说课文练英语——体校英语教学法新探

“说课文练英语”的方法，是指在理解和熟读一篇英语课文的基础上，让学生看着准确的汉语译文说出原来的英语课文，而不是在学完一篇课文后要求学生把原文机械地背诵出来。主要介绍和论述了这个方法对于体校学生的可行性和有效性。

导练型英语网络写作教学

导练型英语网络写作教学是网络技术与作文教学的整合,是在现代教育思想指导下一种全新的教学模式,是对传统写作教学模式的重要补充,构建了网络环境下英语网络写作教学的导练模式,从理论基础、操作程序、实现条件等方面为导练模式构建提供了依据。

高中英语书面表达讲练的现状与改进措施分析

英语是高中学生必学的学科之一。通过对高中英语的深入分析可知,书面表达为英语教学中不可忽视的一部分,书面表达的正确性与整齐性对英语最终成绩有着直接影响。基于此,英语书面表达讲练随之显得尤为重要。然而,通过教学具体情况我们可知,英语书面表达讲练现状并不理想,对此,采取措施改善,提高书面表达效率极为迫切。

“学、导、练”模式在高中英语教学中的运用

提高课堂效率是迎对“五严”政策的必要举措,也是英语教学改革的必然趋势。本研究主要结合本校实施的“学、导、练” 课堂教学模式即而进行的一项小范围研究。通过实验研究,收到了良好效果。

Beyond Parroting:Using English Fun Dubbing to Improve English Oral Performance

The present paper is a response to the current problematic situation of oral English teaching at the tertiary level in China and the increasing popularity of web-based mobile oral English learning in oral English classes.Our paper focuses on the use of mobile-phone-based educational software known as“English Fun Dubbing”(EFD)and its advantages in terms of teaching and learning phonetics and oral English in the college classroom.The starting point was a needs analysis which revealed the lack of practice regarding English speaking.In this study,an action research method was adopted,involving 40 second-year students,who employed“classroom teaching+English Fun Dubbing”model as the intervention.Extensive examples from this model were used to build up a picture of the blended learning processes at work.Several imitation tasks,a conversational activity and a speech-delivering task were designed and implemented.Direct observation and the results of the questionnaire survey provided the evidence of the improvement in the students’oral performance.It is our aim to develop the present project to incorporate oral proficiency.The main results of this action research were reflected in the adjustments in the pedagogical treatment,the changes in the role of the teacher and the student,and the shifts in the students’attitudes towards their learning process.

Analysis of Training and Application of College English translation capabilities

The University English translation requirements focus on improving students ＇ ability to translate and apply to all areas of the English translation, the article proposes how to improve students＇ English translation capability, and expounded in English translation in business activities in the correct application.

Innovation and development about dual process control of English writing training

This text combined actual teaching to conduct the discussion on how to innovate a pair of course to control the writing to train, explain the understanding of teaching method of pair of course of this text, summarize the concrete method from 7 respects, expect to exchange in launching a pair of course and controlling the concrete operation that the writing trains with everybody, share the teaching experience and realize, by improving and upgrading the teaching level of writing of English. This text thinks that it reflects that innovative thinking is in teaching to innovate and experience the course, the activity course of teaching should not understand analyzing the content of the teaching material and proposition composition are practised, but run through its cognition in experiencing the course dynamically in the real classroom, course, experience, interdynamic, teachers and students participate in teaching new idea and spiritual essence of study together.

Language Transfer in Chinese EFL Writing

Language transfer has been a key issue in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and language teaching for at least a century. Within the last few decades, however, its importance has been reassessed several times. The paper focuses on the phenomena of language transfer in Chinese EFL writing, expecting to provide implications for Chinese English learners and teachers.

What do student writers benefit from pre-writing discussions？

Given that speaking plays a fundamental role in writing, this paper reports on a one-year program of the training of student writers. This training program consists of three parts： a pre-training investigation over learners＇ needs and expectations, various forms of the pre-writing discussions over different stages of the program, and a post-training investigation to get the feedback from the learners.

