The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on ...The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on the relevant oral English autonomous learning ability of English majors shows that the overall learning situation is not satisfying.Based on the development of the concept of autonomous learning,this article explores the current situation and existing problems in oral English autonomous learning of English majors under the context of the Internet,and proposes corresponding autonomous learning strategies for improving their oral English skill.展开更多
By analyzing the data,this paper finds the current interest status of the English majors for English learning,and the major factors which affect students' interest in learning English.The relationship between the ...By analyzing the data,this paper finds the current interest status of the English majors for English learning,and the major factors which affect students' interest in learning English.The relationship between the learning interest of the students and the teaching methods of the teacher are also the major points.展开更多
The Syllabus for English Majors at Universities and Colleges(2000) makes it clear to further strengthen the English majors' critical thinking and logical reasoning ability.But how to effectively incorporate the cu...The Syllabus for English Majors at Universities and Colleges(2000) makes it clear to further strengthen the English majors' critical thinking and logical reasoning ability.But how to effectively incorporate the cultivation of critical thinking skills into English majors' core courses,such as the writing courses,remains one of the most important tasks of teaching reform for English majors.The present study is aimed at having a systematic analysis on the causal reasoning deficiencies in English majors' argumentative writing.Furthermore,the reasons resulting in the causal reasoning deficiencies and the implications for the teaching of second language writing are explored.展开更多
In this semester, through an experience of teaching advanced writing for English majors, I have got all-around observation of the process of learning English writing in third year English majors. The problems of vague...In this semester, through an experience of teaching advanced writing for English majors, I have got all-around observation of the process of learning English writing in third year English majors. The problems of vague and general content and absent critical thinking ability in their writings have been found, and the practical teaching methods and practices have been adopted to help them to write substantively. In this paper, absent critical thinking ability in students' writing, the phenomena of the problem have been analyzed, the reasons of the absence have been summarized, and the better solutions have been discussed.展开更多
Foreign language education should integrate cultural teaching into the training of linguistic skills. Values, as the core of culture and moral education, should be paid enough attention to. During the study process of...Foreign language education should integrate cultural teaching into the training of linguistic skills. Values, as the core of culture and moral education, should be paid enough attention to. During the study process of Chinese university English majors, they inevitably encounter enormous information of Western cultures and values, and their own values may come into conflict with the ones they meet. So the English teachers have the responsibility to help the students construct correct values. Such principles as cultivating critical thinking, offering the course of Chinese culture and using group discussions and activities should be followed during instruction to facilitate the value cultivation among English majors展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of grammar teaching for the students of English majors in China and to provide an integrated teaching method for the teachers of English in China and colleagues in s...The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of grammar teaching for the students of English majors in China and to provide an integrated teaching method for the teachers of English in China and colleagues in similar situations outside of China, through the analysis of the nature and role of grammar, of the importance of form depending upon the students' and instructional variables, and of using texts communicatively, in English teaching.展开更多
In recent years, liberal education has been a focus of English majors' education in China. Although it was wished and emphasized, there are many problems and difficulties when liberal education is asked to be achieve...In recent years, liberal education has been a focus of English majors' education in China. Although it was wished and emphasized, there are many problems and difficulties when liberal education is asked to be achieved in the real sense. English majors' liberal education is yet at its primary stage. An analysis of the existing problems is made on the basis of the situation and characteristics of current English majors' education展开更多
The way of English teaching for English majors is a process of change.The paper aims at providing some basic ways of how to do the job efficiently and how to carry out a reform on the basis of scientific research.The ...The way of English teaching for English majors is a process of change.The paper aims at providing some basic ways of how to do the job efficiently and how to carry out a reform on the basis of scientific research.The paper points out that only if students can participate actively in the process of learning,combine English culture and thinking mode,use the right hemisphere and left hemisphere of the brain together,and stress the graduation thesis,can teaching and learning go more efficiently.展开更多
A survey made here aims to help both the educators and learners to improve the education of English majors.By distributing statistical questionnaires and collecting relevant data on translation knowledge,relevant exam...A survey made here aims to help both the educators and learners to improve the education of English majors.By distributing statistical questionnaires and collecting relevant data on translation knowledge,relevant examinations and competitions,this paper evaluates the translation competence of sophomores majoring in English at Northeastern University in China.Advantages together with shortcomings and suggestions are provided for teachers to position their teaching and for students to improve their translation competence.展开更多
Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innov...Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innovation of educational reform.In order to adapt to the trend of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities,the reform of college English curriculum should be based on the modern curriculum concept,through the integration of modern information technology,and achieve innovation in curriculum design and teaching methods.Based on the course construction concept of“English+Innovation and Entrepreneurship”,this paper takes the online course“College English for Entrepreneurs”as an example to explore the teaching design ideas of college English majors.This course shows the characteristics of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional education.展开更多
With the deepening of global economic integration, the internationalization of education has become the trend of education development in the world. The paper intends to study on foreign teachers' teaching validity f...With the deepening of global economic integration, the internationalization of education has become the trend of education development in the world. The paper intends to study on foreign teachers' teaching validity from English majors' students' perspective. The essay mainly adopts the classroom observation method to directly observe foreign teachers' classroom. In addition, the paper used the questionnaire and interview method for the English major students to get the first-hand feedback information to explore the existing problems of foreign teachers and then puts forward some suggestions.There are there parts in this paper. The first part is introduction of background and significance, and then it mainly analyzes performance of English majors from the present situation of the foreign teachers' class, and finally solves some common problems in classroom teaching.展开更多
At present,there is a serious phenomenon of"Chinese cultural aphasia"in English teaching for English majors in Colleges and universities,and Chinese cultural knowledge has not received due attention in forei...At present,there is a serious phenomenon of"Chinese cultural aphasia"in English teaching for English majors in Colleges and universities,and Chinese cultural knowledge has not received due attention in foreign language teaching.Therefore,in the context of culture going out,the author conducts a research on the current situation of Chinese culture learning and teaching strategies of English majors.Relevant research shows that solving these problems can be solved by rationally dealing with the relationship between Chinese culture and Western culture,enriching the cultural reserves of college English teachers,creating a Chinese cultural learning environment and improving students'intercultural communication skills.In addition,the Chinese cultural literacy of English teachers should be promoted to explore the teaching methods of diversified Chinese cultural resources.展开更多
In the past few years, the phenomenon of smartphone addiction has become more serious especially among university students. In order to explore whether smartphone addiction has an impact on students' learning, thi...In the past few years, the phenomenon of smartphone addiction has become more serious especially among university students. In order to explore whether smartphone addiction has an impact on students' learning, this study examined the relationships between smartphone addiction and student engagement and academic performance among 157 English majors by One-way ANOVA. Results suggested that there was not any significant difference in student engagement and academic performance among students of different levels of smartphone addiction. The implications for prevention strategies of smartphone addiction and further research are discussed.展开更多
This paper reviews the theory of language attrition,which refers to the loss or degradation of second language skills due to lack of using the second language for a certain period of time.Although our country attaches...This paper reviews the theory of language attrition,which refers to the loss or degradation of second language skills due to lack of using the second language for a certain period of time.Although our country attaches great importance to English language teaching,most of college English majors use English far less frequently than that of Chinese in real life,which makes them easily influenced by language attrition.Therefore,it is of great significance for college English majors to improve the efficiency of English vocabulary memory from the perspective of language attrition combined with Forgetting.This thesis consists of three parts.Chapter one is an analysis the concept of language attrition and Forgetting.Chapter two describes and analyzes the existing problems in current vocabulary memory among the college English majors via a questionnaire survey.The final chapter puts forward some corresponding countermeasures to help college English majors get rid of the influence of language attrition on vocabulary learning.展开更多
Notwithstanding the tremendous progress of foreign language teaching (FLT) and foreign language education (FLE) in China's Mainland, there still remain large-scale margins as reflective argumentation on the is...Notwithstanding the tremendous progress of foreign language teaching (FLT) and foreign language education (FLE) in China's Mainland, there still remain large-scale margins as reflective argumentation on the issue of methodology, pedagogy, and educational paradigm to probe into. Among each respective margin concerning this FLT and FLE, this paper deepens the aspects of methodological approach of communicative language teaching (CLT) and holistic educational paradigm. Furthermore, this paper elaborates the current dominant teaching status and makes discussion on the topic of harmony between English teaching and using, taking Basic English course for English majors in China's Mainland as the case study.展开更多
