Reflection on Communicative Language Teaching in China’s Classroom

The author tries to discusses some characteristics of a teaching method-communicative language teaching.It refers to the method as a new metaphor and talks about what the metaphor might be.It also keys on the case where CLT guides Chinese classroom practice for English language learning and points out the problems the teachers encountered.In the end,it offers some directions for the future research.     

On the Cultivation of College Students’ Ability of Translating

Translation is a kind of communicative function of language behavior.In English teaching,translation capabilities must be one of the purposes of our teaching.As a teaching activity it aims to lay a good foundation in English for students and effective teaching methods,but also comprehensive language skills,students study the benchmark one.     

Communicative Approach to English Language Teaching

As China develops and is more frequently in contact with foreign countries, people have come to realize that traditional English teaching method can no longer meet the needs of development Since 1970s, the communicative approach has been paid much attention and widely employed in foreign language teaching. This article gives an account of the definition of communicative approach and the application of it in ELT. The writer also put forward some suggestions or criteria for teachers to take in the end of this article.     

An Experimental Design--Role of Daily Report in Improving MiddlSchool Students’ Speaking Ability

At present, the common problem in English teaching of middle schools is that students lack of good oral communication skills. In order to improve students' communicative competence, we put forward the research topic of"using daily report to im?prove English speaking skills of middle school students". After doing this, the students' classroom learning atmosphere is active, and the enthusiasm for participating in teaching activities is significantly improved, and they are willing to speak or communicate with students or foreign friends. At the same time, it promotes the teaching level and scientific research level of teachers.     

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.     

On the Development of Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence in College English Classes

More frequent international contacts require culture teaching to be incorporated into college English classes so as to develop students’ intercultural communicative competence. English culture is different from Chinese at linguistic and pragmatic levels and in nonverbal communication as well. To make students engage in intercultural communication successfully, teachers should first develop their "critical cultural awareness".Meanwhile, they need to try flexible ways of culture teaching and create an authentic learning environment for the students. Opportunities should also be created for the students to communicate in the real context. Students’ autonomy to learn the language and its culture should also be nurtured.     

Classroom Observation on Developing Students’Competence in SEIB

China’s entry to WTO and China’s 2008 Olympic Games have widely opened the door to the outside world.Tal ents with business knowledge and excellent oral English are urgently needed.For students in English major,we give the course of Spoken English for International Business(SEIB) to improve their abilities in SEIB.The author aims to use the methods like classroom observation,interview,questionnaire survey to observe and compare two classes and two teachers to explore the rela tions between students’competence development and teachers’with different levels and teaching practice,and to gain some enlightenment on students’competence developing in SEIB from the study.     

Communicative Language Teaching in China

As the country with the largest English learning population in the world, China is deeply involved in communicative language teaching(DLT). However, several factors constrained the application of such a method. This essay focuses on the problems that lead to the constraints of CLT in China.     

Methodology Analysis——Comment on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

Language teaching approaches are always changing according to social needs for various talents and there is no exception for Communicative Language Teaching(CLT).From 1960s,people become more and more interested in communicative function of languages.Communicative Competence,Functional Linguistics,Speech Act Theory and related learning theories help the CLT form the teaching aim of cultivating students’communicative ability.Scholars start to regard language communicative competence as the final teaching purpose.This article will explore CLT in terms of language teaching views,advantages and disadvantages.What is more,it comes to the following conclusions:there exists no language teaching approach that is absolutely superior,including CLT.Language teachers should use different approaches flexibly so as to reach the teaching aim.     

