Spelling Errors in University Students' English Writing

This paper investigated the spelling errors made by university students in Hong Kong.By analyzing the spelling errors in the untimed essays and exam scripts,we found that students are prone to make more spelling mistakes in exam scripts,the same type of errors occur in both of the two kinds of texts;and their ranks of the frequency also are the same.

Inquiring Students' English Learning Beliefs in College English Teaching

Students' English learning beliefs play a very important role in English learning. It is one of the main factors which influence students' English learning behavior and outcomes. This paper aims to explore the preconceived beliefs of students hold about their English learning and self-evaluation. Meanwhile, it also offers students' opportunities to reflect their more than 7 years' English learning. This inquiry will try to help students gain more confidence in English learning and make them to change their negative attitudes towards English learning.

How to Improve Students' English Listening Ability

Listening plays a fundamental role in foreign language acquisition. Though most schools have offered listening class, the effect is rather poor. This thesis will analyse some reasons that cause students weak ability in listening and explore some effective strategies to solve some issues.

Problems with College Students' English Listening and Speaking and Their Solutions——from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics

This study surveyed what problems and puzzles college students have in English speaking and listening. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 157 English-major students in South-Central University for Nationalities. The result suggests that they seemed to be very anxious in communicating in English. Their problems are analyzed from the perspective of sociolinguistics and traced back to the way they are taught. This study calls for awareness of the current problems in college English listening and speaking course and provides solutions to them.

On Ways of Arousing Professional-College Students' English Interest

Although so many methods have been put forward about arousing students' English interest,college teachers still encounter various difficulties in practical teaching.Based on the practical professional-college English teaching experiences,five more concrete and practical means will be puts forward from a professional-college English teacher's perspective,so as to get the conclusion that teachers should first get good acknowledgement of their students and then apply proper and effective ways to arouse students' English interest.

How to Stimulate College Students' English Learning Motivation

Motivation to language learning is a complex set of variables including effort, desire to achieve goals, as well as attitudes toward the learning of the language. Individuals' motivation to second-language learning also includes their motivation orientations, interest in the second language, attitudes toward the second-language group, attitudes toward the second-language learning situations and second-language anxiety. Based on the basic theories and approaches, teaching activities are part of motivation in English classes. The teacher of language should have a good influence on students and develop students' keen interest in study in order to strengthen their intrinsic motivation, and set up some new goals for students to pursue and give the feedback to reinforce their inner drive and confidence. Thus, students will become major conductors, make full use of their potentials and enhance their study results.

How to Improve Chinese Students' English Writing from the Cultural Teaching and Learning

The Chinese students’English writing belongs to intercultural communication.Many problems occur mainly because the lack of the cultural awareness and knowledge,and it offers an angle for the discussion in the thesis.This thesis attempts to explore the relationship between culture and writing,and highlight the importance of culture teaching in English writing course.It is also designed to propose several approaches to development of English writing from both teachers’and students’perspective.

Factors Interfering Chinese Students' English Pronunciation and Its Solutions

In English learning, undesirable pronunciation of vowels and intonation that plagues Chinese students in many ways is caused by the interference of mother tongue, accents and system of examination. In order to correct the errors, teachers, students and the system need to adjust themselves accordingly.

Pragmatic Transfer and Failure in High School Students' English Writing and its implications for English Teaching

Pragmatic transfer is an evitable phenomenon in foreign language learning.When the rules of the native language and the target language are the same,the transfer can be positive;otherwise,negative transfer arises.From the perspective of pragmatics,this paper classifies and makes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the pragmatic failure in students' writing and elucidates the implications for the teaching of English writing.

The Current Situation of Chinese College Students' English Pronunciation

Nowadays, we can find the expression"dumb English"in newspapers and websites. The phrase exposes a situation that many Chinese college students, who earn high scores in English proficiency tests, such as CET-4, cannot speak fluent English. When they started to work after graduation, they cannot perform effective communication with foreigners verbally in many occasions. This paper aims to illustrate the current situation of Chinese college students' English pronunciation and analyze it in detail.

