Based on the current situation of college audio-visual English teaching in China, this article points out that the avoidance in class is a serious phenomenon in the process of college audio-visual English teaching. Af...Based on the current situation of college audio-visual English teaching in China, this article points out that the avoidance in class is a serious phenomenon in the process of college audio-visual English teaching. After further analysis and combination with the characteristics of college English audio-visual teaching in China, it puts forward the application of task-based teaching method to college audio-visual English teaching and its steps, attempting to alleviate the avoidance phenomenon in students through task-based teaching method.展开更多
In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used...In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used in English teaching is not very suitable, and the traditional teaching is very boring and inefficient. The traditional teaching does not give students a real world situation to practice their English speaking and it does not cultivate their learning interests. This phenomenon continued in the students English learning for many years, and students can not use the English to communicate in their daily life. This phenomenon appears in oral English teaching in college schools as well, In order to solve the problems, the paper firstly describes the problem of English spoken teaching in college schools in Chi na. And then it analyzes the performance of problem and the cause of problems. The aim is that we find the problem and deficiency of Eng lish spoken teaching in college schools and use Role play as an effective way to solve these problems. Moreover, how to uses the role play specifically in the spoken English teaching, So that the role play can help teacher change traditional teaching method, enhance students’ oral communication ability, cultivate the students’learning interests and improve spoken English teaching in colleges.展开更多
Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of ...Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of talents are supposed to master academic knowledge of economy and trade as well as the related business knowledge. Moreover, they should have excellent competences of expressing themselves orally in foreign language. English is the popular language that is used in international communication. All English majors in Liuzhou City Vocational College (LCVC) are majoring in Business English. According to some research, one of the weakest abilities of business major is spoken English. Hence, it becomes an important task for teachers to enhance students' spoken English competence on business. This article is talking about this teaching condition and to make some analyzes and put forward some reform suggestions based on the investigation.展开更多
Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differen...Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differences between spoken language and written language in four respects and their influence in English teaching.展开更多
In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative compet...In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative competence proposed by linguist Dwell Hymes and then goes deep to find out 4 ways to apply the ideas to spoken English teaching, namely: strengthening students' linguistic input through comprehensible listening; getting a feel of how English is spoken idiomatically; administering the teaching materials according to students' current linguistic capacity and finally exposing students massively to the target culture. Since this paper is about teaching, the discussion of teacher's role will be dealt with at the last part.展开更多
Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insi...Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insights for the improvement of spoken English teaching in middle schools and discusses the enlightments of Input Hypothesis in middle school spoken English teaching.展开更多
Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses cont...Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses contextual factors in English Language Teaching in the major, and discusses the practices of communicative language teaching which could be adapted to this context, in which learners are undergraduates of International Economics and Trade, then the importance and difficulties of the teaching approach has been highlighted.展开更多
Spoken English teaching is an important part of college English teaching. With the enhancement of emphasis the education level, the importance of spoken English teaching in college teaching is obvious. In the face pro...Spoken English teaching is an important part of college English teaching. With the enhancement of emphasis the education level, the importance of spoken English teaching in college teaching is obvious. In the face problems in spoken English teaching, how to use various means to actively and effectively improve the quality college oral English teaching has become the main task and responsibility of the college English teacher on of of展开更多
With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding ou...With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding out some effective measures to deal with the problems of the current spoken English teaching should be one of the major tasks teachers should pay attention to.展开更多
With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding ou...With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding out some effective measures to deal with the problems of the current spoken English teaching should be one of the major tasks teachers should pay attention to.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the present situation of game teaching method in primary school,to find out the problems in the application of game teaching method and to forward the corresponding solutions.Fr...The purpose of this paper is to analyze the present situation of game teaching method in primary school,to find out the problems in the application of game teaching method and to forward the corresponding solutions.From the current development of English education,it has become a development trend to add games in teaching,Therefore,the paper advocates that English teach⁃ers in primary school use game teaching method to stimulate students’interest in learning spoken English.This thesis consists of three parts.Chapter one is an analysis the concept of game teaching method.Chapter two describes and analysis the problems in spoken English teaching in primary school.The final chapter puts forward some principles and measures to help primary school English teachers to improve students’spoken English ability.展开更多
