How_to_Improve_the_Students’_Spoken_English英语毕业论文.doc

How to Improve the Students Spoken EnglishIntroduction This thesis attempts to work out some ways to improve students Spoken English. In order to solve the problem, we should find out the importance of Spoken English, the reason why they have many problems in Spoken English, and then the way to improve their Spoken English. The following aspects are involved. On one hand, this thesis analyzes the importance of Spoken English, including the importance of Spoken English for the teaching and quality of the students and the international world. On another hand, this thesis analyzes the reason why they are poor at Spoken English. First, there are factors of the students themselves, including motivation, interest and learning method etc.Second, teachers factors are important to students, including their knowledge of English and teaching capacity . Whats most important is that this thesis finds out the way to help the students with Spoken English. First of all, students themselves should foster the motivation and interest of Spoken English. Second, they should master right method to practice Spoken English. Third, Teachers should enrich their knowledge of English in overall aspects, including English skills, to learn love every student and get enough psychology knowledge. At last, they should improve teaching method. The purpose of the thesis: According to the importance of Spoken English and the reason why students have difficulties in spoken English, finding methods and try best to help the students to improve the Students Spoken EnglishKey Words: Spoken English students importance reason way Chapter I The importance of Spoken English.A. The importance of Spoken English for the teaching and the quality of the students.1. To improve spoken English ability is an important aim of studying English.1 In different ways, spoken English teaching goes through the whole English teaching. English teaching is linked together with knowledge in class and outside class, which highlights the students main body role in class and enhances English teachers guiding role. And students are active to speak English and study English, which is the aim of spoken English teaching. 2. It is evident that the improvement of Spoken English is good for the development of students reading and writing abilities. The improvement of Spoken English can formed and strengthened their ability of thinking in English. And their ability of analyzing questions and coming up with opinions will enhance, too. Whats important, the students role will change. They are never those passive listeners but active participants in class. Their main body role will be heightened and respected, which makes them study positively and helps to develop their ability of studying. At the same time their pioneering spirit will be enhanced and their ability of creating will be trained. That is the core of quality education. B. The importance of Spoken English for the international world.1. There can be no doubt now that English is one of worlds most widely used languages though there are thousands of languages in the world. Whats most important is to speak it. People use a language in three ways: as a native language, as a second language, or as a foreign language. English is spoken as a native language by nearly 300 million people. As a second language, English is often necessary for official business, education, information and other activities in a great many countries. It is one of the few “working” languages of the United Nations and is more frequently used than the others. 2. It is said that English has become the language of international trade and transport. Most plans traveling from one country to another use it to talk with airports. All ships sailing on the oceans call for help by radio in it. It has been said that 60 percent of the words radio broadcasts and 70 percent of the worlds mail are in English. At international sports meets, and at talks of writers and artists from the corners of the earth, English is the language most commonly used and most widely understood.3. English has in fact become the language of international cooperation in science and technology. The most advanced results in space, nuclear and computer research are published in it. A scientist who speaks English is in closer touch with the scientists in other countries than one who doesnt.Chapter II The reason why students are poor at Spoken English.A. Factors of the students themselves. 1. One of the reasons that the students are poor at Spoken English is they lack motivation of speaking English.Motivation plays an important function in study. Usually, we divide motivation into two groups, that is intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.2 On one hand, the reason that some of the students speaking English is they like it or they are interested in western culture. These are intrinsic motivation. On another hand, some of the students practice Spoken English because extrinsic factors, such as a good job, getting a lot of money or abroad. These are extrinsic motivation. If a student who doesnt yearn for any knowledge, I dont think he will work hard and keep learning for a long time.2. Another reason is that the students lack interest of Spoken English. In order to improve Spoken English, students have to bear so many phonetic symbols, words and phrases in mind and have to learn idiom and sentence pattern by heart. So they must spend a lot of time in remembering, which makes Spoken English difficult. As time goes by, they lost interest and self-confident to practice it.3. The third reason is that the students dont have proper learning method. Most of them havent good habit of listening and reading English. Their aim of learning English is to get good mark in the examination. So they spend much time on grammars and reading comprehension. They dont have learning plan for the Spoken English. Most of students have no fixed time for Spoken English. The most important thing is that they dont comply with the “forgetting curve” which shows that most forgetting takes place immediately after learning. An hour after studying something new, more than 50 percent has been forgotten. After one month, 80 percent has been forgotten and so on.3B. Factors of teachers. 