《大学英语》课堂成为高校思政教育阵地的可行性研究

全球化的经济、多元化的文化和信息化的网络,使当代大学生的思想意识比以往任何时候都活跃多变、难以捕捉,这给高校思政教育带来前所未有的冲击与挑战。因此,充分利用《大学英语》课堂开展思想教育,依托教材,充分发挥《大学英语》课程持续时间长、课时占比大、实用性和趣味性强的优势,有利于摆脱思政教育当下的窘困局面。

English newspapers and magazines and the teaching of College English

Reading English newspapers and magazines is an effective way to help the students get the latest information worldwide and improve English levels. The present article first analyzes the features of the English newspapers and magazines and then proposes making good use of them through such classroom activities as discussing the hot issue and role-playing to provide more authentic situations in which the students can have chances to practice four English skills, achieving the ideal teaching result.

On methods of ＂dual-way enjoyable teaching＂ of College English

English teaching in big classes, for Chinese college students, is the main channel to learn and practice English. In the process of a successful classroom teaching, students and teachers are required to cooperate with each other and mutually complete teaching activities in an enjoyable and harmonious atmosphere. This paper analyzes the current situation of College English teaching in China, and discusses the application of the methodology of ＂dual-way enjoyable teaching＂ in big classes, indicating that the classroom activities should be designed to enliven the class atmosphere, which is also the effective way to realize the aim of enjoyable teaching and enjoyable learning.

Team management in college English classroom teaching

With the rapid development and furthering of higher education, most Chinese colleges have carried out large-scale enrollment program, which is a necessary improvement toward higher education reform. Meanwhile, the increasing number of students has posed new problems and requirements for the old teaching method： the English teachers are facing more students and larger classes. In Zhejiang University, City College （ZUCC） the credit system and course selection has challenged the English teachers on a higher level. Every English teacher is facing classes of more than 40 students from various departments with sharp contrast among individual students in their English proficiency level and local background. How can every student actively participate in teaching activity so as to achieve better performance in English class？ Many teachers, therefore, have adopted team activity and cooperative teaching method to stimulate student participation in class. Inspired by the management theory to optimize student groups into independent teams, the concept of team construction and team management has been introduced into College English Teaching in ZUCC, which has given new meaning to team activity--it will become an interdisciplinary teaching method with its own feature.

Discussion of college English classroom interaction under the multimedia environment

This paper mainly takes the influence that the reform of university English teaching brings to the university English as a moment to study the college English classroom interaction problems under the multimedia environment, this paper mainly discusses types and features of the interaction, analyse the current situation of classroom interaction, so as to make suggestions for the teaching of college English classroom interaction.

How to Improve Spoken English Teaching in College English Class

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

On the Politeness in College English Teachers＇ Classroom Talk

Teachers＇ talk is an important aspect for conducting college English class effectively. It plays crucial roles in giving instructions, organizing classroom norm, and facilitating students＇ language acquisition. Based on Leech＇s Politeness Principle, this paper has analyzed the politeness in teachers＇ classroom talk and explored the functions it possesses as well. The study shows that the politeness feature of college English teachers＇ classroom talk is the consequences of observing each maxim of the Politeness Principle and is of the functions such as making effective cornmnication, keeping friendly relations with students, saving students＇ face, etc.. Conducting research on politeness in teachers＇ talk is conducive to understanding the process of language teaching and learning.

The Strengths and Weaknesses of Mini-Class Model for Chinese College Students

When it comes to the practical use of English, the traditional college English class, which has big size and uses lecture-style teaching, has increasingly showed its disadvantages. The English Department of Harbin Engineering University has initiated a mini-class model in recent years, which has received positive responses from both teachers and students who have experienced the class. By comparing the lecture-style class with mini-class, this paper will introduce the strengths and weaknesses of mini-class according to the author＇s observation of the class as well as the feedbacks from teachers and students. As is found out, its strengths far outweigh its weaknesses, and therefore the model is highly recommended for college English class in other schools

Cultivation of Critical Thinking Skills in College English Classrooms

This paper is a qualitative study of the cultivation of critical thinking skill in college English classrooms in China. Critical thinking has long been recognized as an important part of the curricular framework in education western countries. However, the instruction of critical thinking has not gained prominence in Chinese universities. The author does research on how to foster students＇ critical thinking skills in the college English classrooms, and proposes some methods and techniques to facilitate the skills： change teachers＇ concept of language teaching, create a flexible atmosphere in the classrooms, teach students how to raise questions, and teach them to express logically.

The Practice of ＂Flipped classroom＂ in the Reading and Writing Course of College English

The reform of college English should focus on the ways to improve the practicing ability. This ability should be based on the improvement of students, which is the fundamental aim of reform on the college English. In order to cope with this problem, ＂flipped classroom＂has many advantages. By Giving definitions to the ＂flipped classroom＂, this dissertation analyzed the differences between the regular class and the ＂flipped classroom＂ and carried out a new way to improve the reading and writing course： we can take advantage of multimedia and new internet technology.

Analysis of the application of a happy leaming method in college English classroom teaching

Emotional teaching is an important part of language teaching. In the teaching activities, teachers should exploit and make full use of students＇ emotional factors to arouse their learning interest and motivation and therefore to improve students＇ English level. The author proposes a teaching concept of happy learning method in college English classroom teaching according to their own teaching practice, the concrete implementation measures of happy learning method include： encourage students to take the group cooperative learning method, establish good emotional communication relations between teachers and encourage students to correct each other by inquiry discussion and so on.