Spoken English teaching plays a significant role in English teaching.It reflects the students'ability of practical English usage.However,the state of spoken English teaching in the country schools can't make u...Spoken English teaching plays a significant role in English teaching.It reflects the students'ability of practical English usage.However,the state of spoken English teaching in the country schools can't make us content and it falls behind the state of cities.It is urgent to pay attention to this problem and try to find good ways to settle it.Many available approaches in spoken English teaching will be found in this paper.These ideas,perhaps,can stimulate people to think of more creative methods to teach spoken-English and improve the students'ability of practical English usage in country schools.展开更多
Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability o...Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability of speaking. By more practice, the students can speak fluent English and express themselves freely.展开更多
In multimedia environment, many teachers try to use new means and methods to teach listening and of which English movies with great advantages become more and more popular listening material easily accepted by student...In multimedia environment, many teachers try to use new means and methods to teach listening and of which English movies with great advantages become more and more popular listening material easily accepted by students in college English class.展开更多
English is a tool for communication.English teaching aims are to nurture the students’ability to use this language.This ability is mainly reflected by their spoken ability.So the training of spoken-English-Expression...English is a tool for communication.English teaching aims are to nurture the students’ability to use this language.This ability is mainly reflected by their spoken ability.So the training of spoken-English-Expression ability is obviously impor tant.This article discusses spoken English teaching methods from two aspects.The first aspect consists of the students’interest in speaking English out,making good use of the artistic methods to correct students’mistakes and comparing the culture between China and Western countries.The main point in this aspect is reflected on classroom-teaching,it contains using concrete objects to enrich teaching content;using body language to stimulate the students interest.The second aspect is to make the students have the positive attitude towards by establishing a harmonious teacher-student relationship.Spoken-English teaching is of value in the whole English teaching procedure.Through using this methods,the teachers can improve the ability of English expression arouse the students’enthusiasm,in the meanwhile,the teachers can transmit the knowledge to the students in a relaxed atmo sphere.Therefore,it is advantageous to improve students’English ability.展开更多
With the increasing of communicating with the world, spoken English for non-English majors is becoming more and more important. So although therc're problems existing in English classes for teachers to cope with, i t...With the increasing of communicating with the world, spoken English for non-English majors is becoming more and more important. So although therc're problems existing in English classes for teachers to cope with, i think it's necessary and possible to improve our students' speaking ability if only we do spare our efforts and make the most of the classes. Here in this article, I try to discuss the necessity and advantages of improving students' speaking ability, and also suggest approaches of getting our students to start talking, improving their spoken English, and discuss some problems as well.展开更多
In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue a...In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue and improve learners' oral English competence. Based on the theories of language transfer, this thesis mainly focuses on, error analysis and inter-language theory. In recent years, more and more scholars have studied the transfer of mother tongue in the field of College English teaching, and the points are also different. However, there is little research on the influence of mother tongue transfer in non English majors' spoken English. This case study chooses a non-English major student as the research object, and analyzes the causes of errors and linguistic categories in spoken English. The motivation of this student for learning spoken English is to attend graduate oral interview and TOEFL. This subject were asked to attend two oral tests and an interview. Through the anglicizing and investigating of the experimental data, the author finds that the errors in spoken English by the student are mainly affected by the negative transfer and negative cultural transfer of mother tongue. The errors of spoken language transfer are mainly reflected in phonetics, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. This thesis will focus on three aspects: vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. The research results also show that the most difficult problem for non English majors in the course of spoken English is the lack of vocabulary. And so it is difficult to express their ideas in English.展开更多
In order to promote learners’spoken English proficiency,a further understanding of the impact of Confucian tradition,as a historically dominant ethical and philosophical system,on learner anxiety and eventually on le...In order to promote learners’spoken English proficiency,a further understanding of the impact of Confucian tradition,as a historically dominant ethical and philosophical system,on learner anxiety and eventually on learning efficiency in a spoken English class is generated,and a theoretical analysis is conducted,from the perspectives of second language acquisition and intercultural communication.Some Confucian values including self-restraint,propriety observation,paying reverence to teachers and face-keeping principle may increase learner anxiety in oral English class,hindering the development of their spoken English proficiency.Accordingly,a set of teaching strategies to help control culture-related anxiety in spoken English class are systematically presented.展开更多
Definition of termsInputs can be defined as everything which students bring tothe classroom including their prior teaching and learningenvironment,attitude,enthusiasm,motivation,phonologyfrom their first language and ...Definition of termsInputs can be defined as everything which students bring tothe classroom including their prior teaching and learningenvironment,attitude,enthusiasm,motivation,phonologyfrom their first language and varying degrees of confidence.When they arrive in college they are exposed to spoken Englishfrom a range of teachers who have a variety of spoken abilitiesand teaching techniques.展开更多
文摘Based on the current situation of college audio-visual English teaching in China, this article points out that the avoidance in class is a serious phenomenon in the process of college audio-visual English teaching. After further analysis and combination with the characteristics of college English audio-visual teaching in China, it puts forward the application of task-based teaching method to college audio-visual English teaching and its steps, attempting to alleviate the avoidance phenomenon in students through task-based teaching method.
