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
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
This is a research report on the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening comprehension training. The research investigated 150 non-English majors through a questionnaire in a hig...This is a research report on the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening comprehension training. The research investigated 150 non-English majors through a questionnaire in a higher vocational college. The result indicates that the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening classes which are determined by the listening materials and teaching method directly influences students' listening proficiency and speaking ability. It is suggested that some strategies to be used to foster students' abilities in these three areas so as to improve their listening ability.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
RICH teaching pattern is directed by humanistic thought with main goals to develop comprehensive qualities of students,to improve English applying abilities of students and cultivate teaching qualities of students.Fir...RICH teaching pattern is directed by humanistic thought with main goals to develop comprehensive qualities of students,to improve English applying abilities of students and cultivate teaching qualities of students.Firstly,a brief review is presented about RICH teaching pattern including its background,connotation and gained achievements.Next,as for the important step in RICH teaching pattern-oral report,this paper analyzes its necessity and function in English class and introduces its types and application in the class.In sum,oral report reflects student-centered thought of RICH teaching pattern and is a new method to improve college English teaching efficiency.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
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
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
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
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
English teachers in China are aware that what kind of English teaching method should be employed to improve student 's linguistic acquisition and that communicative competence becomes more and more important.In En...English teachers in China are aware that what kind of English teaching method should be employed to improve student 's linguistic acquisition and that communicative competence becomes more and more important.In English teaching,teachers always make it possible for students to be more often in contacts with the English language,thus creating an atmosphere of learning English language.Help students to jump over the gap between only reading English loudly and speaking English fluently.Here I will show the importance of the teachers ' role in English teaching and their applies in oral English teaching.展开更多
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
Task-based teaching approach(TBTA) is widely accepted and plays a more important role in foreign language teach ing.This paper is aimed at analyzing specific task design and the application of task-based teaching appr...Task-based teaching approach(TBTA) is widely accepted and plays a more important role in foreign language teach ing.This paper is aimed at analyzing specific task design and the application of task-based teaching approach to business oral Eng lish teaching.It briefly introduces what the task-based teaching approach is and Willis'model for TBTA.Based on this model,it probes deeply into the teaching tasks design and teaching procedures.By applying the task-based teaching approach in business oral English teaching,teachers can assign students various tasks in the class to not only arose students'interest in English but also develop their communicative competence of business English.展开更多
The paper analyses the causes of the backwardness of oral English teaching in the universities from the aspects of CET4,oral classes,oral coursebook, teaching methodology and teaching evaluation.It also presents sever...The paper analyses the causes of the backwardness of oral English teaching in the universities from the aspects of CET4,oral classes,oral coursebook, teaching methodology and teaching evaluation.It also presents several strategies to change the unfavorable situation.展开更多
As a widely-used language,English is the most important tool of communication.In recent years,with the rapid social communicative development,English increasingly shows its importance.China's English teaching in c...As a widely-used language,English is the most important tool of communication.In recent years,with the rapid social communicative development,English increasingly shows its importance.China's English teaching in colleges and vocational colleges also increases emphasis on the teaching of spoken English.In this paper,that is,in my vocational college on the practice of oral English teaching,I analyze and explore Spoken English in the teaching process and the difficulties encountered by the setbacks.Vocational college English teaching briefly discusses the status of oral English teaching and teaching strategies.Spoken English Teaching strategy comes from the reflection.展开更多
Present English learning and teaching in colleges especially in Art Academy is far from satisfactory.English,as one of the most important international languages,plays a more and more important role in the internation...Present English learning and teaching in colleges especially in Art Academy is far from satisfactory.English,as one of the most important international languages,plays a more and more important role in the international communication.In this paper,the author tries to apply TBLT(Task-based Language Teaching) to oral English teaching.The experiment chose 102 freshmen of two classes in College of Broadcasting and Hosting in CUCN(Communication University of China,Nanjing) as subjects,lasting 16 weeks all together.In the experimental class,the participants are taught with the new method with the aid of TBLT,while in the controlled class,the traditional approach was utilized.By means of data analysis and daily observation of teaching experiment,with the help of the software SPSS and MATLAB,the comparison of both class and of the EC before and after the experiment has verified that the new method with the aid of TBLT has a more positive effect in improving students'oral proficiency,es pecially for students who had a poor performance in speaking before.展开更多
The pragmatic principle that people should comply with in communicative activities are the principles of cooperation and politeness principle.The principles of cooperation play a regulatory role in communication while...The pragmatic principle that people should comply with in communicative activities are the principles of cooperation and politeness principle.The principles of cooperation play a regulatory role in communication while politeness principle actually has a greater binding.In teaching,teachers should always teach basing on language and make students understand the Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in pragmatics in order to improve oral communication skills.展开更多
The relation of language to culture is a relation of part to whole. Language is the primary means by which a culture transmits its beliefs,values and norms. There exists great difference between Western culture and Ch...The relation of language to culture is a relation of part to whole. Language is the primary means by which a culture transmits its beliefs,values and norms. There exists great difference between Western culture and Chinese culture indeed. For example,the etiquette is one of the most conspicuous differences between them. In a general sense,there is different etiquette due to the factors like geographical position,human race difference,religion. This paper demonstrates the different etiquette culture between Western countries and China from greeting,gratitude,compliments and farewell to guide oral English teaching so that students could cross the barrier on etiquette culture when they communicate with English speakers. The aim of this paper is to arise the attention on etiquette of different cultures for English teachers and combine it with oral English teaching.展开更多
Task-based language teaching approach firmly believes that study should be students' interest, emphasizes"learning bydoing", enables students to acquire language in the process of completing tasks, which...Task-based language teaching approach firmly believes that study should be students' interest, emphasizes"learning bydoing", enables students to acquire language in the process of completing tasks, which solves the problem of laying too much stress on language knowledge and grammar knowledge while ignoring students' emotional attitudes and comprehensive ability to use lan - guage in English teaching. The English Curriculum Standards for primary schools require that the task of English teaching is to arouse students'study interest, and enable students to master certain English knowledge, and form certain language application ability for them. This paper makes a brief study on the use of Task-based Language method in oral English teaching for children, and the instruments referred to include the features, application of task-based approach, the importance of children's spoken Eng- lish, and the reflections from students and teacher.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This is a research report on the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening comprehension training. The research investigated 150 non-English majors through a questionnaire in a higher vocational college. The result indicates that the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening classes which are determined by the listening materials and teaching method directly influences students' listening proficiency and speaking ability. It is suggested that some strategies to be used to foster students' abilities in these three areas so as to improve their listening ability.
