Creating an English Environment to Foster the Students’ Ability in Communicating

English is becoming more and more important in communicating as the further development of the reform and opening up. We English teacher should try our best to create and arrange a kind of language environment according to our students’ practical life in order to improve and enhance their interest in English studying, to encourage them to practice English during their daily life and to cultivate their ability to communicate in English.     

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.     

A Semantic Study on Learning English Words

Word meaning usually consists of denotative and connotative meaning.Many English text books and English-Chinese dictionaries tend to put English words directly into Chinese without paying due attention to their cultural-specific connotations.English beginners also try to seek the Chinese equivalent in learning English words,which,on many occasions,give rise to misunderstanding.This paper mainly deals with meaning analysis and how to learn well English words with an view to ensuring an appropriate usage and wipe out the potential misconception.     

美国话语与美国文化

Language is a key component part of culture. It reflects culture. As a variety of British English, American English,especially American words reflect American culture, including their custom, their view of value, their character traits. Being amelting pot, American words melt a lot of loanwords. The exaggerated use of words shows Americans are self-confidence.They also use beautified words to show their wish to life, to future. They can use common words, usually slang to express spe-cial ideas. By doing so, they create something new and original. Learning American English, especially studying Americanwords, we can see some typical traits of American culture.     

Movie-assisted Teaching and Learning of British and American Novels

There is a great discovery that most respondents prefer to use movies to assist their learning of English novels and they are more competent in the course according to a survey. Through watching movies...     

Oral Teaching English in Senior School under the Guide of Motivation Theories

Oral English is always ignored by teaching in senior school.After years of learning,as we all know most students are so called high scores and low abilities,or what they obtain is so-called"mute English".At present,the English teaching in high school mainly emphasis on written examination ability,so the senior student master certain elementary reading,writing and listen ing skills while their speaking competence is poor.The author made some analysis from different aspects of the present situation of senior students and worked out some ways according to the motivation theory in order to arouse students to improve their speaking competence.     

On Strategies to Motivate College Students in English Class

Students in their early 20s are energetic,focusing on something they are really into.Unfortunately,English is not one of their interests.Some students may have face problems to speak up.This article aims at analyzing the roots of students’keeping silent in class and coming up with practical ways to make the students realize how important and interesting English can be,to create harmonious atmosphere for everyone to feel at ease and free to speak up anytime in the class,to combine evaluation with students’performance in classroom activities and to differentiate the students according to their different features,assigning them different activities to fulfill.     

The Meanings of Addresses and Their Proper Translations

This thesis aims at exploring meanings of different addresses and their correct and suitable translations in both Chinese and English. After the introduction to the definition and meaning of addresses, the whole thesis probes into this problem from two aspects: the reasons which lead to the differences in addresses among relatives in both Chinese and English, and the ways how to translate addresses properly according to the situations. With the exploration, the writer hopes to introduce the cultural differences from the perspective of translations of addresses.     

English for Medical Purposes:Design a Course for Chinese Clinical Doc tors for Overseas Exchange

The English level of the staff is generally intermediate since they have learned general English and medical English during their college and universities,the courses can be intensively taught in two months with three courses every week.The proficiency level of the exchanged clinical doctors,their linguistic needs as well as the communicative needs will be imaginatively illustrated according to the literatures which are about the medical staff’s needs for English as a surviving tool of working in foreign hospitals.     

Analysis on the Strategies for the Autonomous Development of English Teachers in High Schools

The professional development of English teachers in high schools is not only a hot focus of teachers’ education, but also an important turning point in the students’ English learning. English teachers are constantly improving their own personal quality and teaching effect under their autonomous development model and goal. It is necessary for English teachers in high schools to rethink and change their own teaching methods, transform the educational ideas, and make educational methods innovative. Meanwhile, they are required to continuously improve their own teaching practice ability. Thus, development and innovation can be unceasingly sought by them in the process of thinking, criticizing, and denying. In addition, the autonomous factors restricting the continuous professional development must be changed. In this paper, the strategies for the autonomous development of English teachers in high schools are discussed according to the requirements for the professional development so as to produce profound significance to the sustainable development of the teachers.     

