A Description of Oral Errors for English Speaking Learners in Technical Colleges

Technical college students often commit different oral errors in their English learning. The type of students’spoken English errors is analyzed in this paper and the common errors are classified into four groups: phonological errors, lexical errors, grammatical errors and pragmatic errors. The result shows that lexical errors and grammatical errors are more common for learners from technical colleges.     

How to Take a Correct Attitude Towards Students''''Errors

As everybody knows, in learning English, listening, speaking, reading and writing are the major parts. In the process of learning English, the students endeavour to get every sound right, to spell every word correctly and to speak English without making any mistakes. But in real terms it is impossible. Most students don't realise that making errors is a natural part of the accquisition process. So many students of English are always worrying about making errors. They often ask themselves, 'Why?' when they make a mistake. In order to find out, let's divide the subject into three parts for discussion. Everyone knows that most learners insist on a conventional idea about errors in learning.They usually think that making errors is not good. If someone makes a mistake he will be laughed at by the others. In this case, the students are constantly afraid of being laughed at by the others.Then, when they are asked to answer the teacher's questions, they often     

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.     

The Benefits of Developing Habits of Mind to English Learners

In ordinary human life,something can be two different things at the same time.Habit can also be a theory and a solution.In this thesis I will introduce the reasons why we should develop habits of mind and the benefits to English learners.In this way English learners can master some better learning methods and scientific habits of mind to direct and improve their English learning     

On Promoting Study Initiative in English Language Teaching

English,as a kind of language,is not easy to learn and master well.The enthusiasm of learners plays an important role in English language learning.The aim of this paper is to encourage English teachers to pay more attention on promoting the initiative of students in English learning sufficiently.In this paper,firstly,the writer analyses the important factors affecting the students'initiative in English learning.Secondly,some advice on how to cultivate students' learning initiative is given.     

Interactivity-Encouraging Strategies in Large Class Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning

As a tentative study on multimedia-assisted English learning, this paper is an attempt to explore the interactivity-encouraging strategiesthrough the need analysisof large classlanguage learning. It isof some help for the improvement of learning efficiency for language learners.     

Enlightenments for Young Learners English teaching in the Perspective of Maslow’s Theory

Children are the center of young learner’s English teaching. Their motivation and interest are capable of guiding them English learning effectively. Only when the young learners are motivated and stimulated can they learn English well in an active and harmonious atmosphere. This paper first analyses the factors causing the lack of learning motivation of young English learners. Then, based on Maslow’s theory, the author puts forward some effective teaching methods and strategies, hoping to be helpful to motivate the young learners to learn English.     

Spiritual Enlightenment From Language on English Learners

Language could be performed well with people who are familiar with the background and other factors of this language. As foreign language learners, performing well depends on knowledge of the attribute property of language and the post-natal education which plays a major role in language learning. Compared with the former one, post-natal education could be concerned by more and more learners. It is also an approach for English learners to know more about English and some relevant points.     

Analysis of vocational students in English writing errors

Based on error analysis theory,this thesis studies Chinese EFL learners ’writings from the perspective of errors.It proceeds to summarize some features of students’ errors to remind English teachers to be more aware of them.With abundant methodological enlightenment to share,the thesis calls for more effective and workable ways to correct learners ’errors.     

Cultivation of EFL Learners’Intercultural Competence

Nowadays, educators from home and abroad believe that learning a foreign language means learning a great deal of the foreign civilization and culture. And the utmost goal of language teaching is to cultivate EFL learners’communicative competence, but not merely the linguistic knowledge. Thus, teaching a foreign language is more than teaching new words, expressions and grammar rules, but should also incorporate the target culture elements into language knowledge. In order to improve EFL learners’English proficiency, teachers must make efforts to cultivate EFL learners’intercultural competence and promote their sensibility and adaptability to the differences between Chinese culture and the Western culture. Only by doing so, can EFL learners communicate with native speakers appropriately and smoothly. This paper proposes some effective teaching techniques and methods that can be applied in English classroom to cultivate Chinese EFL learners’intercultural competence.     

Effective College English Vocabulary Teaching

There are over two million modern English words, thus English becomes a language with the largest vocabulary in the world. Moreover, English vocabulary is constantly being renewed and enlarged with the development of the society and advancement of science and technology. So vocabulary development becomes language learners’ top priority. Unfortunately, learning English words by rote can’t guarantee that students will have a large vocabulary, let alone enable students to make practical use of the words they h...     

The Application of English New spaper Reading in English Learning and Its Problems

Reading is the basic way for learners to study English,to obtain various information as well as knowledge,and to improve the proficiency of understanding and expressing.English newspaper reading,owing to its own characteristics,will make up for the shortcomings of conventional textbooks at quite a high level.The primary goal of this research is to investigate the general situation of English newspaper reading among college students,their attitudes toward the teaching of English newspaper reading and their problems in reading newspapers by conducting a questionnaire among non-English majors.Finally,it suggests a reasonable method of English newspaper learning based on the problems this questionnaire indicates.     