Motivation is an important factor to English learning,it plays an important role.In this thesis,the instrument used in the study is a questionnaire,and this thesis was conducted on December 5th,2016 at Ningbo Dahongyi...Motivation is an important factor to English learning,it plays an important role.In this thesis,the instrument used in the study is a questionnaire,and this thesis was conducted on December 5th,2016 at Ningbo Dahongying University involving 182 students.Based on the questionnaire investigation,this thesis discusses the learning motivation of English major juniors and seniors in Ningbo Dahongying University from the motivation types,factors and strategies.展开更多
Though numerous English learning researches have been done for English majors,there is not fairly enough analysis ofEnglish mobile micro learning especially in vocabulary.Based on the condition,the author tries to ana...Though numerous English learning researches have been done for English majors,there is not fairly enough analysis ofEnglish mobile micro learning especially in vocabulary.Based on the condition,the author tries to analyze the feasibility of Englishmajors’vocabulary learning via mobile devices based on mobile micro learning mode in the way of questionnaire survey.In theend,the result of the research proves that it could be feasible to adopt mobile micro learning mode in English majors’vocabularylearning.展开更多
Based on the reflection on the traditional teaching model of English majors,this paper points out that language teaching has long been divorced from the cultivation of cultural literacy and social needs;therefore,stud...Based on the reflection on the traditional teaching model of English majors,this paper points out that language teaching has long been divorced from the cultivation of cultural literacy and social needs;therefore,students’learning initiative has seriously deteriorated.On this basis,this study focuses on the“student-centered”notion and tries to integrate the four functions of language,which include“instrumental,”“cognitive,”“emotional,”and“literacy,”to establish a“four-three-two”teaching model,so as to explore an effective scheme for the teaching reform of English majors.展开更多
Politeness Principle is the most important principle in language communication, which is also the key factor in language application. To achieve the successful communication, communicators not only observe Cooperation...Politeness Principle is the most important principle in language communication, which is also the key factor in language application. To achieve the successful communication, communicators not only observe Cooperation Principle, but also Politeness Principle. The traditional English classroom teaching generally follow CP in universities, however, PP gradually becomes the basic norms in the influence of ecological teaching idea. This paper attempts to study application of PP in teaching combined with video transfer materials, aiming to stimulate students' enthusiasm on learning English and improve teachers' teaching level, building up a harmonious and friendly classroom environment.展开更多
College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some me...College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some methods to develop students' ability of Group Cooperative Learning to know their errors in time and make sure that they can benefit from it so that students have the enthusiasm to improve their oral English.The thesis is mainly about all empirical study of Group Cooperative Leaning in college English oral course.The major experiment was done with some English majors at North University of China.Though many subjects supported Cooperative Learning and believed that it did effectively reduce some anxiety in students' English oral learning and enhanced their interests, the improvement of their English oral ability is far from satisfaction.This thesis employs questionnaire survey and contrastive analysis methods.This research paper means to investigate the Group Cooperative Learning of oral English learning for college students.The thesis includes five parts.The first part illustrates the purpose, significance of the research and the definition of Group Cooperative Learning. The second part shows the research background from abroad and home, and the factors of poor oral English.The third part presents the research design of the author.The fourth part states the results and discussions about the research.The conclusion part summarizes the major findings of research and also explains the limitations of the author's research and further study about Group Cooperative Learning in oral class for English Majors.展开更多
文摘The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on the relevant oral English autonomous learning ability of English majors shows that the overall learning situation is not satisfying.Based on the development of the concept of autonomous learning,this article explores the current situation and existing problems in oral English autonomous learning of English majors under the context of the Internet,and proposes corresponding autonomous learning strategies for improving their oral English skill.
文摘By analyzing the data,this paper finds the current interest status of the English majors for English learning,and the major factors which affect students' interest in learning English.The relationship between the learning interest of the students and the teaching methods of the teacher are also the major points.
文摘The Syllabus for English Majors at Universities and Colleges(2000) makes it clear to further strengthen the English majors' critical thinking and logical reasoning ability.But how to effectively incorporate the cultivation of critical thinking skills into English majors' core courses,such as the writing courses,remains one of the most important tasks of teaching reform for English majors.The present study is aimed at having a systematic analysis on the causal reasoning deficiencies in English majors' argumentative writing.Furthermore,the reasons resulting in the causal reasoning deficiencies and the implications for the teaching of second language writing are explored.
