Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational...Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational college students’communicative competence of intercultural communication.The results indicate that among the five factors of communicative competence of intercultural communication,students’listening competence is the highest,followed successively by oral competence,strategic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence.The analytical results show that each factor among the five factors are positively correlated with the other four factors.Moreover,students’scores in college English Test(Grade A)have a positive correlation with their oral English competence,discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence,respectively.展开更多
How to improve students' listening and speaking competence has long been a problem puzzling teachers of college English in China. Based on teaching experiments, investigations among students and the results that 8...How to improve students' listening and speaking competence has long been a problem puzzling teachers of college English in China. Based on teaching experiments, investigations among students and the results that 80% of students have scored high in the listening part of CET4 (College English Test Band 4),40% of students passed the Spoken English Test of PETS (Public English Test System) and one student won the special prize in the National English Contest for College Students, another student the 1st prize, 3 students the 2nd and 4 students the 3rd prize, this paper intends to reveal (in the former part) the potential obstacles that may hinder students from understanding a listening text, to discuss what procedures and techniques that a teacher should adopt in class, and to suggest (in the latter part) some post-listening activities that can be turned into oral practice and introduce the oral assessment in the terminal exams. This research concludes that only by taking these factors into consideration and adopting effective procedures and techniques in class, can a teacher expect to help students improve their listening and speaking competence.展开更多
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...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.展开更多
It is well know that a human linguistic communicative behavior,listening and speaking occupies a very important position in both our daily life and foreign language teaching.Now the classroom becomes more student-cent...It is well know that a human linguistic communicative behavior,listening and speaking occupies a very important position in both our daily life and foreign language teaching.Now the classroom becomes more student-centered with the teacher allowing for students to output the language more often on their own.In order to improve the students' listening and speaking,the Communicative Approach has been exploited,which is based on communicative efficiency.It sees communicative competence of language.展开更多
基金the Administration Office of Hainan Province Education Science Planning Leading Group for their support in the research project“The Research on Approach Exploration and Strategies for All People Learning Foreign Language in Hainan Free Trade Zone”(QJC20191011).
文摘Under the background of development of Hainan Free Trade Zone(port)to meet its demand of English language talents with good intercultural communication competence,an empirical study is conducted to evaluate vocational college students’communicative competence of intercultural communication.The results indicate that among the five factors of communicative competence of intercultural communication,students’listening competence is the highest,followed successively by oral competence,strategic competence,sociolinguistic competence,discourse competence.The analytical results show that each factor among the five factors are positively correlated with the other four factors.Moreover,students’scores in college English Test(Grade A)have a positive correlation with their oral English competence,discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence,respectively.
文摘How to improve students' listening and speaking competence has long been a problem puzzling teachers of college English in China. Based on teaching experiments, investigations among students and the results that 80% of students have scored high in the listening part of CET4 (College English Test Band 4),40% of students passed the Spoken English Test of PETS (Public English Test System) and one student won the special prize in the National English Contest for College Students, another student the 1st prize, 3 students the 2nd and 4 students the 3rd prize, this paper intends to reveal (in the former part) the potential obstacles that may hinder students from understanding a listening text, to discuss what procedures and techniques that a teacher should adopt in class, and to suggest (in the latter part) some post-listening activities that can be turned into oral practice and introduce the oral assessment in the terminal exams. This research concludes that only by taking these factors into consideration and adopting effective procedures and techniques in class, can a teacher expect to help students improve their listening and speaking competence.
文摘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.
文摘It is well know that a human linguistic communicative behavior,listening and speaking occupies a very important position in both our daily life and foreign language teaching.Now the classroom becomes more student-centered with the teacher allowing for students to output the language more often on their own.In order to improve the students' listening and speaking,the Communicative Approach has been exploited,which is based on communicative efficiency.It sees communicative competence of language.
