The main goal of English teaching in colleges and universities is to cultivate students’ability to use the language,but many students are still unable to complete oral communication fluently after years of study.For ...The main goal of English teaching in colleges and universities is to cultivate students’ability to use the language,but many students are still unable to complete oral communication fluently after years of study.For this reason,teachers need to deeply analyze and study the linguistic features of oral English corpora and formulate reasonable teaching strategies to improve students’oral expression skills.This paper outlines the linguistic features of oral English corpora,comparatively analyzes the differences between oral English corpora and written English corpora,and explores effective teaching strategies,hoping to provide guidelines for relevant teachers.展开更多
The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on ...The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on the relevant oral English autonomous learning ability of English majors shows that the overall learning situation is not satisfying.Based on the development of the concept of autonomous learning,this article explores the current situation and existing problems in oral English autonomous learning of English majors under the context of the Internet,and proposes corresponding autonomous learning strategies for improving their oral English skill.展开更多
An empirical study of oral English blended teaching was conducted in a university.The experiment class,which was under the blended teaching mode supported by digital technology,made significant improvements in languag...An empirical study of oral English blended teaching was conducted in a university.The experiment class,which was under the blended teaching mode supported by digital technology,made significant improvements in language accuracy and range,discourse length and coherence,as well as flexibility and appropriateness.On the other hand,there was no significant improvement in the scores of the control class.Through the analysis of results by means of independent t-test and paired sample t-test,we drew the following conclusions:the oral performance of university students from the experiment class significantly improved;there was remarkable difference in the total oral English scores between the experiment class and the control class;the improvement in the total score and the score of each module showed that blended teaching had significant effect on the improvement of university students’oral English performance.展开更多
It is out of the question that oral English is very important in non English major teaching and learning in China. But drawing on a series of investigation and evaluation, the article uncovers that in fact the importa...It is out of the question that oral English is very important in non English major teaching and learning in China. But drawing on a series of investigation and evaluation, the article uncovers that in fact the importance oral English is overlooked presently in a number of Chinese universities. After analyzing the underlying causes, the author presents us with some tentative solutions to the problems.展开更多
As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a resul...As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.展开更多
Since traditional English teaching method, which merely focuses on language teaching but ignores communicative competence, severely impedes the development of students' oral ability. It is high time that English t...Since traditional English teaching method, which merely focuses on language teaching but ignores communicative competence, severely impedes the development of students' oral ability. It is high time that English teachers took measures to find a workable and valuable teaching method which can improve students' speaking proficiency effectively. Learning community theory provides a broad space for this, for it regards learning as a process which takes place in a community where the learners are sharing their experience towards knowledge building in an interactive and cooperative way.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
Nowadays, it is obvious to see the importance of oral English competence. Cultivating students' oral English competence is not only the need of the development of the society but also the development of college st...Nowadays, it is obvious to see the importance of oral English competence. Cultivating students' oral English competence is not only the need of the development of the society but also the development of college students. This paper will analyze existing problems of English majors in Xi'an Fanyi University. Based on this, the author will put forward some countermeasures to improve their oral English competence.展开更多
To make oral test accurately reflect the actual English spoken ability of candidates and play its role in guiding and promoting the improvement of English learners in the teaching, we must ensure that the design of sc...To make oral test accurately reflect the actual English spoken ability of candidates and play its role in guiding and promoting the improvement of English learners in the teaching, we must ensure that the design of scientific questions, the feasibility and validity of judgments to make an accurate and fair measurement of testers' language ability.展开更多
This study employs a Q methodology to explore the developmental routines of oral English ability for 12 English major students in China inspired by Complex and Dynamic Systems Theory(CDST).The data analysis suggests t...This study employs a Q methodology to explore the developmental routines of oral English ability for 12 English major students in China inspired by Complex and Dynamic Systems Theory(CDST).The data analysis suggests the next findings:(1)two developmental patterns emerge as the gradual improvement and the strong phase shift influenced by internal and external factors for interactions among different subsystems;(2)guided by CDST,the study proves the importance of self-organization and initial condition in previous studies.According to the above findings,It is highly suggested for teachers to form a holistic view of students’oral English development concerning the non-linear characteristic and individual differences.展开更多
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 participant...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展开更多
This is a reflection on how cultural schema principles might be incorporated into the Oral English classroom. More specifically, it notes on how a strategy was developed for freshmen and sophomore classes of English m...This is a reflection on how cultural schema principles might be incorporated into the Oral English classroom. More specifically, it notes on how a strategy was developed for freshmen and sophomore classes of English majors over the period of an entire term. The findings indicate that Cultural Schema Theory plays a significant role in the facilitation of College English.展开更多
