oral English teaching and to ultimately improve pupils' oral English communication.

Exploration on the Design of Immersive Teaching Method in Oral Eng lish Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges

This paper provides an introduction and overview of the immersive teaching method,presents a simple teaching model used in the teaching of oral English in higher vocational college.The teaching design of presentation based on immersive teaching method can enhance students’subjective initiative in language learning in oral English classes in a better way,stimulate students’interests in learning the knowledge of language,and practice the use of language skills.

Teaching Methods of Spoken Korean

To improve the oral ability of Korean is an important goal of Korean learning.It is also an arduous task in foreign language learning to improve the oral ability of students.How to improve the oral ability of students is also a key problem that puzzles teachers’education and teaching.In order to improve students’oral English ability in Korea,it is necessary to make clear the orientation of the course and the goal of teaching,and then combine a variety of effective teaching methods to improve students’oral English ability.Based on the teaching experience of Korean oral English in recent years,this paper makes a simple analysis and summary of the problems often encountered in Korean oral English,and provides theoretical guidance on how to improve the teaching methods of Korean oral English.

CHINGLISH IN THE ORAL WORK OF NON-ENGLISH MAJORS

Chinglish often exists in the oral work of college students and becomes one of the major problems that adversely affect cross-cultural communication and the quality of oral expression. Though much research has been done on Chinglish, statistical studies of Chinglish are still insufficient, especially in China. This paper reports a quantitative research on Chinglish in the oral English of college students. The paper proposes an objective attitude towards Chinglish; more input of western culture, and more regard for appropriate oral English learning strategies.

ORAL PRACTICE IN JUNIOR ENGLISH TEACHING

Although the textbook Junior English for China has been widely adopted for use in middle schools,most of our teachers have not changed their teaching methods.Traditional methods of teachingEnglish are still used in their teaching practice.The focus of teaching is on detailed analysis andexplanation of language points.A small percentage of time is devoted to activities in which thestudents practise speaking in English.Oral practice is limited to students reading aloud the sentencesthey have translated.The teachers seldom use English to conduct the class,preferring to use Chineseas the language of instruction.As a result,too many students are only good at reciting grammar rulesand analyzing sentences.They are poor in language communication,especially communicatingorally.