English Writing Autonomy and Literacy among Chinese College Students

The purpose of this study is to examine the current situation of English writing autonomy and literacy among Chinese college students,to analyze their performance,scale,and distribution as well as influencing factors,and to explore the correlation between English writing autonomy and literacy.This study will provide an in-depth analysis of the current situation of Chinese college students’English writing autonomy and literacy,reveal the scale,distribution,and influencing factors,as well as put forward strategies to enhance them,so as to provide a reference for the reform and development of college English education.

A Survey Study on TPACK Framework for Normal Students of English Major in Ethnic Colleges and Universities:Empirical Analysis Based on Structural Equation Modeling

With the continuous advancement of education informatization,Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge(TPACK),as a new theoretical framework,provides a novel method for measuring teachers’informatization teaching ability.This study takes normal students of English majors from three ethnic universities as the research object,collects relevant data through questionnaires,and uses structural equation modeling to conduct data analysis and empirical research to investigate the differences in the TPACK levels of these students at different grades and the structural relationships among the elements in the TPACK structure.The technological pedagogical knowledge element of the TPACK structure was not obtained by exploratory factors analysis but through path analysis and structural equation modeling,the results show that the one-dimensional core knowledge of technological knowledge(TK),content knowledge(CK),and pedagogical knowledge(PK)have a positive effect on the two-dimensional interaction knowledge of technological content knowledge(TCK)and pedagogical content knowledge(PCK);furthermore,TCK and PCK have a positive effect on TPACK;and TK,CK,and PK indirectly affect TPACK through TCK and PCK.On this basis,suggestions are provided to ethnic colleges and universities to develop the TPACK knowledge competence of normal students of English majors.

An Investigation of Avoidance of Relative Clauses in the English Writings of High Vocational College Students

This study investigates the avoidance of relative clauses by high vocational college students and also explores the differences in the avoidance of the RCs by high-level students and low-level students in their English writings. The data used in this study have been collected from English writing tasks and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS17.0). The major findings of this study are stated as follows: 1) There are significant differences in the production of the relative clauses in their English writings by Chinese higher vocational college students and English native speakers. Avoidance of relative clauses exists in the English writings of higher vocational college students. 2) High-level Chinese higher vocational college students display less of the avoidance phenomenon in their English writings than low-level students.

How to Stimulate College Students' English Learning Motivation

Motivation to language learning is a complex set of variables including effort, desire to achieve goals, as well as attitudes toward the learning of the language. Individuals' motivation to second-language learning also includes their motivation orientations, interest in the second language, attitudes toward the second-language group, attitudes toward the second-language learning situations and second-language anxiety. Based on the basic theories and approaches, teaching activities are part of motivation in English classes. The teacher of language should have a good influence on students and develop students' keen interest in study in order to strengthen their intrinsic motivation, and set up some new goals for students to pursue and give the feedback to reinforce their inner drive and confidence. Thus, students will become major conductors, make full use of their potentials and enhance their study results.

A Study on Cultivating Top Students in College English Flipped Classroom

Researches on flipped classroom are capturing much attention.This study is conducted among top students with the purpose of confirming the effect of flipped classroom.It found that the flipped classroom does not refer to learning by themselves,even though objects are top students,the teachers are supposed to participate much more in the learning process than they do in the conventional class.It is concluded that top students can benefit a lot from flipped classroom with learning efficiency and interest improved,yet still under the guidance of teachers.Learning motive is not strengthened obviously.Some reflections on teaching are offered afterwards.

The Analysis on the Role of Motivation in College Students’ English Learning

Foreign language teaching is a very complicated process that includes varied factors.Among those factors,the learner's factors are very important.Learner is the main part of a foreign language learning and teaching.In recent years,considerable research has been focused on the study of the foreign language learners,especially on their motivations.Learners'motivation plays a very important role in Chinese college students'English learning.

On Ways of Arousing Professional-College Students' English Interest

Although so many methods have been put forward about arousing students' English interest,college teachers still encounter various difficulties in practical teaching.Based on the practical professional-college English teaching experiences,five more concrete and practical means will be puts forward from a professional-college English teacher's perspective,so as to get the conclusion that teachers should first get good acknowledgement of their students and then apply proper and effective ways to arouse students' English interest.

The Application Study on Genre-based Approach in the English Exposition Writing Teaching for Professional College English Major Students

The previous studies show that the major problems faced by the students in writing can be classified into two categories, that is, they don't know"what to write"and"how to write". The researchers found that the specific problems existing in their writings are identified as poor content, incomplete generic structure and misuse of cohesive devices. Therefore, on the basis of the previous studies, this study attempts to use Martin's genre theory to resolve the existed problems of the Professional College English major's students in writing and enhance students' discourse writing ability. Meanwhile, this study tries to answer the following questions:(1) Compared with the traditional writing teaching methods, whether the genre-based writing method has a significant effect to improve students' writing skills;(2) Whether the genre-based writing method is possible to increase students' interest in writing. The experimental result and the questionnaire show that genre-based approach in ESL writing teaching really can improve students' writing achievement and enhance students' interest in English writing.

Linguistic Insights into the Teaching of English Composition to Chinese College Students

How does one teach composition to Chinese college students of English? How does one teach thera to discover ideas for themselves and to put these into English patterns of thought and organization? Can the discovery of ideas really be taught? Is there a method of teaching whereby the scientific process of writing can be cornbined with the creative art of composition?

