Self-empowerment in Business English Learning

Business English is a specialized area that is largely attributed to non-native English learners who eager to enhance their chances of doing business with companies from English speaking countries. Learning business English has seen exponential growth in recent years and many universities or colleges in China have offered courses related to meet specific needs of the learners. Meanwhile, they make full use of underlying methodology and activities of the business English discipline to help inspire and remain learners’ interest. Self-empowerment originated from management is introduced to business English learning stages and then proved an effective device in learning practice.     

Fostering Learner Autonomy by Developing Learners’Strategies in The Classroom

This paper intends to discuss how to develop the learners’autonomous English learning abilities through strategy teaching.The problems of learning strategies were analyzed.Developing learners’strategies through classroom teaching is an efficient way to foster learner autonomy.The results prove that using the content of regular classroom teaching,which is a meaning ful context for the development of responsibility,can not only enhance the learning effect,but also save time for strategy training.The teacher’s guiding role in autonomous learning should never be ignored.Developing autonomous English learning in voca tional colleges in China is a long-term pedagogical goal.     

An Analysis on Lexical Chunk and the Teaching Method

As a new way to learn English, lexical chunk is very significant. This thesis discusses problems that Chinese English learners met in learning lexical chunks, including overgeneralization, incorrect analogies, Chinese expression used in translation and improper learning strategies. This thesis introduces some new ways to learn lexical chunks in order to strengthen students’ sense of lexical chunk.     

The Effect of Reading Aloud on English Speaking Ability

English speaking ability is one of the most direct ways and standards to judge whether one’s English is good or not.How to improve English speaking ability is always a heated topic among English learners.Many educators have examined that reading English aloud has been attested to be an effective method of learning English,especially improving English speaking ability.This paper,through a questionnaire survey,is to analyze the relationship between students’oral English outcome and their reading aloud,followed by the reasons why reading aloud affects English speaking ability,attempting to find out effective strategies to help English learners to improve their English speaking ability.     

A Brief Discussion on the Chinese College English Language Curriculum for the Non-English Major Learners

Chinese college English Language Curriculum is a complicated teaching system combined with a variety of teaching modes and teaching methodologies. It is guided by foreign language teaching theories and takes the English language knowledge and application skills, cross-cultural communication and learning strategies as its main content. In addition, as the main basis of English education for non-English major undergraduates in colleges and universities, this curriculum helps to cultivate students’ English comprehensive application ability, especially for their listening and speaking skills while improving their abilities of selfeducation. It can also strengthen learners’ comprehensive cultural quality in order to meet the need of social development and international communication.     

The Research of Difference between Boys and Girls during English Study

With China’s opening up and joining the World Trade Organization,more and more people are learning English.English study is very important for the learners,which involves a lot of factors,among which the learner’s own factor is the most direct and main factor.In English teaching,we shouldn’t just pay our attention to the regular teaching principle of teaching stu dents in accordance with their aptitude,and turn a blind eye to the non-intellectual factors of the learners.This thesis analyzes the differences and their reasons,and then puts forward some relevant countermeasures for eliminating the differences in English learning between boys and girls,in the hope of promoting them to make progress together in English study.     

On Application of Mathematic Idea and Method in English Grammar Teaching and Learning

English grammar is at any time the important part of English learning,even if under the implementation of the New Course Standard.However,English grammar is considered to be difficult due to its complexity.My paper here is to explore and study the application of mathematic ideas and methods in English grammar teaching and learning,helping to facilitate the students to master the regularities,accuracy and systematization of English grammar,to improve learning efficiency,to enhance the learners’ logic thinking,and at the same time,pointing out the specific strategies in practical use,which can be of great significance to the students’ innovation and creativity and the students’ development of the ability of cross-subject study advocated by both the Quality-Education and New Curriculum Standard.     

On Promoting English Learning From Contemporary American Sitcoms

Over the years, much importance has been increasingly attached to the ability of using English, especially the mastery of communicative skills, by the overall public and society. Despite the importance placed on English learning, criticism never stops, accusing Chinese learners of‘high scores, low abilities’,‘deaf English’, and‘mute English’. One of the effective approaches acknowledged admittedly to solve these problems is to promote English study through watching American situation comedy, also known as sitcom, besides its prominent survival and success imperceptibly exert improvement on the learning of English as well. Based on the analysis of the present learning situation and the learning obstacles of Chinese learners, this paper tries to briefly elaborate how American sitcoms can stimulate and positively affect the learning of English, in terms of factors of cultural spread, the shift of aesthetic value, the choice from current fashion, and the evolvement of learning style in this cyber age.     

On Positive Transfer of Native Language in SLA

People have controversial ideas about the influence of our native language during the process of second language acquisition.The popular belief is that native language(NL) interferes the second language(L2) learning,which is known as negative transfer,while positive transfer is seldom mentioned,or even is neglected in the study of second language acquisition.We found that in teaching when the L2 learners experienced difficulties in understanding another language,they may resort to their NL to get help.So we can’t only think about its negative aspect.In fact that NL plays a positive role in SLA,so we should make full use of the common features to lead to the positive transfer,then to strengthen the confidence of the second language learners.     

Views on College Students’ English Learning Motivation

This paper aims at exploring college students’ English learning motivation to language learning, including effort, interest, and attitudes. To some extent, it is very important to perform activities in language learning classes. On the one hand, teachers should do every effort to develop students’ keen interest in English study so as to foster their intrinsic motivation. On the other hand, they should set up new goals for students and feedback properly in order to build confidence in English learning. In a word, it is essential for English teachers to understand students’ motivation of English learning so as to save time and teach more efficiently.     