What makes a written text written

Text can be used for both written and spoken language, and different features of spoken and written texts provide us the possibility to have a general idea of the division of two main categories—spoken English and written English. In this article, an attempt will be given to a sample text in order to discuss the general features of written texts.     

Strategies of More and Less Successful Bai High School EFL Learners

This study airm to explore the choice of language learning strategies between more and lesssuccessful Bai high school EFL learners for whom English is learned as a third language. Sixteen Bai EFLlearners were involved in the current study. A background questionnaire and the Oxford‘ s SILL Question-naire were administered to the participants, and semi - structured interviews were conducted. The reported data indicate that successful learners employed more strategies than less successful ones did andnitive strategies best predicted learning success. Individual strategies used by both successful and lesssuccessful Bai EFL learners were outlined and discussed. The paper concludes with implications of the studyand recommendations for the extension of research in this area.     

隐喻认知理论在英语教学中的应用

The thesis analyzes cognitive mechanism of metaphor at first and finds that metaphor has strong cognitive power and that metaphor cognition has played a significant role in language development. Then the author thinks that language acquisition is also a kind of cognitive activity after discussing acquisition mechanism of English learners. Based on these discussions, the author talks about how to apply metaphor cognition theory to English teaching and learning, especially vocabulary and culture teaching.     

Application of TBA to Teaching English Vocabularies in Colleges

＂Vocabulary is of enormous importance in communication＂, however, in the context of college English teaching in China, although a lot of time and energy is spent on leaming and teaching vocabulary, the situation is far from being satisfactory. A scientific and effective way of vocabulary teaching and learning is strongly desired. This paper explores a comparatively new approach Task Based Approach （TBA） and its application to teaching English vocabularies in colleges. The emphasis of TBA is on learning by doing, which gets learners to do thing or complete tasks by using English.The apphcation of TBA to college English vocabulary teaching （CEVT） in this paper is an attempt that hopes to provide some practical reference value for the reform of college English Teaching （CET）.     

The Effectiveness of Strategies-based Instruction on Postgraduates' English Vocabulary Learning

This ten-week quasi-experimental study was undertaken to explore the effectiveness of strategies-based vocabulary instruction on English vocabulary learning of postgraduate learners. By the questionnaires and vocabulary tests administered before and after the instruction, the experimental group and the control group were compared to find out whether reading comprehension plus SBI method was more effective than reading only method in postgraduates＇ English vocabulary learning.     

Research on Study Strategies for the English Cyber Words

As we know, vocabulary plays an important role for English learners. With the coming of the age of Internet in 21 st century, Internet becomes the propeller to the development of society and economy, which, in turn, urshes us into a brand-new period. Meanwhile, the development of Internet also affects English vocabulary. First of all, this paper summarizes the development stages of English cyber word, followed by an introduction of the definition of the English cyber word, and then it elaborates the properties of English cyber word. Later, the paper attempts to account for the strategies of English cyber word from six approaches, which are the compounding approach, the derivation approach, using special mark approach, special mnemonics approach, transliteration approach and free translation approach. To sum up, by analyzing the traits of these words, our interest of learning English will be roused which can help us have a good knowledge of the English cyber words.     

Singlish,A Handicap or A Facilitator

Singapore is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual society with four different major languages （Chinese,English,Malay and Tamil）. Each language or dialect exerts its influence on the way English is spoken. It is too difficult to maintain the purity of English. English spoken in Singapore would branch into various types of Englishes and produce less universal forms,and people would inevitably encounter a lack of communication in English,which has been becoming more and more international.Different groups of English users and their reaction to various forms of Englishes determine the range of Englishes and produce a norm preventing varieties of English which are incomprehensible to others.     

The Thought Pattern and Its Influence on the Writing Style

Culture can be divided into material aspect-the products of a people's art and technology and non-material aspect-a people's customs,beliefs,values and patterns of communication.The communication between cultures is possible because of the similar principles that guide the interaction as well as the different perceptions and symbol system that cause the various thought patterns,cognitive types and pragmatic competence.So is it in Chinese and English,the typical version of Oriental and Western culture.This paper is designed to present the cultural differences in thought patterns and the influences on the English writing.Since Chinglish,the term that the English native describes the embarrassing usage of English is serous and alarming for the second language learning,it is of primary importance to inform the learners in order to avoid the negative transfer.Especially the college learners are undertaking the double task of communication and academy.The risk of pragmatic failure would be reduced as few as possible if they are conscious of such thought patterns and its influence on the writing practice.The analysis is of help for the college learners to be as native as possible in writing.