Suggestions on Lead-in from the Features of College English

As the beginning part of an English class,lead-in not only plays an important role in activating class atmosphere,motivating learning and expanding thinking,but also reflects the teacher’s professional competences and teaching techniques.In this paper,the writer offers some suggestions on lead-in from the features of college English in the hope of lighting lead-in inspiration and improving teaching efficiency.     

Can Listening Comprehension Strategies Assist ESL/EFL Learners?

Listening strategies are important in English learning and teaching. They are highly effective in developing learners’ listening comprehension ability. This paper firstly examines the theories of learning strategies and the uses of them in second language acquisition (SLA) and then reviews various research findings on strategy usage, such as the types of learning strategies used by good listeners, effective strategy training, and the teaching of strategies explicitly. The paper goes on to illustrate listening comprehension strategies involving top-down and bottom-up processes and provide with research evidence showing that using listening strategies can improve listening comprehension. Finally, the paper offers suggestions and principles for language teachers about how to teach listening strategies in second language classrooms.     

What does the Research into the Comprehension of Spoken Language Suggest in English Teaching

In English teaching, the listening comprehension plays a major role not only in Listening and Speaking classes, but also in those of other English courses.Yet,most Chinese students find it difficult in practice.Then, what should a teacher do to improve their listening comprehension?     

An Analysis of Teacher Talk in College English Classroom

As an indispensable part of college English class,teacher talk has a great influence on the effect of the language teaching.By analyzing teacher talk from four aspects of dominance of teacher talk,teacher’s questions,teacher’s directives and code-switching,a conclusion is drawn:teachers should employ teacher talk appropriately in college English class in order to improve the quality of language teaching.     

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.     

Exploring Teachers’ Personal Practical Knowledge through Narrative Inquiry——A Case Study on a College English Teacher

Teachers play an important role in the successful implementation of the current curriculum innovation and their personal practi cal knowledge is a decisive factor in their teaching and that teachers’ knowledge affects every aspect of the teaching act.This paper tries to explore teachers’ personal practical knowledge of a college English teacher and her reading class.It shows how to present her teaching contents,design teaching methods and activities in order to accomplish her teaching tasks and teaching goals.The study combines narrative analysis of the reading design with a process inquiry about teaching and learning.Hopefully,the findings would shed some light on teach ers’ professional development.     

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.     

The Interactive Teaching in College English Listening Practice

This paper discusses about how to enhance the interaction of teaching in College English Listening class,thus to change the single teaching situation and stimulate the students’interest in English learning and mobilize the students’enthusiasm for learning,so that it can make sure that each section of the listening class really has a good teaching result.     

The Teacher’s Role of Listening Comprehension

Throughout the history of the listening comprehension teaching at home and abroad, the research mainly focus on the correlation of the learner’s English listening proficiency and their self-efficiency....     

The Effectiveness of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Process in Listening Comprehension

Top-down and bottom-up processes are two popularly-used method in teaching listening,but each of them has deficiencies.This essay will attempt to demonstrate that both top-down process and bottom-up process are necessarily useful,and adopting them appropriately conduce to effective and efficient listening comprehension.The first section of this paper will critically examine the advantages and disadvantages of the two processes.It will then illustrate the benefit of employing them in an interactive way.     

Teacher’s Role in Students’Group Work in College English Classroom

The implementation of group work in China is aroused by the teaching reform and proposal of the New Curriculum Standard, in order to improve the language teaching and learning. However, in many cases group work is far less effective and desirable than it should have been. The effectiveness of group work depends on many factors in real language classroom setting. This paper mainly focuses on the factor of teacher’s role. The main implication of this paper is to suggest the appropriate teacher role in students’group work and put forward some skills in organizing group work in order to make group work more effective and significant.     

Evaluation of English Teaching Materials in Terms of Learning and Motivation

This study investigates the relationship between the teaching materials and motivation in second language acquisition.An evaluation of teaching materials based on Dornyei’s motivation construct has been employed.The results indicate students and teacher are basically satisfied with the textbook.Many factors,which affect student’ s motivation towards teaching materials,are perceived.     