The Relationship Between Motivation,Interest and Students' English Achievement in High School——Evidence from Effect of Vocabulary Acquisition

Motivation is one of the most important psychological factors in learning a foreign language.It significantly influences the process and outcome of the foreign language learning,so does interest.However,most of the previous studies have few concerning about the collective function of motivation and interest on it.Therefore,in this paper,we use interesting vocabulary teaching in high school as a window to probe the influence of both interest and motivation on English academic achievement.

The Application of Cooperative Learning in Improving Rural Senior High Students' English

English teaching method has been improved and the effect of teaching has become greater these years in China,but it is not satis fying.Therefore,adopting experiment approach,the present study aims to solve the question:Can cooperative learning bring effect to the English learning? It chooses two classes from a rural school,one is experimental group which adopts cooperative-learning approach,the other is control group which adopts traditional approach.Focusing on the analysis and comparativeness of their two tests' scores,it studies the influence of cooperative learning on psychology,learning environment and learning which bring to the English learners,making a con clusion that the application of cooperative learning can greatly improve English learning.

Error Analysis of Students' English Writing

This research has carried out a two years' statistical analysis by tracking and gathering the errors in the English writing exercises made by the students, discovering obvious difference between errors made by the students in previous grades. Digging into the root of the difference has revealed that in the undergraduate stage the "College English" curriculum showed some flaws, serving as some useful materials for the course reform.

From Input to Output: Chinese College Students' English Language Learning Situation

English as a second language has been learned and taught in Chinese colleges for several decades. But seen from students' TEM-4 and TEM-6 results and their practical application, the effect is limited and unsatisfied. Input and output theories are applied to analyze this situation and how to use them to improve the present Chinese students' English language learning situation.

Autonomous Learning to Improve College English Students' English Research

This paper aims to resesrch on the autonmons tearning so as to improve the college students’English learning.First ofall,it introdues some basic concepts of the autonomous learning theory,Secondly,it analyzes the current situation of college Eng-lish students’listening and speaking.In this passage the anthor hopes that it is helpful to improve college students’listening andspeaking level by their autonomous learning.It is helpful to improve their listening and speaking ability.As a result,it is helpful todevelop college students’English comprehensive application ability.

Views on College Students' English Learning Motivation

This paper aims at exploring college students' English learning motivation to language learning, including effort, interest, and attitudes. To some extent, it is very important to perform activities in language learning classes. On the one hand, teachers should do every effort to develop students' keen interest in English study so as to foster their intrinsic motivation. On the other hand, they should set up new goals for students and feedback properly in order to build confidence in English learning. In a word, it is essential for English teachers to understand students' motivation of English learning so as to save time and teach more efficiently.

Analysis of Chinglish in College Students' English Writing

As Chinese students are influenced by their mother tongue,"Chinglish"is rather common among Chinese college students' English writing.To analyze from three aspects of vocabulary, sentence and discourse, it is concluded that Chinglish is mainly caused by negative transfer of their mother tongue, way of thinking and culture. Try to understand cultural differences between English and Chinese language, to analyze specific manifestations of Chinglish carefully, Chinglish will be avoided in college students' English writing.

How to Enhance Students' English Vocabulary

As an important part of English learning,vocabulary is always considered to be difficult to master.However if you understand word formation rules and approach it from different aspects and utilize varied methods,it becomes much easier to build vocabulary.

The Methodology of Self-correction on College Students' English Composition and Results

Based on the related theories of Corpus Linguistics and Error Analysis, this paper is aimed to evaluate the effect of selfcorrection through the educational experiment, with non-English major students using web corpus to identify and self-correct their errors as the subjects. To help art students improve their English writing skills, the search engine of and sentence database of online dictionary of the internet corpus are effective and helpful.

A Survey on College Students' English Learning Motivation and the Learning Results

This survey has been processed on 78 graduate students in grade 2010, majoring in science and engineer, from different classes. By analyzing the results of College English Test 4 and questionnaire, it shows that the students' English learning motivation roots in Certificate. Differences between the winners and losers are not reflected in the time they have used to study, but the learning motivation they possess.