On the Application of Cognitive Strategy in College English Listening Comprehension——With International Talents Training as the Goal

This paper, with the training of the international talents possessing remarkable English listening and speaking ability,mainly discusses the specific application of the cognitive strategy in different stages of college English listening comprehension.It is expected that the paper can bring some useful enlightenments on the international talents training.

Anderson's Cognitive Theory and Learning Strategy Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Second language acquisition can not be understood without addressing the interaction between language and cognition. Cognitive theory can extend to describe learning strategies as complex cognitive skills. Theoretical developments in Anderson’s production systems cover a broader range of behavior than other theories, including comprehension and production of oral and written texts as well as comprehension, problem solving, and verbal learning.Thus Anderson’s cognitive theory can be served as a rationale for learning strategy studies in second language acquisition.

Research of Spoken Language Learning Strategy in the Second Language Communication Process

Spoken language learning strategy study is everlasting and often fresh topic, which can come to different conclusions from different point of views. This paper focuses on the second language communication process, trying to find out the possible spoken language phenomenon and the corresponding spoken language learning strategies. At the same time, the factors influencing the learners＇ adoption of spoken language learning strategy as well as the hints for teaching spoken language in class are hopefully to be summarized.

The Effect of Learning Strategies on Reading Comprehension

Learning strategies are usually regarded as one of the aspects of the cognitive psychology and reading is a cognitive process in which the reader engages in a conversation with the text or the author. Then is there any relationship between learning strategies and reading comprehension？ To explore this, an experimental study is conducted in this paper. The conclusion is thereafter reached that reading comprehension is closely related to and greatly affected by learning strategies, especially cognitive and metacognitive strategies.

Critical analysis of current lexical presentation and pedagogic considerations

It is doubtless that vocabulary acquisition plays a crucial role in using a foreign language. When vocabulary gets the attention it deserves, that is, when students acquire explicit vocabulary through deep processing and re-encountering, they should also be aware that vocabulary acquisition is a task that involves various cognitive strategies. In this paper, some typical disadvantages of current word teaching are mainly analyzed, and suggestions for more efficient lexical oresentation are provided.

Intelligent Interfaces: Pedagogical Agents and Virtual Humans

Little by little, we are entering the new era, intelligent interfaces are absorbing us more and more every day, and artificial intelligence makes its presence in a stealthy way. Virtual humans that represent an evolution of autonomous virtual agents;they are computer programs and in the future capable of carrying out different activities in certain environments. They will give the illusion of being human;they will have a body, and they will be immersed in an environment. They will have a set of senses that will allow them: 1) Sensations and therefore associated expressions;2) Communication;3) Learning;4) Remembering events, among others. By integrating the above, they will have a personality and autonomy, so they will be able to plan with respect to objectives;allowing them to decide and take actions with their body, in other words, they will count on awareness. The applications will be focused on environments that they will inhabit, or as interfaces that will interact with other systems. The application domains will be multiple;one of them being education. This article shows the design of OANNA like an avatar with the role of pedagogical agent. It was modeled as an affective-cognitive structure related to the teaching-learning process linked to a pedagogical agent that represents the interface of an artilect. OANNA, has the necessary animations for intervention within the teaching-learning process.

Lower Intermediate Readers and Their Use of Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies

Despite much research done on strategy, there still exist several questions unanswered. Not much research is done to examine lower intermediate English as a Foreign Language （EFL） learners＇ performance on the reading section of the First Certificate of English exam （FCER） in the post strategy instruction period. The results indicate that learners vary not only in terms of their performance on the FCER, hut also on the employed metacognitive strategy. Furthermore, metacognitive strategies are the only predictors that positively predict learners＇ performance in the FCER.

Perspectives for Teaching Reading in a College English Classroom

English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and serves as a language of wider communication but also achieved a genuinely global status owing to its special role recognized in every country. Under such circumstances, greater importance has been attached to English teaching of which reading has been given some privileges at the tertiary level in China. Hence, it is very essential for language teachers to have a good understanding about how to teach reading in a college English classroom. This article discusses what reading is, the important issues in teaching reading, and gives some proposals for how to teach reading efficiently in a college English classroom, aiming to give an idea that reading can be learnt effectively if students are motivated, exposed to English language and given chances to use English.

How to Teach Vocabulary in a Communicative Classroom

In this paper, the author demonstrates that among a host of methods and approaches, Communicative Language Teaching （CLT） is most effective in teaching lexical part of the language system. And how to teach vocabulary in a communicative classroom effectively is well illustrated.

French Listening Strategies Used by Postgraduates of English Majors

The author intends to find out a set of French listening strategies used by postgraduates of English majors. Questionnaire is used in this research. It is designed according to a listening strategy study done by O'Malley and Chamot. After analyzing the data, a set of French listening strategies is worked out, as well as two orders concerning the strategies used: order of using frequency, order of importance.

A Study on English Vocabulary Learning Strategies for High School Students——A Case Study of a High School in Chaozhou

For the language learners,especially the high school students in China with heavy learning pressure,learning some useful vo-cabulary strategies would be helpful for them to master the basic elements.The study aims to do a questionnaire on the English vocabulary learning strategies for high school students in Chaozhou and figure outwhat the general conditions of using vocabulary strategies for high school students in a high school are.The study showed most students did not use mechanical memory strategy in a high frequency in learning vocabulary.Secondly,it was anunexpected result that high school students used cognitive strategies more than metacognitive strategies,which was totally different fromprevious research by other scholars.In light of the results,some practical suggestions on teachers and students are proposed.

THE IMPACT OF STRATEGY TRAINING ON READING COMPREHENSION

This thesis reports the impact of strategies-based instruction on reading comprehension. In the study, 76 intermediate EFL students of non-English major were either participants in a strategies-based instruction treatment or were comparison students receiving regular language course. Both groups filled out a pre-treatment learning strategy questionnaire and then performed a pre-test and a post-test. The data looked for links between strategy training and reading proficiency. The findings indicated significant improvements in students' reading comprehension as a result of the strategies-based instruction program. Another finding was that the strategy intervention had an effect on the improvement of students' ability to understand main ideas and make inferences from given passages.

AN INVESTIGATION INTO VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY NON-ENGLISH MAJORS

Based on the relevant theories from both cognitive psychology and linguistics: the information-processing model, the depth-of-processing hypothesis and definition and types of vocabulary knowledge, the author made an investigation into vocabulary learning strategies used by non-English majors at North-West Minorities University. The statistical results showed that rote-learning strategies were most commonly used by the students, while most metacognitive strategies and context-oriented cognitive strategies were seldom used.

TEACHING EFFICIENT READING IN A COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOM

English, has not only become the international language as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and severs as a language of wider communication but also has achieved a genuinely global status owing to its special role recognized in every country. Under such circumstances, greater importance has been attached to English teaching of which reading has been given some privileges at the tertiary level in China.Hence, it is very essential for language teachers to have a good understanding about how to teach reading in a College English classroom.This article discusses what reading is, the important issues in teaching reading and gives some proposals for how to teach reading efficiently in a College English classroom, aiming to give an idea that reading can be learnt effectively if students are motivated,exposed to English language and given chances to use English.