A teaching experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of applying of Task-based approach(TBA) to business oral English teaching in higher vocational college.Instruments are tests and que...A teaching experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of applying of Task-based approach(TBA) to business oral English teaching in higher vocational college.Instruments are tests and questionnaire for the experimental participants.Based on the data analysis,it can be concluded that TBA proves to be more effective especially compared with PPP approach.展开更多
With the increasing development of China’economy and society,the communication between China and other countries is on the rise,which contribute to the increasing demands of foreign languages especially English.As a ...With the increasing development of China’economy and society,the communication between China and other countries is on the rise,which contribute to the increasing demands of foreign languages especially English.As a result,oral English plays an important role in English learning and it is necessary for learners to improve their oral English.While the traditional teaching models cannot meet the teaching demand now,Constructivist learning theory(CLT),a very important branch of the cognitive theory has arisen a considerable amount of interest as a new teaching method.In the paper,the author try to apply constructivist learning theory to vocational college oral English teaching in order to explore some oral English teaching models from a constructivist perspective and hopes that this paper can provide some help to apply the CLT to vocational oral English teaching.展开更多
Reasonable introduction of "project teaching method" is to improve oral teaching model.Through a great deal of practice,using project teaching method,teachers can improve teaching capacity of oral English co...Reasonable introduction of "project teaching method" is to improve oral teaching model.Through a great deal of practice,using project teaching method,teachers can improve teaching capacity of oral English courses.On the basis of satisfying students' self-learning interests,it can help them to improve the level of oral English.展开更多
Acting as a necessary part of teaching, assessment is adopted by many teachers and studied and discussed by many educators in the higher vocational English learning and teaching. But traditional product-oriented asses...Acting as a necessary part of teaching, assessment is adopted by many teachers and studied and discussed by many educators in the higher vocational English learning and teaching. But traditional product-oriented assessment used in higher vocational schools is a kind of summative assessment and cannot give a complete picture of students' oral English growth, nor can it validly evaluate students' performance, and instead frustrates these students. In order to meet this shortage a new kind of assessment appears, it is formative assessment. Portfolio assessment is a type of formative assessment. The paper attempts to investigate the necessity of portfolio assessment in English teaching in higher vocational schools.展开更多
This thesis describes the current situations of oral English teaching in vocational colleges and points out the main factors of the improvement of oral English.In addition the features of oral English have been simply...This thesis describes the current situations of oral English teaching in vocational colleges and points out the main factors of the improvement of oral English.In addition the features of oral English have been simply analyzed and some widely-used teaching methods are suggested that are beneficial attempts to train and improve students'oral English.展开更多
The English language is widely used now and there is no need for us to talk about its importance.English teaching is aimed to enable students to obtain basic English knowledge and to have the ability to use it in comm...The English language is widely used now and there is no need for us to talk about its importance.English teaching is aimed to enable students to obtain basic English knowledge and to have the ability to use it in communication by the training of listening,speaking,reading and writing.In middle schools,oral English teaching is usually neglected by teachers and students.This article tries to find out the problems and then give us some countermeasures so as to improve oral English teaching.展开更多
Nowadays, students in secondary vocational schools are required to have better English competence. How to improve English teaching quality in secondary vocational schools? One of the effective means is reflective teac...Nowadays, students in secondary vocational schools are required to have better English competence. How to improve English teaching quality in secondary vocational schools? One of the effective means is reflective teaching. By way of it, English teachers in secondary vocational schools improve English quality and promote professional development.展开更多
Postmethod pedagogy of B. Kumaravadivelu can bring a new hope for English teaching of secondary vocational schools. This new research has gained some inspiration for English teaching from the perspective of teachers, ...Postmethod pedagogy of B. Kumaravadivelu can bring a new hope for English teaching of secondary vocational schools. This new research has gained some inspiration for English teaching from the perspective of teachers, students, teacher educators and so on based on postmethod pedagogy.展开更多