An Analysis of Three Dimensions in EFL Teaching

After analyzing the three dimensions(teachers,students and classroom activities) in EFL teaching,it can be found that rapport and delivery are of great importance to a teacher;a quality teacher should comprehensively understand his students and always keep individual differences in mind and modern teachers should also grasp many skills of managing classroom activi ties.In order to activate students’motivation and at the same time keep a high teaching efficiency level,classroom teaching should be carefully shifted from teacher-centered to student-centered when possible.In this process,class activities can greatly reinforce a student-centered class.     

Application of Schema Theory to English Listening Teaching in Middle School

This paper from the point of view of cognitive psychology,which is based on the background of the Chinese middle school students’generally low ability of English listening,it explores the listening course of English language teaching which guided by Schema theory and summarizes the connotation of this theory then discusses the role of it to listening comprehension and the practical value of combining listening teaching with it.The paper also puts forward the strategy of implementation of the theory.This article aims to make students to realize the importance of background knowledge to help them to understand the listening materials and to guide the students using different strategies of Schema theory to improve their listening comprehension ability.     

Research on the Interrelationship among Understanding, Memory and Oral Expression in Listening Teaching of non-English in Higher Vocational College

This is a research report on the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening comprehension training. The research investigated 150 non-English majors through a questionnaire in a higher vocational college. The result indicates that the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening classes which are determined by the listening materials and teaching method directly influences students’ listening proficiency and speaking ability. It is suggested that some strategies to be used to foster students’ abilities in these three areas so as to improve their listening ability.     

Investigation Report of Culture Teaching in College English Listening Class in Colleges of Ethnic Minority Area

In this dissertation, questionnaire is the main way to accomplish the research. Some basic information of culture teaching in today’s English listening class has been drawn from those questionnaires carried out by the students from Hechi University. Though the analysis on the statue of cultural teachings, the factors that confine the cultural teaching and the importance of cultural teaching in college English listening class, we intend to help university students have a better understanding of the significance of cultural teaching. By doing so, cultural teaching will be paid more attention to.     

Strategies and Reflection of Oral English Teaching in Vocational College

As a widely-used language,English is the most important tool of communication.In recent years,with the rapid social communicative development,English increasingly shows its importance.China’s English teaching in colleges and vocational colleges also increases emphasis on the teaching of spoken English.In this paper,that is,in my vocational college on the practice of oral English teaching,I analyze and explore Spoken English in the teaching process and the difficulties encountered by the setbacks.Vocational college English teaching briefly discusses the status of oral English teaching and teaching strategies.Spoken English Teaching strategy comes from the reflection.     

The Usefulness of Dictation in ELT Classrooms

Dictation plays an important role in teaching, learning and testing. But different people have different views about its functions. This paper mainly talks about its advantages—improving students’ all-round ability, exerting positive feedback and practical effect on English teaching and learning, and cultivating students’ ability of English comprehension. Then the author puts forward a few suggestions for the training of dictation skills.     

大学英语教学中教师的作用

Research shows that the less teachers speak in class, the more students talk. So English teacher talk determines, to some extent, whether the teaching in class is successful or not. After giving a brief introduction to teacher‘s role in English class, this paper analyzes the possible factors that affect teacher‘s organization and the students‘ involvement in class. It then suggests some improvements of teacher in order to better our teaching methodology.     

An Analysis of Student Anxiety in English Listening

Listening has been playing a key role in daily communication and ELT.However,it’s an obstacle for most non-English majors.Among affective factors the students encounter in listening,anxiety is the most usual one.In this paper,I will analyze the situation based on my observations on listening class and interviews with some students in terms of the relationship between students’ anxiety and their listening performance and the characteristics of the listening materials.Subsequently,with the interviews with some students,some possible ways of improving listening ability are discussed.