The Flip Mode of Preliminary Mooc Based College English Classroom

This study was based on self-report of a MOOC school-based college English classroom teaching practice flip. Firstly, it is based on the analysis of the typical characteristics of MOOC leveraging MOOC college English courses on the basis of the next report on the concrete practice of school-based college English MOOC construction and flipped classroom teaching. Quantitative and qualitative data on learner feedback in the survey analysis shows that based MOOC flip mode is suitable for classroom teaching college English teaching, MOOC and flipped classroom have been highly recognized by students, which gives full play to both collaborative IT and foreign language teaching the depth of integration of blended learning potential.

A Study of ESP Teaching In the Era of MOOCs

This paper makes a detailed analysis of Course Schedules （2013-2014） of College English in four universities of C9 League, which reveals that ESP courses are much less than EGP courses, even in the top universities in our country, and that the implementation of ESP teaching is hindered for many reasons. Therefore, based on the rapid development of MOOC and the one-size-fits-one guideline of college English teaching, the preferences of ESPMOOC have been illustrated, and the framework to practice trinity ESP teaching mode has been explicitly depicted. The mode refers to the combination of traditional classroom teaching, flipped teaching on aid of MOOC, and autonomous MOOC learning under the condition that ESP teaching group is elaborately set up and 2-band ESP teaching is preferably promoted.

The Construction of a PPT-Based College English Class in Multimodal Background

This paper starts from other scholars＇ studies of multimodality and multimodal discourse and discusses PPT--PowerPoint, as a pragmatic and effective means in teaching English to non-English major students. By using multiple modalities of language, pictures, sound; and videos together with the facilities of slide-projector and computer, the multimodal background provides top teaching auxiliary for teachers employing PPT to achieve most desirable effects in real class. This paper discusses the feasibility and effectiveness of PPT as teaching materials and PPT-based class construction in order to show examples to other English teachers how to conduct English teaching and promote students to take more interests in English learning. The writer gets to the conclusion that PPT, as a multimodal measure in teaching, can help the students to learn English more effectively and teachers to achieve better quality in lectures.

Construction and Implementation of Practice Teaching System of English Major in Local Normal Universities

English practice teaching has outstanding superiority over the extension and supplementation of English classroom teaching, and practice teaching is an indispensably important part of college English teaching. To students, cultivation of the ability of practice is vital, affecting students＇ employment and future. To universities, teaching quality has a direct impact on the development prospect of schools and decides the future of schools. Moreover, local normal universities also undertake a more important task to cultivate local high-quality talents teaching primary and junior high schools. These teaching talents undertake the great task of English teaching over primary and junior high school students, and thus the construction and implementation of practice teaching system of English major in normal universities are urgent.

On the application of motivational strategies in public English class in college

With the development of society and economy, English gradually becomes a worldwide language. However, due to various kinds of reasons and restrictions, many problems still exist in present English language teaching in public English classes. This paper focuses on the application and effect of some useful motivational strategies in English classroom, such as making use of affective factors, developing good classroom atmosphere, and becoming an efficient manager. The researcher hopes that this contribution can offer some valuable guidelines to English teachers. Therefore, the existing problems can be solved gradually.

Research on the Problems and Strategies of the Communication Activity among Students in College English Teaching

At present, some problems are gradually appearing in college English class teaching, such as, communication activity among students, reflection of individual＇s advantage, the transition of study main body, etc. The article mainly studies the problem of communication activity among students with questionnaire method, and puts forward some strategies.

Research on the Development of Linguistics and the Linkage Effect with the College English

In this paper, we conduct research on the on the development of linguistics and the linkage effect with the college English. It is imperative to strengthen the construction of teachers themselves. Teacher’s is the student learns English in classroom instruction functions the premise guarantee. The students welcome these knowledge broad teaching experience to be rich, and the teaching method nimble diverse specialized level is high that causes the classroom atmosphere to be active that can transfer the student to study the teacher who the enthusiasm. The system function linguistics attention language social aspect, takes the language the application question, and the emphasis language user’s sociality and the language functionality. The system function grammar including the system grammar and function grammar two parts that is one kind has the sociological tendency linguistics processing method. Under this basis, this paper proposes the new idea on the linguistics and the linkage effect with the college English. The novel perspective will help construct the efficient classrooms.

On Empirical Research of College English Class Learning Environment Preference in Private Colleges

Nowadays, Classroom environment is the main part for English teaching activities. The favorable environment in classroom can greatly influence the students＇ learning efficiency.Through a field study and analysis on the factors influencing English class in private colleges, this discourse intends to figure out the factors that influence the English learning class environment, and then find out some problems, fmally give some efficient solutions to them.

A Study of the Flipped-Classroom Model in Teaching Practical English Writing

Based on the output-driven input-enabled hypothesis, we proposed an instructional design model for a preliminary research of the flipped classroom in teaching practical English writing. During the research, we made two questionnaires, which revealed that most students preferred and benefited from this new pedagogy. Based on the research, the author discusses the characteristics of the flipped-classroom pedagogy for teaching ESP as well as such basic ESP instructional principles as mulflmodality, interacfivity, practicability and leamer-centeredness. The flipped-classroom teaching mode is expected to supply valuable insights to College English teaching reforms in China.