Speaking competence is one of the basic skills of language acquisition.The teaching of speaking skill has been attached great importance to in College English education in China.For decades,people have made efforts to...Speaking competence is one of the basic skills of language acquisition.The teaching of speaking skill has been attached great importance to in College English education in China.For decades,people have made efforts to improve the classroom teaching effects through various means,one of which is that of communicative approach.This paper attempts to explore the design of a spoken English lesson through a case study in the light of communicative theory,thus providing an alternative to the conventional spoken English course teaching method.展开更多
In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used...In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used in English teaching is not very suitable, and the traditional teaching is very boring and inefficient. The traditional teaching does not give students a real world situation to practice their English speaking and it does not cultivate their learning interests. This phenomenon continued in the students English learning for many years, and students can not use the English to communicate in their daily life. This phenomenon appears in oral English teaching in college schools as well, In order to solve the problems, the paper firstly describes the problem of English spoken teaching in college schools in Chi na. And then it analyzes the performance of problem and the cause of problems. The aim is that we find the problem and deficiency of Eng lish spoken teaching in college schools and use Role play as an effective way to solve these problems. Moreover, how to uses the role play specifically in the spoken English teaching, So that the role play can help teacher change traditional teaching method, enhance students’ oral communication ability, cultivate the students’learning interests and improve spoken English teaching in colleges.展开更多
A number of approaches have been developed to analyze spoken discourse,based on different theoretical perspectives.Iwould classify the approaches into two categories according to their attitudes toward the nature of s...A number of approaches have been developed to analyze spoken discourse,based on different theoretical perspectives.Iwould classify the approaches into two categories according to their attitudes toward the nature of spoken discourse in this essay.The first group regards spoken discourse in a more static point of view,while the second one takes more consideration of the dynam-ic nature of it.展开更多
Politeness symbolizes human civilization,and is one of conduct codes of human beings.As a social activity,language use is subject to this code as well.Pragmatic vagueness is a common phenomenon in spoken discourse.Fur...Politeness symbolizes human civilization,and is one of conduct codes of human beings.As a social activity,language use is subject to this code as well.Pragmatic vagueness is a common phenomenon in spoken discourse.Furthermore,it is an important strategy widely used in teachers' spoken language.Based on the politeness principle,this thesis explores the pragmatic vagueness by analyzing teachers' spoken discourse.Employing pragmatic vagueness in teacher's spoken language can smooth the relationship between teachers and students,and help teachers gain foremost effect on the education to their students.展开更多
Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability o...Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability of speaking. By more practice, the students can speak fluent English and express themselves freely.展开更多
With globalization there is an increasing need for spoken English for Chinese college students. However, the situation of the teaching system of spoken English in most universities in China is not satisfactory. Influe...With globalization there is an increasing need for spoken English for Chinese college students. However, the situation of the teaching system of spoken English in most universities in China is not satisfactory. Influenced by the exam-oriented teaching system, great importance has been put on English grammar and the skills of reading and writing. As a result, students'enthusiasm in improving their spoken English is diminished. Actually, students need some knowledge about English culture background before they can communicate effectively. It is significant for teachers to find out the students'wants and lacks during their spoken English study. Besides, attentions should be paid to English culture background in spoken English classes by both teachers and students. This paper mainly aimed at finding out the needs of students for English culture background in spoken English classes based on the theory of needs analysis.展开更多
Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of ...Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of talents are supposed to master academic knowledge of economy and trade as well as the related business knowledge. Moreover, they should have excellent competences of expressing themselves orally in foreign language. English is the popular language that is used in international communication. All English majors in Liuzhou City Vocational College (LCVC) are majoring in Business English. According to some research, one of the weakest abilities of business major is spoken English. Hence, it becomes an important task for teachers to enhance students' spoken English competence on business. This article is talking about this teaching condition and to make some analyzes and put forward some reform suggestions based on the investigation.展开更多
