Challenges and Countermeasures in Integrating Chinese Traditional Culture into English Listening and Speaking Course

Foreign language education involves not only language education but also cultural education.It is the new mission of today’s foreign language education to integrate Chinese traditional culture into foreign language teaching and cultivate foreign language talents who can tell Chinese stories well and spread Chinese voice.As a basic course for English majors,English Listening and Speaking faces many challenges when it is integrated into Chinese traditional culture,such as complex teaching content,limited teaching resources,insufficient teachers’literacy,and students’listening and speaking difficulties.In order to solve these problems,teachers and universities should work together to sort out the connotation of Chinese traditional culture,develop audio-visual teaching materials,organize teacher training,and innovate teaching methods,so as to effectively promote the connection between Chinese traditional culture and English Listening and Speaking curriculum system.

College English Listening and Speaking Teaching Guided by Memetics

Memetics confirms the importance of recitation and imitation in college English teaching.Starting with the explanation of the replication cycle of language memes,this paper discusses how to use the memetic perspective in college English listening and speaking teaching,effectively transform the input language information into language output,and improve the classroom effect of college English listening and speaking teaching.

Opinions on Classroom Teaching in Developing Students＇ Ability in English Listening and Speaking

This paper, with the questionnaire and interview as the main research methods, sums up and analyses the chief factors that cause the divorce between listening and speaking in current classroom teaching, and puts forward some proposals as an approach to the divorce problem, It is hoped that these proposals will be of some help to our teaching in listening and speaking, so as to enhance students＇ listening and speaking ability effectively.

Study on PAD and flipped Classroom Applied to College English Teaching--Take College English Viewing,Listening and Speaking Ⅰ For Instance

PAD(presentation,assimilation and discussion) and flipped classroom mix the advantages of PAD and flipped classroom,PADand flipped classroom separate the period of a teacher's teaching and students' interaction,allowing students to assimilate the knowl-edge they learned in one week,this teaching mode considers different groups of students.A result of a recent teaching experiment showsthat this teaching mode can allocate class time more efficiently and equally to each student to practise oral English.Students are moreconfident,more willing to participate and show more interest in oral class.

Application of Student-centered Learning Approach to English Listening and Speaking Class in Vocational Schools

Student-centered learning approach is focused on the students' demands and interests.Applying student-centered approach puts forward higher requirement to English teachers.This article first analyzes the theory of student-centered learning approach and compares teacher-centered approach with it.Based on the research information and teaching experience,the author summarizes four strategies about how to apply student-centered learning approach to English listening and speaking class in vocational schools.

Ways to Improve English Listening and Speaking Skills

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.

Exploration of campus-network-based listening and speaking

Computer-assisted language leaming is a trend in the language teaching field of the 21st century and it is also advocated by the latest college English curriculum requirements. To test this model, we＇ve conducted an experiment on a campus-network-based listening and speaking course with 869 students from the NAAU since the 2005-2006 academic years. It has been proved that the new model enjoys great advantages over the conventional teacher-and-recorder teaching, though it is not thoroughly free from limitations or problems. On the one hand, this new model may provide students with authentic language sample, richer materials, interactive platform, friendly context, ect; on the other hand, factors such as costly hardware and software, non-stopping changes, lack of talents and inadequate funds are all preventing it from playing its role to full extent. Thus counter measures should be taken as soon as possible to break the bottleneck restricting the model from further development.

The Strategies on the Chinese College Student＇s English Listening and Speaking Ability Based on MOOC

English is now, as a universal language, the main tool for communication among people all over the world. The English listening and speaking ability is the key to it. But the status-quo of Chinese student＇s English listening and speaking ability is disappointing. This paper tries to analyze the necessity of improving their English listening and speaking ability and put forward some strategies on it based on MOOC which includes teaching online and teaching offline.

An Empirical Study on the 1 ＋ 1 Model in College English Listening and Speaking Class

Improving college students＇ listening and speaking ability is a very important part of college English teaching Based on the foreign and domestic studies on how to improve students＇ listening and speaking ability, this paper explores the 1 ＋ 1 model in listening and speaking class, which is to divide the listening and speaking class into two parts--small speaking class combined with students＇ online autonomous learning. Through one-year experiment and study on two classes, although there is no significant difference between the performances of these classes, this study has shed some light on how to vary the teaching methods, how to improve the class efficiency, students＇ autonomy in leaming, and how to build new assessment system. Further studies could be made later based on this

Study on the Correlation between Teaching Effectiveness and Task-based Teaching Method in College English Listening and Speaking

Teaching effectiveness has been discussed widely both in the theoretical studies and the practical teaching contexts. Teachingeffectiveness as a general teaching concept should be manifested based on a practical method. This study begins with the analysesof the effectiveness of English listening and speaking class and the task-based teaching method. It focuses on probing the positivecorrelation between teaching effectiveness and task-based teaching model in College English listening and speaking class. Throughanalyzing and comparing the important indicators of teaching effectiveness and task-based teaching model, the favorablecorrelation between the two can be verified. In conclusion, a few important factors of designing and conducting tasks in Englishlistening and speaking class are highlighted in order to substantially guarantee and enhance teaching effectiveness.

The Design and Application of the Flipped Classroom Model in English Viewing, Listening and Speaking

In this paper, we put forward a new teaching model of flipped classroom applied to English Viewing, Listening and Speaking with the combination of features of this course and college students＇ learning characteristics. Based on the proposed model, we set up and implement the instructional plans. In the teaching practice, we verify and analyze the effect of this teaching model. The practice has proved that the teaching model based on flipped classroom has a positive effect to improve students＇ capability of listening and speaking and their initiative in learning.