1. Some of English teachers dont have overall knowledge of English. As we all know, teachers are the key factor for the students. High-quality team of English teachers is the basic to improve the quality of English education. Strengthen the building of the team of English teachers is to improve the quality of English teaching. However, there some of teachers are not in English majar.Teachers themselves cant master Spoken English, how they can teach their students？ Their pronunciation is not standard, when they read the text will mislead the student,especially,when the teacher is a primary English teacher, he or she may lead the students to make a great mistake lifelong.Besides,some teachers lack of western culture,which results in them cant guide the student to practice Spoken English.2.Some of English teachers dont have proper teaching method. They just read the words and phrases, and then let the students bear them in mind. On another hand, they spend a lot of time to explain the sentence pattern, grammar and the text. There are not pictures and games to help them to teach. This teaching method makes English boring and the students lost the interest. How students will be interested in Spoken English? And it is impossible that they spend time and energy to practice Spoken English. Whats most important is that the aim of most teachers is the high score. They just take the examination as their first task and dont pay any attention to Spoken English. Chapter III The way to improve students Spoken English.In order to improve the students Spoken English, both students themselves and teachers should do something, for they are the most important factors to improve the students Spoken English.A. Measures that should be taken by the students themselves to improve their Spoken English. 1. Foster the motivation and interest of Spoken English. First, students must know the importance of Spoken English. In the aspect of international world, there can be no doubt now that English is one of worlds most widely used languages though there are thousands of languages in the world. It is said that English has become the language of international trade and transport. English has in fact become the language of international cooperation in science and technology. In the aspect of hunting a job, when students leave school and find a job, they will find Spoken English is an advantage. As the development of international trade, there are so many Small and Medium-sized Enterprises begin to be engaged in export. So more talented people who can speak English in a fluent way are needed so that they can do business with foreigners. As a result, good spoken English will be an advantage for a person and the person who can speak good English will have more opportunity to get a better job.Second, students should actively participate in classroom activities. Activities and games can induction interests and hobbies. In order to help students to practice English, teachers always prepare some activities or games. But there is a bad phenomenon that most of the students are not willing to take part in the activities or games. The reason is that they are shy and are afraid of making mistakes. So they should treat the activities and games seriously and right.2.Master right method to practice Spoken English.a. Learn the phonetic alphabet and Pronunciation skills.List words that have the same sound add to the lists as you learn more words.For example words that rhyme with me:- i: mehewepeaseaWork on one problem sound at a time. Read slowly concentrating on the pronunciation of particular words. Record yourself, keep the tape and record yourself later, have you improved? Dont be shy - ask a friend to listen to the tape too. Dont worry about sounding like a native, it is more important to speak clearly and pleasantly than it is to sound like the Queen of England. The most important thing to think about is can people understand you? If you have a problem being understood then find someone who speaks English clearly and try to copy the way they speak. Pay particular attention to speed and diction. 4Dont get too hung up on trying to sound like a native speaker. Would you start learning the piano in an attempt to sound like Mozart? Probably not. Accents dont matter, as long as people can understand you, but pronunciation is important. b. Talk in English with others. The best way to improve the spoken English skill is to talk in English with others.5 This will enhance students English language skills. When a student can talk easily with another person in English, then he knows that he is well conversant in the language.c. Watch English films. Another better way to learn the language is to see a lot of English movies. When the student sees the characters speaking in front of him then he tends to learn the language better. The characters speak with different moods and therefore people who listen intently can learn the language better.d. Be patient and make unremitting efforts.6 Learning any language can be frustrating, but frustration wont help you, so let it go. It is said that constant dripping wears away stone.I think students should make a plan to practice Spoken English. Such as read and listen English at set hours each day.B. Measures that should be taken by teachers to improve students Spoken English.1. Teachers should enrich their knowledge of English in overall aspects.7 Rich expertise and professional knowledge would ensure you obtain good results when you teach the students, and