The comparison between task-based approach and Traditional teaching mode

The tradition English teaching hasn’t adapted to our society.It has to be reformed completely,the key theory of the task-based teaching is that if the learners want to master the language, they must learn to use it,Application is the most important factor for the language learners.In the task-based teaching, the-specific task is the carrier,finishing the task is the motivation.,It mixes knowledge and skills,the student learn to do something by listening, speaking,reading and writing while doing something,they use the language they have learnt naturally.They develop and improve their own language in the process of using language that is to say,they learn to use,they learn the language using the language.     

Linguistic Ruin? Orz...Effect of Online Writing on Standard Literacy

Multimodal as digital literacies are,they have still been text-based.It has been a great concern that due to the popularity of speech-like writing style online,digital literacies have brought informal speech expressions into formal standard writing,and thus increasing the possibility to ruin the standard writing language.On the other hand,although there are moral panics of the survival of standard written languages,scholars and popular media show great tolerance for online languages.In addition,it has been proved that some frequent participants in digital literacies nowadays are capable of both online language and standard offline language,indicating that they are well aware of the different registers of language use and therefore of high language literacy.Furthermore,researches suggest several possible merits of digital literacies,including saving young people from social isolation and depression,providing people with more opportunities to learn new things and to practice the instructional writing,calling for thorough consideration and elaborate editing and encouraging brief and clear writing style.     

The Acquisition Theory And English Classroom Teaching

All human beings, despite very different environments, can speak and communicate witheach other so long as they are mentally normal. Why do they have the ability to acquire lan-guage? Researches have shown that people start working with language almost as soon asthey are born, because they all have an innate, genetic ability to acquire language. This ability     

Language Learning Strategies and Strategic Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom

The results of a great deal of research have suggested that language learning strategies can be taught and that instructing learning strategies and integrating them into regular instruction can greatly facilitate the learning of a second/foreign language.The aim of this article is to draw the readers’ attention to strategic teaching that should be introduced in the foreign language classroom in order to meet the demands of contemporary language education. In particular, it points to the necessity that teachers should change their attitudes towards the roles they play in the classroom to become truly responsible for their learning.     

My English Teachers

I have studied English for 4 years. Duringthe last four years, I have met three Englishteachers and they have made differentimpressions on me.Before I began to learn English, I hadlearned that the English language is themost widely used language in the world. SoI made up my mind to work hard at it. Iadmired my first English teacher the momentI saw her because she was able to speakEnglish. But after some time, I was verydisappointed as I found the lessons given byher were boring and hard …     

On Cultivating Students’ Ability of Listening Comprehension in Senior High School in the Northwest of Guangxi

Nowadays, the role of listening course is changed and listening teaching begins to gain high priority in foreign language learning and teaching. However, the English level of students in China is still poor, especially in the northwest of Guangxi. One of the reasons is that teachers in senior high schools have a tendency to ignore listening, because they think that listening is time-consumed. They have to finish the teaching scheme punctually, though listening is the basic and important skill among the other three skills, listening teaching gains no large progress.     

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     

The Basic Value of Phonetics in College EFL Classroom

In college EFL learning, teachers have commonly attracted significant attention to improve 5 skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating instead of pronouncing when students are taught EFL in the classroom. As a matter of fact,most students have serious trouble in pronunciation before entering college due to their enjoying involving in reading comprehension for English silently in their spare time. Teachers in college trust their students who have the ability to pronounce precisely any English so that they ignore seriously to enhance their basic value of the perfect and standard speech sounds. Teachers believe the acceptable pronunciation is the best way to learn foreign language. It gives a comprehensive opinion on phonetics during the process of learning EFL in college in order to potentially impede that teachers in college recognize its basic and important position so that they can help their students improve the ability of pronouncing to practice 5 advanced skills.     

How to Use “Go for it” Effectively

Nowadays there is an argument that task-based practice and approach can promote language knowledge. A number of writers have emphasized this view.Anyway we'd like to expect a satisfactory result during the teach- ing also we can say they want to do the task better.How     

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.     

The Role of CALL in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom'

With the advent of multi-media computing and the Internet, computers have gained more and more popularity in English language teaching, and they have become tremendously useful teaching tools for English teaching just because they can help users to process input quickly, they can integrate voice, music, video, pictures and text into lessons, and they can also be programmed to tailor teaching and tests for each of the individual students. This article will first focus on the advantages and limitations of applying multi-media software programs in language teaching with the evaluation of Issues in English followed.     