The Advantages of the Application of English Original Films in English Teaching for Students from Higher Vocational and Technical Institutions

On the analysis of the current learning situation of the students from higher vocational and technical institutions, this paper proposes the way of using original English films in language teaching. It has indicated the advantages of English original films, such as can to motivate the students to learn by their willing, to create real-life, to enlarge students’view and to improve the competence of learning. Especially on dealing with the problems appearing in the learning process in vocational and technical institutions, teaching by English original film is a strongly suggested way.     

Terminology in Doing Business English Translation

Terminology plays an important role in doing business English translation. This paper will try to give tentative definitions of what is terminology, of what is business English translation, and render some examples to exemplify the significant impacts of terminology in doing BET. In author’s opinion the scope of "terminology" is quite broad.     

How to Create a Low-anxiety Environment for Chinese Learners of EFL to Enhance Oral Proficiency in Speaking Lessons

The goal of teaching English speaking is to improve students’ communicative efficiency, or make students speak the target language clearly, coherently, accurately and fluently (Xu, 2005). However, in China, a number of students in an English speaking class tend to be passive and reluctant to speak out or be singled out publicly mainly due to their high anxiety, which, of course, becomes a significant constraint on improving their English proficiency. Therefore, how to create a relaxed atmosphere with a sense of security in the English speaking class to alleviate Chinese learners’ anxiety and to provide them with as many opportunities as possible to practice speaking English and improve their English proficiency is one of the central tasks for language teachers.his paper will firstly outline my teaching context in China in physical, pedagogical, institutional and personal aspects. This will be followed by the definition and classification of language learning anxiety, and the analysis of various factors contributing to foreign language learners’ anxiety as well as some suggestions of how to reduce the learners’ anxiety in the oral class according to the current literature. Finally, some applications will be presented in my teaching context in the hope of decreasing Chinese students’ anxiety to enhance their English speaking proficiency.     

动词不定式误用例析

1.对我们来说学好英语很重要。误:It's important of us to learn English well.正:It's important for us to learn English well.析:在"It's adj. for/of sb to do sth"句式中,It作形式主语,     

English Metaphor and its Culture

Different languages are unable to be separated from their specific social culture backgrounds. Vocabulary is language’s subsystem. English metaphor is an important part of vocabulary; it belongs to the semantic motivation of English lexicology. The social culture of a language reflects more from its linguistic metaphor. Metaphor is a significant language phenomenon that is closely linked with its culture. Much of the deep culture of a language (such as view of life, view of value, etc.) is instantiated and transmitted through the metaphors people use on the daily basis. From the angle of the relation between language and social culture, this article discusses the function of English social culture in forming English metaphors.     

The Best Age For A Child To Begin

What is the best age for a child to begin learning a foreign language? It is commonly believed that children are supposed to form their learning skill gradually, according to the development of their age and language learning mechanism. But some hold the view that one of the keys to raising a linguistically proficient child is to have him study from as early an age as possible. In this way, one can make full use of a child's natural aptitude.     

讲出来(英文)

(Speak up, speak straight, speak your heart go...go...) Everybody's got a point of view And the right to their own opinion Don't be scared of what I'm gonna do When you let me know your intuition[直觉] So what makes you think that I won't get it? So what makes you think that I won't get your love tonight?     

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.     

Strategies to Promote Real Understanding of English Idioms

In English study,the wide range of idioms used in various situations has brought great difficulties for our English learners owing to their semantic unity,structural stability,permutation,productivity,strong cultural dependence.The author holds the view that the meaning of an idiom concerns closely with its associative meaning,such as logic,psychology,sociology,history.Therefore in this paper three ways are proposed to avoid wrong interpreting of English idioms,that is,through context,through cultural connotations,and through cognitive mechanisms.     

Teaching Pre-experience Learners in the Integrated Business English Class

Differences on teaching goals between general English and business English are obvious to teachers. However, experi-ence gap commonly found among pre-experience business English learners may prevent them from understanding their specific needs of learning business English, hence resulting in the fallback on learning general English. This gap may also lead to their diffi-culties in understanding complex business concepts. This article analyzes the characteristics of pre-experience learners and elabo-rates on potential benefits of"guest speakers"which can be introduced into classes to help students narrow the experience gap.