Speaking is the main purpose and most important skill for second language learning.This paper reviews the important validity considerations in designing a test,such as face validity,content validity,on the basis of wh...Speaking is the main purpose and most important skill for second language learning.This paper reviews the important validity considerations in designing a test,such as face validity,content validity,on the basis of which the author analyzes the oral test paper for the postgraduate entrance interview in Shaanxi University of Technology,thus putting forward some methods to improve the test paper.展开更多
Role-play is recommended as a useful method to solve the problem of oral English teaching. It's much more than a performance and it can be considered as a way to vary the kinds of spoken interaction that learners ...Role-play is recommended as a useful method to solve the problem of oral English teaching. It's much more than a performance and it can be considered as a way to vary the kinds of spoken interaction that learners can experience in the classroom of universities. Through the use of role-play, oral English teaching becomes more interesting and attractive; university students can gain more oral English skills in the mini society atmosphere, and the accuracy and fluency of their oral English will be improved.展开更多
Group work method plays an important role in oral English teaching,and appropriate application of the group activities to oral English class can improve students'oral English effectively.This paper focus on the re...Group work method plays an important role in oral English teaching,and appropriate application of the group activities to oral English class can improve students'oral English effectively.This paper focus on the relationship between group work and oral English teaching,the principles,merits and the types of group works in oral English class.The aim is to improve the efficiency of oral English teaching and students'oral ability effectively.展开更多
This paper intends to give a brief overview of oral English testing for non-English major students in Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) University, which is located in a minority autonomous province in the sou...This paper intends to give a brief overview of oral English testing for non-English major students in Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) University, which is located in a minority autonomous province in the southern part of P.R. China. It arises from the concrete problems facing Chinese teachers of English who feel troubled when offering an oral English test to an ever increasing number of non-English major students at the end of each semester. The frustration comes not only from the labor intensive and time consuming activity but also from the surrounding ethical issues of subjectivity by the teachers and of injustice to the students to give and receive fair marks. Moreover, there is a conflicting gap between the criteria used by the foreign native English speaking teachers and Chinese teachers of English because of their different cultural background and concept of testing. Nevertheless, an oral English test was designed and the procedures were devised, adopted, and administered to assess the student’s performance. The test and procedures, based on the national course syllabus for testing non-English majors, the level of attainment in oral English of the students, and the limited number of teaching personnel in the TCM University, utilized two different approaches. The native English speakers follow their own concept of devising formats of group testing procedures and assessment criteria forms highlighting communicative interaction. Meanwhile, the Chinese teachers of English emphasize individual rehearsed presentations and ask the student to follow up questions, to make further comment, and inquire about learning experience from the passage in order to make assessment and evaluation. Final student scores were calculated by combining daily participation of the student, the assessment foreign teacher, and the evaluation of Chinese teachers.展开更多
English speaking has been paid more attention today, especially in the age of globalization. Teachers are attempting to find out more effective methods to enhance the teaching results of English speaking. Facing the g...English speaking has been paid more attention today, especially in the age of globalization. Teachers are attempting to find out more effective methods to enhance the teaching results of English speaking. Facing the great demands and present difficulties of oral English classes, teachers have to conduct more study and practice to find out what roles that an oral English teacher has to take in the oral English classroom. Compared with the traditional teaching role in the English classroom, an oral English teacher has to fulfill more than one role in the classroom teaching so as to provide better learning conditions for students. Lacking more exposure to the real interaction with native speakers, students expect the oral English teacher to be a creator of the language environment. With various teaching and learning activities in the oral English classroom, the teacher has to be a good organizer to ensure every student to achieve improvement. An oral English teacher also has to correct students'language errors while ensuring the smooth progress of the classroom teaching. Only when an oral English teacher make clear what roles he or she has to take in the classroom can he or she achieve effective teaching.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
At senior high, the oral English class is usually ignored for some reasons, so it will be a main question for students tocommunicate successfully in English. Considering the present situation and teaching content at o...At senior high, the oral English class is usually ignored for some reasons, so it will be a main question for students tocommunicate successfully in English. Considering the present situation and teaching content at oral English class, we will talkabout and conclude the method and form of oral English teaching and practicing in terms of the senior high English teachers. It isexpected to inspire teachers to pay more attention to the oral teaching, to raise students' interest in oral English learning, which inturn achieve the goal of the senior English curriculum standards, in that one can state the opinion and exchange it with others whentalk about the common topic in daily life. Through the paper, we find it is useful for teaching oral English better to improve theteaching theory, enrich the teaching method, and create the practicing forms, teaching in pleasant atmosphere.展开更多
