Curriculum-based Ideological and Political Education and College English Teaching-based on Urban Development

The unique disciplinary characteristics and curriculum strengths of college English provide conditions for the integration of ideological and political elements into English language teaching.Under the vision of“fostering virtue through education,”universities across the country are actively advancing reforms in the ideological and political curriculum of college English.This paper connects the ideological and political education with students’practical issues and development needs and explores effective teaching methods,based on Urban Development-Unit 1 of<New Horizon College English 4>.

Innovation Analysis of College English Teaching from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication

With the increasingly integrated international communication and cooperation,cross-cultural communication can enable talents to understand the cultural concepts and backgrounds of different countries,and thus form positive values.Language is the key carrier of communication and its role is also evident.Colleges are gathering places for cultural collisions,and in the context of cross-cultural communication,colleges need to play their role in optimizing English teaching and improving teachers’teaching levels,in order to cultivate more high-quality talents.This article mainly analyzes the strategies for innovative English teaching in colleges from the perspective of cross-cultural communication,hoping to provide references and inspiration for the research of cultivating cross-cultural communication talents.

The Significance and Application of the Introduction of Western Culture in College English Teaching

With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.This paper discusses the significance of introducing western culture,and puts forward some countermeasures based on teaching experience,in order to provide some references for the application of the introduction of western culture in college English teaching.

The Application of Cooperative Learning in College English Teaching

Cooperative learning has developed into a creative and effective teaching theory and strategy. Cooperative learning can not only motivate students' initiative and enthusiasm in learning, but promote the interaction between the teacher and students.This paper analyzes the connotations and benefits of cooperative learning, explores reasons for existing problems in the application of cooperative learning in college English teaching and presents strategies for effective implementation of cooperative learning.

On Problems in College English Teaching Reform on the Basis of Cloud Computing Assisted Instruction

Cloud Computing Assisted Instruction shows incomparable advantages over the traditional language teaching, but meanwhile, it exists some major problems, for instance, the information technology is omnipotent, information input is too excessive and teachers' role is considerably weakened. This article attempts to analyze the problems and promote language teaching reform base on Cloud Computing Assisted Instruction.

On being a facilitator in college English Teaching

According to the linguistic theory’s requirement,this article stresses the teacher’s role in College English teaching,shows how to help cultivate student’s ability to use the language and how one can become a qualified facilitator.

Study on PAD and flipped Classroom Applied to College English Teaching--Take College English Viewing,Listening and Speaking Ⅰ For Instance

PAD(presentation,assimilation and discussion) and flipped classroom mix the advantages of PAD and flipped classroom,PADand flipped classroom separate the period of a teacher's teaching and students' interaction,allowing students to assimilate the knowl-edge they learned in one week,this teaching mode considers different groups of students.A result of a recent teaching experiment showsthat this teaching mode can allocate class time more efficiently and equally to each student to practise oral English.Students are moreconfident,more willing to participate and show more interest in oral class.

An Empirical Research on Integrating Chinese Traditional Culture into College English Teaching

198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.

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.

The Integration of Sports Specialty English and College English Teaching in the Independent Colleges

At the present time,there are many imbalances in sports specialty English teaching in the independent colleges such as emphasis on basic English teaching while ignoring sports specialty English teaching, unreasonable application of modern information technology, imbalance of English teachers' knowledge structure in sports specialty, etc. As for the English teaching in sports specialty in the independent college,it is necessary to build college English curriculum system with the attributes of sports education.

The Application of Cognitive-Functional Approach in College English Teaching

The Cognitive-Functional Approach combines the linguistic views of two major linguistic theories,formalism linguistics and functional linguistics.This approach fully exerts the innate language competence of foreign language learners,help learners to set the language parameter of the target language and explore the rules of target language actively.On the other hand,this approach also advocates the ability of foreign language learners to choose the proper language form in a specific language environment and to train learners'communicative competence.

