The Interactive Relationship Between Listening and Speaking in English Learning

This paper focuses on the interactive relationship between listening and speaking in communication process and analyzes the shortcoming of traditional teaching methods in this aspect.With regard to the students’ lack of competence in their oral communication demonstrated in English learning process,the paper illustrates how to create a language environment combining listening and speaking so as to develop the students’synthesis capability of language.     

The Use of Communicative Approach in Teaching Vocabulary at Secondary School

Vocabulary is the essential material of language and one of the important elements of language.Communicative approach plays a decisive role in English vocabulary teaching.It is a good teaching method to improve students’abilities of listening and speaking.In this paper,the writer introduced several successful vocabulary teaching examples which used communicative approaches.They could be helpful for secondary school English teachers during their vocabulary teaching process.     

A Discussion on the Criteria for Evaluating Speaking Skills

The identification of effective and appropriate speaking skills seems to be a paradox task for the reason that there exist no consistent criteria for evaluating speaking skills in language teaching and testing.It is claimed in the current article that the teaching and assessment of speaking skills would probably be better based on a comprehensive framework of criteria including four aspects,namely,grammatical competence,strategic competence,sociocultural competence and discourse competence.     

Approaches to College English Pronunciation Teaching

In most universities in China,pronunciation has long been overlooked in college English teaching.With the reform of college English teaching,great attention has been paid to the cultivation of the students’ listening and speaking skills,that is,Eng lish teaching has moved to language functions and communicative competencies,a new urgency for the teaching of pronuncia tion has arisen.This paper covers the four areas of pronunciation:sounds,stress,rhythm,and intonation,with the expectation that it will provide readers with comprehensive insight into ways of teaching pronunciation.     

Some Thoughts on Improvement of English Listening Instruction

The teaching of English listening has long been limited to the textbooks and tapes,which has surely led to a lot of demerits in teaching listening up to now.So at present,it's very important to improve the following eight aspects of teaching listening:teachers,textbooks,relationship between teachers and students,equipments,application of schematic theory,combination of listening and speaking,listening tests and teaching English listening through movies for the purpose of maximizing the efficiency of listening teaching.Among them,the last aspect,namely,teaching English listening through movies is emphasized.     

Efficient English Listening Teaching Methods

In non-native English speaking countries, the big problem to English learners is that it is difficult for them to understand what the English speaker is talking about because many English learners have trouble in listening. Though they are English learners, they still have difficulty in listening to the foreigners from English speaking countries and other nonnative English speakers. Therefore, listening teaching becomes the vital task of both English teachers and English learners. English educators are expected to search an efficient way to help English learners improve their listening. Modern teaching equipments, such as film and video and other teaching facilities play an indispensable role in English listening teaching.     

Application of Communicative Competence in the ELT

Communicative competence is of crucial significance to the ELT.However,most research focuses on the introduction of communicative competence.This paper through discussing the difference between usage and use and the application of communicative competence,explores the ways to help cultivate communicative competence in our language teaching and learning.     

An Analysis of Cultural Obstacles on English Learning

Language and culture can not be separated. It is impossible to learn language well if people do not master cultural background. With the frequent communication between China and other nations throughout the world, cross-cultural communicative competence is put forward to be the ultimate goal of foreign language learning in China. However, in present situation, cultural factor has not gained its due place in students’ English learning. Based on this circumstance, this paper analyzes the cultural obstacles on English learning from the aspects of listening, reading and communicating, and puts forward that while instructing English language, teachers of English should pay attention to and spread cultural background knowledge of English speaking nations to improve students’ language comprehension ability and cross-cultural communicative competence.     

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.     

A Short Discussion on How to Use Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) to Improve Speaking Competence

Though China’s present situation in English language teaching is quite favorable,some problems are still very outstanding.It seems that the communicative competence of Chinese students is not that satisfactory.The Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) approach,which regards"communicative competence"as the goal of language teaching,is becoming more and more popular in China’s English language teaching.This paper shows that the CLT approach does work in improving students’ communicative competence to some degree,through reviewing relevant literature on this approach.However,it is not a panacea to solve all the problems occurring in students’ communicative competence for it also has some weak points.Several suggestions were proposed to enhance students’ grammatical competence as well as the communicative block due to cultural differences.It is also advisable for teachers to be as flexible as possible in choosing the teaching techniques and adding whichever input needed to effectively achieve the main goal of making students both grammatically accurate and communicatively proficient.     

