Applicability of CTL in China

Communicative language teaching,as a comparatively new teaching approach,is conducive to improving the communicative competence of English learners in China.The application of communicative language teaching comes across great opportunities as well as challenges,which include the teacher-related factors and student-related factors.     

The Practice of Pragmatics in TEFL

In 1980s,Pragmatics was introduced into China and with its fast development Pragmatics has become the focus of Chinese researchers,who tend to study Pragmatics from grammar and Semantics.According to this,for a long time the college English teaching in China has been dominated by a combination of the audio-lingual method and the traditional grammar translation method.But,nowadays with the fast development of the economy and society,persons with high level of English proficiency are in great demand in every field of work.To meet the demand of times,language teaching should concentrate on training learners to be communicatively and pragmatically competent.This paper concerns how to improve students’ pragmatic and communicative competence via various teaching materials and methods.     

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.     

Approaches to College English Pronunciation Teaching

In most universities in China,pronunciation has long been overlooked in college English teaching.With the reform of college English teaching,great attention has been paid to the cultivation of the students’ listening and speaking skills,that is,Eng lish teaching has moved to language functions and communicative competencies,a new urgency for the teaching of pronuncia tion has arisen.This paper covers the four areas of pronunciation:sounds,stress,rhythm,and intonation,with the expectation that it will provide readers with comprehensive insight into ways of teaching pronunciation.     

Communicative Competence & Communicative Language Teaching

Traditionally, English teaching in China is dominated by a teacher-centered, book-centered, grammar-translation method, audio-lingual method and an emphasis on rote learning, resulting in limited vocabulary and poor communicative competence. However, the communicative approach has provided the expected results since it was introduced into China in the 1990s, improving their linguistic competence as well as their communicative competence.     

Teaching of Listening Comprehension to Chinese College Students

1.ContextEnglish is now the most popular learnedforeign language in China.But generally speaking,English teaching in all levels of Chinese schoolsis still very test centered.The real ability oflanguage usage or the communicative ability inlanguage studies is comparatively neglected.Thatleads to a great dissatisfaction due to the obviousdeficiency of Chinese students’language ability.I have taught listening comprehension to firstyear college students in Nanchang University forseveral years.…     

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.     

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.     

Probing into the Sino-American Cross-National Marriage Failures:An Intercultural Perspective

The open policy initiated in the late 1 970 s notonly brings abouta great boom in economy,but al-so accelerates the transmutation of Chinese people‘s traditional attitude towards marriage.In thepast,affected by Cultural Revolution ( which regards overseas relations as an evil thing) ,people hav-ing overseas relatives felt rather uneasy and had a sense of inferiority,not to say having a foreignspouse.However,with China‘s opening to the outside world,people‘s attitude toward marriage is un-dergoing great chan...     

A Study on Task-based Approach in Vocational College English Teaching

The traditional teaching approach has long been concerned with imparting knowledge,and many college teachers still opt for this method in their practice In English class teachers choose to emphasize ma the language points,ignoring that English language mainly functions as a tool of communication.On the other hand,for students the purpose of learning English is to pass the examination.This traditional approach fails to cultivate students’ communicative ability in English.In recent years,however,the general shift from a knowledge-based education to an ability-oriented one makes it an imperative to reform the traditional teaching methods.As a new kind of teaching theory and teaching activity,task-based approach(TBA) has been introduced and applieded by English teachers in China,especially those engaged in English teaching in higher vocational colleges.     

Initiating Interaction in the EFL Class

In recent years,with the renewal of English textbooks of all levels,the traditional grammar-translation method is out-of-date in the EFL class.In order to meet the challenges of our age,more and more teachers have cast their eyes on the communicative use of language,which compels them to create opportunities for genuine interaction in the classroom.Interaction,according to Brown(1980,p.159),is "the collaborative exchange of thoughts,feelings,or ideas between two or more people resulting in a reciprocal effect on each other." As the core of communication,interaction is a very important word for current language teachers,who are responsible for providing the stimuli for continued interaction in the era of communicative language teaching.The significance of interaction in EFL class mainly lies in its contribution to the active teaching of grammar,the initiating of students’ intrinsic motivation and the improving of their communicative competence(c.c.).In this article,I will elaborate on why and how I initiate interaction by providing a 100-minute lesson plan in an attempt to connect theory with practice.     