文摘In this semester, through an experience of teaching advanced writing for English majors, I have got all-around observation of the process of learning English writing in third year English majors. The problems of vague and general content and absent critical thinking ability in their writings have been found, and the practical teaching methods and practices have been adopted to help them to write substantively. In this paper, absent critical thinking ability in students' writing, the phenomena of the problem have been analyzed, the reasons of the absence have been summarized, and the better solutions have been discussed.
文摘Foreign language education should integrate cultural teaching into the training of linguistic skills. Values, as the core of culture and moral education, should be paid enough attention to. During the study process of Chinese university English majors, they inevitably encounter enormous information of Western cultures and values, and their own values may come into conflict with the ones they meet. So the English teachers have the responsibility to help the students construct correct values. Such principles as cultivating critical thinking, offering the course of Chinese culture and using group discussions and activities should be followed during instruction to facilitate the value cultivation among English majors
文摘The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of grammar teaching for the students of English majors in China and to provide an integrated teaching method for the teachers of English in China and colleagues in similar situations outside of China, through the analysis of the nature and role of grammar, of the importance of form depending upon the students' and instructional variables, and of using texts communicatively, in English teaching.
文摘In recent years, liberal education has been a focus of English majors' education in China. Although it was wished and emphasized, there are many problems and difficulties when liberal education is asked to be achieved in the real sense. English majors' liberal education is yet at its primary stage. An analysis of the existing problems is made on the basis of the situation and characteristics of current English majors' education
文摘The way of English teaching for English majors is a process of change.The paper aims at providing some basic ways of how to do the job efficiently and how to carry out a reform on the basis of scientific research.The paper points out that only if students can participate actively in the process of learning,combine English culture and thinking mode,use the right hemisphere and left hemisphere of the brain together,and stress the graduation thesis,can teaching and learning go more efficiently.
基金part of the National MTI Education and Research Project of“The Exploration and Practice of the Interpreting Teaching Method of Chunks”(No.MTIJZW202006).
文摘A survey made here aims to help both the educators and learners to improve the education of English majors.By distributing statistical questionnaires and collecting relevant data on translation knowledge,relevant examinations and competitions,this paper evaluates the translation competence of sophomores majoring in English at Northeastern University in China.Advantages together with shortcomings and suggestions are provided for teachers to position their teaching and for students to improve their translation competence.
基金this paper is funded by Project:The Research Basic Ability Enhancement Project for Young and Middle-aged Teachers in the Universities in Guangxi in 2021(No.2021KY0023).
文摘Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innovation of educational reform.In order to adapt to the trend of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities,the reform of college English curriculum should be based on the modern curriculum concept,through the integration of modern information technology,and achieve innovation in curriculum design and teaching methods.Based on the course construction concept of“English+Innovation and Entrepreneurship”,this paper takes the online course“College English for Entrepreneurs”as an example to explore the teaching design ideas of college English majors.This course shows the characteristics of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional education.
文摘With the deepening of global economic integration, the internationalization of education has become the trend of education development in the world. The paper intends to study on foreign teachers' teaching validity from English majors' students' perspective. The essay mainly adopts the classroom observation method to directly observe foreign teachers' classroom. In addition, the paper used the questionnaire and interview method for the English major students to get the first-hand feedback information to explore the existing problems of foreign teachers and then puts forward some suggestions.There are there parts in this paper. The first part is introduction of background and significance, and then it mainly analyzes performance of English majors from the present situation of the foreign teachers' class, and finally solves some common problems in classroom teaching.
文摘At present,there is a serious phenomenon of"Chinese cultural aphasia"in English teaching for English majors in Colleges and universities,and Chinese cultural knowledge has not received due attention in foreign language teaching.Therefore,in the context of culture going out,the author conducts a research on the current situation of Chinese culture learning and teaching strategies of English majors.Relevant research shows that solving these problems can be solved by rationally dealing with the relationship between Chinese culture and Western culture,enriching the cultural reserves of college English teachers,creating a Chinese cultural learning environment and improving students'intercultural communication skills.In addition,the Chinese cultural literacy of English teachers should be promoted to explore the teaching methods of diversified Chinese cultural resources.
