On the Importance of Cultural Input in English Teaching

English as a foreign language has been a subject in middle school of China for years. Teachers and educators generation by generation have been trying to find an optimal method of teaching foreign language to help students master it better. After unceasing exploring, traditional teaching pattern has been improved and new teaching approaches appear such as Task-based language teaching and communicative language teaching. However, whatever teaching methods English teachers use in the class, they should not ignore the cultural input in English teaching. The successful and efficient English teaching should transform the single language teaching into the combination of language teaching and cultural teaching. The thesis is concerned with the significance of culture in English teaching. More specifically, some consideration will be given to the reasons and ways of teaching culture.     

中国文化在理工科大学英语教学中的现状及导入途径

跨文化交际中的＂中国文化失语现象＂已经引起外语教学界的关注。通过调查和测试发现：理工科大学的学生汉语能力不够,对母语文化还没有准确、深刻的把握;英语能力偏低,缺乏表达母语文化所必需的英文词汇。探讨了造成这一问题的根源,提出必须加强大学英语教材的建设,提高大学英语教师对中国文化的认识和教授能力,培养学生树立正确的文化观,并将中国文化内容纳入考试体系。     

土木工程专业卓越全英工程测量课程教学探讨

工程测量课程是土木工程专业必修的专业基础课程。通过分析"卓越全英计划"背景下工程测量课程教与学现状,从教材使用情况、课件制作、授课方式和全英课程考评方式等方面,探讨全英专业课程教学中的问题,研究不同教学改革措施,提出在教学中采用研究性全英教学模式、编制重要专业词汇中英文对照表、改进全英教学方法、加强平时教学管理、培养学生学习能力、邀请海外教学名师进课堂以及改革课程考评方式等创新实践教学方法和手段全面提高教学质量,以期培养更多的具有国际的视野土木工程技术人才。     

地方高校土木工程专业针对非洲留学生特点的教学问题及对策

结合沈阳工业大学土木工程专业非洲留学生的专业课程英文教学实践经验。从留学生学习和教师讲授两个方面提出了土木工程目前存在的教学问题,并针对非洲留学生的特点提出了解决对策,为地方高校进一步推进非洲留学生教育水平,扩大留学生招生规模奠定基础,为地方高校土木工程专业教育国际化提供参考。     

How to Develop Communicative Competence in Junior English Teaching

The communicative approach is such a teaching methodology that rises and develops in the latest 30years. It's overall accepted now and most language teachers regard it as a method that aims at developing language communicative competence. But how to develop and how to avoid the frustrations of a none-communicative conversation class are still the problems. This thesis focuses on the topic about communicative language teaching of English. I'll discuss it from the following aspects: l) the factors influencing communicative competence; 2) stimulate the student's communicative interest; 3) the cultivation of communicative competence.     

Analysis of optimization design of interesting teaching of English grammar in Senior High School

<正>In the high school English teaching,grammar teaching content is very important.However,at present,in the teaching design and strategy most of the teachers is still using the traditional"chalk and talk",the teaching model does not attach importance to the students’participation,which leads to the dull interest in English grammar classes.This paper analyzes the problems existing in English     

Amazing English Rhetoric Using of College English Teaching——Taking Nettles as An Example

Understanding the use of English figures of speech has a role in promoting the comprehension of the meaning of English sentences.In college English teaching,it is necessary to pay attention to the use of several kinds of commonly used rhetorical devices among the teachers.Metaphor,personification,alliteration,climax and transferred epithet are often encoutered in the teaching of English figures of speech.Analysis of English rhetoric using can be better applied in practical teaching which can also improve students’reading ability,comprehension and appreciation ability if students have a good knowledge of English rhetoric using.     

A Study on Application of Task-based Teaching Appr oach to College Oral English Teaching

This thesis reports an experimental study of Task-based L2 oral English teaching for English majors in a Chinese university.In the second language acquisition(SLA)field,teachers and researchers are devoted to finding a method,which functions as a bridge to join the usage and use of the language,the forms and meaning,and the process and product.Task-based teaching approach(TBTA)seems to satisfy such demands.Therefore,it has attracted wide attention in the field of SLA,become one of the hot spots of current theoretical study,and provided some theoretical guidance for the practice of foreign language teaching(FLT)and second language teaching(SLT).The researcher believes it is necessary to write a review concerning the origin,the development and the future of task-based teaching approach.     

Problems and Solutions of Present English Reading Teaching in High Schools

The cultivation of English reading capability is a primary goal in high-school English teaching.Due to many factors,however,the present high-school English reading teaching is not satisfactory and students’reading techniques are weak.This paper probes into the problems in high-school and proposes some suggestions for improvements,with the hope to help promote high-school English reading teaching.     

A Teaching Case of Subject Clause Based on Implicit Learning

<正>The New English curriculum criteria suggest teaching English grammar based on the students’cognitive characteristics and emotional needs,helping them discover the rules and encouraging them to master the grammar by using it.But due to the limited time in a lesson,many English teachers adopt a simple approach to teach grammar,in which students are required to memorize the rules first and then practice a lot.This approach is effec-