On Peer Feedback Strategies of Process Writing in College English Class

Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.

How to Make Use of the English Class to Carry On the Civilization Education to the Students

College students are the new generation and the main force of our society in the future. College students' personality will be directly related to the overall quality of the Chinese nation. Education is the main way to improve the students' personality. When they are at college, the teachers can teach them some foreign customs according to the teaching materials in class. In this way, the teaching contents can be enriched and at the same time, the students' personality can be improved. So we can realize our dream of our nation rich in money and also in spirit.

Cultivation of Students’Four Core Competencies in American English Class

In the 21^st century,students’core competencies will be the main competitive factors in a fast-changing society.Stu⁃dents will benefit a lot from them in their future job hunting and life-long learning.Developing their students’competencies be⁃comes a first and foremost task in American English class.

A Brief Report on Task-based Translation Teaching in University English Classes in China

Translation teaching in college English classes is highly teacher-centered, so students are not fully motivated and therefore lack basic interests to fulfill these tasks. In order for students to be more involved and more learning independent, translation teaching needs to become student-centered and task-based. This paper discusses the theoretical basis of this teaching method and suggests possible ways to use the method.

Humanistic Education in College English Classes:Problems and Solutions

The humanistic quality is one of the most important qualities for students to acquire in humanistic education.However,the limited class time for tightly scheduled teaching tasks fails to guarantee a satisfying result for humanistic education.In this paper,three strategies are proposed as the way out of this dilemma.The first,is to equip the College English teachers with rich professional and humanistic knowledge.The second is to change the traditional College English Teaching aim which is not suitable as a guide for current teaching.And the last is to require all the English teachers to explore and clarify the humanistic connotation in the texts which helps shape students’view of the world and value of the life.

Utilizing Wen Juanxing in College English Classes in China

This paper aims to explore the benefits of Technology-Enhanced Learning(TEL)to better engage undergraduate students in college English classes in China.By experimenting with Wen Juanxing,an online questionnaire platform,it has been found that through the employment of“Classroom Response Systems”(hereafter CRS)such as Wen Juanxing(hereaftter WJX),college students’classroom participation and interaction can be significantly increased.Their learning outcome and efficiency can also be greatly improved.

Card Games in Oral English Classes

A few days ago, I was invited to the English Teaching Workshop on "Effective FEL Strategies" (EFL means English as a Foreign Language). The American Teaching fellow, Ms. Kathy Schenider, gave the participants, teachers of English from the universities in Beijing, an

Effective Ways to Improve Students'Interests in English Classes

Interest is the key role in English learning. Thus, English teachers should take effective ways to raise students'interests in teaching classes. Scientific investigation has proved that using effective approaches certainly helps arousing students'interests in English teaching.

On Promoting the Slow Learners' Learning in English Class

Nowadays, the actualities of slow learners in English class are not satisfying in China. Confronted with such kind of situation, as language teachers, how to promote the slow students' learning, is one of the biggest problems in our teaching. The paper focuses on the features of slow learners, e.g., little or improper motivation, debilitative anxiety, introversion, inhibition, etc. and the roles the slow learners play in English class, and some of the writer's personal suggestions for promoting their learning in English class as well.

Needs Analysis of English Culture Background Introduction in Spoken English Classes

With globalization there is an increasing need for spoken English for Chinese college students. However, the situation of the teaching system of spoken English in most universities in China is not satisfactory. Influenced by the exam-oriented teaching system, great importance has been put on English grammar and the skills of reading and writing. As a result, students'enthusiasm in improving their spoken English is diminished. Actually, students need some knowledge about English culture background before they can communicate effectively. It is significant for teachers to find out the students'wants and lacks during their spoken English study. Besides, attentions should be paid to English culture background in spoken English classes by both teachers and students. This paper mainly aimed at finding out the needs of students for English culture background in spoken English classes based on the theory of needs analysis.

Moral Infiltration in Junior High School English Class Based on Bandura's Social Learning Theory

In the process of education and teaching,teachers should not only impart systematic scientificknowledge to students,cultivating their ability to solve problems,but also seize the opportunity to permeate moraleducation among students.Junior high school students are in the stage of puberty,and great changes have taken placein their physiology and psychology.Teachers should serve as a guide on the aspect of their moral cognition,moraljudgment and moral behavior.English,as an important subject,plays an important role in middle school's education.Bandura's Social Learning Theory emphasizes the importance of self-efficacy and observation in students’learning.Itis a"good dose"for moral education in junior high school English class.Not only will it help teachers to improve thequality of English class teaching,but also improve students’moral qualities and overall development.

The Effects of Cooperative-learning in the Oral English Class

Oral English teaching is one of the essential parts in language teaching. However, the oral English teaching in Chinese college English large-scale classes is far from satisfactory. In the instruction process arise a variety of problems such as the passiveness of learners, the failure of timely feedback transmission and fewer chances of oral English practice.This study aims to probe into the effects of cooperative-learning in the oral English teaching of large-scale classes. It is the author's belief that cooperative learning may effectively improve college oral English teaching in large-scale classes.

The Application of Cooperative Learning in the Oral English Classroom

外语教学的最终目标是培养学生用外语进行交际的能力。本文就"共同参与式教学法"的基本理论,探讨了"共同参与式"教学模式在英语口语课课堂的运用,指出口语课内容应符合学生的兴趣和成长需求,教学模式要以学生为中心,在培养学生运用英语进行交流的同时,也要注重培养学生的组织材料的能力、交际能力和独立思考能力。

A Study of Teacher Feedback in Different English Class Types

This essay mainly focuses on the feedback move in IRF(initiate- response- feedback) to investigate the characters and functions of teacher feedback in different class types through classroom observation. The research finds that(1) teachers in different class types prefer to adopt evaluative feedback and use more positive feedback.(2) the proportion of each feedback is different in listening and speaking, reading and writing class. The implications are that English teachers in senior high school should adopt different feedback flexibly and consider what kind of feedback is more likely elicit the students' output in different class types.

Research on Promote the Attendance of Senior Students in English Class

In traditional English class of China, the relationship between teacher and students is one-way communication. As a result, positive attendance in senior English class is not common. It is important to develop students' automatic learning and cooperation learning abilities. However, the particularities of senior students in psychology and the background of college entrance examination block the way of traditional teaching reform. From these aspects, this thesis comes up with corresponding advices to promote the attendance of senior English class.

Attitudes towards Silence of English Class

It is for so many years that silence of English class in China has existed drawing attentions from scholars in and abroad.The paper,with the methodology of Ethnography of communication-observation,interview,survey and comprehensive analysis,concluded that silence of English class in China is not an coincident event,but a certain event in the process of education mainly owing to the course requirements and educational atmosphere like size of English class.