文摘In the past few years, the phenomenon of smartphone addiction has become more serious especially among university students. In order to explore whether smartphone addiction has an impact on students' learning, this study examined the relationships between smartphone addiction and student engagement and academic performance among 157 English majors by One-way ANOVA. Results suggested that there was not any significant difference in student engagement and academic performance among students of different levels of smartphone addiction. The implications for prevention strategies of smartphone addiction and further research are discussed.
文摘This paper reviews the theory of language attrition,which refers to the loss or degradation of second language skills due to lack of using the second language for a certain period of time.Although our country attaches great importance to English language teaching,most of college English majors use English far less frequently than that of Chinese in real life,which makes them easily influenced by language attrition.Therefore,it is of great significance for college English majors to improve the efficiency of English vocabulary memory from the perspective of language attrition combined with Forgetting.This thesis consists of three parts.Chapter one is an analysis the concept of language attrition and Forgetting.Chapter two describes and analyzes the existing problems in current vocabulary memory among the college English majors via a questionnaire survey.The final chapter puts forward some corresponding countermeasures to help college English majors get rid of the influence of language attrition on vocabulary learning.
文摘Notwithstanding the tremendous progress of foreign language teaching (FLT) and foreign language education (FLE) in China's Mainland, there still remain large-scale margins as reflective argumentation on the issue of methodology, pedagogy, and educational paradigm to probe into. Among each respective margin concerning this FLT and FLE, this paper deepens the aspects of methodological approach of communicative language teaching (CLT) and holistic educational paradigm. Furthermore, this paper elaborates the current dominant teaching status and makes discussion on the topic of harmony between English teaching and using, taking Basic English course for English majors in China's Mainland as the case study.
文摘Motivation is an important factor to English learning,it plays an important role.In this thesis,the instrument used in the study is a questionnaire,and this thesis was conducted on December 5th,2016 at Ningbo Dahongying University involving 182 students.Based on the questionnaire investigation,this thesis discusses the learning motivation of English major juniors and seniors in Ningbo Dahongying University from the motivation types,factors and strategies.
文摘Though numerous English learning researches have been done for English majors,there is not fairly enough analysis ofEnglish mobile micro learning especially in vocabulary.Based on the condition,the author tries to analyze the feasibility of Englishmajors’vocabulary learning via mobile devices based on mobile micro learning mode in the way of questionnaire survey.In theend,the result of the research proves that it could be feasible to adopt mobile micro learning mode in English majors’vocabularylearning.
文摘Based on the reflection on the traditional teaching model of English majors,this paper points out that language teaching has long been divorced from the cultivation of cultural literacy and social needs;therefore,students’learning initiative has seriously deteriorated.On this basis,this study focuses on the“student-centered”notion and tries to integrate the four functions of language,which include“instrumental,”“cognitive,”“emotional,”and“literacy,”to establish a“four-three-two”teaching model,so as to explore an effective scheme for the teaching reform of English majors.
文摘Politeness Principle is the most important principle in language communication, which is also the key factor in language application. To achieve the successful communication, communicators not only observe Cooperation Principle, but also Politeness Principle. The traditional English classroom teaching generally follow CP in universities, however, PP gradually becomes the basic norms in the influence of ecological teaching idea. This paper attempts to study application of PP in teaching combined with video transfer materials, aiming to stimulate students' enthusiasm on learning English and improve teachers' teaching level, building up a harmonious and friendly classroom environment.
文摘College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some methods to develop students' ability of Group Cooperative Learning to know their errors in time and make sure that they can benefit from it so that students have the enthusiasm to improve their oral English.The thesis is mainly about all empirical study of Group Cooperative Leaning in college English oral course.The major experiment was done with some English majors at North University of China.Though many subjects supported Cooperative Learning and believed that it did effectively reduce some anxiety in students' English oral learning and enhanced their interests, the improvement of their English oral ability is far from satisfaction.This thesis employs questionnaire survey and contrastive analysis methods.This research paper means to investigate the Group Cooperative Learning of oral English learning for college students.The thesis includes five parts.The first part illustrates the purpose, significance of the research and the definition of Group Cooperative Learning. The second part shows the research background from abroad and home, and the factors of poor oral English.The third part presents the research design of the author.The fourth part states the results and discussions about the research.The conclusion part summarizes the major findings of research and also explains the limitations of the author's research and further study about Group Cooperative Learning in oral class for English Majors.