Teachers' teaching concepts, language skills and so on are directly related to teaching methods, and have a profound impact on English teaching. Eco-linguistics is mainly an interdisciplinary subject of language d...Teachers' teaching concepts, language skills and so on are directly related to teaching methods, and have a profound impact on English teaching. Eco-linguistics is mainly an interdisciplinary subject of language development and change from the perspective of ecology. It is helpful to create a favorable teaching environment, arouse students' interest in learning and improve the quality of classroom teaching. With the help of application tools such as"Rain classroom", this paper mainly focuses on the ecological teaching mode of college English from the perspective of ecological linguistics in detail such as individualized assignment and group work etc, hoping to be helpful to the relevant personnel.展开更多
Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospec...Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospect in teaching college English writing.Lexical chunk is semi-refined language,which can be used as a whole stored in the memory,and can be extracted directly in use.Lexical chunks can effectively improve processing efficiency of the language resource information,alleviate learners ' timed writing pressure,overcome the influence of negative transfer of native language,to improve the students' writing fluency,accuracy and vitality.展开更多
Based on several pieces of research,this paper discusses about the provision of teacher feedback on students’writing in college English teaching.In the practice of providing teacher feedback,several factors including...Based on several pieces of research,this paper discusses about the provision of teacher feedback on students’writing in college English teaching.In the practice of providing teacher feedback,several factors including the focus and the patterns of language use may influence the effectiveness of student’s writing.展开更多
This paper is a report on an introduction to the teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest, in which learners learn English in a process of using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. It's one of...This paper is a report on an introduction to the teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest, in which learners learn English in a process of using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. It's one of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education. It is characterized as a computer-based, student-centered inquiry learning activity. The WebQuest has become prominent in many educational areas and has received considerable attention from teachers and educators. That web-based self-access learning should be integrated into college English courses is strongly advocated by the Ministry of Education in China and a new teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest will become a good complement for the traditional English teaching models.展开更多
This research proposal focuses on a tentative exploration of teaching procedures for college English writing with the ge-neric approach of Sydney School.This research will mainly adopt a qualitative research methodolo...This research proposal focuses on a tentative exploration of teaching procedures for college English writing with the ge-neric approach of Sydney School.This research will mainly adopt a qualitative research methodology,which aims to figure out the contextual configuration and generic structural potential as well as the register of a specific genre and assist students to write arti-cles of the target genre through teaching procedures like deconstruction,joint construction,and independent construction.展开更多
Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, ...Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.展开更多
Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotiona...Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotional barriers and corresponding drawbacks caused by the traditional teaching method,this study proposes both communicative approach and process-oriented approach to help college students develop positive emotions in English writing.展开更多
With the development of domestic higher education towards the popularization of education and the integration of global economy,as a basic course in colleges and universities,college English has been playing an import...With the development of domestic higher education towards the popularization of education and the integration of global economy,as a basic course in colleges and universities,college English has been playing an important role in the process of higher education.Therefore,under the guidance of scientific and technological innovation and information technology,it is necessary and worthy trying to explore and establish a practical English blended teaching mode to improve college students’English comprehen⁃sive ability.This essay attempts to discuss the problems and reflections of blended teaching mode,explore the college English teaching strategy under the blended teaching mode,which establishes the practical English blended teaching mode,promote teach⁃ing equity and benefit teachers and students.展开更多
At present, one of the important tasks of the ongoing college English teaching reform is to reform the traditional teaching mode,establishing the computer-based multimedia English teaching model. Based on the construc...At present, one of the important tasks of the ongoing college English teaching reform is to reform the traditional teaching mode,establishing the computer-based multimedia English teaching model. Based on the constructivist theory and the second language acquisi-tion theory, teachers who adopt the new teaching model should play multiple roles to maximize the teaching effect, being not only thecourse designer, organizer, but also the guide, helper and facilitator in the process of teaching students to construct knowledge and be en-gaged in classroom activities as well.展开更多
The present paper is a reflection on a teaching practice which employed second language acquisition(SLA) theories and teaching methodologies. The students taught were second-year non-English majors from X university a...The present paper is a reflection on a teaching practice which employed second language acquisition(SLA) theories and teaching methodologies. The students taught were second-year non-English majors from X university and the course book used was New Horizon College English: Reading and Writing(3 rd edition). SLA theories involved include Input Hypothesis, Noticing Hypothesis and Comprehensible Output Hypothesis; teaching methodologies applied include Grammar-Translation Method,Communicative Language Teaching and Task Based Language Teaching(TBLT). After a semester-long teaching practice, the present reflection was completed after a deep discussion with the teacher. Students description, teaching process, and merits and demerits of this practice were illustrated.展开更多
文摘Teachers' teaching concepts, language skills and so on are directly related to teaching methods, and have a profound impact on English teaching. Eco-linguistics is mainly an interdisciplinary subject of language development and change from the perspective of ecology. It is helpful to create a favorable teaching environment, arouse students' interest in learning and improve the quality of classroom teaching. With the help of application tools such as"Rain classroom", this paper mainly focuses on the ecological teaching mode of college English from the perspective of ecological linguistics in detail such as individualized assignment and group work etc, hoping to be helpful to the relevant personnel.