Through the questionnaire,this paper makes survey and analysis on the current oral English learning situation of the vocational college students,and explores the methods and approaches to improve the vocational colleg...Through the questionnaire,this paper makes survey and analysis on the current oral English learning situation of the vocational college students,and explores the methods and approaches to improve the vocational college students'oral English communication ability.展开更多
Over the past years,with the increasing enrollment of high school,vocational schools are facing great challenge for their existence and development,concerning the low proficiency of the students and great gap among th...Over the past years,with the increasing enrollment of high school,vocational schools are facing great challenge for their existence and development,concerning the low proficiency of the students and great gap among them.The traditional English teaching mode which employs the same teaching contents,same teaching methods and teaching aims cannot satisfy students with different English levels.Therefore,in order to change the present situation,this paper proposes a new English teaching mode:classified English teaching.In the new mode,different students will be taught by different materials,different methods and with different aims.It can stimulate students'enthusiasm in English learning,and make every student develop appropriately.展开更多
With the development of society and the deepening of economic globalization,as a common language in today's world,the role of English is inereasingly prominent.In recent years,with the advent of the Chinese Dream ...With the development of society and the deepening of economic globalization,as a common language in today's world,the role of English is inereasingly prominent.In recent years,with the advent of the Chinese Dream and the establishment of the Economic Belt of the Belt and Road,there is no doubt that China needs a large number of proficient people speaking English fluently to tell the world the stories of China,to spread the brilliant history of Chinese cultures and to play an important role in the inereasingly colse international exchanges and cooperation.However,as we all know,oral English teaching has always been quite weak in Chinese junior high schools.Huyi district,located in the central and western regions of China,not only has the commonalities of the western regions but also has its own unique personalities in oral English teaching.Although it has made great progress,some problems in teaching should be solved.Based on this,the thesis mainly aims to find out the problems that exist in oral English teaching of Nanguan Middle School by questionnaire and put forward corresponding countermeasures for these problems in order to promote the development of oral English teaching in middle schools in Huyi district.展开更多
New requirements in English teaching were brought up under vocational curriculum reform in Zhejiang province.The work presented in this paper mainly focus on three aspects of the following: Teaching methods in class,t...New requirements in English teaching were brought up under vocational curriculum reform in Zhejiang province.The work presented in this paper mainly focus on three aspects of the following: Teaching methods in class,the students' knowledge background and learning motivation.Methods used in this investigation are known as questionnaires as well as interview.Total182 students from two Vocational Schools in Hangzhou city were surveyed in random manner,aiming at the students' knowledge background,learning motivation and teachers' teaching methods.Interview was used as supplementary information.It's in order to get an entire grasp of the present situation of English teaching Methods in secondary vocational schools and to find out an effective way to solve the problems.After that,as a result of the Investigation indicates that problems still exist in secondary vocational schools.Suggestions are to put forward some effective strategies and approaches that will improve English teaching quality in secondary vocational schools; what is more,according to students' choices and interests,situational teaching and layered teaching could be implemented in order to improve students' English ability.展开更多
This paper conducts a study of English vocabulary teaching in the secondary vocational school based on context theory. Through the quantitative research method, results of the study indicate that it is effective for t...This paper conducts a study of English vocabulary teaching in the secondary vocational school based on context theory. Through the quantitative research method, results of the study indicate that it is effective for the secondary vocational school students to improve their vocabulary mnemonic ability, English proficiency and words guessing ability through English vocabulary teaching based on context.展开更多
This research aims to study the relationship between content-based instruction and secondary vocational English learners.Two classes in one secondary vocational school were chosen as participants.The result shows that...This research aims to study the relationship between content-based instruction and secondary vocational English learners.Two classes in one secondary vocational school were chosen as participants.The result shows that CBI teaching has a negative correlation with English learning anxiety and has an impact on alleviating students' anxiety.展开更多
