Paper Keywords: Problems in College Oral English Teaching Countermeasures Abstract: Based on the problems in college oral English teaching, this paper puts forward measures to improve oral English teaching, aiming at better cultivating college students' oral English ability.
With the increase of communication between China and foreign countries, the importance of English expression ability has become increasingly prominent. Judging from the feedback from previous college students, most of them are facing the challenge of oral English. In this process, many recruiting units, especially wholly-owned or joint ventures, have high requirements on the application ability of candidates, especially oral English, which is precisely the weakness of most graduates. Therefore, college oral English teaching has become one of the key and difficult points in foreign language teaching reform.
First, the problems in college oral English teaching
1. Teachers' disadvantages
(1) Backward teaching methods limit the cultivation of students' innovative ability. What students receive in English class is mostly the whole learning with the class as the unit, with tradition as the main part? Type? Teaching. Its teaching process can be roughly divided into: learning new words? Grammatical hints? Translate to the general idea? Practice after class? Dialogue reading? Imitate and perform six links. Students simply accept book knowledge and follow, copy or imitate according to the dialogue mode in books, which loses the space for independent thinking and creation and limits the cultivation of innovative ability.
(2) The traditional teaching mode has affected the effect of oral English teaching. The traditional teaching mode gives teachers the right to be the leader and dominator in classroom teaching, while the role of students can only obey the arrangement and command. The single model highlights the status of teachers and emphasizes their role, but ignores the real core students in the teaching process. As Earl Strywick emphasized, in the process of teaching? The key is to put it? Learning principles? Put it in? Teaching principles? Before? .
(3) The single teaching content hinders the improvement of oral teaching quality. At present, some oral English textbooks are relatively simple in content and form, and only collect new words and phrases related to the theme, summarize key points and important sentence patterns, arrange thematic situational dialogues, and set up classroom and after-school exercises. The stereotyped teaching content can't arouse students' enthusiasm for learning English, or even make them produce? Bored? Emotion hinders the improvement of oral English teaching quality.
2. Students' problems
(1) There are obstacles in oral English learning. Influenced by your own personality and tradition? Face? Under the influence of ideas, many students are always afraid of making mistakes, being accused and being laughed at in the process of learning English, which makes them more and more afraid of speaking English, forming psychological barriers, leading to oral expression anxiety and affecting normal thinking and communication. Qiannan Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as? Our hospital? According to the data of Business English Class of Grade 2009, 75% of the students think that personal personality and anxiety are important factors affecting oral English learning.
(2) The oral English level is generally low. For a long time, most students in school take exams for the purpose? Rote in English? Or? English? . In the process of learning, students tend to study in a theoretical, conceptual and modular way, and there are few or no opportunities for oral training, which leads to students? Know what to say, but don't know how to say it? This situation seriously restricts the improvement of oral English ability.
(3) Lack of vocabulary. Vocabulary is the most basic element of discourse, semantics and communication. Due to the lack of vocabulary, many students can't really get the information of the communication object, and even misunderstand and misinterpret the received information, resulting in communication obstacles. At the same time, the lack of vocabulary prevents students from expressing their inner views correctly, freely and appropriately, which hinders language communication.
(4) Pay too much attention to grammar rules. Influenced by exams, many students pay attention to language learning in the process of English learning. Reciting grammar rules mechanically makes students unable to adapt to the requirement that college English pays more attention to the cultivation of application ability, and still cannot change the habit of making grammatical judgments and component analysis before speaking, thus missing the best opportunity for information exchange and seriously hindering oral communication.
(5) Lack of opportunities and atmosphere to speak English. I was born and raised in a single school. Except for a limited number of oral English classes every week, daily communication is mainly in Chinese, and there are few opportunities to communicate in oral English. Even if the scene simulation performance or simulation training is carried out in oral class, the limited class hours can't really meet the requirements of oral training, which is suitable for the cultivation of oral ability.