A Foreign Teacher's Comments on Studying English

“How can I study English in order to make rapid progress?”is a question that I am often asked by my students. They look at me in disbelief when I reply that they should talk to their friends in English, listen to English language broadcasts on the radio,and read English novels for fun in their spare time. I sens that they think such an appxoach to language learning is too straight forward,and as their foreign teacher, I should have a more mysterious, quicker method perhaps something like drinking a magie potion.     

A Brief Study on Peer-peer Interaction

Peer-peer interaction offers multiple benefits to learners and holds great implications for language learning. Peer-peer interaction creates a communication-friendly environment where novice foreign language learners feel more comfortable to use the target language, reinforcing what they have learned and pushing them to rack their brains and reach beyond the zone of proximal development for more.     

On Non-English Majors＇Language Anxiety and its Implications for Oral English Teaching in Higher Vocational College

Many students ex perience language anxiety when they speak English in the class. Many scholars have investigated language anxiety for years, which means that this problem has attracted more and more attention. However, most of researches on language anxiety are carried on among university undergraduates while little research has been done about vocational college students. So, the purpose of this paper is to find out the causes of vocational college non-English majors' language anxiety and explore some implications for teachers to help reducing students' anxiety so as to improve their oral proficiency and ultimately enhance their English learning.     

A Pilot Study on Chinese Students’Intercultural Adaption in the UK

This paper conducted a pilot study by interviewing five Chinese students who study at a British university to see how they have adapted to British culture.This paper mainly found that the’curve’theory couldn’t fully reflect students’intercultural adaptation,students’failure in becoming intercultural and the language pressure they suffer.At the end of the study,some possible measurements limitations are discussed.     

Lexical Approach to English Teaching

0. Introduction 　　Advances in computer analysis of the English language have shown that lexical patterns are widespread in language use. Some researchers call them “lexical phrases“ (Nattinger and DeCarrico,1992) or “lexical chunks“ (Lewis, 1993); others use the term “multi-word chunks“ or just “chunks“of language. Whatever the terms are, they are characteristic of language use and language acquisition and present advantages for language teaching and learning. The lexical approach to English teaching has received interest in recent years as an alternative to grammar-based approaches. The lexical approach concentrates on developing learners‘ skills in understanding and using words and word combinations.……     

English Language Assistance Needs of Chinese Students

It is known that the IELTS test has not been a good predictor of English capability in academic settings. More information is required. Are students not motivated to keep improving their English; what obstacles do they face? The English language issues facing international students from China at one University are explored through a survey and focus groups. It is observed that a lack of motivation is not the key factor. Rather one core problem is the very difficult demands of acculturation within a short time frame which would enable confidence for the students to continue to engage with other English speaking students. When faced with such immediate and hard to achieve acculturation, many retreat to their language groups. In the academic context, support for the transition to discipline based academic genres is double difficult as the time frame for second language learners is longer, but performance requirements are more immediate. Many first language students also have difficulties in this area, but have the easier language path to mastery. The study draws usefully on a comparison made with students studying English in China.     

On Connotation of Color Terms in Chinese and English

Because different peoples have different environments,customs,ways of thinking,religious beliefs,regimes,literature and arts and ways of living,there is no surprise that colors are described diversely in different countries.And they show the partic ular personalities of each nation.And language is not only the carrier of culture,but also it is an important part of culture.In oth er words,culture includes and influences language.People could know culture through language.So only when people combine culture with language can they succeed in communicating with each other.There are various color terms in both Chinese and English,and which have similar or different associations,indications and connotations.So to have a good mastery of the differenc es and similarities of these words and their associations,indications and cultural connotations is a prerequisite for a better under standing of the different cultures of eastern and western countries,which will make the communication easier.This paper will ex plain the four colors:red,white,black and yellow.     

The Cultural Factors in Chinese Trademark Translation

To some extent, trademarks reflect products’practical value and excellent quality, then, a good product should have a good trademark; now, more and more products are being sold abroad. Thus, a good translated name is very important. However,whether they will gain better benefits from the different countries depends not only on their, but also they should have remarkable names that are the trademarks of the products. However, trademark translation is not only a simple process of language transformation, but it is also a kind of intercultural communicative activities. It is affected by many aspects, such as language, culture,religion consuetudinary, psychological factors, aesthetic characteristics, etc. From the perspective of language and culture, it makes thorough analysis to the English translation of Chinese trademarks; so that it makes the readers peculiarly the person who is interested in translating trademarks have a whole understanding for achieving preferable market effect.     

English Acquisition in Classroom Teaching

In the course of learning English in classroom,students cultivate their ability to use the language.But that ability does not mean they are able to acquire that language in a communicative way,because the acquisition of language in classroom is mainly for the purpose of learning.It starts and ends in a particular circumstance-the classroom.In that case,analyzed and discussed is the universal feature of English acquisition in classroom and its effects on practical use respectively.