At present,in the English teaching of college,students' reading and writing skills can be passed,but conversational and interpersonal skills are very poor.This article aims to propose a solution to the analysis of...At present,in the English teaching of college,students' reading and writing skills can be passed,but conversational and interpersonal skills are very poor.This article aims to propose a solution to the analysis of this phenomenon,for the purpose of the improvement of China's college students' English.展开更多
Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differen...Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differences between spoken language and written language in four respects and their influence in English teaching.展开更多
The paper analyzes the characteristics of the spoken English class and proposes the suggestions to the teachers in term of how to design the spoken English class, organize and administrate the class and assess the lea...The paper analyzes the characteristics of the spoken English class and proposes the suggestions to the teachers in term of how to design the spoken English class, organize and administrate the class and assess the learners' oral English ability. The paper introduces the various classroom activities and how to conduct them in teachers' teaching process as well.展开更多
Language anxiety is the anxiety or disconcerted feeling felt by language learners when they need to express in foreign languages or second foreign language.Anxiety is very important emotional barrier in language learn...Language anxiety is the anxiety or disconcerted feeling felt by language learners when they need to express in foreign languages or second foreign language.Anxiety is very important emotional barrier in language learning,and it has important im pact on language learning,especially on spoken language learning.The general lack of spoken language capacity in university stu dents is an incontrovertible fact,and language anxiety is one of the important reasons that cause the imperfect effect of spoken lan guage teaching.This article generally talks about the main reasons for language anxiety,which include the barrier by self-esteem,risk-taking,competitiveness to spoken language learning of university students.This article also discusses a series of countermea sure to ease the language anxiety,so as to reduce the anxiety effectively to promote the teaching of university spoken English.展开更多
In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue a...In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue and improve learners' oral English competence. Based on the theories of language transfer, this thesis mainly focuses on, error analysis and inter-language theory. In recent years, more and more scholars have studied the transfer of mother tongue in the field of College English teaching, and the points are also different. However, there is little research on the influence of mother tongue transfer in non English majors' spoken English. This case study chooses a non-English major student as the research object, and analyzes the causes of errors and linguistic categories in spoken English. The motivation of this student for learning spoken English is to attend graduate oral interview and TOEFL. This subject were asked to attend two oral tests and an interview. Through the anglicizing and investigating of the experimental data, the author finds that the errors in spoken English by the student are mainly affected by the negative transfer and negative cultural transfer of mother tongue. The errors of spoken language transfer are mainly reflected in phonetics, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. This thesis will focus on three aspects: vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. The research results also show that the most difficult problem for non English majors in the course of spoken English is the lack of vocabulary. And so it is difficult to express their ideas in English.展开更多
The difficulty of teaching Business Spoken English involves the designing an applicable course plan in a structured and coherent manner, motivating and enabling students to acquire both business knowledge and language...The difficulty of teaching Business Spoken English involves the designing an applicable course plan in a structured and coherent manner, motivating and enabling students to acquire both business knowledge and language skills effectively. This essay discusses the needs of knowing who are the students and emphasizes the importance of learning with interest through offering a diversified learning materials and teaching equipments. Additionally, a proper evaluation plan should be developed to assess the students'overall performance and progress.展开更多
Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insi...Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insights for the improvement of spoken English teaching in middle schools and discusses the enlightments of Input Hypothesis in middle school spoken English teaching.展开更多
The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich fea...The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich features such as lexical density, grammatical intricacy, and use of noun phrase of some examples. Therefore, students may learn how to write in a new point of view.展开更多
Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses cont...Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses contextual factors in English Language Teaching in the major, and discusses the practices of communicative language teaching which could be adapted to this context, in which learners are undergraduates of International Economics and Trade, then the importance and difficulties of the teaching approach has been highlighted.展开更多