College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some me...College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some methods to develop students' ability of Group Cooperative Learning to know their errors in time and make sure that they can benefit from it so that students have the enthusiasm to improve their oral English.The thesis is mainly about all empirical study of Group Cooperative Leaning in college English oral course.The major experiment was done with some English majors at North University of China.Though many subjects supported Cooperative Learning and believed that it did effectively reduce some anxiety in students' English oral learning and enhanced their interests, the improvement of their English oral ability is far from satisfaction.This thesis employs questionnaire survey and contrastive analysis methods.This research paper means to investigate the Group Cooperative Learning of oral English learning for college students.The thesis includes five parts.The first part illustrates the purpose, significance of the research and the definition of Group Cooperative Learning. The second part shows the research background from abroad and home, and the factors of poor oral English.The third part presents the research design of the author.The fourth part states the results and discussions about the research.The conclusion part summarizes the major findings of research and also explains the limitations of the author's research and further study about Group Cooperative Learning in oral class for English Majors.展开更多
文摘The main goal of English teaching in colleges and universities is to cultivate students’ability to use the language,but many students are still unable to complete oral communication fluently after years of study.For this reason,teachers need to deeply analyze and study the linguistic features of oral English corpora and formulate reasonable teaching strategies to improve students’oral expression skills.This paper outlines the linguistic features of oral English corpora,comparatively analyzes the differences between oral English corpora and written English corpora,and explores effective teaching strategies,hoping to provide guidelines for relevant teachers.
文摘The Internet is an important means of communication for contemporary college students,especially those majoring in English,to acquire knowledge about information and improve their oral proficiency.However,research on the relevant oral English autonomous learning ability of English majors shows that the overall learning situation is not satisfying.Based on the development of the concept of autonomous learning,this article explores the current situation and existing problems in oral English autonomous learning of English majors under the context of the Internet,and proposes corresponding autonomous learning strategies for improving their oral English skill.
文摘An empirical study of oral English blended teaching was conducted in a university.The experiment class,which was under the blended teaching mode supported by digital technology,made significant improvements in language accuracy and range,discourse length and coherence,as well as flexibility and appropriateness.On the other hand,there was no significant improvement in the scores of the control class.Through the analysis of results by means of independent t-test and paired sample t-test,we drew the following conclusions:the oral performance of university students from the experiment class significantly improved;there was remarkable difference in the total oral English scores between the experiment class and the control class;the improvement in the total score and the score of each module showed that blended teaching had significant effect on the improvement of university students’oral English performance.
文摘It is out of the question that oral English is very important in non English major teaching and learning in China. But drawing on a series of investigation and evaluation, the article uncovers that in fact the importance oral English is overlooked presently in a number of Chinese universities. After analyzing the underlying causes, the author presents us with some tentative solutions to the problems.
文摘As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.
文摘Since traditional English teaching method, which merely focuses on language teaching but ignores communicative competence, severely impedes the development of students' oral ability. It is high time that English teachers took measures to find a workable and valuable teaching method which can improve students' speaking proficiency effectively. Learning community theory provides a broad space for this, for it regards learning as a process which takes place in a community where the learners are sharing their experience towards knowledge building in an interactive and cooperative way.
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Nowadays, it is obvious to see the importance of oral English competence. Cultivating students' oral English competence is not only the need of the development of the society but also the development of college students. This paper will analyze existing problems of English majors in Xi'an Fanyi University. Based on this, the author will put forward some countermeasures to improve their oral English competence.
文摘To make oral test accurately reflect the actual English spoken ability of candidates and play its role in guiding and promoting the improvement of English learners in the teaching, we must ensure that the design of scientific questions, the feasibility and validity of judgments to make an accurate and fair measurement of testers' language ability.
文摘This study employs a Q methodology to explore the developmental routines of oral English ability for 12 English major students in China inspired by Complex and Dynamic Systems Theory(CDST).The data analysis suggests the next findings:(1)two developmental patterns emerge as the gradual improvement and the strong phase shift influenced by internal and external factors for interactions among different subsystems;(2)guided by CDST,the study proves the importance of self-organization and initial condition in previous studies.According to the above findings,It is highly suggested for teachers to form a holistic view of students’oral English development concerning the non-linear characteristic and individual differences.
文摘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
文摘This is a reflection on how cultural schema principles might be incorporated into the Oral English classroom. More specifically, it notes on how a strategy was developed for freshmen and sophomore classes of English majors over the period of an entire term. The findings indicate that Cultural Schema Theory plays a significant role in the facilitation of College English.
文摘Speaking is the main purpose and most important skill for second language learning.This paper reviews the important validity considerations in designing a test,such as face validity,content validity,on the basis of which the author analyzes the oral test paper for the postgraduate entrance interview in Shaanxi University of Technology,thus putting forward some methods to improve the test paper.
