How to Cultivate the Reading Ability of Middle School Students

In spite of the fact that in our Syllabus for middle school English teaching, reading is listed as the most important one of the four language skills and is supposed to occupy a predominant position in final courses, the teaching of reading in our middle schools is by far and large unsatisfactory. Numerous facts have proved that our middle school graduates are poor in reading, they do not really know how to read. When they read, they read word by word, making     

Evaluation of an Oral Test Paper

This paper is to evaluate an oral test paper for the middle school graduates of Jiangsu Province according to its validity and reliability.And then the advice on how to improve the reliability is given.     

A Study of the Cooperation in the Classroom

In the past, the teachers are traditionally regarded as information givers; Knowledge flows only one way from teachers to students, while the students are usually considered as information receivers and they are very passive and boring. New syllabus requires cooperation between teachers and students, So teachers may need to re-think their approaches when they teach students, Teachers not only need to build up a positive relationship with the students, but also need to establish a clear understanding of how they expect and want things to be.     

Declining quality of Nigerian university graduates： Revitalizing quality assurance through foreign agencies＇ support

Increasing and uninterrupted supply of high-level manpower has become a fundamental pre-requisite for social and economic development of any nation. Hence, the direction of the university education in Nigeria is intensifying and diversifying its programmes for the development of high-level manpower within the context of the needs of the nation. To achieve this, the government of Nigeria initiated higher education policy reforms that intended to bring its university system more in line with international good practices. It is however disheartening to note that the quality of university graduates in Nigeria has continued to decline due to inadequate funding. The focus of this paper is to examine how foreign agencies＇ support would help to increase the quality of Nigerian university graduates.     

教你正确用(四)(英文)

One of the interesting things to do in everyday life is to observe how people use different expressions for the same event and the same expression for different events.Today,let's have a little chat on some of the frequently used English expressions and how and where they are used.     

Cohesion Theory and Its Implications for English Reading Teaching

According to College English Curriculum Requirements (2007), reading is the main training aim of our college English teaching. And for the college graduates, reading is the main way through which they ...     

Sleep Deprivation in Teenagers

Teenagers need approximately eight and half to nine hours of sleep each night.However,not every teenager gets the recommended amount.Teenagers may stay up until the midnight and then go to school the next morning.Not getting the proper amount of sleep can have many negative effects on teenagers. Function:Teenagers need the proper amount of sleep to remain healthy.When they sleep,they allow their brains to develop.Sleep is necessary for survival.Sleep allows the nervous system to relax and the neurons(神经元) to close down for repairs,and gives the body the chance to release growth hormones. Causes:Teenagers may be sleep deprived for many rea-     

Cultivation in Learner Autonomy Based on Learning Styles

Learner autonomy is no easy choice for most students when they are used to having teachers do everything for them.As teach ers,it is their responsibility to help the students know how to use it and to understand that autonomy goes beyond of freedom.Learning styles play an important role because teachers need a clear picture of each student’s learning capabilities.Teachers can encourage students to reach dependence by attending their needs,taking into account learner styles.The goal of this research study is to find ways in which teach ers and students can build autonomy together.It first examines the learning styles of the sample students,and then makes discussions about fostering learner autonomy based on different learning styles.     

POPULAR SCIENCE

Eating the Sun Plants give us oxygen. If all plants die, you will die too. Without plants you can’t breathe. But you also need energy. You need it to breathe and to eat and to move. In fact, you need energy to live.Some of the early animals can’t make their own energy. They need the energy of sunlight, but they can’t make it themselves. How can they get it? There is only one answer—eat the plants.     

Policy of Expanding Employment and Mission of Higher Education

Being laid-off, unemployment and difficulty for university graduates to fred their jobs have become widely concerned social issues. To solve the problems we must expand employment by every possible means. People usually think the countermeasure of expanding employment is to vigorously develop individual and private economy, and labor-intensive industry, etc. Indeed, these measures can increase the vacancies to solve the temporary problems of great urgency; however they can only give a short relief, but can＇t grant a permanent cu-e. At a time when our national economy is turning from labor-intensive mode to the capital and technology-intensive one, the mankind will enter an era of knowledge-driven economy soon; the basic countermeasure of expanding employment should be to develop higher education. It is the mission of higher education to turn the human resources of hundreds of millions of low quality of our country into the high-quality manpower capital. And to finish this mission, we must reform personmel training mode. We need to change the training mode of job-hunting to that of job-creation.     