Spoken English is one of the most practical skill that students need to obtain.However there exist many problems in Spoken English Teaching in China,one of the most serious problem is that it lacks sufficient practice...Spoken English is one of the most practical skill that students need to obtain.However there exist many problems in Spoken English Teaching in China,one of the most serious problem is that it lacks sufficient practice.According to the interaction hypothesis(Long, Gass), second language acquisition occurs when learners interact in conversation with native speakers and/or each other.Based on this hypothesis,the author presents some new insights for improving Spoken English Teaching and discusses its enlightenment in Spoken English Teaching Classroom.展开更多
Currently, the concept of spoken grammar has been mentioned among Chinese teachers. However, teach- ers in China still have a vague idea of spoken grammar. Therefore this dissertation examines what spoken grammar is a...Currently, the concept of spoken grammar has been mentioned among Chinese teachers. However, teach- ers in China still have a vague idea of spoken grammar. Therefore this dissertation examines what spoken grammar is and argues that native speakers’ model of spoken grammar needs to be highlighted in the classroom teaching.展开更多
A scenic-spot introduction-task-oriented 3Dvirtual human spoken dialogue system—EasyGuide is introduced.The system includes five modules:natural language processing,task domain knowledge database,dialogue management,...A scenic-spot introduction-task-oriented 3Dvirtual human spoken dialogue system—EasyGuide is introduced.The system includes five modules:natural language processing,task domain knowledge database,dialogue management,voice processing and 3Dvirtual human text-to-visual speech synthesis.In the first module,dictionary construction along with sentence analysis and semantic representation are illustrated specifically.A tree-structured knowledge database is designed for the task domain.A novel framework based on the keyword analysis and context constraints is proposed as the dialogue management.As for voice processing module,a software development kit which performs speech recognition and synthesis is introduced briefly.In the last module,3Dviseme synthesis is explained with examples and a text-driven facial animation system is presented.Evaluation results show that the system can achieve satisfactory performance.展开更多
Based on the overall view of communication theory and spoken English language testing system,this paper has conducted a comprehensive and specific observation and research on how examiner non-verbal behavior has affec...Based on the overall view of communication theory and spoken English language testing system,this paper has conducted a comprehensive and specific observation and research on how examiner non-verbal behavior has affected candidate performance.The research has found out that not only examiner behavior including non-verbal behavior but language testing scenario itself is of communicative nature and examiner’s non-verbal behavior indeed promotes examinee’s test performance,which can help to better understand spoken testing system,examiner non-verbal behavior,and testing environment to promote the development of language speaking test and reflect examinee’s real language competence and ability.展开更多
文摘Speaking competence is one of the basic skills of language acquisition.The teaching of speaking skill has been attached great importance to in College English education in China.For decades,people have made efforts to improve the classroom teaching effects through various means,one of which is that of communicative approach.This paper attempts to explore the design of a spoken English lesson through a case study in the light of communicative theory,thus providing an alternative to the conventional spoken English course teaching method.
文摘In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used in English teaching is not very suitable, and the traditional teaching is very boring and inefficient. The traditional teaching does not give students a real world situation to practice their English speaking and it does not cultivate their learning interests. This phenomenon continued in the students English learning for many years, and students can not use the English to communicate in their daily life. This phenomenon appears in oral English teaching in college schools as well, In order to solve the problems, the paper firstly describes the problem of English spoken teaching in college schools in Chi na. And then it analyzes the performance of problem and the cause of problems. The aim is that we find the problem and deficiency of Eng lish spoken teaching in college schools and use Role play as an effective way to solve these problems. Moreover, how to uses the role play specifically in the spoken English teaching, So that the role play can help teacher change traditional teaching method, enhance students’ oral communication ability, cultivate the students’learning interests and improve spoken English teaching in colleges.
文摘A number of approaches have been developed to analyze spoken discourse,based on different theoretical perspectives.Iwould classify the approaches into two categories according to their attitudes toward the nature of spoken discourse in this essay.The first group regards spoken discourse in a more static point of view,while the second one takes more consideration of the dynam-ic nature of it.