An Analysis of College Students＇ Autonomous English Learning Ability under the Network Environment

Referring to the questionnaire survey and literature materials, this paper describes the current situation of college students＇ insufficient autonomous English learning ability and thefactors that influence this ability; it also suggests feasible suggestions under the network environment. Students （N= 178） from different grades, majors, universities and areas responded to a questionnaire survey, and the collected data were analyzed. The results indicate that complex external environment and insufficient internal subject cognition influence college students＇ autonomous English learning ability. Finally, this paper suggests that a good network environment is necessary for autonomous learners to enhance insufficient autonomous English learning ability and interaction, continuous thinking and cultural introduction are also indispensable to develop this ability.

The Current Situation of Chinese College Students' English Pronunciation

Nowadays, we can find the expression"dumb English"in newspapers and websites. The phrase exposes a situation that many Chinese college students, who earn high scores in English proficiency tests, such as CET-4, cannot speak fluent English. When they started to work after graduation, they cannot perform effective communication with foreigners verbally in many occasions. This paper aims to illustrate the current situation of Chinese college students' English pronunciation and analyze it in detail.

Understanding the PAD-Based Class Acceptance among Modern Chinese College Students’English Learning

This paper gives an understanding of PAD-based class acceptance among modern Chinese college students’English learning.It first introduces the brief definition of what the PAD-based class is,as well as the situation of English language learning in present China,especially the learning amongst Chinese college students.And then it focuses on the acceptance of the PADbased class in the English learning of Chinese college students,including the breakthrough of the traditional Chinese classroom teaching mode and the innovation of the PAD-based class among Chinese college students’English learning.

The Formation of Ideal Interactions Between Teachers and Students in the College English Teaching

Ideal interactions between teachers and students are indispensible for the improvement of the College English teaching.Therefore,this paper tries to find out some effective measures to establish ideal interactions between teachers and students in College English teaching based on the analysis of the status-quo of the interactions between teachers and students and the emphasis of the necessity of ideal interactions between teachers and students,hoping it can be beneficial to promoting the College English teaching.

Factor Analysis on Oral English Conversational Competence of College Students

Oral English is always a difficult part for Chinese students,some can speak several sentences while not clearly know others’saying;others can understand the speakers’words while not express their own meaning fluently.This paper will focus on what factors influences the college students’spoken English by the specific experiment and SPSS app,whose data shows four ones,namely Language Monitor,Meaning Negotiation,Turn Taking and Empathetic Exchange.Thus,the paper takes conclusions and poses some suggestions to oral English teaching according to the affecting causes.It is expecting to help improve the ability of the oral English Conversation for Chinese College students.

A Study on the Application of PBL on SPOC—Taking College English Courses for Hearing-Impaired Students for Example

Project-Based-Learning(PBL)is“teacher-led,student-centered and project-supported”.By completing projects students can learn knowledge,acquire skills,and cultivate abilities.PBL is not only applicable to specialized courses for hearing-impaired students,but also to college English courses for hearing-impaired students.SPOC can“flip”the traditional classes and increase the capacity of college English courses.Taking college English courses for hearing-impaired students as an example,this paper studies the application of PBL on SPOC(Small Private Online Course).It is proved that this model can not only greatly reduce teachers’pressure of limited class time,improve the teaching efficiency,but also can stimulate students’interest to learn and undoubtedly achieve better learning effects.

A Preliminary Study of Vocational College Students＇ English Idioms＇ Learning Through Translation

To learn English idioms well is not easy for native speakers, let alone ESL/EFL learners, which is because the meanings of idiomatic expressions cannot be determined through an analysis of their individual word meanings. However, the frequency of figurative languages is very common in English world. So, it is necessary for us to have such knowledge of English idioms in English study. Based on literature review, few studies focused their attention on examining vocational colleges EFL problems in English idioms. Moreover, fewer studies provided quantitative data to demonstrate the problems. Understanding the original texts in one language is the key to accurate translation of another language. Translation may be a good way to examine whether students understand English idioms. Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate vocational college students＇ understanding level of English idioms through their translation in order to find how difficult English idioms are for them. Participants were 36 sophomore students who study at Jiaxing Vocational and Technical College. Student＇s total errors of Chinese translations could be found through the coding as well as the total accurate number of Chinese translations. The findings suggest these students＇ understanding level of English idioms is not high. It is further supported by the fact that English idioms are difficult and not translated easily from one language to another language.

A Study of Interlanguage Fossilization in College Students' English writing

English writing is the college students’synthetical application about the knowledge of English.English writing,however,is the weak segment of the college students'English learning all the time.Based on the researches home and abroad,the paper makes an implicational study on interlanguage fossilization in English writing of Chinese college students.Though probing the causes of fossilization in English writing,the paper proposes some measures to reduce the fossilization.In the chapter one,the paper introduces simply the interlanguage fossilization.In the chapter two,the paper analyzes college students English writing and get the causal factors of fossilization:unfavorite learning motivation of students,ineffective feedback to errors,interference of the mother tongue.Then,at the last chapter,the paper put up some measures to overcome and avoid the fossilization in college students'English writing:promoting students'motivation,providing right feedback,avoiding mother tongue interference.

A Quantitative Study of the First-Year Non-English Major College Students' Motivation in Learning English

There are many factors that may affect language learners in acquiring a foreign or second language; motivation is one that cannot be neglected. This paper aims to find out the motivational variables which college students may have in learning English as a second language.