A Research on Middle School Students’English Reading Obstacles and Strategies

English reading,a key procedure of English learning and teaching in middle school,is an essential way of getting information from the globe and communicating with others.Therefore,efficient comprehension on reading materials will directly serve for accepting the information.And it is extremely important for middle school students to acquire certain reading ability.At present,great attention has been paid to the course of reading in the instruction of English by the Chinese Education Department.But middle school students’read ing ability is still much lower than the target they should reach because of a set of existing obstacles that prevent them from being effective English readers.What are these obstacles? How to break them down? This paper will first point out and then analyze the obstacles that af fect middle school students’reading ability from two aspects:linguistic obstacles(obstacles of lexicon,grammar and background knowl edge) and non-linguistic obstacles(obstacles of psychology,interest,skill,and habit).After demonstrating different obstacles,the paper also come up with some corresponding strategies in the hope of helping middle school students to be effective English readers.     

The Obstacles and Solutions to Improving Non English-major Students’Listening Comprehension

Listening has been playing an essential role in daily communication.However,listening is the most difficult part and has been an obstacle in the process of learning English for most of learners for a variety of reasons.The paper mainly discusses the linguistic and non—linguistic obstacles in the process of listening and aims to help English learners find out their own shortcomings and put forward some corresponding solutions to improve learners' listening ability.     

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.     

An empirical study on Zhuang Nationalities’Meta-cognitive Strategy Use and Listening Achievement

The present research aims to find out(1) What are Zhuang Nationalities’Meta-cognitive Strategy Use and Listening Achievement(2) What are the correlation between successful and unsuccessful Zhuang subjects’ meta-cognitive strategy use and their listening achievement.120 Zhuang subjects in a medical university located in Guangxi participate in the research.The results show:(1) all Zhuang students have an intermediate level at their meta-cognitive strategies use and compensating use but a bit low listening ability;(2) there exist significant differences between successful and unsuccessful Zhuang students’overall meta-cognitive strategy,listening and compensating;(3) significant correlations can merely be discovered between unsuccessful Zhuang students’monitoring and listening,yet significant correlations appear between successful students’overall meta-cognitive strategy,planning,evaluating and listening.     

How to Improve Students’ English Listening Ability

Listening plays a fundamental role in foreign language acquisition. Though most schools have offered listening class, the effect is rather poor. This thesis will analyse some reasons that cause students weak ability in listening and explore some effective strategies to solve some issues.     

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.     

Can Listening Comprehension Strategies Assist ESL/EFL Learners?

Listening strategies are important in English learning and teaching. They are highly effective in developing learners’ listening comprehension ability. This paper firstly examines the theories of learning strategies and the uses of them in second language acquisition (SLA) and then reviews various research findings on strategy usage, such as the types of learning strategies used by good listeners, effective strategy training, and the teaching of strategies explicitly. The paper goes on to illustrate listening comprehension strategies involving top-down and bottom-up processes and provide with research evidence showing that using listening strategies can improve listening comprehension. Finally, the paper offers suggestions and principles for language teachers about how to teach listening strategies in second language classrooms.     

On Improving Chinese Students’ Listening and Speaking Competence in English

Improving listening and speaking competence,the two fundamental communicative skills,has become widely accepted as an important goal of English teaching in China.But due to the grammar-focused teaching method,students still have great difficulties in listening and speaking.This essay intends to reveal the methods of using the lexical vantage to improve communicative abilities.     

On Developing College Students’ Ability of Reading Comprehension

Reading has become one of the four essential skills in English study,without reading,it is difficult for the students to support independent and self-directed learning.With the arrival of the Information Age,our reading materials gradually change from paper materials to electronic ones.So it becomes more and more important for college students to speed up their reading and develop a good reading habit in order to acquire as much information as possible.     

