The Key Principles for Developing Speaking Skills

Of all the four skills listening, speaking, reading and writing, speaking seems to be the most important one. During the teaching process, there are so many difficuties in speaking that the students cannot solve. In the paper, it is mentioned some approaches to improve the speaking ability of the students, they are useful and efficient for teaching.     

Some Effective Reading Strategies and Skills:Their Application to English Text Teaching in SSOT

I.Purpose of the Study In the essay,we hope to call the teachers' attention to the importance about reading and text teaching.Theoretically and practically,we have a try to introduce some effective strategies and skills.1.1.Introduction English learning is difficult for many Chinese learners.One of the major causes is that English and Chinese belong to different language systems.Another important cause is the fault of current methods that many teachers have been applying.In the process of text teaching,problems are mainly present in the following two aspects:One is that some teachers and students neglect the importance of reading;Another aspect is that text materials are utilized insufficiently,that is to say,enough reading strategies and skills are not applied in text teaching.     

Report on Reading Task in ESL Teaching Classroom

Discourse has exerted a great influence on Chinese college English teaching. This report demonstrates one task that involve reading that has been used in teaching to develop discourse skills in the ELT classroom in China. It concludes the report with some overall comments on teaching discourse skills, based on personal experience.     

提高英语阅读能力的策略

Reading is a necessity for people＇s daily life and future development in modern society. It is not only one of the important language skills which learners needed,but also the main method learners use to get information. The purpose of this study is to research the good skills in the English reading. the information about reading and then many strategies which influence reading abilities are presented. it summarizes the significant effects of using these strategies in class teaching and improving students＇ reading ability.     

On how to teach reading

This thesis tries to pursue how to teach reading,how to develop the students' reading competence,and how to improve their reading ability.It is intended to study the issue from the nature of reading-the features of written language,and the physical process of reading.After the explanation of models of reading,I present several strategies for reading comprehension,for our teachers to discuss,to teach the students,as well as some more techniques and more cautions in teaching reading.     

An Approach to English Phonetics Teaching

Any effective foreign language course aims at developing the skills of listening,speaking,reading and writing.Each of these four skills is based on three main elements of language:pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.Pronunciation is the first important category of the three.In this article, I shall provide you with some practical suggestions for teaching this course.     

Practical Advice on Improve Students' Reading Ability

English reading has been considered as the most important part in college English teaching and has been paid much attention to.Improving students＇ reading ability has always been a focus in college English teaching,for the students will obtain the information conveyed in English mainly through reading.However,the teaching effect is not satisfactory.To train the students to get good reading levels is an important objective pursued by the teachers.This thesis will analyze the problems of the students ＇ reading,and give some practical advice on improve students ＇ reading ability.     

On the Cultivation of Intensive Reading Skills

This paper concerns the importance of the cultivation of reading skills,the characteristics of intensive reading and how to cultivate the intensive reading skills.Since the focus of this papre is how to cultivate the intensive reading skills,we make a systematic exposition from three points:word study,grammar patterns and text.     

A Study of the Item Analysis in Quality Evaluation of CET-6 Multiple-Choice Cloze

The cloze test is constructed by deleting words from a selected passage and the examinees are required to complete broken patterns by filling in the blanks in order for the passage to make sense.It aims at testing examinees’comprehensive language knowledge and skills.In this paper,the author analyzes items of a sample cloze test taken from CET6.     

Schema Theory and the Teaching of Reading

Schema theory indicates that prior knowledge forms a schema in the mind and this will inevitably influence reading comprehension. Therefore, in the teaching of reading, teachers should find ways to activate the schemata in the mind of the students. Titles, headlines and pictures in a text may serve the function. All texts are related to cultnre to some degree, especially in the case of texts introducing foreign cultures. Therefore, it is also important to integrate cultural factors in teaching, which will form new schemata in the mind of the students. Besides that, teaching materials should be chosen in accordance with the students＇ level of knowledge. New knowledge should be kept in an appropriate proportion to the old knowledge. Only in this way can the schemata stored in the mind of the students be activated easily, and new knowledge will also be acquired at the same time.     