IPA Cardinal Vowels and the English Pronunciation Teaching in China

In pronunciation teaching, learners may have difficulty when there is a ＂gap＂ in the phonemic system between L1 （the first or native language） and L2 （the second or foreign language）. In such a case, they tend to use their native language sounds in speaking the foreign language. Since some Chinese and English vowel sounds are easy to be confused, applying IPA cardinal vowels in the teaching of English pronunciation will help Chinese learners identify the difference between an English vowel sound and a Chinese vowel sound and thus enables them to make intelligible English speech sounds.

Practical use of task design in oral English teaching： Focus on task types

The implication of Task-Based Language Teaching （TBLT） in oral English teaching continues to draw attention of language teachers and researchers. This paper will survey issues at the core of TBLT, with particular emphasis on the six task types in Jane Willis＇ theory. Following a brief introduction of TBLT, the six types of task will be reviewed and its practical use in oral English teaching will be explored. Finally, the paper will point out some problems in TBLT, mainly focus on task and its design.

The Effects of Web-Based Listening Strategy Training on Thai High School EFL Students＇ Listening Comprehension

This study investigated the effects of a CLSTS （Computer-Assisted Listening Strategy Training Software） program on the development of students＇ ability to use four target listening strategies to enhance their listening comprehension. This study covered an experimental group and a control group. The participants were Grade 10 Thai EFL （English as a Foreign Language） students in a Thai high school in Bangkok, Thailand. Experimental group performance was compared to that of a control group on the five research instruments. Regarding the effect of the CLSTS on the students＇ ability to use the target listening strategies to enhance their listening comprehension, it was found that the CLSTS was significantly effective. The results that made CLSTS effective were categorized into six main aspects.

Teaching Listening

In many settings, listening is the most used language skill and also the channel through which students get much of their language input. Development of listening skills should thus be given the same attention as development of other skills.

Listening-based tasks in TOEFL training

There has been an increasing number of Chinese students studying in the international program of cooperative schools. They gain more chances of learning diverse cultures at the program, meanwhile they must meet the minimum requirement, taking part in TOEFL IBT and reaching a certain level. Therefore, how to prepare for the TOEFL IBT is the most important task for the students pursuing their further study. This article mainly focuses on the features ofTOEFL IBT and the strategies of learning it.

Experiencing Business English in Community-Based Projects

With more emphasis on the communicative and pragmatic function of Business English learning, the author discusses a case study of a Business English course based on projects conducted by the students in their community This curriculum aims at students experiencing and implementing their knowledge of Business and English in the real business environments, engaging community in the process, and avoiding isolation and separation of business English teaching and learning from communities. The research lays more importance on the students＇ experiencing and participating process by providing them with a series of guidelines as reference and assessment, but meanwhile the students have their freedom of choices and decision-making in many aspects. Integrative skills are practiced including linguistic skills, business-related skills, communicative skills, and technology-related skills. Specifically, the students are required to conduct a mini market research in their community. The topic of the research is negotiated, classified, and grouped in the entire class until each individual student belongs to a group. The project procedure and requirements are given to the students on weekly basis, including field of research, questionnaire, data collection and analysis, report, and the final group presentation. Based on their experience from the research, the students write down their reflections. Based on the observation of the instructor and students＇ feedback, the research found that students＇ expectations and teacher＇s roles varied in a number of aspects. A variety of knowledge and skills have been practiced. Problems have also been found in each step of the project.

Cross-lingual implicit discourse relation recognition with co-training

A lack of labeled corpora obstructs the research progress on implicit discourse relation recognition （DRR） for Chinese, while there are some available discourse corpora in other languages, such as English. In this paper, we propose a cross-lingual implicit DRR framework that exploits an available English corpus for the Chinese DRR task. We use machine translation to generate Chinese instances from a labeled English discourse corpus. In this way, each instance has two independent views： Chinese and English views. Then we train two classifiers in Chinese and English in a co-training way, which exploits unlabeled Chinese data to implement better implicit DRR for Chinese. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.