文摘Lexical chunks,as one of the most important units with the feature of both grammar and vocabulary in a language use,as the smallest unit of language input,memory,storage and output,has a very broad application prospect in teaching college English writing.Lexical chunk is semi-refined language,which can be used as a whole stored in the memory,and can be extracted directly in use.Lexical chunks can effectively improve processing efficiency of the language resource information,alleviate learners ' timed writing pressure,overcome the influence of negative transfer of native language,to improve the students' writing fluency,accuracy and vitality.
文摘Based on several pieces of research,this paper discusses about the provision of teacher feedback on students’writing in college English teaching.In the practice of providing teacher feedback,several factors including the focus and the patterns of language use may influence the effectiveness of student’s writing.
文摘This paper is a report on an introduction to the teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest, in which learners learn English in a process of using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. It's one of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education. It is characterized as a computer-based, student-centered inquiry learning activity. The WebQuest has become prominent in many educational areas and has received considerable attention from teachers and educators. That web-based self-access learning should be integrated into college English courses is strongly advocated by the Ministry of Education in China and a new teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest will become a good complement for the traditional English teaching models.
文摘This research proposal focuses on a tentative exploration of teaching procedures for college English writing with the ge-neric approach of Sydney School.This research will mainly adopt a qualitative research methodology,which aims to figure out the contextual configuration and generic structural potential as well as the register of a specific genre and assist students to write arti-cles of the target genre through teaching procedures like deconstruction,joint construction,and independent construction.
文摘Peer feedback is an indispensable part in process writing. However, in college English class, students pay less attention to peer feedback than teachers' feedback. What's more, without teachers' guidance, most of students don't know how to give feedbacks and what feedbacks should be given. Therefore, some strategies should be used to help students to make more effective feedbacks and stimulate students' interest to actively learn from their peers.
文摘Emotion is an indispensable factor in English writing.However,product-oriented teaching has paid too much attention to the interior form of writing with ignoring the emotional factors.Based on the analysis of emotional barriers and corresponding drawbacks caused by the traditional teaching method,this study proposes both communicative approach and process-oriented approach to help college students develop positive emotions in English writing.
文摘With the development of domestic higher education towards the popularization of education and the integration of global economy,as a basic course in colleges and universities,college English has been playing an important role in the process of higher education.Therefore,under the guidance of scientific and technological innovation and information technology,it is necessary and worthy trying to explore and establish a practical English blended teaching mode to improve college students’English comprehen⁃sive ability.This essay attempts to discuss the problems and reflections of blended teaching mode,explore the college English teaching strategy under the blended teaching mode,which establishes the practical English blended teaching mode,promote teach⁃ing equity and benefit teachers and students.
文摘At present, one of the important tasks of the ongoing college English teaching reform is to reform the traditional teaching mode,establishing the computer-based multimedia English teaching model. Based on the constructivist theory and the second language acquisi-tion theory, teachers who adopt the new teaching model should play multiple roles to maximize the teaching effect, being not only thecourse designer, organizer, but also the guide, helper and facilitator in the process of teaching students to construct knowledge and be en-gaged in classroom activities as well.
文摘The present paper is a reflection on a teaching practice which employed second language acquisition(SLA) theories and teaching methodologies. The students taught were second-year non-English majors from X university and the course book used was New Horizon College English: Reading and Writing(3 rd edition). SLA theories involved include Input Hypothesis, Noticing Hypothesis and Comprehensible Output Hypothesis; teaching methodologies applied include Grammar-Translation Method,Communicative Language Teaching and Task Based Language Teaching(TBLT). After a semester-long teaching practice, the present reflection was completed after a deep discussion with the teacher. Students description, teaching process, and merits and demerits of this practice were illustrated.
