A Few Remarks on The Construction of College English Teaching Team

Based on the college teaching quality and teaching reform project(高等学校本科教学质量与教学改革工程) and contemporary college English teaching situation in China,this paper aims at the construction of college English teaching team to improve the quality of college English teaching.After explaining the meaning and characteristics of a college English teaching team,the paper analyzes necessity of constructing a college English teaching team from three aspects,and continues to explore ways to build a good college English teaching team both internally and externally.     

The Tendency of Current College English Education for Non-majors

The reform of college English education has been a heated discussion in recent years.The traditional means of teach ing paid too much attention to the examination and the teaching materials are out of date when facing the rapid increasing of Chi nese economy,while the new vision emphasizes the learner-centredness,communicating,learning of culture,and it will take the background of International Understanding into consideration.In addition,New "Profession + English" Learning Pattern has al so been highlighted The paper is going to analyze and summarize the current situation of college English education briefly,and predict its development in the future.     

An Application of Push & Pull Strategy in College English Teaching

In recent years,China’s college English education has achieved a great success.However,at the same time,it also brings a lot of negative effects,and problems emerge endlessly.According to her own learning experience,as well as combining the experience of her own college English teaching,the writer is trying to combine the famous marketing theory"Push& Pull" with college English teaching methods,hoping to provide some suggestions to improve the current teaching situation.     

Preliminary Study on a Teaching Model of the College English Course Based on WebQuest

This paper is a report on an introduction to the teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest, in which learners learn English in a process of using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. It’s one of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education. It is characterized as a computer-based, student-centered inquiry learning activity. The WebQuest has become prominent in many educational areas and has received considerable attention from teachers and educators. That web-based self-access learning should be integrated into college English courses is strongly advocated by the Ministry of Education in China and a new teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest will become a good complement for the traditional English teaching models.     

On Reforms of College English Teaching Methods

With the development of the society, College English has been attached Great importance college English teachers as well as English educational scholars have made great attempts to find out the most scientific way of teaching. By studying some major English teaching methods which have greatly influenced China college English teaching and the current situation of college English teaching, this paper presents an integrated approach, which is expected to be a great help to college English teachers.     

On Reforms of College English Teaching Methods

With the development of the society, College English has been attached Great importance college English teachers as well as English educational echolans have made great attempts to find out the most acientific way of teaohing. By studying some major English teaching methods which have greatly influenced China college English teaching and the current situation of college English teaching, this paper presents an integrated approach, which is expected to be a great help to college English teachers.     

The Advantages and the Application of the CAI Courseware in English Teaching

By the end of last century,the computer has been more and more widely used in our delay life.Computer has come to pervade every aspect of our lives--including education.This article talks about the advantages of the Computer-Assisting Instruction courseware(CAI courseware)during the college English teaching.It can be used to optimize the English teaching model,teachers' teaching and students' study during the class.It also talks about the methods of using CAI courseware in college English teaching:teachers should know students' condition and use the CAI courseware ingeniously and timely.When the teachers design the CAI courseware,they should select the materials suitably.Furthermore,it predicts that the CAI courseware will have good prospects in the college English teaching.     

An Introduction to Interactive Teaching Mode and Its Implication in College English Writing Class

Interactive teaching mode refers to a dynamic process of teaching in which teachers and students and teaching materials will affect each other. It offers language learners a chance to communicate and exchange information frequently. Group cooperative leaning has long been considered to be one of the most important forms of the interactive teaching mode. English writing,one of the essential English language skills, is an integral part of college English teaching. The high or low level of English writing is a comprehensive reflection of various abilities. This paper aims to explore the application of the interactive teaching model in college English writing class in order to improve students’ motivation and ability of English writing, thus can provide an effective way of learning to the current college English writing class.     

The Application of Textual Cohesion and Coherence to the Teaching of College English Intensive Reading

In the process of college English intensive reading teaching,the analysis of textual cohesion and coherence is of great significance in that it can help students better understand the structure and contents of the teaching materials,improve their ability in commanding and applying the language,thus improving the quality of college English teaching.This paper tries to analyze how to apply the theory of textual cohesion and coherence to the teaching of college English intensive reading.     

Effectiveness Study of Lead-in of New Lessons in Classroom Teaching

English teaching is an integral part of education,which shoulders the responsibility of rendering rudimentary knowledge of English to the students,providing the students with the listening,speaking,reading and writing ability,as well as the obligation of carrying out ideological education and cultivating their noble and healthy sentiment.In teaching,the teachers should pay special attention to the students’ thirst for English learning and give full play to their initiative,which demands enough lead-in preparation before class.The lead-in of new lessons bears a direct impact on the quality of the classroom teaching.This thesis will make an analysis of this problem in two aspects.     

Task-based Teaching of College English Listening

With the reform of CET-4, CET-6 examination, the proportion of listening part obviously has been increased, how to improve students’ listening ability and the teaching of college English listening is worth to be studied and developed in the practice. Tasked-based teaching is particularly concerned in the English education area in China, which emphasizes to make learners study English naturally by finishing some task. This paper starts from the perspective of task-based teaching to discuss how it will be effectively pu t into practice in the teaching of college English listening. Task-based teaching can scientifically use class time to improve students’ independent learning ability.     