A Listening and Speaking Lesson Design for EFL Undergraduates in China

Freshmen and sophomores in universities of China usually have Listening and Speaking class.A two-period listening and speaking lesson is designed by taking full use of the teaching material and taking the modern listening and speaking teaching theories into consideration.     

SOME THOUGHTS ON DEVEL OPING THE STUDENTS‘LISTENING ABILITY

Language is the means by which people communicate with each other. At present, the teaching of listening is considered one of the most important teaching courses. Listening greatly affects communicative ability. For this reason, it is necessary for students to break through obstacles to the listening to improve their abilities. In recent years, theories have been put forward in the teaching of listening. The focus of attention has shifted from the teachers, who have tended to be the center of the class to the students. Listening and spoken English are the key features of English classes. As English teachers, we should devote ourselves to the reforms of teaching systems and develop suitable teaching methods so that we could improve the quality of listening teaching.     

Applicability of CTL in China

Communicative language teaching,as a comparatively new teaching approach,is conducive to improving the communicative competence of English learners in China.The application of communicative language teaching comes across great opportunities as well as challenges,which include the teacher-related factors and student-related factors.     

SOME THOUGHTS ON DEVELOPING THE STUDENTS ''''LISTENING ABILITY

Language is the means by which people communicate with each other. At present, the teaching of listening is considered one of the most important teaching courses. Listening greatly affects communicative ability. For this reason, it is necessary for students to break through obstacles to the listening to improve their abilities. In recent years, theories have been put forward in the teaching of listening. The focus of attention has shifted from the teachers, who have tended to be the center of the class to the students. Listening and spoken English are the key features of English classes. As English teachers, we should devote ourselves to the reforms of teaching systems and develop suitable teaching methods so that we could improve the quality of listening teaching.     

On Culture Teaching in Foreign Language Classes

The paper discusses the importance of culture teaching in both the learners’ language skill-getting stages and their skillusing stages,and dwells on some teaching approaches that not only aim at enriching the learners’ cultural knowledge but also at improving their cultural competence.The paper also offers some teaching guidelines to facilitate culture teaching in a communicative English class.     

Analysis of Factors Influencing English Listening Teaching and the Countermeasures

English teaching focuses on cultivating and improving students’listening,speaking,reading,writing and translating skills,which are complementary to each other.Among these five skills,listening,as an important basic skill,should be put into top priority in English teaching.Mainly based on the analysis of factors influencing English listening teaching,the paper puts for ward some effective countermeasures in improving teaching effectiveness.     

A Brief Literature Review of Communicative Competence Models

Since the theory of communicative competence was put forward by Canale and Swain,there have been teaching professionals developing it to different models,three of which are reviewed in this essay.     

On Developing Students’ Communicative Competence in English Classes of Higher Vocational Colleges

This article introduces the theory of communicative competence and explores some possible teaching strategies for developing the students’ communicative competence according to the students’ features in higher vocational colleges.     

Integrating Traditional Teaching Methods with Communicative Language Teaching in English Language Teaching

How to improve English teaching efficiency is a problem that linguists and language teachers are always thinking about.This paper introduces the dominant traditional teaching methods and CLT and their limitations when being adopted in the English classroom in China and how to integrate traditional teaching methods with communicative language teaching in English classes.     

Teaching of Listening Comprehension to Chinese College Students

1.ContextEnglish is now the most popular learnedforeign language in China.But generally speaking,English teaching in all levels of Chinese schoolsis still very test centered.The real ability oflanguage usage or the communicative ability inlanguage studies is comparatively neglected.Thatleads to a great dissatisfaction due to the obviousdeficiency of Chinese students’language ability.I have taught listening comprehension to firstyear college students in Nanchang University forseveral years.…