文摘In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used in English teaching is not very suitable, and the traditional teaching is very boring and inefficient. The traditional teaching does not give students a real world situation to practice their English speaking and it does not cultivate their learning interests. This phenomenon continued in the students English learning for many years, and students can not use the English to communicate in their daily life. This phenomenon appears in oral English teaching in college schools as well, In order to solve the problems, the paper firstly describes the problem of English spoken teaching in college schools in Chi na. And then it analyzes the performance of problem and the cause of problems. The aim is that we find the problem and deficiency of Eng lish spoken teaching in college schools and use Role play as an effective way to solve these problems. Moreover, how to uses the role play specifically in the spoken English teaching, So that the role play can help teacher change traditional teaching method, enhance students’ oral communication ability, cultivate the students’learning interests and improve spoken English teaching in colleges.
文摘Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of talents are supposed to master academic knowledge of economy and trade as well as the related business knowledge. Moreover, they should have excellent competences of expressing themselves orally in foreign language. English is the popular language that is used in international communication. All English majors in Liuzhou City Vocational College (LCVC) are majoring in Business English. According to some research, one of the weakest abilities of business major is spoken English. Hence, it becomes an important task for teachers to enhance students' spoken English competence on business. This article is talking about this teaching condition and to make some analyzes and put forward some reform suggestions based on the investigation.
文摘Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differences between spoken language and written language in four respects and their influence in English teaching.
文摘In the activity of English teaching, how to improve students' communicative competence is always deemed as an important factor on which English teaching hinges. This paper starts from the idea of communicative competence proposed by linguist Dwell Hymes and then goes deep to find out 4 ways to apply the ideas to spoken English teaching, namely: strengthening students' linguistic input through comprehensible listening; getting a feel of how English is spoken idiomatically; administering the teaching materials according to students' current linguistic capacity and finally exposing students massively to the target culture. Since this paper is about teaching, the discussion of teacher's role will be dealt with at the last part.
文摘Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insights for the improvement of spoken English teaching in middle schools and discusses the enlightments of Input Hypothesis in middle school spoken English teaching.
文摘Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses contextual factors in English Language Teaching in the major, and discusses the practices of communicative language teaching which could be adapted to this context, in which learners are undergraduates of International Economics and Trade, then the importance and difficulties of the teaching approach has been highlighted.
文摘Spoken English teaching is an important part of college English teaching. With the enhancement of emphasis the education level, the importance of spoken English teaching in college teaching is obvious. In the face problems in spoken English teaching, how to use various means to actively and effectively improve the quality college oral English teaching has become the main task and responsibility of the college English teacher on of of
文摘With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding out some effective measures to deal with the problems of the current spoken English teaching should be one of the major tasks teachers should pay attention to.
文摘With the development of the society, the importance of English has been shown in various aspects of our life, especially in spoken English. Therefore, the burden on English teachers has become heavier . So, finding out some effective measures to deal with the problems of the current spoken English teaching should be one of the major tasks teachers should pay attention to.