rich professional knowledge is the basic conditions for one teacher. As an English teacher, it is necessary he or she must be solid in all aspects of the basic skills, including vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking and writing. Teachers themselves are very good at these skills, and then they can teach others how to do a better job. In order to improve themselves, teachers should do as follows: First, Reading. In general the content of reading textbooks is limited. Reading is not for the purpose of memorization, but focus on the correct pronunciation and the continuous tone. Through reading we can master words and their usage and understand the English language, context, and enhance a sense of the phrase. One only spends about half an hour every day in reading and has enough perseverance, and then he would be succeeded. Second, Listening. To buy English series tape, and insist on listening to a certain period of time every day, how long to listen they can control by themselves. Third, speaking. Speaking can enhance spoken English and the ability of memory, so that the knowledge learned clearly reflected in the mind, and is not easily forgotten. Fourth, Writing. To write a daily diary in English is helpful, but many people can not do this, so I propose to write an article at least once a week, which enhance the sense of English language and writing skills are extremely helpful. Fifth, Teachers should do a lot of exercise. Through a great deal of exercise, they can enhance the practical experience. Then they can improve themselves in all aspects, such as grammars, phrases, pronunciation and so on.2. Teachers should improve teaching method. a. Pay attention to emotional teaching and classroom interaction.8Speaking activities are probably the most demanding for students and teachers in terms of the affective factors involved. Trying to produce language in front of other students can generate high levels of anxiety. Students may feel that they are presenting themselves at a much lower level of cognitive ability than they really possess; they may have a natural anxiety about being incomprehensible; they may have cultural inhibitions about loosing face, or they may simply be shy personalities who do not speak very much in their first language. It is therefore a major responsibility for the teacher to create a reassuring classroom environment in which students are prepared to take risks and experiment with the language. Students spoken English is intimately bound up with emotional teaching. Teachers positive words, affirmative looks, or even their careless smiles will all give students great encouragement and incentive, which may make students speak English in class with confidence. Whats more, students can express themselves freely with no doubt. To those who have difficulties to speak English in class, English teachers should forgive their mistakes, too. And teachers should show more love to them, speak to them more skillfully and give them more encouragement. The following sentences are all good examples for emotional teaching:OK.It doesnt matter.All right.Take it easy. Go on.Come on.Here wed better sayYoud betterAny volunteer?Have a try!Teachers roles are also multiple. They are mainly directors, judges, leading actors. They can also be advisors, audiences and supporting actors. Teachers play a variety of roles in different types of classes, different scenes or at different levels. They sometimes speak freely and frankly and lead the students skillfully by orderly method; they sometimes give the students incisive comments and devote all their attention to guide the students; they sometimes listen to the students silently. The final aim is to let the students play the part of the main role and be active to practice speaking and communicate in English. Then the students become the main body of learning naturally.9At the same time, teachers should also let the students understand: what they have learnt from listening to lessons is passive and taking notes is nothing but theories and they havent done any practice yet; if they want to improve their spoken English, they ought to take an active part in all activities in class every day from the beginning of studying of English; and they ought to help each other and learn from each other. Then the interaction between teachers and students can be really put into effect and makes a perfect classroom environment. It is confirmed that harmonious classroom atmosphere can help students study English pleasantly and their body and mind are developed healthily because of teachers emotional investment and classroom interaction.b. Use activitities.Activities is incentives to work hard and chances for students to get feelings of successes.10 One of teachers jobs is to ensure students a variety of activities. By presenting students with a variety of activities teachers can ensure their continuing interest in the language learning programmer. Classes which continually have the same activities are not likely to sustain interest, particularly where the students have no extrinsic motivation and do not perceive clear long-term goals. A programmer, however, that presents a variety is far more likely continually to engage the students interest. Through English activities, students can have more chances to speak English as well as use English in the English surroundings. They can have more chances to get feelings of success. Accomplishment is the assurance of their progress in study.Therefore activities should be flexible. In class, teachers can provide students with text play acting, sketch acting and dialogue acting according to the contents of texts and their English levels. By working in groups of four or three, helping each other and cooperating with each other, the students can feel at ease while speaking English and they become to enjoy speaking English. Outside class, English