An Investigation of Junior Middle School Students’English Learning Motivation and Motivating Strategies

English learning motivation plays a more and more important role in junior middle school students’ study,and it is necessary for students to learn English effectively.Therefore,teachers should take responsibilities for stimulating students’ English learning motivation.This present thesis investigates 63 students who are from class 1 grade 1,class 2 grade 1 and class 3 grade 1 in NanJie country junior middle school in LinYing town LuoHe city by the way of questionnaire.And the thesis discusses the source of students’ learning motivation,for the purpose of putting forward strategies of motivating students’ English learning motivation in accordance with students’ type of motivation.     

Analysis of Listening Obstacles and some Strategies

1. Introduction Many English learners in collage are used to the Chinese mode of thinking and, to a great extend, their English is deaf-mute. With the rapid social develop- ment in China the traditional language teaching meth- ods cannot fit the requirements of society and need to be improved, especially, in listening. However, lan- guage teachers have paid insufficient attention to lis- tening and some lack effective methods to organize their teaching. Students’skills such as reading, spea…     

Using English Movies to Develop Students’ Listening and Speaking Skills

This paper sets forth the advantages of English movies in helping English learners develop their listening and speaking skills. It al so provides the ways in which English movies are chosen and used to achieve the goal.     

The Schema-Based Listening Teaching of English

English listening as a basic language skill gets more and more attention from foreign language learners. However,students feel it is very difficult to understand what they listen to. Thery face a variety of listening obstacles. This paper will analyse how to apply the schema theory to listening teaching and explore some reasonable strategies to resolve students listening obstacles.     

On Developing College Students’Vocabulary

Vocabulary instruction in college English has always been far from satisfaction with teachers and students.Through the discussion of vocabulary teaching and some instructional approaches,this paper provides some implifications on vocabulary in struction and emphasizes the importance of carrying out reasearch.     

Formative Assessment and English Learning Strategies——An experiment on teaching vocational college English

The study mainly focuses on the influence of formative assessment upon learning strategies. So as to testify the effectiveness of formative assessment application in the promotion of students’ learning strategy in vocational college, the author has conducted a 20-week study on 76 freshmen in Sichuan College of Architectural Technology. The result shows that the application of formative assessment is mostly effective in the students’ adoption of affective strategy.     

How to Improve the English Listening of Higher Vocational Students

English Listening is process onward step by step.Teachers ought to pay attention to specific conditions in the choice of listening materials,teach students in accordance with their aptitude,and cover materials of different levels.Recognize and resolve the problems that hinder the improvement of English listening,develop students’ confidence and interest in English,and guide students to master the correct methods and techniques of English listening.     

An Empirical Study of Senior One High School Students’Cognitive Strategies in Learning English Vocabulary

The present research aims to find out (1) the general vocabulary learning beliefs of Senior One high school students in Guang zhou; (2) the general vocabulary cognitive strategies adopted by Senior One high school students in Guangzhou; (3) the differences be tween successful English learners and unsuccessful English learners in adopting cognitive strategies in their English vocabulary learning. A cohort of 68 Senior One high school students participate in the research. The results of the investigation show that the notion that vocabu lary should be learnt in context and through using is shared by the majority, that the most frequently used vocabulary cognitive strategies are inferencing, note-taking, contextualization and resourcing, that there is no significant difference between the successful English learners and the unsuccessful English learners in using identical vocabulary cognitive strategies.     

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.     

On Nurturing Students’ Nonverbal Communication Awareness and its Pedagogical Implications

1.Introduction Language is a way for communication,but people can use the other way which is called nonverbal communication to express their thoughts feelings and attitudes.This kind of communication is that people do not use language to communicate with others(Hu Wenzhong,1999).In the middle of 1960’s,Rivers(1946),an American applied linguist,brought the achievement in     

Vocational and Technical Education Master’s Employment-oriented Study

In recent years,as China’s rapid economic development,vocational and technical education has been gradually recognized by the society.As highly educated people,vocational and technical education graduate is an important force in the development of vocational education.But in reality,their employment orientation deviate from the trend of the profession and only a small part of them do related work after graducation.Combined with the current development status of vocational education,the article analysis the reasons of this problem and give policy recommendations,so as to create a good environment for vocational and technical education talented people.