College students in vocational school lack interest and confidence to learn English,so it is important to arouse their cu riosity to improve performance in English. Happy teaching strategy should be popular with the t...College students in vocational school lack interest and confidence to learn English,so it is important to arouse their cu riosity to improve performance in English. Happy teaching strategy should be popular with the teachers and students in vocation al school and it has a long way to go.This paper first introduces definition of happy teaching method and features of college stu dents.Then it focuses on how to apply this strategy to the practical teaching in the college English classroom.At last,it concludes that happy teaching strategy is effective means to fulfill teaching objectives.展开更多
Teachers have been paying more attention to oral English teaching in junior high school than ever before. Generally, teachers focus on teaching oral English in class, where they give preeminence to creating an environ...Teachers have been paying more attention to oral English teaching in junior high school than ever before. Generally, teachers focus on teaching oral English in class, where they give preeminence to creating an environment in the classroom which approximates to the"real-life"communicative use of language (Yang Chaochun & Cheng Lian 2005). However, there are some limits teaching oral English in class. This essay puts forwards to provide input during the break time for students to acquire oral English unconsciously in junior high school to make up for the insufficiency.展开更多
Analyzing the current situation of oral teaching and factors against students’progress in oral English of vocational and technological colleges,the essay focuses on three strategies to design key oral English activit...Analyzing the current situation of oral teaching and factors against students’progress in oral English of vocational and technological colleges,the essay focuses on three strategies to design key oral English activities,aimed at the improvement of students’oral competence.展开更多
文摘A teaching experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of applying of Task-based approach(TBA) to business oral English teaching in higher vocational college.Instruments are tests and questionnaire for the experimental participants.Based on the data analysis,it can be concluded that TBA proves to be more effective especially compared with PPP approach.
文摘With the increasing development of China’economy and society,the communication between China and other countries is on the rise,which contribute to the increasing demands of foreign languages especially English.As a result,oral English plays an important role in English learning and it is necessary for learners to improve their oral English.While the traditional teaching models cannot meet the teaching demand now,Constructivist learning theory(CLT),a very important branch of the cognitive theory has arisen a considerable amount of interest as a new teaching method.In the paper,the author try to apply constructivist learning theory to vocational college oral English teaching in order to explore some oral English teaching models from a constructivist perspective and hopes that this paper can provide some help to apply the CLT to vocational oral English teaching.
文摘Reasonable introduction of "project teaching method" is to improve oral teaching model.Through a great deal of practice,using project teaching method,teachers can improve teaching capacity of oral English courses.On the basis of satisfying students' self-learning interests,it can help them to improve the level of oral English.
文摘Acting as a necessary part of teaching, assessment is adopted by many teachers and studied and discussed by many educators in the higher vocational English learning and teaching. But traditional product-oriented assessment used in higher vocational schools is a kind of summative assessment and cannot give a complete picture of students' oral English growth, nor can it validly evaluate students' performance, and instead frustrates these students. In order to meet this shortage a new kind of assessment appears, it is formative assessment. Portfolio assessment is a type of formative assessment. The paper attempts to investigate the necessity of portfolio assessment in English teaching in higher vocational schools.
文摘This thesis describes the current situations of oral English teaching in vocational colleges and points out the main factors of the improvement of oral English.In addition the features of oral English have been simply analyzed and some widely-used teaching methods are suggested that are beneficial attempts to train and improve students'oral English.
文摘The English language is widely used now and there is no need for us to talk about its importance.English teaching is aimed to enable students to obtain basic English knowledge and to have the ability to use it in communication by the training of listening,speaking,reading and writing.In middle schools,oral English teaching is usually neglected by teachers and students.This article tries to find out the problems and then give us some countermeasures so as to improve oral English teaching.
文摘Nowadays, students in secondary vocational schools are required to have better English competence. How to improve English teaching quality in secondary vocational schools? One of the effective means is reflective teaching. By way of it, English teachers in secondary vocational schools improve English quality and promote professional development.
文摘Postmethod pedagogy of B. Kumaravadivelu can bring a new hope for English teaching of secondary vocational schools. This new research has gained some inspiration for English teaching from the perspective of teachers, students, teacher educators and so on based on postmethod pedagogy.