文摘Politeness symbolizes human civilization,and is one of conduct codes of human beings.As a social activity,language use is subject to this code as well.Pragmatic vagueness is a common phenomenon in spoken discourse.Furthermore,it is an important strategy widely used in teachers' spoken language.Based on the politeness principle,this thesis explores the pragmatic vagueness by analyzing teachers' spoken discourse.Employing pragmatic vagueness in teacher's spoken language can smooth the relationship between teachers and students,and help teachers gain foremost effect on the education to their students.
文摘Language is considered as a tool of communication in the world. Spoken English is very important in English learning and teaching. As an English teacher, we should speak English more and foster students' ability of speaking. By more practice, the students can speak fluent English and express themselves freely.
文摘With globalization there is an increasing need for spoken English for Chinese college students. However, the situation of the teaching system of spoken English in most universities in China is not satisfactory. Influenced by the exam-oriented teaching system, great importance has been put on English grammar and the skills of reading and writing. As a result, students'enthusiasm in improving their spoken English is diminished. Actually, students need some knowledge about English culture background before they can communicate effectively. It is significant for teachers to find out the students'wants and lacks during their spoken English study. Besides, attentions should be paid to English culture background in spoken English classes by both teachers and students. This paper mainly aimed at finding out the needs of students for English culture background in spoken English classes based on the theory of needs analysis.
文摘Nowadays, China's foreign trade can not be compared with what it was before. As the foreign trade business has developed rapidly, a great deal of qualified talents on economy and trades are needed. These kinds of talents are supposed to master academic knowledge of economy and trade as well as the related business knowledge. Moreover, they should have excellent competences of expressing themselves orally in foreign language. English is the popular language that is used in international communication. All English majors in Liuzhou City Vocational College (LCVC) are majoring in Business English. According to some research, one of the weakest abilities of business major is spoken English. Hence, it becomes an important task for teachers to enhance students' spoken English competence on business. This article is talking about this teaching condition and to make some analyzes and put forward some reform suggestions based on the investigation.
文摘At present,in the English teaching of college,students' reading and writing skills can be passed,but conversational and interpersonal skills are very poor.This article aims to propose a solution to the analysis of this phenomenon,for the purpose of the improvement of China's college students' English.
文摘Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differences between spoken language and written language in four respects and their influence in English teaching.
文摘The paper analyzes the characteristics of the spoken English class and proposes the suggestions to the teachers in term of how to design the spoken English class, organize and administrate the class and assess the learners' oral English ability. The paper introduces the various classroom activities and how to conduct them in teachers' teaching process as well.
文摘Language anxiety is the anxiety or disconcerted feeling felt by language learners when they need to express in foreign languages or second foreign language.Anxiety is very important emotional barrier in language learning,and it has important im pact on language learning,especially on spoken language learning.The general lack of spoken language capacity in university stu dents is an incontrovertible fact,and language anxiety is one of the important reasons that cause the imperfect effect of spoken lan guage teaching.This article generally talks about the main reasons for language anxiety,which include the barrier by self-esteem,risk-taking,competitiveness to spoken language learning of university students.This article also discusses a series of countermea sure to ease the language anxiety,so as to reduce the anxiety effectively to promote the teaching of university spoken English.
文摘In field of Second Language Acquisition, mother tongue has both positive transfer and negative transfer. Using proper foreign language learning strategies can effectively avoid the negative transfer of mother tongue and improve learners' oral English competence. Based on the theories of language transfer, this thesis mainly focuses on, error analysis and inter-language theory. In recent years, more and more scholars have studied the transfer of mother tongue in the field of College English teaching, and the points are also different. However, there is little research on the influence of mother tongue transfer in non English majors' spoken English. This case study chooses a non-English major student as the research object, and analyzes the causes of errors and linguistic categories in spoken English. The motivation of this student for learning spoken English is to attend graduate oral interview and TOEFL. This subject were asked to attend two oral tests and an interview. Through the anglicizing and investigating of the experimental data, the author finds that the errors in spoken English by the student are mainly affected by the negative transfer and negative cultural transfer of mother tongue. The errors of spoken language transfer are mainly reflected in phonetics, vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. This thesis will focus on three aspects: vocabulary, syntax and pragmatics. The research results also show that the most difficult problem for non English majors in the course of spoken English is the lack of vocabulary. And so it is difficult to express their ideas in English.