The Efficacy of Multimodal Input on ESL Learners’Listening and Speaking Abilities

Language input in foreign language classrooms is no longer restricted to one particular mode of transmission,but it can be achieved by use of different modes.Multimodality or the combination of various modes has been applied to stimulate foreign language learning.The present paper aims to verify the effectiveness of multimodal input in language learning.It demonstrates the experiment conducted in two freshman classes in a university.The two classes used the same textbook supported by audio CD containing the recorded material.The experiment class,however,additionally has some visuals in listening classes to strengthen the linguistic input.The research lasted for one semester and findings from the study show that multimodal input has significantly improved the listening and speaking abilities of the students and also has positive impacts on the learners’attitudes towards language study.

Improve English Listening and Speaking by Vogue English Study Methods

With the development of the global economy, learning English has become the need of many Chinese. People have created a lot of English study methods such as Crazy English, Special English, Peipei English, Dapao English, and so on. These methods have made a great impact on our English teaching model. Although there are no enough scientific theories in them, we can find the special ways to learn English well especially for English listening and speaking. If you analyze them carefully, you will be surprised to find that they are very helpful to improve your listening and speaking ability, and overcome the affective shock. Following some of these methods, the learners can get more knowledge, be more interested in English, study harder and obtain the achievements easily, while the teachers can improve their teaching according to them. At last, the author points out that if the teachers can use them in class correctly, the ideal result will come out.

A Brief Analysis of Civil Aviation English Listening and Speaking Course in Teaching Mode Reform

With the enhancement of our country's comprehensive national strength, the unprecedented development of China's civil aviation provided more professional demand of civil aviation for society and also brought opportunities for vocational colleges in our country. This paper will takes Civil Aviation English Listening and Speaking course of flight attendants and aviation service majors in Chongqing Hailian Vocational for example. Several suggestions on civil aviation English teaching are put forward simply. It will discuss how to carry on the effective teaching of English curriculum reform.

An Analysis on English Listening and Speaking Difficulties and Influential Factors for Senior High School Students

Nowadays English is more regarded as a"practical tool of communication"than the"knowledge to be tested".In this way,the ability of English listening and speaking will be more and more valued.But many people claim that Chinese students are learning"mute's English",which means that the average level of English listening and speaking abilities of Chinese students is still a bit low.So it is necessary to study the difficulties of high school students'listening and speaking in English and the influen-tial factors of it.This study is on the base of a research about the difficulties in English listening and speaking in a class of a key se-nior high school in Beijing.And there is a further study about the factors about the difficulties and the influential factors.This study aims to make students'needs for English in new situation be seen and to give a direction to English education.Through the study,findings can be drawn.For the difficulties for senior high school students in improving their abilities of English listening and speaking,the main difficulties are vocabulary,grammar,pronunciation,fears and culture.For the factors influencing their ability of English listening and speaking,the main factors are individual interest and effort and language environment.

DEVELOPING LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS IN ELT CLASSROOM

Language communicative competence is the ultimate goal of College English Teaching, which has become unanimously accepted. Yet, college English language classroom teaching has long been a focus of concern of students' reading and writing skills, which surely weakens their other skills developing, especially listening and speaking skills. How to achieve effective language communication in ELT is a major issue. This paper analyzes the importance of listening and speaking ability in English study and communication, and their interaction as well, explores the approaches to improving listening and speaking competence in ELT classroom.

TEACHING NON-ENGLISH MAJORS LISTENING AND SPEAKING THROUGH FILMS

Films are a very effective medium for language teaching,especially in teaching listening and speaking. This paperdiscusses the advantages of using films in teaching that course tonon-English majors. Finally the author introduces someworkable ways of using films in aural-oral classes.

The Teaching of Listening and Speaking:A Probe

本文结合授课实践,着重探讨了听说课教学的基本方法和原则,认为句型盘练和情景对话,是提高语言运用能力的有效途径;简单绘画和幽默感,手势和表演,有助于活跃课堂气氛;结合生活实际,组织专题讨论、更能引起学生学习兴趣。同时,还认为英语的口语教学的成功有赖于精心备课和教学方法的不断改进;及时纠错,定期考试,能够培养学生良好的语言习惯,达到了解学生水平、检验教学效果的目的。

Retalks on holographic teaching methods of foreign language： With discussion on ＂The analysis of teaching methods of ‘Crazy English＇＂

Foreign Language Learning is a kind of ability which enables people to learn how to handle speech information. A foreign language learner can study foreign language well in a quick way only if he could grasp the essential feature of the speech system and is trained in a harmonious way which is a combination of sound, meaning, feeling, mien and speed and all of his doings should be carried out on the basis of systematic engineering principles and in accordance with the research findings of modern psychological linguistics. This paper aims to probe into the physiological-psychological mechanism of speech, its essential features and ways of improving the ability of foreign language listening and speaking in the perspective of systematic engineering principles.

An EOP Course for a Special Group of In-service Middle School English Teachers in China

In China there are such middle school English language teachers who are not qualified enough in listening and speaking to fulfill the requirements in their work due to lack of formal pre-service training. Therefore an EOP （English for Occupational Purposes） course is needed to improve their related skills. In the design of the course, factors, such as the course takers, overall aims, needs, length, content, materials, training modes and assessment, are taken into consideration to make the course a systematic one. Besides, the background theory and the supporting syllabus for the course are presented and the potential problems are also analyzed in the course outline.