析工学结合背景下的英语语言课改革思路

本文探讨了英语语言教育不同于一般理论课程的特殊性,提出任务型语言教学思路可为其改革提供一个较为成熟的课程思路,但必须借鉴工学结合的思想对其师生关系和任务目标和类型进行调整。

基于单元整体教学模式下的英语综合语言实践课的教学探究

综合语言实践课是小学英语课中的重要课型。综合语言实践课需要科学整合各单元的语言知识和语言技能。本文以江苏版牛津英语五上教材中两节综合语言实践课为例,从处理主话题和单元话题关系、优化提升各单元教学目标及合理删补教学内容三方面,进行小学英语综合语言实践课的教学探究。

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.

Error Correction Strategy Use in the Second Language Classroom： A Study of Junior High School English Teachers in Ghana

Error correction, in recent times, is seen as one of the important teaching processes in L2 （second language） learning, because comprehensible inputs alone is insufficient for acquisition of language. However, few L2 teachers know much about error analysis and how to correct errors in the L2 classroom. Error correction is a very complicated and a thorny issue in L2 teaching and learning. L2 teachers, therefore, need to be armed with ways in which errors can be treated to ensure maximum effect yet with less harm to learners. Identifying learners＇ errors is very important in L2 learning, but how to correct them to give the desired effect is equally important and very challenging to L2 teachers. It is therefore crucial to initiate a study in Ghana to find out how errors are corrected in the Ghanaian English language classroom. This case study used complete observation and semi-structured interview as data collection strategies to identify error correction strategies/types English teachers use in the Ghanaian JHS （Junior High School） classroom and how error correction/treatment can be improved to facilitate English language teaching and learning. The findings of the study showed that explicit error correction technique was the most commonly used followed by recast, elicitation, metalinguistic clues, clarification request, repetition, and cues. It was also found that the causes of the disparity in the use of the various error correction types were inadequate teacher preparation, incompetence in English language, limited knowledge in error correction, caliber of students, and insufficient teaching time. This study identified that the situation can be improved through effective teacher training, in-service training, learner involvement, and effective planning.

On the Practice of Pedagogic Corpus Linguistics With Secondary School Iranian English Language Learners

The gap between the theories of second language acquisition and their practice in materials development has been a controversial issue in the field of applied linguistics. Recently, the findings of corpus linguistics have narrowed the gap. However, their practice, especially in the realm of vocabulary acquisition, has encountered pedagogic problems in the classroom because the authentic nature of the words in corpus-based examples was beyond the level of learners＇ comprehension which paves the way for the practice of pedagogic corpus linguistics. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to practice pedagogic corpus linguistics, and mainly data-driven learning, with the first year secondary school English language learners in Iran in terms of their vocabulary acquisition. To do so, 28 students participated in the study. Examples from the British National Corpus for the main words of each unit of their course book, Prospect 1, were presented to them in a course of 16 sessions. Those which were beyond their understanding were eliminated and those comprehensible for them, the pedagogic ones, were selected based on their reports regarding the comprehensibility of each corpus-based example.

The Critical Discourse Analysis of a report on Barack Obama

Critical Discourse Analysis （CDA） is a new method in linguistic analysis. Usually approached from the angles of linguistics, sociology and psychology, CDA aims to uncover through analyzing linguistic forms, the relations between language and ideology. By applying the specific methods of transitivity, transformation, modality and classification in CDA to a report on Barack Obama in The New York Times--a mainstream media in the United States, this paper aims to reveal the ideology hidden in the report, so as to raise the readers＇ awareness of perceiving unconscious ideologies in news and help them to have a deeper understanding of news and the language in news.

On Improving Students＇ Spoken English in Classes

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.

How to Choose Classroom Language in TEFL

In recent years, the choice of the classroom language has been developed. It has been proposed that English as a TL should be used exclusively in order to facilitate the learners＇ progress in English language acquisition. However it is unrealistic and undesirable to expect a generalist elementary school teacher to teach exclusively in English considering some settings which are shown in this paper. The paper concludes that both English and mother tongue can be used as CL.

Design and study of computer aided English learning system

Use the Internet for online learning has become one of the directions of the development of education, the traditional classroom learning, the breakthrough time and geographical constraints, more convenient interaction between teachers and students, learning resources are more abundant, more diverse learning styles, has broad application prospects. System uses B / S mode, the application of Java language, together with the MySQL database, high security and good performance.

Teaching Speech Acts in EFL Classrooms： An Implicit Pedagogy

Language teaching is a combination of teaching syntax, content of language in use, and the social background of that language. As the study of the act in speech, speech acts naturally exist in social and interpersonal discourses. Thus it is of vital importance to let language learners to acquire its concept and principles. This paper is a brief introduction to the theories and approaches on speech acts as well as its application for ELT pedagogy. The paper is made up of three parts. In the first part, former investigations and theories on speech acts would be introduced and discussed. The second part is a discussion on communicative competence in English language teaching. In the third part, two sample tasks of implicit pedagogy for speech acts would be introduced. A conclusion of teaching speech acts implicitly is given out in the fourth part.

Discourse analysis： Analysis of cohesive devices in Russell＇s Views on Life

This paper is on the basis of the systemic functional grammar, which is established by British linguist M. A. K. Halliday. It mainly explores its ideas of cohesive devices and gives the analysis of the short essay Russell＇s Views on Life. By doing this, the author hopes her analysis of the cohesive devices can be helpful and meaningful both to a discourse from different perspectives and also to the language learning.