A Brief Discussion on the Chinese College English Language Curriculum for the Non-English Major Learners

Chinese college English Language Curriculum is a complicated teaching system combined with a variety of teaching modes and teaching methodologies. It is guided by foreign language teaching theories and takes the English language knowledge and application skills, cross-cultural communication and learning strategies as its main content. In addition, as the main basis of English education for non-English major undergraduates in colleges and universities, this curriculum helps to cultivate students’ English comprehensive application ability, especially for their listening and speaking skills while improving their abilities of selfeducation. It can also strengthen learners’ comprehensive cultural quality in order to meet the need of social development and international communication.     

Humanistic Education and College English Teaching

The educational goal of humanistic education is to cultivate the whole person with complete personality and the ability of free choice. Its educational principles are: to create a safe environment, to learn how to study, to let students participate, to facilitate students'learning desire and the fusion of cognition with emotion. The idea that education should be students-based embodied by these educational goal and principles has great implications for the education of college English teaching.     

A Study on Task-based Approach in Vocational College English Teaching

The traditional teaching approach has long been concerned with imparting knowledge,and many college teachers still opt for this method in their practice In English class teachers choose to emphasize ma the language points,ignoring that English language mainly functions as a tool of communication.On the other hand,for students the purpose of learning English is to pass the examination.This traditional approach fails to cultivate students’ communicative ability in English.In recent years,however,the general shift from a knowledge-based education to an ability-oriented one makes it an imperative to reform the traditional teaching methods.As a new kind of teaching theory and teaching activity,task-based approach(TBA) has been introduced and applieded by English teachers in China,especially those engaged in English teaching in higher vocational colleges.     

On Teaching Material Development of Police English for Police College

English plays an important role in foreign police affairs.To well master the language has become a must for policemen.While,police English teaching materials haven’t been divorced from ordinary academic education,without its own police education characteristics.It has been far behind the real need,which can’t adapt to the new situation.Ideas of the development of teaching material have been proposed:to be practical;to highlight the vocational characteristics;to increase the real situation,to pay attention to cross-cultural communication and to form stereoscopic and individual teaching material system.     

Translation in College English Teaching from the prospect of Intercultural Communication

Aiming at the problems of translation teaching in college English,the paper describes the general low status of students' ability in translation.As a cross-cultural communication activity,translation gains more and more attention in college English teaching.The teaching of translation in college should enhance student's intercultural communicative competence,and improve students'ability to translate.And Intercultural Communication Theory has a very important significance for promoting college English teaching,realizing college English training objectives,and improving students'ability in translation.     

An Investigation on Cross-cultural Communication between ForeignTeachers and Chinese Students in College EFL Classes

Nowadays,more and more foreign teachers have come to or been invited to China,joining in the English education cause,especially in colleges and universities.Using the methods of questionnaires and interviews,this paper conducts a survey of three foreign teachers and one hundred Chinese English majors at Qufu Normal University,aiming to explore their different perceptions and attitudes towards varied aspects of cross-cultural communication in native EFL classes.The quantitative and qualitative data obtained from the survey were both processed and analyzed from such categories as "teaching contents","teaching attitude","teaching methods","classroom interaction" and "cultural background".The findings suggested that intercultural communication plays a significant role in the process of English language teaching and learning at college native EFL classes.     

The Application of Cultural Schema Theory in College English Teaching

Schema theory is a very important theory in L2 acquisition and plays a very crucial role in English teaching.Today,many college students feel confused in college English learning.One of the main reasons is that they lack cultural background knowledge.This article gives a brief introduction of cultural schema theory and it mainly studies how to apply cultural schema theory into college English teaching to improve college students’ English skills and levels.     

A Relook at the 3rd Person-s

This article takes a relook at the 3rd person-s in English and is intended to prove that Chinese learners of English studying in L1 environment have great difficulty with the morpheme at intermediate level through frequency analysis of the errors made in four samples of two sophomores of a university majoring in English who were selected through convenience sampling. The author tries to investigate factors that explain why the morpheme is far behind in the morpheme acquisition order for the learners and provide implications and suggestions to college English teaching (including secondary education).     

How to Improve Spoken English Teaching through Role play in College Schools in China

In the present competitive society, English becomes more and more important, and how to master English becomes one popular topic for everyone. English is a communicative tool, however, traditional teaching method used in English teaching is not very suitable, and the traditional teaching is very boring and inefficient. The traditional teaching does not give students a real world situation to practice their English speaking and it does not cultivate their learning interests. This phenomenon continued in the students English learning for many years, and students can not use the English to communicate in their daily life. This phenomenon appears in oral English teaching in college schools as well, In order to solve the problems, the paper firstly describes the problem of English spoken teaching in college schools in Chi na. And then it analyzes the performance of problem and the cause of problems. The aim is that we find the problem and deficiency of Eng lish spoken teaching in college schools and use Role play as an effective way to solve these problems. Moreover, how to uses the role play specifically in the spoken English teaching, So that the role play can help teacher change traditional teaching method, enhance students’ oral communication ability, cultivate the students’learning interests and improve spoken English teaching in colleges.