An Analysis of “Hawthorne Effect” in College English Teaching

College English teaching faces many problems nowadays,which lead to a lack of learning motivation for students and a lack ofteaching effectiveness for teachers.Therefore,"Hawthorne Effect"must be adopted to improve the teaching effect in English class.Thetwo approaches:concern of learning goals and concern of learning environment are explained in details in this study.

Linguistic Cultural Signs in College English Teaching

This paper explores the relationship of language and culture in College English teaching, taking further discussion about the current linguistic cultural issues. Therefore, English culture should be introduced in college English teaching to help students better understand the English language as well as the English society. Due to the close relationship between culture and language and the great difference between Chinese and English

Construction of Flipped Classroom in College English Teaching

In the era of rapid development of information technology,the field of education continues to promote the process of information,and college English classroom is no exception.The integration of Internet technology and foreign language teaching gives birth to flipped classroom.It is an important trend of college English teaching in the future to combine information technology with classroom teaching and establish an effective evaluation system.Based on the current situation of college English teaching in China,this paper hopes to explore the construction of flipped classroom and improve the teaching level.

The Application of Flipped Classroom Mode in College English Teaching Based on MOOCs

Massive open online courses(MOOCs)and flipped classes are popular and new interactive web-based teaching methods in recent years,which are also widely used in college English teaching.Based on the present situation of the application of the MOOCs and flipped classes in college English teaching,this paper puts forward the basic method and idea of constructing the mode of flipped classroom teaching based on MOOCs in college English teaching.The aim is to introduce high-quality teaching resources,liberate the limited teachers from the repeated work of explaining the basic knowledge points repeatedly,and improve the teaching level of college English.

The Effective Ways to Integrate Excellent Traditional Culture Into College English Teaching—Taking Tea Culture as an Example

Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integration of tea culture into college English teaching not only helps to enhance students’cultural self-confidence,but also helps to effectively carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.Therefore,according to the tea culture,this paper describes in detail the practical significance of integrating tea culture into college English education,and then puts forward that tea culture has become an effective way of college English teaching,hoping to bring the students’English learning ability to a certain extent.At the same time,it can further promote and develop China’s tea culture.

An Analysis on the Cultivation of Intercultural Consciousness in College English Teaching under the Background of Multiculturalism

Language,as the crystallization of culture,under the background of multiculturalism,the cultivation of intercultural consciousness in college English teaching has become an important task in English teaching,and it is also an important issue whether English teaching can adapt to the development of the times and meet the needs of talents.This paper explores the ways of cultivating intercultural consciousness in college English teaching in the context of multiculturalism from the perspectives of teachers'own ideas and concepts,the design of classroom teaching,the organization of teaching activities,the improvement and application of teaching techniques,the management of classroom teaching,and the individual level of students,so as to be helpful to English teaching in the new era.

Problems in College English Teaching from the Perspective of College English Teachers and Their Coping Strategies

The present paper is an analysis of problems in college English teaching from the perspective college English teachers and their coping strategies.The four major problems concerning vocabulary-oriented teaching method,collective lesson preparation,on-line and off-line resources and college English teachers’comprehensive abilities are introduced and analyzed and corresponding coping strategies are offered.

Exploration and Practice on Task-Based Language Teaching Theory in College English Teaching

This article is based on task-based language teaching(TBLT)theory and attempts to explore how to better transfer knowledge and effectively arouse college students’interest in language learning and strengthen their confidence in college English classroom context.Task-based language teaching must be considered and applied in syllabus designing,selection,sequencing of pedagogic tasks,and provision of real-language environment during the learning process.Through the analysis of applying the task-based approaches,it can be found that students’comprehensive ability of English is greatly improved.

Some Important Relations in College English Teaching

There are some important relations in College English teaching.How to deal with these relations is of great significance for efficient teaching and learning.The paper takes three key relations,i.e.,the relation between language competence and communicative competence,one’s mother tongue and foreign languages,foreign language competence and quality-oriented education,as research objects,and has made a detailed analysis of the relationship between the two elements in each pair.The paper points out that only if teachers know the relations between them clearly can they teach better.