文摘The difficulty of teaching Business Spoken English involves the designing an applicable course plan in a structured and coherent manner, motivating and enabling students to acquire both business knowledge and language skills effectively. This essay discusses the needs of knowing who are the students and emphasizes the importance of learning with interest through offering a diversified learning materials and teaching equipments. Additionally, a proper evaluation plan should be developed to assess the students'overall performance and progress.
文摘Speaking is one of the most important skills in English learning. However, there exist many problems in the spoken English teaching classroom. Based on Krashen's Input Hypothesis, the author presents some new insights for the improvement of spoken English teaching in middle schools and discusses the enlightments of Input Hypothesis in middle school spoken English teaching.
文摘The most important reason why an average writing is different from a good writing lies in whether the writing uses written language or spoken language. To tell the differences between them, the essay analyzes rich features such as lexical density, grammatical intricacy, and use of noun phrase of some examples. Therefore, students may learn how to write in a new point of view.
文摘Enhancing the ability of oral communication is the general trend of language teaching in China. Through analyzing the characteristics of International Economics and Trade Major, this paper identifies and analyses contextual factors in English Language Teaching in the major, and discusses the practices of communicative language teaching which could be adapted to this context, in which learners are undergraduates of International Economics and Trade, then the importance and difficulties of the teaching approach has been highlighted.
文摘Spoken English is one of the most practical skill that students need to obtain.However there exist many problems in Spoken English Teaching in China,one of the most serious problem is that it lacks sufficient practice.According to the interaction hypothesis(Long, Gass), second language acquisition occurs when learners interact in conversation with native speakers and/or each other.Based on this hypothesis,the author presents some new insights for improving Spoken English Teaching and discusses its enlightenment in Spoken English Teaching Classroom.
文摘Currently, the concept of spoken grammar has been mentioned among Chinese teachers. However, teach- ers in China still have a vague idea of spoken grammar. Therefore this dissertation examines what spoken grammar is and argues that native speakers’ model of spoken grammar needs to be highlighted in the classroom teaching.
基金Supported by the Ministerial Level Advanced Research Foundation(404050301.4)the National Natural Science Foundation of hina(60605015)
文摘A scenic-spot introduction-task-oriented 3Dvirtual human spoken dialogue system—EasyGuide is introduced.The system includes five modules:natural language processing,task domain knowledge database,dialogue management,voice processing and 3Dvirtual human text-to-visual speech synthesis.In the first module,dictionary construction along with sentence analysis and semantic representation are illustrated specifically.A tree-structured knowledge database is designed for the task domain.A novel framework based on the keyword analysis and context constraints is proposed as the dialogue management.As for voice processing module,a software development kit which performs speech recognition and synthesis is introduced briefly.In the last module,3Dviseme synthesis is explained with examples and a text-driven facial animation system is presented.Evaluation results show that the system can achieve satisfactory performance.
文摘Based on the overall view of communication theory and spoken English language testing system,this paper has conducted a comprehensive and specific observation and research on how examiner non-verbal behavior has affected candidate performance.The research has found out that not only examiner behavior including non-verbal behavior but language testing scenario itself is of communicative nature and examiner’s non-verbal behavior indeed promotes examinee’s test performance,which can help to better understand spoken testing system,examiner non-verbal behavior,and testing environment to promote the development of language speaking test and reflect examinee’s real language competence and ability.