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RICH teaching pattern is directed by humanistic thought with main goals to develop comprehensive qualities of students,to improve English applying abilities of students and cultivate teaching qualities of students.Firstly,a brief review is presented about RICH teaching pattern including its background,connotation and gained achievements.Next,as for the important step in RICH teaching pattern-oral report,this paper analyzes its necessity and function in English class and introduces its types and application in the class.In sum,oral report reflects student-centered thought of RICH teaching pattern and is a new method to improve college English teaching efficiency.
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English teachers in China are aware that what kind of English teaching method should be employed to improve student 's linguistic acquisition and that communicative competence becomes more and more important.In English teaching,teachers always make it possible for students to be more often in contacts with the English language,thus creating an atmosphere of learning English language.Help students to jump over the gap between only reading English loudly and speaking English fluently.Here I will show the importance of the teachers ' role in English teaching and their applies in oral English teaching.
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Task-based teaching approach(TBTA) is widely accepted and plays a more important role in foreign language teach ing.This paper is aimed at analyzing specific task design and the application of task-based teaching approach to business oral Eng lish teaching.It briefly introduces what the task-based teaching approach is and Willis'model for TBTA.Based on this model,it probes deeply into the teaching tasks design and teaching procedures.By applying the task-based teaching approach in business oral English teaching,teachers can assign students various tasks in the class to not only arose students'interest in English but also develop their communicative competence of business English.
文摘The paper analyses the causes of the backwardness of oral English teaching in the universities from the aspects of CET4,oral classes,oral coursebook, teaching methodology and teaching evaluation.It also presents several strategies to change the unfavorable situation.
文摘As a widely-used language,English is the most important tool of communication.In recent years,with the rapid social communicative development,English increasingly shows its importance.China's English teaching in colleges and vocational colleges also increases emphasis on the teaching of spoken English.In this paper,that is,in my vocational college on the practice of oral English teaching,I analyze and explore Spoken English in the teaching process and the difficulties encountered by the setbacks.Vocational college English teaching briefly discusses the status of oral English teaching and teaching strategies.Spoken English Teaching strategy comes from the reflection.
文摘Present English learning and teaching in colleges especially in Art Academy is far from satisfactory.English,as one of the most important international languages,plays a more and more important role in the international communication.In this paper,the author tries to apply TBLT(Task-based Language Teaching) to oral English teaching.The experiment chose 102 freshmen of two classes in College of Broadcasting and Hosting in CUCN(Communication University of China,Nanjing) as subjects,lasting 16 weeks all together.In the experimental class,the participants are taught with the new method with the aid of TBLT,while in the controlled class,the traditional approach was utilized.By means of data analysis and daily observation of teaching experiment,with the help of the software SPSS and MATLAB,the comparison of both class and of the EC before and after the experiment has verified that the new method with the aid of TBLT has a more positive effect in improving students'oral proficiency,es pecially for students who had a poor performance in speaking before.
文摘The pragmatic principle that people should comply with in communicative activities are the principles of cooperation and politeness principle.The principles of cooperation play a regulatory role in communication while politeness principle actually has a greater binding.In teaching,teachers should always teach basing on language and make students understand the Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle in pragmatics in order to improve oral communication skills.
文摘The relation of language to culture is a relation of part to whole. Language is the primary means by which a culture transmits its beliefs,values and norms. There exists great difference between Western culture and Chinese culture indeed. For example,the etiquette is one of the most conspicuous differences between them. In a general sense,there is different etiquette due to the factors like geographical position,human race difference,religion. This paper demonstrates the different etiquette culture between Western countries and China from greeting,gratitude,compliments and farewell to guide oral English teaching so that students could cross the barrier on etiquette culture when they communicate with English speakers. The aim of this paper is to arise the attention on etiquette of different cultures for English teachers and combine it with oral English teaching.
文摘Task-based language teaching approach firmly believes that study should be students' interest, emphasizes"learning bydoing", enables students to acquire language in the process of completing tasks, which solves the problem of laying too much stress on language knowledge and grammar knowledge while ignoring students' emotional attitudes and comprehensive ability to use lan - guage in English teaching. The English Curriculum Standards for primary schools require that the task of English teaching is to arouse students'study interest, and enable students to master certain English knowledge, and form certain language application ability for them. This paper makes a brief study on the use of Task-based Language method in oral English teaching for children, and the instruments referred to include the features, application of task-based approach, the importance of children's spoken Eng- lish, and the reflections from students and teacher.