A Case Study of Teaching New College English Integrated Course in an Interactive Approach

New College English Integrated Course book integrates all four skills rather than emphasizing one particular skill in isolation. Because integrated skills are at the heart of the text book,the interactive approach would be the best choice to maximize opportunities for students to develop their language skills and abilities. This paper introduces the organization and important features of text book,and then explains with an example how the interactive approach is embodied in the practical classroom teaching.     

The Problems in English Testing System

Testing is a means of enabling quality of teachers’ teaching and acquisition of students’ language learning. Considering the problems existing in the current English education and testing system, teachers should try to improve the validity and reliability of English language testing,which should cover 5 skills: the competence of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation.     

Effective Ways for Promoting College English Teaching——Laying emphasis on reading teaching

In order to improve the students' reading ability,teachers should deal with the relationship between teaching and reading,following the principles of high input and helping the students to eliminate different obstacles during the course of English teaching,teachers are also supposed to balance relationships among intensive reading,extensive reading and fast reading while we are selecting and using readingmaterials.In addition,this article particularly refers to repetition in effective reading ways--an effective reading skill but often neglected bymost students.     

The Necessity of Teaching Oral Skills in the Classroom

Today teaching oral communicative skills has gradually become an acknowledged approach in China.As English teachers,we should create a spoken English learning environment and encourage students to practice more.This paper advances the necessity of oral skills teaching in the classroom.While teaching,we should be aware of the cultural differences between the east and the west and find appropriate methods to engage learners in appropriate conversations.Then we can achieve the final purpose of teaching the target language.     

Developing College Students’ English Speaking Skills in Chinese Context

As one of the four important communication skills,speaking has long been neglected in the language teaching,while oral English teaching has always been the weak points in college English education.Since China began to reform and open the door to the outside world,oral English becomes more and more important.However,the traditional oral English education failed to meet the demand of social development,for many graduates couldn’t communicate in English smoothly.This is due to the inappropriateness of traditional oral English education.The thesis is to discuss the present condition of Chinese students in oral classroom and sets up a new teaching model.In this part the new model is discussed in detail from the perspective of students,teaching materials,teacher,and teaching method.     

The Effect of Background Knowledge On Chinese EFL Learners' Reading

With lots of researches concerning reading, the effect of background knowledge on L2 reading comprehension has been in the spotlight. This research aims at finding out the role of background knowledge on reading when Chinese EFL readers have certain linguistic proficiency. A group of advanced freshmen of Shandong Agricultural University takes part in the research. The results speak loud for our present situation in China's EFL teaching: advocation of culture teaching.     

Some Approaches to Stimulate Students'''' Interest in Reading

It presents a detailed report of the project implemented to solve the problem that is difficult for my students to understand.if we have trained for a four-week classroom teaching using the varied reading skills.The learners' reading interests will be improved.Methods of scientific investigation used are analytic method observation,cause analysis interview,brainstorming and questionnaires.     

TEACHING PRONUNCIATION TO EFL STUDENTS

pronunciation teaching is considered as a basic course in English as a foreign language teaching in China. As we all know that English is a tool of communication between Chinese people and the people abroad,it is very important to have good pronunciation in order to communicate effectively. Though that good pronunciation is necessary for the mastery of a foreign language is accepted as axiomatic by most teachers, yet how the idea translates into the methodologies and techniques of the FEL classroom is still a question. This article will introduce as well as discuss some research findings and some approaches that we may find effective in pronunciation teaching.     

A Brief Analysis of English Teaching

English classes should be learner—centered ,with meaning,functional activities,often,classes begin by finding out what the students don't know.Classroom teaching is the main way for students to learn English.But now,lots of probelms still exalt in the English teaching especially in the teaching of reading and writing.In this pa- per,the importance and methods of reading and writing will be further discussed.     

A Tentative Evaluation of “The Three-step Method” In Teaching English Phonetics In Class

The reform into the method of teaching English phonetics still remains a weat ling, This paper, deals with some efficacious attempts made in the classroom teaching of the English phonetics from the Three-step Method :