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 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.     

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.     

On Cultivating Students' Self-learning Ability and Application of Multimedia into College English Teaching

Multimedia teaching method has been widely used in college English teaching. It has contributed a lot to higher teaching quality. We should change our teaching ideas and recognize its impersonal attribute as one kind of teaching method. Cultivating college students' self-learning ability is the need of quality education and the requirement of life-long development of students. In this paper the author discusses how to cultivate students' self-learning ability by stimulating students' self-learning interest,training learning strategy with the modern education technology reasonably to fulfill the target of college English teaching.     

A Probe for English Reading Teaching at College

With the devolopment of Chinese Education System,English is becoming more and more important for all college students.Meanwhile,the problem of how to read quickly and efficiently has already come to our attention.In this paper,the importance and methods of reading will be further discussed.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

多少学生准备好书写符合编码标准的高质量程序:一个案例分析

The compliance with coding standards is becoming an evaluating index for a software engineer's teamwork capability or international cooperation capability.The best place to solve this problem should be in an educational environment such as college where students begin to write their introductory programs.After constructing a web-based evaluating system,a case was studied in our school of software and some important conclusions were made such as(1)the evaluating results were not so satisfactory because of the absence of necessary training and(2)students' ability to comply with coding standards did not improve automatically with the assignments one by one without timely feedback.In short,there is a long way to run before the students can write quality code meeting the requirement of software industry.     

Tackling Problems in Reading Efficiency

Reading is a complex、communicative process,which involves both linguistic and cognitive knowledge. The lack of either part will cause inefficiency. So,this paper deals with problems in reading efficiency in English study for college students in China. It analyzes the problems with regard to linguistic knowledge and cognitive schemata,emphasizing that solid linguistic foundation is the premise,and active communication skills are catalytic promoters while formal scientific training is necessary,and proposes some countermeasures on how to enhance the college student＇s reading efficiency.     

一个成功英语教师的特点

Whith the development of our society, education become more and more important; and with the open policy of China, English is widely used within the country. More people are involved in English. How to learn English well, to some degree, depends on the English teaching. How to teach English well is relative with the characteristics of English teacher. In this article, some Characteristics of effective English teacher are to be analyzed.     

Some Aspects on Oral English Teaching in Universities in China

English is one of the most important foreign languages taught in universities in China. However, the results are often far from satisfactory. Students in universities often find it hard to express themselves in oral English after many years' study. Language is the most important means of human communication, and communication is the most important function of language. Therefore, the ultimate goal of language instruction is to equip the learners with the ability to use the language for communication. How to help undergraduates to improve their oral English becomes a big challenge for English teachers in China. Aiming to make some contributions to improve undergraduates' oral English, this paper explores some areas of concern which are believed to be the most critical to the success of Oral English Teaching (OET) in China. The first part of this paper discusses some existing factors that constrain OET in China. It followed by exploring some aspects on improving OET for undergraduates in China. It also provides some techniques/methods essential for OET teachers to employ in a classroom.     

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 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.     

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.     

Application of Mind Map in College English Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabulary is one of the three important parts of any language and it is also the cornerstone of any language.So the vocabulary teaching is very important in language teaching.Because vocabulary is stored in our mind in a semantic network,applying mind map to vocabulary teaching and learning can facilitate the activation of various semantic relations among words in the mind,which greatly promotes the learners’deep processing of vocabulary.Second,words are usually related to one another in the form of cohesions in the context.Constructing mind map of vocabulary in the text can make more noticeable the interrelations among words in the text,which will enhance the participants’language proficiency.The author of the present thesis attempts to prove that mind mapaided vocabulary teaching has a more positiveeffect on enlarging participants’vocabulary,though both approaches to vocabulary teaching have positive influence on participants’vocabu-lary growth.This study reveals that it is rational and feasible to apply mind map and Visual Thesaurus to college English vocabulary teaching and learning.     

The Application of Nonverbal Communication in College English Class

As an auxiliary means of teaching,nonverbal communication plays a vital role in college English class.Based on the analysis of the three most frequently used aspects in nonverbal communication:gestures,eye contact,and physical dis- tance,this paper is aimed at suggesting the significance of nonverbal communication in college English teaching and the appli- cation of it in college English class.