Communication Approach used in Spoken English teaching in Higher Vocational Coll
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1 Current situation of Spoken English teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges
For so long a time, higher vocational college English teaching has neglected spoken English teaching. Although enthusia for English education continues to grow, students’ competence in spoken English is still not satiactory in general. At present, most colleges set two to four periods weekly of an integrated English course, whose content contains listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Oral English teaching has always been a weak point in vocational college English teaching. Taking Si Chuan Technology and Business College as an example, there are sixty four periods every term for practical English on erage, among which we he only 6 listening courses .All the others are integrates English courses. But there is no oral course. What’s more, the class hours are attached mostly to grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. Only a few hours are spent on oral practice. Students are lack of chance to open there mouths.
With the purpose to pass Band 2 and Band 3 College English Tests, the students in higher vocational colleges fail to speak and comprehend spoken English. Although some of the students can deal with some written test papers, many can hardly speak in English apart from uttering several simple sentences, let alone conduct a conversation; moreover, some gradates serving in joint-venture units he to be trained in English again before they are competent for their jobs.
Although both teachers and students realize it necessary to reinforce the spoken English teaching so as to improve students’ communication competence, practical spoken English teaching meet many difficulties. Society demands a higher English level of college students who are also eager to improve their applied competence. Higher Vocational Colleges are undergoing the reform of college English teaching. This means both teaching methods and curriculum system should be changed to adaptto new requirement. New teaching content requires students to master better reading skill, listening skill and communicative skills of speaking and writing. Listening, speaking, writing and translation skills he been attached importance to during English teaching. Therefore, it is very necessary that English teachers do some spoken English research and try to find better ways to improve students’ communication competence.
2 Advantages of CA
1 Current situation of Spoken English teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges
For so long a time, higher vocational college English teaching has neglected spoken English teaching. Although enthusia for English education continues to grow, students’ competence in spoken English is still not satiactory in general. At present, most colleges set two to four periods weekly of an integrated English course, whose content contains listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Oral English teaching has always been a weak point in vocational college English teaching. Taking Si Chuan Technology and Business College as an example, there are sixty four periods every term for practical English on erage, among which we he only 6 listening courses .All the others are integrates English courses. But there is no oral course. What’s more, the class hours are attached mostly to grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. Only a few hours are spent on oral practice. Students are lack of chance to open there mouths.
With the purpose to pass Band 2 and Band 3 College English Tests, the students in higher vocational colleges fail to speak and comprehend spoken English. Although some of the students can deal with some written test papers, many can hardly speak in English apart from uttering several simple sentences, let alone conduct a conversation; moreover, some gradates serving in joint-venture units he to be trained in English again before they are competent for their jobs.
Although both teachers and students realize it necessary to reinforce the spoken English teaching so as to improve students’ communication competence, practical spoken English teaching meet many difficulties. Society demands a higher English level of college students who are also eager to improve their applied competence. Higher Vocational Colleges are undergoing the reform of college English teaching. This means both teaching methods and curriculum system should be changed to adaptto new requirement. New teaching content requires students to master better reading skill, listening skill and communicative skills of speaking and writing. Listening, speaking, writing and translation skills he been attached importance to during English teaching. Therefore, it is very necessary that English teachers do some spoken English research and try to find better ways to improve students’ communication competence.
2 Advantages of CA