在海滨

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.The infinite sky is motionless overheadAnd the restless water is boisterous.On the seashore of endless worldsThe children meet with shouts and dances.They build their houses with sand,And they play with empty shells.With withered leaves they weaveTheir boats and smilingly float themOn the vast deep.Children have their play on theSeashore of worlds.They know not how to swim,They know not how to cast nets.Pearl-fishers dive for pearls,Merchant…     

First Language Acquisition:How Children Learn Language

All normal children,with their body development and the influence of environment,could naturally use their mother tongue to interact with other language-users at about 6 years old.During this time,they need no formal instruction to acquire the first language,and it seems that there is some’innate’predisposition in the human infant to acquire language.This paper attempts to explore the com mon features that children share when they are in the process of developing language with the support of data from CHILDES(Child Lan guage Data Exchange System),and explain how child learn language.     

Webwatcher

Link sitesThese are sites that are mainly useful for the links they provide to other sites.www. bized. ac. uk/Keep in mind that the site is not designed specifically for ELT students, but it does cater for younger learners and much of the material would be appropriate. You will need to do quite a lot of searching, but there are plenty of articles to read     

Motivation——the Major Individual Learner Difference in Second Language Learning

As one of the major individual learner differences in second language learning,motivation is frequently used to account for differential success in learning a foreign language.When comes to the definition of motivation,Ellis(2006:537) primarily defines motivation is "the effort learners were prepared to make to learn a language and their persistence in learning." According to Dornyei(2001a:8) motivation is The choice of a particular action,the persistence with it,the effort expended on it.In other words,motivation is responsible for why people decide to do something,how long they are willing to sustain the activity,how hard they are going to pursue it.     

语法填空

(1)(湖南省五市十校2013届高三第一次联合检测)Job hunting has always been a headache for college graduates.Though many graduates are employed right after graduation,some are 1.Most serious of all,some still have no idea2 to go working even a long time after graduation.The reasons 3 this phenomenon are various.On the one hand,a few years ago colleges and universities enrolled so many students in popular majors,such as economy,finance and so on4 the number of graduates is greater than the need in the market.On the other hand,most     

Getting Advice from Strangers

Most Americans don蒺t like to get advice from members of their family. When they need advice, they don蒺t usually ask people they know. Instead, many Americans write letters to newspapers and magazines which give ad-vice on many subjects, including family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, how to buy a house or a car, and so on.Most newspapers regularly print letters from readers with problems. A-long with the letters are answers written by people who are sup…     

A Study on the English Translation of Chinese Menus

The Chinese food is well-known in the world as one important part of traditional Chinese culture, which the foreign tourists would like very much to sample and enjoy whenever they visit China. Generally speaking, the foreign tourists also want to make sure, how and with what raw material the Chinese food is cooked while they enjoy it. So the English translation of Chinese menus plays a key role in spreading the tranditional Chinese culture. This paper attempts to explain to readers that: 1)the demands on the English translation of Chinese menus; 2)how to set about translating the Chinese menus; 3)the methods for the English translation of Chinese menus.     

名人论时间

Many animals use some kind of “language”they use signals(信号)and the signals have meanings,for example when a bee has found some food,it goes back to its home,it is impossible for a bee to tell_____bees where the food is by speaking to_______,but it can do a little dancing this tells the other bees where the food is and how far away it is.     

A discussion of the listening course in college English

With the improvement of the economy,society,culture and education in china,English is playing an ever more im portant role for students,especially for college students.Unlike the students of the severely disciplined years,they are reluctant to take the rigorous training in college and they will take job after graduation,where they will meet some foreign experts and read foreign reference materials.They must learn how to read English effectively and talk with foreign experts fluently.If they do not learn to listen effectively,they will be unable to take part in oral communication.Therefore,students’listening ability training can never be neglected in college English.