文摘Role-play is recommended as a useful method to solve the problem of oral English teaching. It's much more than a performance and it can be considered as a way to vary the kinds of spoken interaction that learners can experience in the classroom of universities. Through the use of role-play, oral English teaching becomes more interesting and attractive; university students can gain more oral English skills in the mini society atmosphere, and the accuracy and fluency of their oral English will be improved.
文摘Group work method plays an important role in oral English teaching,and appropriate application of the group activities to oral English class can improve students'oral English effectively.This paper focus on the relationship between group work and oral English teaching,the principles,merits and the types of group works in oral English class.The aim is to improve the efficiency of oral English teaching and students'oral ability effectively.
文摘This paper intends to give a brief overview of oral English testing for non-English major students in Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical (TCM) University, which is located in a minority autonomous province in the southern part of P.R. China. It arises from the concrete problems facing Chinese teachers of English who feel troubled when offering an oral English test to an ever increasing number of non-English major students at the end of each semester. The frustration comes not only from the labor intensive and time consuming activity but also from the surrounding ethical issues of subjectivity by the teachers and of injustice to the students to give and receive fair marks. Moreover, there is a conflicting gap between the criteria used by the foreign native English speaking teachers and Chinese teachers of English because of their different cultural background and concept of testing. Nevertheless, an oral English test was designed and the procedures were devised, adopted, and administered to assess the student’s performance. The test and procedures, based on the national course syllabus for testing non-English majors, the level of attainment in oral English of the students, and the limited number of teaching personnel in the TCM University, utilized two different approaches. The native English speakers follow their own concept of devising formats of group testing procedures and assessment criteria forms highlighting communicative interaction. Meanwhile, the Chinese teachers of English emphasize individual rehearsed presentations and ask the student to follow up questions, to make further comment, and inquire about learning experience from the passage in order to make assessment and evaluation. Final student scores were calculated by combining daily participation of the student, the assessment foreign teacher, and the evaluation of Chinese teachers.
文摘English speaking has been paid more attention today, especially in the age of globalization. Teachers are attempting to find out more effective methods to enhance the teaching results of English speaking. Facing the great demands and present difficulties of oral English classes, teachers have to conduct more study and practice to find out what roles that an oral English teacher has to take in the oral English classroom. Compared with the traditional teaching role in the English classroom, an oral English teacher has to fulfill more than one role in the classroom teaching so as to provide better learning conditions for students. Lacking more exposure to the real interaction with native speakers, students expect the oral English teacher to be a creator of the language environment. With various teaching and learning activities in the oral English classroom, the teacher has to be a good organizer to ensure every student to achieve improvement. An oral English teacher also has to correct students'language errors while ensuring the smooth progress of the classroom teaching. Only when an oral English teacher make clear what roles he or she has to take in the classroom can he or she achieve effective teaching.
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At senior high, the oral English class is usually ignored for some reasons, so it will be a main question for students tocommunicate successfully in English. Considering the present situation and teaching content at oral English class, we will talkabout and conclude the method and form of oral English teaching and practicing in terms of the senior high English teachers. It isexpected to inspire teachers to pay more attention to the oral teaching, to raise students' interest in oral English learning, which inturn achieve the goal of the senior English curriculum standards, in that one can state the opinion and exchange it with others whentalk about the common topic in daily life. Through the paper, we find it is useful for teaching oral English better to improve theteaching theory, enrich the teaching method, and create the practicing forms, teaching in pleasant atmosphere.
文摘College students have better English foundations for them to develop English speaking abilities.However, most of them are not good at it compared with reading and listening.Therefore, teachers need to find out some methods to develop students' ability of Group Cooperative Learning to know their errors in time and make sure that they can benefit from it so that students have the enthusiasm to improve their oral English.The thesis is mainly about all empirical study of Group Cooperative Leaning in college English oral course.The major experiment was done with some English majors at North University of China.Though many subjects supported Cooperative Learning and believed that it did effectively reduce some anxiety in students' English oral learning and enhanced their interests, the improvement of their English oral ability is far from satisfaction.This thesis employs questionnaire survey and contrastive analysis methods.This research paper means to investigate the Group Cooperative Learning of oral English learning for college students.The thesis includes five parts.The first part illustrates the purpose, significance of the research and the definition of Group Cooperative Learning. The second part shows the research background from abroad and home, and the factors of poor oral English.The third part presents the research design of the author.The fourth part states the results and discussions about the research.The conclusion part summarizes the major findings of research and also explains the limitations of the author's research and further study about Group Cooperative Learning in oral class for English Majors.