On the Application of Communicative Teaching Activities in Enhancing Students’ Interests in English Reading

Recent years,many high schools enlarged their dimensions of enrollment along with the colleges’enlarged enrollment.As a result,the vocational schools’enrollees are mostly the graduated junior high school students who are not qualified to enroll in the senior high schools.The researcher found many students didn’t have interests in English reading.They often chat,read novels,or even sleep.That badly interrupted the accomplishment of regular teaching process.Most of the colleagues of the researcher contributed that to the lowered quality of students.But there might be many further reasons decreased the students’reading interests,such as,the teachers’teaching methods,the applicability of the textbooks,the teaching environment,and etc.Many researches had been conducted on the issue of the English reading.But there are a few practical researches on how to enhance students’interests in English reading.The researcher hypothesized that the communicative teaching activities(shortened as CTA hereinafter)can enhance students’reading interests.A three-week project was conducted among 35students.CTA was arranged in each of the three stages of English reading teaching,namely the pre-reading stage,the while-reading stage and the post reading stage.The researcher analyzed the weekly diary that described the performance changes of students,and also the exercise marks they got in the classes in three weeks.The results turned out students’interests in English reading had been highly improved after the application of CTA.The significance of this project is that the application of communicative teaching activities can enhance students’reading interests.And those teachers who are meeting the same problem in their teachings can benefit from this project.     

Communicative Competence in English Teaching and Learning

外语教学的主要目的就是培养学生的跨文化交际能力。在外语教学中，仅仅教会学生一套机械的语法规则，一定数量的词汇，学生是无法令人满意地参与目的语交际活动的。语言交际能力涉及到文化背景知识，所以，语言教学应结合文化教学。     

Language Transfer and Cultural Transfer in College Students’ Writings

Culture and language are the two notions relating closely with each other.One certain language may show the existence of one unique culture,and vice versa.The consequences are that language learning must involve the acquisition of one’s culture.This paper focuses on the role of language transfer in college students’ writing from the cultural perspective,expecting that the studying results could benefit both teachers and students in the process of foreign language learning.     

Politics in Language: on George Orwell’s View of Language in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Language stood in the foreground of George Orwell’s social and political thinking. Language is not only a vehicle for transmitting ideas, but also a product originating from social and political interactions. This paper examines the language, particularly the abuse of language, in the context of politics presented in Nineteen Eighty-Four, so as to find out George Orwell’s view of language: language as a manipulated tool to control people’s minds.     

Brief Survey of the Communicative Approach and the Strategy of Improving the Students’ Communicative Competence

With the rapid development of economy and improvement position of English as an international language in our country,English teaching draw a lot of attention nowadays.In traditional English teaching,it's the teachers who manipulate everything in class,where students are seen as receivers of knowledge.Therefore,it lacks cooperation between teachers and students.Students have no opportunity to apply what they have learnt in class to practical communications.In this teachers-centered class,students are not able to bring themselves into full play,which explains the low quality of English teaching in some schools and students fail to communicate with others after many years' learning.Based on the theory of Communicative Approach,the paper analyses its advantages and existing problems in application and proposes some strategy of improving students'Communicative Competence.     

Cultivation of Students’Intercultural Awareness in CET

Language is the carrier of culture and it is also an integral part of culture. Therefore, learning English requires us not only master the English language knowledge and skills, but also understand t...     

Teacher’ s Expected Role in Applying TBLT Method to Foreign Language Teaching

TBLT method is an influential approach which is based on the use of tasks as the core unit of planning and instruction in language and teaching,.Thus it calls for teachers expected responsibility in order to be applied well in foreign language teaching.Here based on the principles of TBLT,teachers’ expected roles are discussed.     

On Tibetan Students’ Willingness to Communicate in EFL Classroom

Set as the primary and ultimate goal of language teaching process by MacIntyre et al.(1998),willingness to communicate in second language(L2 WTC) has been put much attention in L2 acquisition field.This study examined quantitatively the willingness to communicate in English as a foreign language(EFL WTC) in Tibetan context with a questionnaire.Tibetan college students’ EFL WTC was found significantly lower than Han students.No significant difference was found between Tibetan male and female students in their EFL WTC.Causes were explored andsome pedagogical suggestions were made in this study.     

On Communicative Teaching in Middle School English Lesson

The notion of context is a particularly important inpragmatics because it contributes a lot to the meaning ofan utterance.In a sense,contextual features determine orinfluence the interpretation of utterances.This makes itvery significant to study contextual features and how tocreate context.The presentation and practice of languagein a special context can develop learners' competence injudging whether the linguistic forms are appropriate ornotand help learner master this forms and their meanin…