Fostering Learner Autonomy by Strengthening Learners’ Motivation

This paper aims to discus some practical ways to develop the learners’autonomous English learning abilities.After analyzed the motivation problems,the author strengthened learners’motivation through classroom teaching successfully by building good social relations,promoting negotiation,promoting interaction in the classroom and setting up adequate evaluation systems,etc.The author finds that using the content of regular college classroom teaching as a meaningful context for the development of responsibility can enhance the learning effect.The teacher’s guiding role in autonomous learning should never be ignored.Developing autonomous English learning in vocational colleges in China is our long-term pedagogical goal.     

The Application of Mind Map in Junior English Vocabulary Teaching

Almost every English learners is impacted and harassed by word memory in different degrees.However,the traditional rote memorization that is commonly used by majority of students can exacerbate the problem.It is believed that Mind Map may contribute to enhancing the efficiency of vocabulary learning and enlarging the capacity of words.Therefore,Mind Map has received extensive attention in English vocabulary teaching for the recent decades.Mind Map is conducive to motivating student’s interest,enhancing students’memory and augmenting vocabulary learning efficiency.     

The Application of Cooperative Learning in Improving Rural Senior High Students’ English

English teaching method has been improved and the effect of teaching has become greater these years in China,but it is not satis fying.Therefore,adopting experiment approach,the present study aims to solve the question:Can cooperative learning bring effect to the English learning? It chooses two classes from a rural school,one is experimental group which adopts cooperative-learning approach,the other is control group which adopts traditional approach.Focusing on the analysis and comparativeness of their two tests’ scores,it studies the influence of cooperative learning on psychology,learning environment and learning which bring to the English learners,making a con clusion that the application of cooperative learning can greatly improve English learning.     

Autonomous Learning and Improving Communicative Competence

Nowadays, English as a world language becomes more and more important. Consequently, English learning becomes more and more popular. As we know, an important object for English learners is to improve their communicative competence. So autonomous learning is a good way to improve communicative competence. In this paper, two terms, autonomous learning and communicative competence, and their relationship will be introduced from the perspective of English learning. Autonomous learning is self-managed learning, which is contrary to passive learning and mechanical learning, according to intrinsic property of language learning. Communicative competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and is discussed and refined by many other linguists. According to Hymes, communicative competence is the ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of language in order to form grammatically correct sentences but also to know when and where to use these sentences and to whom. Communicative competence includes 4 aspects: Possibility, feasibility, appropriateness and performance. Improving communicative competence is the result of autonomous learning, autonomous learning is the motivation of improving communicative competence. English, of course, is a bridge connecting China to the world, and fostering students’communicative competence through autonomous learning is the vital element of improving English learning in China.     

Improving English through Writing

Like styles in clothing,methods of teaching English seem to go in and out of fashion.There used to be the grammar-translation method.Sometimes it’s "fashionable" to focus on grammar.Sometimes teachers and textbooks focus on communication,instead.Students who thrive using one method are out of luck if a different method is used in their class.This paper reports on a teaching method on improving Chinese-speaking EFL learners’ English by means of composition-writing.The method is used with a view to boosting the learners’ confidence in their ability to learn English.     

The Interference of First Language in Second Language Learning

Second Language Acquisition mainly contributes to the process of second language learning to provide a scientific explanation for language learners’language ability and communicative ability.This paper focuses on the learners whose first language is Chinese and learn English as a second language,and analyzes the interference brought by first language from the perspective of the lexicon,grammar,and cultural differences to analyze the factors causing a negative impact on second language learning.     

The Influence of Implicit and Explicit Learning in English Education

It is very important to understand the differences and relationships between implicit learning and explicit learning no matter from the theoretical perspective or practical perspective. It would make the English teaching in China more feasible and effective if these two kinds of learning patterns could be combined appropriately. Seen from the theoretical perspective, the logical explanation to different achievements made by implicit learners and explicit learners gives a significant inspiration for English teaching. Seen from the practical perspective, even a little child can master the mother tongue quickly while an adult seems to find it more difficult to be proficient of another language. In this paper, the author makes a tentative study on the influence of implicit and explicit learning in English teaching. This is a meaningful topic whether for the teaching material editors, English teachers or to the learners themselves.     

Adult EFL Learners’Motivation in Reading

In the enthusiastic trend of English learning, an abundance of work is contributing to practical assistance to adult learn-ers in contrast with the paucity of attention on the learners’psychological ba...     

Non-intellectual Factors in Foreign Language Learning

1 Introduction In the teaching process,it is very common that the English grades differ markedly in one class even if the students have the same teacher who teaches them the same English knowledge.It is not all because of their intelligence level.It is due to the students’ non-intellectual factors in a large degree.The learners’ non-intellectual factors refer to the psychological factors such as motivation,will,interest,emotion and habit.This paper mainly focuses on how to cultivate students’ non-intellectual factors to improve the learning quality.     

Corpus-based Study on the use of "really" in Chinese Students’ Writing

This corpus-based study aims to explore if the high frequently used word "really" is at a risk of overused,underused or misused in the writing of Chinese learners.Then draw attention on English learning and teaching and raise learners’ awareness of the structural and collocation complexity of words.