The Illocutionary Language Communicating Model and Its Application In College English Teaching

This essay aims at making a research on the college students’English learning development.Some useful and efficient methods and practice are introduced,to make teaching more effective and to help students learn better on the basis of the illocutionary language communicating model.Successful learning should be learner-centered and in real-life communication.It should be realized by both the instructors and learners.In this essay,according to instructor’s testing standard data,with listening,reading,translating learning guidance included,this illocutionary model and its application in college English teaching is discussed.     

On How to Teach New Words in the Class of English for Civil Servants

Learning new words in English is one of the greatest obstacles for Guangzhou's civil servants.This essay is to introduce some approaches of teaching English vocabulary,such as syllable division and oral English teaching,which helps the students to rush through the bottleneck of learning English vocabulary.     

Use of Knowledge of Word Formation in English Vocabulary Teaching

The general and traditional ways to learn English words are too boring and unsystematic, which is a weak point in students’English learning. The author has conducted a survey among freshmen, sophomores, juniors to find out the points,combined the results of the survey with features of memory and storage system, put forward word formation. This essay also presents the advantages of word formation in English vocabulary teaching and learning and introduces five main categories of word formation.     

How to Foster Students＇ Ability of Studying Independently——English Study for Example

Among students＇ abilities,the important one is the ability of studying independently.It is the teachers＇ indispensable task to foster students＇ ability of studying independently.This essay deals with the problem that how a teacher can foster the ability of student self-study,especially English study,from these perspectives：the nature,the characteristics,the conditions and the structure of the ability of independent study.The appropriate methods that the teacher should take in the process of fostering the ability are discussed in the last part of this essay.     

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.     

The Teacher's Role and Teaching Procedures in the Teaching of Oral English

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.     

Teaching College English by Metacognitive Strategies

In an information society,the English knowledge in capacity for college students has gradually been improved and its range is alsoenlarged.If teachers overlook summing up the knowledge which the students have gained and improving their skills in English,it will behard for students to learn English well.In educational circles people often say"teaching method isn’t fixed ",but it is of the same view togive students some basic regularity,let students have enough abilities and make knowledge which the students have gained assimilate and sys-tematize etc.Facing medical college students’tasks are arduous and the students often seem at a loss.In English lessons,it is necessary forteachers to help students find out some basic laws,give students enough skills and methods,let students sum up and classify knowledge whichis scattered,disorderly,bit by bit and even fragmented.     

Some Key Principles for Developing Grammar Skills

Grammar is sometimes defined as "the way words are put together to make correct sentences" (Ur,2004,P. 75). The aim of teaching grammar is to raise the rates of the correctness of language use and help the students transfer the isolated language points to apply language. In this essay,the author introduces two kinds of common methods in English grammar class. And there are some key principles in grammar teaching.     

A Brief Survey Study of English Grammar Teaching Issues and Strategies at Medical College

In this paper the author wants to do two things. Firstly,the author wants to look back at the grammar teaching issues that in her English class——teaching and the reason why the students always do not study the English grammar well. Secondly,this project makes a survey of,the different strategies of English grammar teaching to solve the different issues which the students face in their English learning and in the English teachers’ teaching at Medical College.     

Exploration of Hidden Curriculum in Grammar Teaching

In modern times,many students think English grammar is complex and boring,they learn it just for getting higher scores in English examination.Also most of the English teachers use the traditional teaching method to teach the students and let them control the grammar points rigidly,which makes the students feel the grammar is more difficult and complex.Chinese teachers and students tend to put emphasis on explicit curriculum.Teacher’s teaching methods and how the students to study grammar and other factors all restrict the development of hidden curriculum.In fact it can be mastered easily if we combine it with the exploration of hidden curriculum.By this way they can become fond of it little by little and they can find that their ability is greatly improved,they can benefit a lot in every aspect at last.Here I will state it in details about how to explore the hidden curriculum through English grammar 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.     

ESP/EST in Theory and Practice

Two developments in the methodology of English teaching have been seen. One is the transition from ELT(English Language Teaching) to ESP(English for Special Purposes)teaching. The other is the transition from linguistic forms and syntactic structures to communicative activities. This essay discusses the classification of ESP/EST, argues for the purpose of ESP/EST teaching and GPE(General Purpose English)teaching. It is then suggested that the characteristics of objectives between ESP/EST and GPE should be differentiated. In the second part, the essay takes as its starting point two kinds of EST courses offered in institutions of higher learning in China. One has the nature of in-service language teaching. The other deals with the EST-majoring programme. The essay seeks to identify what are the main features of the EST-majoring programme, and stresses its practical nature of training and the concern with the learners' communicative competence.     

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.     

A Study on Animal Words from Illocutionary Perspectives

The paper lies in the exploration of animal words both in English and in Chinese from illocutionary perspectives. The essay starts with a review of related studies on animal words and gives a brief introduction of the speech act theory. Then it analyses some differences between English and Chinese animal words because of the different cultural backgrounds. The essay shows that animal metaphors embody illocutionary forces. When indirect speech act is applied to reflect communication intention, metaphorical sentences with animal words bring up stronger illocutionary forces. The essay attempts to carry out a further study on animal words.     

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.     

Teaching English in Context

The New Standards of English Curriculum emphasizes the development of the cultivation of students＇enterprising spirit.At the same time,it creates a new teaching method and brings about the changes in the style of learning.Therefore,it becomes a major task in the middle schools to teach English in context.But,there are still some weaknesses of the current English teaching in China：problems with textbooks,teachers themselves,and English speaking environment.Hence there appears a new topic on how to teach English in context.This paper discusses the current situations and some major problems in teaching English in context;moreover,it proposes some measures to develop the students＇multipurpose language use ability.     

On Employing the Appropriate Error Correction Strategies to Promote Students’English learning in TEFL

Learning English as a foreign language is a step-by-step process, during which Chinese students will inevitably make some errors. It is important for teachers to know when and how to correct students＇ errors. By employing error correction skillfully and appropriately, we can develop the students＇ self-confidence and self-esteem. This paper mainly discusses the interaction and collaboration learning in task-based learning, which has been proved to be scientific and effective, is advocated in English learning and teaching. Accordingly, the self-correction with teacher＇s help and the peer correction are the most effective ways for students＇ error correction.     

Problems in English Education in China

Learning a language is mainly aimed at communication.But how many students even the college students can express themselves smoothly and understand others clearly in an English-only environment? Maybe a few students can meet the standard.This means that many problems exist in English teaching in China.Having gone through many books and websites related to English education,I have found many problems,and I hope I can figure out some solutions.     

Improving the Quality of English Intensive Reading for Students of Agricultural Colleges

The traditional English teaching for non—English majors,especially in Intensive Read-ing class,is teacher—centered.As a result,the students have to learn English passively and mostof them are less interested in it.Therefore,it has become necessary to change the traditionalmethod and improve the quality of teaching.In this article some ways are introduced and dis-cussed,which include:making the students clear about the purpose of learning and teaching,de-signing teaching content elaborately,arranging teaching activities carefully,encouraging the stu-dents to be the main role of learning and teaching,teaching the students ways of learning,etc.     

The Teaching and Cultivating of English Reading Ability

The teaching of English reading is very important and profound.Especially in the part of improving students＇understanding ability of language,also in the developing of the culture of both English and Chinese.