文摘Through the questionnaire,this paper makes survey and analysis on the current oral English learning situation of the vocational college students,and explores the methods and approaches to improve the vocational college students'oral English communication ability.
文摘Over the past years,with the increasing enrollment of high school,vocational schools are facing great challenge for their existence and development,concerning the low proficiency of the students and great gap among them.The traditional English teaching mode which employs the same teaching contents,same teaching methods and teaching aims cannot satisfy students with different English levels.Therefore,in order to change the present situation,this paper proposes a new English teaching mode:classified English teaching.In the new mode,different students will be taught by different materials,different methods and with different aims.It can stimulate students'enthusiasm in English learning,and make every student develop appropriately.
文摘With the development of society and the deepening of economic globalization,as a common language in today's world,the role of English is inereasingly prominent.In recent years,with the advent of the Chinese Dream and the establishment of the Economic Belt of the Belt and Road,there is no doubt that China needs a large number of proficient people speaking English fluently to tell the world the stories of China,to spread the brilliant history of Chinese cultures and to play an important role in the inereasingly colse international exchanges and cooperation.However,as we all know,oral English teaching has always been quite weak in Chinese junior high schools.Huyi district,located in the central and western regions of China,not only has the commonalities of the western regions but also has its own unique personalities in oral English teaching.Although it has made great progress,some problems in teaching should be solved.Based on this,the thesis mainly aims to find out the problems that exist in oral English teaching of Nanguan Middle School by questionnaire and put forward corresponding countermeasures for these problems in order to promote the development of oral English teaching in middle schools in Huyi district.
文摘New requirements in English teaching were brought up under vocational curriculum reform in Zhejiang province.The work presented in this paper mainly focus on three aspects of the following: Teaching methods in class,the students' knowledge background and learning motivation.Methods used in this investigation are known as questionnaires as well as interview.Total182 students from two Vocational Schools in Hangzhou city were surveyed in random manner,aiming at the students' knowledge background,learning motivation and teachers' teaching methods.Interview was used as supplementary information.It's in order to get an entire grasp of the present situation of English teaching Methods in secondary vocational schools and to find out an effective way to solve the problems.After that,as a result of the Investigation indicates that problems still exist in secondary vocational schools.Suggestions are to put forward some effective strategies and approaches that will improve English teaching quality in secondary vocational schools; what is more,according to students' choices and interests,situational teaching and layered teaching could be implemented in order to improve students' English ability.
文摘This paper conducts a study of English vocabulary teaching in the secondary vocational school based on context theory. Through the quantitative research method, results of the study indicate that it is effective for the secondary vocational school students to improve their vocabulary mnemonic ability, English proficiency and words guessing ability through English vocabulary teaching based on context.
文摘This research aims to study the relationship between content-based instruction and secondary vocational English learners.Two classes in one secondary vocational school were chosen as participants.The result shows that CBI teaching has a negative correlation with English learning anxiety and has an impact on alleviating students' anxiety.
文摘College students in vocational school lack interest and confidence to learn English,so it is important to arouse their cu riosity to improve performance in English. Happy teaching strategy should be popular with the teachers and students in vocation al school and it has a long way to go.This paper first introduces definition of happy teaching method and features of college stu dents.Then it focuses on how to apply this strategy to the practical teaching in the college English classroom.At last,it concludes that happy teaching strategy is effective means to fulfill teaching objectives.
文摘Teachers have been paying more attention to oral English teaching in junior high school than ever before. Generally, teachers focus on teaching oral English in class, where they give preeminence to creating an environment in the classroom which approximates to the"real-life"communicative use of language (Yang Chaochun & Cheng Lian 2005). However, there are some limits teaching oral English in class. This essay puts forwards to provide input during the break time for students to acquire oral English unconsciously in junior high school to make up for the insufficiency.
文摘Analyzing the current situation of oral teaching and factors against students’progress in oral English of vocational and technological colleges,the essay focuses on three strategies to design key oral English activities,aimed at the improvement of students’oral competence.