English Teachers＇ Classroom Verbal Strategy in the Dialogue Teaching

The core of dialogue teaching is dialogue. The dialogue here refers to the way in which the teachers and students based on mutual respect, trust and equal position carry on the two-way communication and mutual learning through conversation and listening. One of the marked differences between dialogue teaching and traditional teaching is that dialogue teaching highlights the essence of the teaching process of communication and cooperation. At the same time dialogue teaching is based on students＇ psychological demand, which makes the teaching full of strong emotion. Using the dialogue teaching as the background, this paper mainly provides the guiding principles and practical advice for the teachers＇ classroom language strategies so as to achieve more effective teaching effect.

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.

Study on the Practice Teaching Quality Guarantee and Monitoring System of English Program in Local Colleges and Universities

In today＇ s society, there are increasingly more new requirements on English education in local colleges and universities, and also there are some problems to be exposed. A great difference exists between the language application ability of learners and the actual conditions of teaching; great investments are put by both schools and teachers into teaching, but the teaching quality is not improved and also the teaching effect is not very ideal; the pass rate and excellent rate of CET4 and CET6 are pursued by many Chinese colleges and universities, and the strategy with an ocean of paper and examination-oriented intensive training methods are even applied, so that the internal rules of language teaching are seriously damaged.

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.

An Autoethnography on Language Ideologies in English Curriculum Development

The paper examines how language ideology in English education affects its curriculum development. By exploring the topic from an autoethnographic perspective, the researcher describes how his transnational learning and teaching experience informed his perception of language ideological changes in English curriculum development. The researcher＇s lived experiences from China to the United States witness how English curriculum develops in an ideological continuum from functional ideology to critical ideology, with cultural ideology and progressive ideology existing between the two extremes. The author then concluded： While language ideology has evolved from stage to stage, due to effects of factors like student acceptance and political ideology, English curriculum in China is still dominated by functional ideology. The paper finally proposes how English language curriculum development should go at the current stage of internationalization.

On the Ecological Evaluation of Iranian Secondary Schools English Language Course Books in Light Intercultural Communicative Competence： Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude

With the spread of English language around the world and its status as an international language, the need for more communication is felt. One pivoting aspect of this communication is the role of culture which can contribute to the success of communication at the global level and the co-construction of identities as individuals from different parts of the world get into interactions. Thus, the role of materials developed for learning English, especially the local ones, in the improvement of individuals＇ intercultural competence is significant. New course books for learning English at Iranian secondary schools entitled Prospect series have been developed recently. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the first and the second books of this series in light of Byram＇s model of Intercultural Communicative Competence （1CC）. Based on this model, ICC consists of three dimensions of attitude, knowledge, skills, and five saviors of knowledge, attitude, discovery, interaction, and critical thinking. To do the evaluation of the course books, the checklist developed based on these five saviors was used to evaluate the tasks for each unit of the books. The evaluation was done separately by each of the researchers in the study and inter-rater reliability showed a high level of Cronbach alpha. The findings indicated that about 90 percent of the activities of Prospect 1 and Prospect 2 lack the skills required for improving English language learners＇ ICC. They mostly focus on Iranian culture which might have been improved via learners＇ first language as well. This might imply the need for the adaptation of Prospect series activities in light of ICC so that Iranian English language learners can take advantage of their communication with the rest of the world.

Research on English Majors＇ Willingness to Communicate Inside Classroom

As a new affective variable in the field of L2 （Second Language） Acquisition, the study of WTC （Willingness to Communicate） has attracted widespread attention since the 1990s, which is not only an effective way to promote language learning but also an important language target itself. Based on the data got from the questionnaire, the present study intends to explore the level, gender difference, correlation with academic .performance, and influencing factors of English majors＇ WTC inside classroom using both quantitative and qualitative research method. The results reveal that English majors＇ WTC inside classroom is comparatively high; there is no significant gender difference in English majors＇ WTC inside classroom, and there is significant positive correlation between WTC inside classroom and academic achievement; furthermore, language capacity, language anxiety, and communicative atmosphere are the main influencing factors

Calibrating English Language Courses with Major International and National EFL Tests via Vocabulary Range

With the purpose of describing levels of English language proficiency expected at each stage in our school＇s Diploma and BA programs, we attempted to compare the level of courses with national standards as embodied in the national TEM4 and TEM8, and with international standards as embodied in international examinations such as Cambridge ESOL, and other descriptions such as the Common European Framework via one quantifiable parameter： vocabulary range. This is justified as vocabulary range offers an approximate but useful guide to the level of a course or a testing system. We hypothesize that the language competence at different levels of our program matches various standard proficiency examinations. Paul Nation＇s Range software was used both in its standard form using his three BASEWRD files and in an adapted form adding the authors＇ own BASEWRD files extrapolated from various levels of our textbook series. This enabled us to compare the vocabulary range of our courses with that of both national and international examinations where word lists are available or recoverable. Research results supported the hypotheses suggested.

Jigsaw Strategy as a Cooperative Learning Technique:Focusing on the Language Learners

拼图式教学法是一种合作学习的技巧。自从此教学法创立以来,研究者和教师们一直在不同层次和不同学科的课堂上以各种各样的方式研究它。然而,本研究不同于以往的研究,其目的在于探索在大学英语课堂上能否成功地运用拼图式教学,将听、读、重复、背诵、复述以及写融为一体(即L+4R+W),完成教学任务。课堂实施拼图式教学实验后,研究者进行了问卷调查,分析了调查结果,并提出相关的看法。在英语作为外语的课堂上实施拼图式教学策略可以使语言学习者成为课堂的中心,使语言学习成为学习者之间相互依赖而不是彼此独立的活动。本研究得出的结论是:拼图式教学策略不仅是英语作为外语的课堂上以语言学习者为中心来完成学习任务的有用技巧,而且是督促学生参与课堂活动、调动学生学习热情的一种有效方式。