How to Teach Integrated Skills to College Students

English is taught throughout China. What skills will be used and how many skills will be involved depends on the materials available and the classroom situation. However, given these circumstances, a major problem that has always concerned many teachers of English is how to make full use of techniques and approaches in the classroom to teach English effectively. To an English teacher, the only way to achieve this aim is to collect good and interesting coursebooks, to adopt a communicative methodology and to integrate the four skills, i.e. listening, speaking,     

The Kite Runner:Amir’s Betrayal and Redemption

The Kite Runner is being marketed as not just the first novel by its author,Khaled Hosseini,but the first novel of its kind:an Afghan novel written in English.The novel describes the story of Amir who,after experiencing jealousy and betrayal,finally chooses to face up to his mistakes and achieve personal growth.By analysing how Amir betrayed and how he achieved self-redemption,the theme of growth will be better explained.     

How to Create a Low-anxiety Environment for Chinese Learners of EFL to Enhance Oral Proficiency in Speaking Lessons

The goal of teaching English speaking is to improve students’ communicative efficiency, or make students speak the target language clearly, coherently, accurately and fluently (Xu, 2005). However, in China, a number of students in an English speaking class tend to be passive and reluctant to speak out or be singled out publicly mainly due to their high anxiety, which, of course, becomes a significant constraint on improving their English proficiency. Therefore, how to create a relaxed atmosphere with a sense of security in the English speaking class to alleviate Chinese learners’ anxiety and to provide them with as many opportunities as possible to practice speaking English and improve their English proficiency is one of the central tasks for language teachers.his paper will firstly outline my teaching context in China in physical, pedagogical, institutional and personal aspects. This will be followed by the definition and classification of language learning anxiety, and the analysis of various factors contributing to foreign language learners’ anxiety as well as some suggestions of how to reduce the learners’ anxiety in the oral class according to the current literature. Finally, some applications will be presented in my teaching context in the hope of decreasing Chinese students’ anxiety to enhance their English speaking proficiency.     

Aplogizing Comparison between English and Chinese Culture

Language and environment influence each other crossly.Comparing Australian and Chinese culture and language environment,it is not hard to find that they belong to totally opposite different way.From the point of context,the former is low-context and the latter is a traditionally much high-context culture country.In this essay,the different ways and understanding of apology will be explored.Also,analysis of the types,influences,is involved the apologies and the differences in the selection of the apology strategies between English and Chinese.The interesting research is gender influencing the apologies choosing,which will be discussed at the last of assignment.     

CULTIVATON OF STUDENTS''''INTEREST AND MOTIVATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING

Many middle school students like to ask how they can learn English well. This is really a difficult question to answer, Some teachers may frankly tell their students:Memorize new words and phrases, spend much time in reading and soon you will have a good command of English. As a matter of fact,the case is not like this. The English language has a large vocabulary of more than 400,000 words not including phrases. How can a student's brain take in so many words just like a computer? On the other hand, if the student lays too much emphasis on written English (and only learns it well),what will he do when he wants to express himself orally without any communicative competence?The teachers neglect the importance of the other three skills,which are listening,speaking and writing,     

THE 1ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TEFL-CHINA TONGHUA, AUGUST 12-15, 2002

TEFL-CHINA is a national organization whose mission is to strengthen the effective teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in China while developing international connections. The 1st Annual International Conference offers TEFL professionals, domestic and abroad, opportunities for professional development through the exchange of ideas and practices in English teaching and research. Participants integrate knowledge of current trends in the TEFL field while developing a professional network. In today's China, 500, 000 teachers teach more than 60 million students English, within 4 years the number of children learning English will have become nearly 100 million. Therefore,this conference will allow ideas and suggestions to be discussed and we will hopefully be able to formulate a methodology to follow and improve TEFL in China. Recently, Prof. Bao Tianren, head of TEFL-CHINA and the English Coaching Paper Office, met Mr. Phillip Griffin, executive officer of IATEFL, to discuss how TEFL-China can work closely with its counterparts all over the world. We would like warmly to invite all foreign experts in the field of TEFL and TESOL to come and give presentations at     

On Development of Students’Listening in Class

Listening is considered to be one of the most difficult skills in English learning.And it is obvious that the learners do not have enough and effective listening practice in a scientific way.This thesis will focus on listening.The author mainly analyzes how to develop the listening strategies to improve the ability of listening comprehension.     

Literature in English Teaching and Learning

Literature is always regarded as a difficulty in English learning and teaching,and its effects may emerge slowly as well.That’s why most English teachers do not use literature in English teaching.In this passage,the good points of literature are listed to show how wonderful it will be if literature is used in English teaching.     

How is the Elective-English Speaking Taught in High Schools

English Speaking is the skill that the students will be judged upon most in real-life situations. This article written to discuss how to have the the optional course-English Speaking Training in high s...