A Short Discussion on How to Use Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) to Improve Speaking Competence

Though China’s present situation in English language teaching is quite favorable,some problems are still very outstanding.It seems that the communicative competence of Chinese students is not that satisfactory.The Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) approach,which regards"communicative competence"as the goal of language teaching,is becoming more and more popular in China’s English language teaching.This paper shows that the CLT approach does work in improving students’ communicative competence to some degree,through reviewing relevant literature on this approach.However,it is not a panacea to solve all the problems occurring in students’ communicative competence for it also has some weak points.Several suggestions were proposed to enhance students’ grammatical competence as well as the communicative block due to cultural differences.It is also advisable for teachers to be as flexible as possible in choosing the teaching techniques and adding whichever input needed to effectively achieve the main goal of making students both grammatically accurate and communicatively proficient.     

The Consciousness of Cross-cultural Communication Applied in the English Translation of Chinese Tourist Material

Tourism has become a hot topic in people’ s daily life.In recent years,tourist industry in China has developed rapidly and has shown great business opportunities.Tourism English is the most widely used language in the world.It bears the task to exchange eastern and western cultures to the tourists from all around the world.Because tourism translation is a kind of cross-cul tural communication,tourism material is a main channel to introduce China.The quality of the translation will directly affect the development of our tourist industry and the process of the globalization of tourism.     

Strategies and Reflection of Oral English Teaching in Vocational College

As a widely-used language,English is the most important tool of communication.In recent years,with the rapid social communicative development,English increasingly shows its importance.China’s English teaching in colleges and vocational colleges also increases emphasis on the teaching of spoken English.In this paper,that is,in my vocational college on the practice of oral English teaching,I analyze and explore Spoken English in the teaching process and the difficulties encountered by the setbacks.Vocational college English teaching briefly discusses the status of oral English teaching and teaching strategies.Spoken English Teaching strategy comes from the reflection.     

The Analysis of Problems in the Translation of Tourist Materials

Translation of tourist materials belongs to the applied translation studies,that is English for special purpose(ESP).So translation should be viewed as a purposeful intercultural communicative activity.But the beauty of the tourism translation is lost in the translation problems.As for the existing problems in the translation of tourist materials,the author focuses on the errors in pragmatic,cultural and linguistic aspects,which are being discussed in great details in this essay.     

How Should Oral Skills be Taught in the English Language Classroom

There is general agreement today that the communicative approach to the teaching and learning of English is the correct one and that we learn English for the purpose of communicating with other English-speakers. However, this is a comparatively recent development. This paper begins with an historical overview outlining the origins of the communicative approach in Europe and the United States and noting that they arrived at a consensus for entirely different historical reasons. In China English replaced Russian as the most important foreign language a generation ago but even then the emphasis was on receptive skills. The thorny question of authenticity is then discussed. While everyone agrees that in theory authenticity is a key consideration there is considerably less agreement on how to convert theory into practice. Finally the paper goes on to note how recent practice has abandoned the teacher-centered approach in favor of the learner-centered approach and the exercise-based approach in favor of the task-based approach, The task-based approach emphasizes integrated as opposed to individual skills acquisition. Examples of integrated tasks are given in the Appendix.     

The Constraints of CLT’ s Application in ELT Classroom

Communicative Language Teaching(CLT) aims to develop students’ communicative competence,while it does not work as expected with many students lacking of successful experience in English communication.In terms of the principles and characteristics of CLT,this paper tries to make an analysis on the causes of this phenomenon from three aspects:students,teachers and educational system.Some suggestions,presented in the end,hopefully,can bring some enlightenment on the English Language Teaching(ELT) of China.     

The Characteristics of Speech Act Theory and TEFL

In this presentation, a brief introduction sgiren to the speech act theory through examples.Lights are thrown on the importance of speech act theory in TEFL to develop the students communicative competence.     

On Reading-Based Writing Instruction Model

English writing is a complex integrative process of comprehensive skills.A host of students are still unable to write a coherent English paragraph after having learned English for many years at school.To help college students improve their writing competence is a great challenge facing the English teaching in China.Researches on writing teaching method abroad have experienced prosperity.In China,however,researches in this field are far behind.There is great need to search for more efficient writing instruction model so that it can serve well in Chinese context.Enlightened by Krashen’s input hypothesis and Swain’s output hypothesis,the writer put forward Reading-Based Writing Instruction Model.This paper aims to discuss the effectiveness of this model from the different perspectives.     

A Survey on Students’Oral English Ability in High School

Oral communicative ability is of great importance to measure students’English ability.However,it long exists that English course of high schools focuses on grammar.In economically backward cities where high schools don’t treat speaking as a necessity,there is a prevailing phenomenon of high marks but dumb English.Based on the fact above,the author adopts some methods to conduct an investigation among teachers and students in a high school in Shanxi province.After an elaborate collection of data and a comprehensive conclusion of information related to students,the author points out problems existing in students’oral communication in the Grade Two;by analysis,the author points out some possible reasons for these problems;and lastly,the author puts forward some suggestions to these problems accordingly.