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How to improve students' oral English ability?
1. Provide students with opportunities for oral communication as much as possible.

To learn spoken English well, the language environment is very important. At present, in English teaching activities, students have little contact with spoken English, and there are many problems in students' oral communication, such as inaccurate pronunciation and intonation, illogical expression, and even incorrect use of basic grammar. They often don't pay attention to each other's identity and speaking occasions, for example, using too polite language to acquaintances and friends, or using too casual expressions to strangers and in formal occasions, which leads to inappropriate communication. Developing English dialogue class and English corner can effectively solve this problem. Dialogue class is a demonstration teaching to train listening and speaking skills and acquire related abilities. Generally speaking, dialogue class is lively, lively and interesting, with few uncommon words, and it is the most active class. Moreover, in teaching, teachers can use some intuitive teaching AIDS, such as multimedia and other technical equipment, to create some real communication situations, so that students can communicate orally in their own places and express written conversations in their own words.

As we all know, listening, speaking, reading and writing are an integrated whole in teaching, in which listening, reading and writing ultimately serve speaking and are the basis of speaking. We can regard every form of class as oral class. For example, listening class should be regarded as listening and speaking class. Teachers should never be satisfied that students understand whether the answer is A, B, C or D, but should constantly ask questions about what we are talking about, so that students can not only understand the meaning of words and sentences, but also exercise their English thinking mode and oral pronunciation, thus effectively improving their oral English communication ability. Teachers should make use of all available conditions to make the classroom a place for students' language practice, integrate language knowledge learning into language application activities, add a lot of student-centered practice methods in the classroom, such as dialogue and role-playing, etc., to provide students with opportunities to speak, and also enable students to master the language expression functions of daily activities such as making phone calls and shopping through scenario simulation. This kind of situational teaching is undoubtedly twice the result with half the effort, which can not only greatly improve students' learning enthusiasm, but also make students remember what they have learned deeply.

2. Stimulate students' interest in learning spoken English.

Interest is the best teacher. Teachers should try to design some topics that students are interested in, so that students have something to say. Teachers can carry out some interest activities suitable for students' psychological characteristics according to their age, actual language level 1: 3, class schedule, etc. , such as oral English contest, simulated dialogue, singing English songs, etc. So that students can think quickly, acquire new knowledge in the fastest and most effective way, and have a certain sense of success. Only by stimulating students' strong interest in oral expression can teachers' teaching and training be improved. In addition, teachers can also carefully design and use teaching art to create language situations, make full use of students' competitiveness and thirst for knowledge, inspire students' thinking, stimulate students' interest in learning, cultivate students' enthusiasm for learning, form their abilities in a lot of oral practice, and let students improve their English language quality more easily and naturally. For example, after learning English locative words, teachers can ask students to "talk about your position …", and closely combine diversified teaching methods with colorful extracurricular activities to create a lot of opportunities for students to express themselves, which is very helpful to cultivate their interest in oral expression.

3. Pay full attention to the training of oral skills.

For a long time, influenced by exam-oriented education, English classes in middle schools are mainly based on traditional teaching methods, with more emphasis on the study of conceptual knowledge such as vocabulary and grammar and less on the training of oral skills. Not only does oral English teaching not get enough attention, but oral English teaching still focuses on imparting language knowledge, which seriously restricts the improvement of students' oral English ability. It is undeniable that conceptual knowledge such as vocabulary and grammar is very important. A solid knowledge of vocabulary and grammar enables students to express their ideas flexibly and freely in oral communication. However, if we neglect the training of students' oral skills, it will easily lead to inaccurate pronunciation and intonation, insufficient oral expression, and even use Chinese thinking mode to organize language in oral English expression. More seriously, many students often lack confidence in oral expression, because therefore, teachers should actively improve the teaching methods under the new curriculum standards, improve students' self-confidence and enthusiasm, and gradually improve their oral English.

4. Improve teachers' English quality.

At present, there is still a serious problem in our English teaching. Teachers' oral English level is low, they have not personally experienced the culture, customs and religions of English-speaking countries, and lack advanced oral English teaching theories and methods. Most English teachers explain in Chinese, which makes the already weak English learning atmosphere even weaker, which invisibly leads to students' ignorance of spoken English and even negative emotions, thus having a certain impact on spoken English teaching. UNESCO put forward five factors and a formula of foreign language teaching quality: teaching quality = [students (1 point)+textbooks (2 points)+environment (4 points)+teaching methods (3 points) ]x teacher quality. Therefore, teachers' quality is the key factor to improve teaching quality. To improve students' oral communication ability, teachers' quality must be improved. In addition, qualified schools can introduce foreign teachers and strengthen oral English teaching, which is very conducive to the improvement of students' oral expression ability.

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5. Introduce some English culture appropriately.

In our English teaching process, western cultural phenomena are not well integrated into classroom teaching. The task of foreign language teaching is to cultivate smooth communication between people with different cultural backgrounds, which requires our English teachers to pay attention to helping students learn daily conversations commonly used in the West and master the rules of conversation in oral English teaching. At present, although some teachers have begun to realize the importance of English culture in language teaching, due to exam-oriented education factors such as limited class hours and heavy teaching tasks, the guidance of western cultural knowledge is far from in place, which leads to students' failure to grasp the correct expression and make mistakes in oral English because they do not understand the differences between Chinese and western cultures. In this regard, I think teachers can teach students some relevant cultural background knowledge according to the needs of text explanation, help students understand the pronunciation differences between British English and American English, and so on, so as to help students better understand and avoid pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication.