On Improving Students' Self-efficacy in English Listening Teaching

The traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of grammar and vocabulary, which causes students' disability in applying English, especially in listening. Self-efficacy is one of the basic elements which influence the students' learning motivation. It has close relationship with learning efficiency.

On Improving Students' Learning Efficiency in English Teaching

In our country,traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of vocabulary and grammar,causing students' disability in language practice.This paper provides some strategies to improve students' learning efficiency.

Teaching Legal Englishfor Law Studentsin China:Difficultiesand Solutions

Teaching legal English for law students in China is difficult.For one thing,many Chinese law students have trouble moreor less in learning English,because the English language is not their mother tongue.For another,legal English differs a great dealfrom everyday English in many respects,including terminology,phrasing,linguistic structure,and linguistic conventions,whichmakes legal English teaching for law students in China by far harder.To solve difficulties undermining teaching legal English forlaw students in China,the author of this paper holds that in his or her actual legal English teaching,the teacher should boost lawstudents basic English teaching,expose them to cases study of specialized legal English terminology and linguistic structures andconventions.

A Study on Teachers'and Students'Beliefs about English Teaching

Teacher and learner beliefs have been found to play an important role in EFL teaching and learning.The present em pirical study explores a group of college teachers'and students'beliefs about English teaching by using questionnaire.The statisti cal result shows that teachers and students have divergent views about many issues in English teaching.

Linguistic Insights into the Teaching of English Composition to Chinese College Students

How does one teach composition to Chinese college students of English? How does one teach thera to discover ideas for themselves and to put these into English patterns of thought and organization? Can the discovery of ideas really be taught? Is there a method of teaching whereby the scientific process of writing can be cornbined with the creative art of composition?

Some Strategies for Teaching English to Beginning Students: a Description of a Class

针对英语初学者的课堂教学,对英语教学中存在的一些问题提出了一系列的策略和方法,并运用实例予以说明。

Research on the Application of Flipped Classroom in Professional English Teaching for Higher Vocational Art Students

The traditional specialized English teaching mode and method for higher vocational art students are unitary, so students' learning enthusiasm is not high and their learning efficiency is low. According to the characteristics of art students in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the teaching difficulties in the traditional English classroom and studies the application of the flipped classroom teaching model in the teaching of specialized English.The teacher adopts the method of making students' learning guide before class to improve the self-study efficiency of the students. Teachers use rich classroom forms and multiple evaluation criteria to improve their interest in learning English. The application of the research results is important for improving the professional English ability and the ability of job adaptation for higher vocational art students.

The Formation of Ideal Interactions Between Teachers and Students in the College English Teaching

Ideal interactions between teachers and students are indispensible for the improvement of the College English teaching.Therefore,this paper tries to find out some effective measures to establish ideal interactions between teachers and students in College English teaching based on the analysis of the status-quo of the interactions between teachers and students and the emphasis of the necessity of ideal interactions between teachers and students,hoping it can be beneficial to promoting the College English teaching.

Teachers’Characteristics and Teaching Styles as Determinants of Students’Achievement in Senior Secondary Schools Civics and English Language in Osun State,Nigeria

The study examined the status of senior secondary schools’students’achievement in Civic Education and English Language in Osun State.It also investigated the Civic Education and English Language teachers’characteristics in the state and determined the teaching styles of Civic Education and English Language teachers in the study areas and finally assessed the influence of teachers’characteristics and teaching styles on students’achievement in secondary schools Civic Education and English Language.The study adopted Discriminant Analysis.The study sample consisted of 600 senior secondary school students,30 Civics teachers,and 30 English Language teachers that were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure.Four instruments were constructed and validated before use.Three research questions were asked and answered while one hypothesis was tested and verified.The results among others showed that more than 50%of the students that participated in the study had high status of achievement in Civic Education while more than 40%of English Language students that participated in the study had low status of achievement.The study also showed that teachers’characteristics pertinent to both Civic Education teachers and English Language teachers were,effective discipline skills(Civics,M=1.20,SD=0.407;English,M=1.40,SD=0.498)and good communication with parents(Civics,M=1.43,SD=0.504;English,M=1.40,SD=0.498).In addition,there was significant influence of teachers’characteristics and teaching styles on students’achievement in Civics and English Language in senior secondary schools(X^2(2)=16.37,p<0.05).The study concluded that teachers’characteristics and teaching styles are major determinants of students’achievement in Civic Education and English Language.