文摘The purpose of this paper is to analyze the present situation of game teaching method in primary school,to find out the problems in the application of game teaching method and to forward the corresponding solutions.From the current development of English education,it has become a development trend to add games in teaching,Therefore,the paper advocates that English teach⁃ers in primary school use game teaching method to stimulate students’interest in learning spoken English.This thesis consists of three parts.Chapter one is an analysis the concept of game teaching method.Chapter two describes and analysis the problems in spoken English teaching in primary school.The final chapter puts forward some principles and measures to help primary school English teachers to improve students’spoken English ability.
文摘Spoken English teaching plays a significant role in English teaching.It reflects the students'ability of practical English usage.However,the state of spoken English teaching in the country schools can't make us content and it falls behind the state of cities.It is urgent to pay attention to this problem and try to find good ways to settle it.Many available approaches in spoken English teaching will be found in this paper.These ideas,perhaps,can stimulate people to think of more creative methods to teach spoken-English and improve the students'ability of practical English usage in country schools.
文摘Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability of speaking. By more practice, the students can speak fluent English and express themselves freely.
文摘In multimedia environment, many teachers try to use new means and methods to teach listening and of which English movies with great advantages become more and more popular listening material easily accepted by students in college English class.
文摘English is a tool for communication.English teaching aims are to nurture the students’ability to use this language.This ability is mainly reflected by their spoken ability.So the training of spoken-English-Expression ability is obviously impor tant.This article discusses spoken English teaching methods from two aspects.The first aspect consists of the students’interest in speaking English out,making good use of the artistic methods to correct students’mistakes and comparing the culture between China and Western countries.The main point in this aspect is reflected on classroom-teaching,it contains using concrete objects to enrich teaching content;using body language to stimulate the students interest.The second aspect is to make the students have the positive attitude towards by establishing a harmonious teacher-student relationship.Spoken-English teaching is of value in the whole English teaching procedure.Through using this methods,the teachers can improve the ability of English expression arouse the students’enthusiasm,in the meanwhile,the teachers can transmit the knowledge to the students in a relaxed atmo sphere.Therefore,it is advantageous to improve students’English ability.
文摘With the increasing of communicating with the world, spoken English for non-English majors is becoming more and more important. So although therc're problems existing in English classes for teachers to cope with, i think it's necessary and possible to improve our students' speaking ability if only we do spare our efforts and make the most of the classes. Here in this article, I try to discuss the necessity and advantages of improving students' speaking ability, and also suggest approaches of getting our students to start talking, improving their spoken English, and discuss some problems as well.
文摘In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue and improve learners' oral English competence. Based on the theories of language transfer, this thesis mainly focuses on, error analysis and inter-language theory. In recent years, more and more scholars have studied the transfer of mother tongue in the field of College English teaching, and the points are also different. However, there is little research on the influence of mother tongue transfer in non English majors' spoken English. This case study chooses a non-English major student as the research object, and analyzes the causes of errors and linguistic categories in spoken English. The motivation of this student for learning spoken English is to attend graduate oral interview and TOEFL. This subject were asked to attend two oral tests and an interview. Through the anglicizing and investigating of the experimental data, the author finds that the errors in spoken English by the student are mainly affected by the negative transfer and negative cultural transfer of mother tongue. The errors of spoken language transfer are mainly reflected in phonetics, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. This thesis will focus on three aspects: vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. The research results also show that the most difficult problem for non English majors in the course of spoken English is the lack of vocabulary. And so it is difficult to express their ideas in English.
文摘In order to promote learners’spoken English proficiency,a further understanding of the impact of Confucian tradition,as a historically dominant ethical and philosophical system,on learner anxiety and eventually on learning efficiency in a spoken English class is generated,and a theoretical analysis is conducted,from the perspectives of second language acquisition and intercultural communication.Some Confucian values including self-restraint,propriety observation,paying reverence to teachers and face-keeping principle may increase learner anxiety in oral English class,hindering the development of their spoken English proficiency.Accordingly,a set of teaching strategies to help control culture-related anxiety in spoken English class are systematically presented.
文摘Definition of termsInputs can be defined as everything which students bring tothe classroom including their prior teaching and learningenvironment,attitude,enthusiasm,motivation,phonologyfrom their first language and varying degrees of confidence.When they arrive in college they are exposed to spoken Englishfrom a range of teachers who have a variety of spoken abilitiesand teaching techniques.