(6) Lack of initiative in training oral English. Because of their weak oral English foundation and the influence of personality and traditional ideas, most students are reluctant to take the initiative to speak for oral English training. Participate in teaching activities in class and complete learning tasks after class, just to get corresponding credits and cope with the final exam. According to the sample survey data of business English classes in our college in 2009, 43% of them hardly do oral training every week, 39% do oral training, about 1 hour, and only 18% do oral training for more than 2 hours.
Second, improve college oral English teaching strategies
1. Do a good job in pronunciation teaching
Phonetic teaching is one of the important links. If you want to learn English well, you must first pass the pronunciation barrier. Phonetic teaching is based on phonetic transcription teaching, and learning phonetic transcription well is the premise of learning English well. Mastering correct pronunciation methods and skills can help students solve the difficulties in spelling and memorizing words.
2. Create a good oral English learning environment
Affected by various factors, students usually have less opportunities to contact and use English. At the same time, oral English teaching mainly depends on classroom teaching, lacking real communication opportunities. Therefore, oral English teachers should try their best to create opportunities for students to speak English, design English communication situations, organize teaching in combination with English, create a good English pronunciation atmosphere for them and promote the development of teaching.
3. Change the concept of oral English teaching
? Student-centered? Because of his teaching thought, the role of teachers has changed fundamentally. Teachers are no longer the center of the whole classroom, but the organizers and coordinators of teaching activities. In the whole teaching process, teachers are in a dominant position, guiding students to participate in teaching activities, inspiring them to think about problems, deeply understand the situation and change. One way? What is teaching for? Two-way interaction
4. Rational use of scientific teaching methods
Spoken English teachers can't just use a single one? Dialogue? Teaching should rely on various network resources and multimedia-assisted teaching. Through the five stages of teaching, such as setting goals, assigning tasks, division of labor and cooperation, effect acceptance and evaluation feedback, English songs and classroom interactive games can be brought into play by means of repetition, summary, description, question and answer, discussion, performance and debate, which can activate students' thinking, improve their participation, fully demonstrate the advantages of combining sight, listening and speaking, enrich teaching forms and improve teaching quality.
5. Stimulate students' interest in learning English.
Bloom, a famous American scientist, said: A student who studies with positive emotions should learn more easily and widely than those who lack enthusiasm, fun or interest, or those who are anxious and afraid of learning. Interest is the best teacher? , is the beginning of cultivating everything. Therefore, oral English teachers should try their best to highlight the practicality of knowledge, the communicative nature of language and the interest of activities. The theme should be close to students' life, in line with their age characteristics, and the content should be extensive, and it should not be confined to the form or textbooks.
6. Carry out various second-class activities.
Oral English teachers should attach importance to the organic combination of in-class and out-of-class, and actively carry out colorful second-class activities while attaching importance to classroom teaching. Such as English corner, English karaoke contest, English contest, English calligraphy contest, English speech contest, English stage performance, English recitation contest, English radio station and English chat room. Encourage students to participate in oral practice in class and enrich the learning content.
7. Enrich the content of teaching materials
At present, listening and speaking multimedia teaching materials in oral English textbooks are mostly used for students' autonomous learning, and resources suitable for classroom teaching, such as background materials, related videos and audio, are relatively scarce. Classroom teaching is an important part of oral English teaching. Oral English teachers should strengthen their own learning, improve their professional level, accumulate teaching experience, collect useful materials in daily life and teaching reform practice, actively introduce valuable resources, and design and develop teaching courseware suitable for classroom teaching, in line with students' actual situation and combined with students' majors with the help of multimedia technology.
8. Cultivate cross-consciousness and understand differences.
While teaching oral English, it is necessary for oral English teachers to introduce relevant cultural background knowledge to students, so that they can understand the language characteristics of English, as well as the natural scenery, customs, background and customs of English-speaking countries. Through movies, videos, songs and pictures, students are exposed to British and American cultures in all directions, and cross-cultural awareness is cultivated, so that students can truly understand and speak English well.
There are many problems in college oral English teaching. Teachers can use coping strategies appropriately in actual teaching, improve teaching mode, improve teaching quality and cultivate students' oral expression ability.
References:
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