Study on the Psychology of Students in English Learning and the Teaching Strategies

In the new period, the importance of English is becoming increasingly significant, and it has gradually developed to be the first international language. Learning English has been one of the important tasks necessary for students to complete. In the process of English leaming, students will be in a different psychological state： some keeps confident, and some step back. All these psychological states in English leaming have exerted a huge impact on English education. Therefore, targeted teaching strategies are necessarily taken by teachers in combination with the students＇ psychological states in English learning, and then twofold results with half the effort will be achieved.

A Case Study on the Student-centered Approach to English Teaching for Students of Polytechnics

Insights obtained from this study may be useful in improving college English teaching in the aim of better preparing teachers to assume teaching responsibilities.This study may also contribute to an understanding of how administrators can improve training programs to better meet the needs,experiences,and beliefs of college students.The information may be useful in improving programs designed to facilitate the development of college teachers' beliefs about teaching and teaching skills and specifically those target the development of inquiry teaching.

Analysis on English Teaching Mode and the Analysis of Students’ Fitness from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

This paper conducts the analysis on English teaching mode and the analysis of the students’ fitness from the perspective of cognitive science. The importance of English has been recognized by the whole society, the community’s ability to use English in the expectation of the students is higher and higher, as both master professional knowledge and proficient in English compound talents more and more popular. Cognitive and other areas of education there is a mutual influence, and the relationship between each other. The most important factor that directly affects the education in the cognitive field is the student’s emotional domain that namely the student’s learning motivation, the learning interest and learning attitude. Within this condition, this paper proposes the novel idea on the English teaching mode which will promote the development of the subject.

Discussion on the Reform of English Teaching in Vocational College from the Psychological Perspective of Higher Vocational Students

In Vocational College,there are many factors that affect teaching effect,but the psychological factor is the important one.To make students to learn English well,we must first solve students' problems of psychology.The paper tries to stimulate students' interest and improve students' enthusiasm in learning English by adjusting teaching content and applying the flexible teaching methods.

A Study of English Teaching Methods for Art Students

Partly because of the influence exerted by the traditional educational management,there are still many problems in Eng⁃lish Teaching for art students.In order to improve their English proficiency and develop their English abilities matched with their professional skills,it is necessary to explore news English Teaching methods for art students.This paper mainly discusses the main characteristics of art students’learning,and analyzes the problems of teaching methods adopted by English teachers.Finally,this paper puts forwards some new suggestions in terms of the situation,with the purpose of providing reference for English teaching re⁃form in art schools in China.

Research on the Cultural Confidence Cultivation of University Students through English Teaching

Cultural confidence is of great significance in the rise and fall of the national development, cultural security, and nation-al spiritual independence. This paper first analyzes the possible reasons for the lack of university students' cultural confidence and then put forwards with some means to cultivate their' cultural consciousness and cultural confidence through English teaching .

A Study of Chinese Students in the United States and Its Implication for English Teaching in China

Language acquisition is a system with four components： language development, academic development, cognitive development and sociocultural development. Based on this theory, Chinese students in the United States are studied from three perspectives： linguistically, culturally, and social psychologically. It indicated that, to help Chinese students develop their English performance and cultural appreciation in this diverse world, the profession of English teaching in China should cover a variety of domains, including linguistic, cultural and psychological input. Both American and Chinese education can benefit from this special group of Chinese students if they can be better understood, and used as a bridge between China and U. S. cultural and academic exchange. In the meantime, the mirror held up to the Chinese students in these perspectives reflects not only who they are but also who they can become.

Teaching English through Stories to Chinese Primary Students

Due to the increase in English as a lingua franca,the Chinese government and educators are preoccupied with the demand to develop greater numbers of people who can communicate accurately and competently in English.English stories are generally not used by language teachers and are considered unsuitable in China,further,teachers fail to explain stories’content and apply traditional teaching approaches in the class.