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1、onimprovingstudentsspeakingabilityOn improving students speaking abilityAbstractWith the coming of knowledge economy and the development of the information age, the global economic tend to integration. International economic cooperation and trade is more and more frequent. Multicultural global villa

2、ge is being formed, with which people have a new knowledge of the value of English. Nowadays the purpose of foreign language education is not just so that we can simply say a few words of English and can do translation, but in order to make the future citizens of multiculturalism in the global villa

3、ge of survival and development and to make full use of information technology for knowledge innovation . Foreign language education for the promotion of international cooperation, the maintenance of world peace and development is of great significance. .Many national education policies are pointed o

4、ut, learning and mastering a foreign language is one of the necessary conditions for twenty-first Century qualified citizens. This paper expounds the importance of spoken English, some barriers in the process of speaking communication and find out the causes of these problems and put forward some ad

5、vices, which can really improve the quality of oral English teaching and improve students oral English speaking ability Key words: speaking ability, communication ability, English teaching. 摘 要：随着知识经济的到来和信息时代的发展，全球经济趋于一体化。国际间的经济合作和贸易往来更加密切和频繁。多元文化的地球村正在形成。随之对外语的意义和价值也有了重新的认识。当今外语教育的目的不仅仅是使我们能简单的说几句英

6、语，能做翻译，而是为了使今后的公民能在多元文化的地球村中生存和发展，为了使他们更好的利用信息技术进行知识创新。外语教育对于促进国际间的合作和发展、维护世界和平具有重大的意义。很多国家的教育政策都指出，学习和掌握一门外语是21世纪合格公民的必备条件之一。本文在阐述英语口语的重要性，在口语交流中的障碍以及从中找出导致这些问题的原因,并切实有效地提出了能真正提高口语教学质量、提高学生的口语说话能力的策略。关键词：口语能力、交流能力、英语教学CHAPTERIntroductionEnglish is a popular language especially in the new recently y

7、ears. As is known to us all, it is the most widely used language in the developing world and its getting more and more important nowadays. Recent estimates suggest that more than 400 million people speak it as their first language, with more than 1800 million people speaking it as second language. I

8、t is an official language in a large number of countries and is widely used in air traffic control and academic gatherings.（Kean Qiu, 1996）Nowadays, with the opening-up of China, English teaching has been getting more and more attention, especially since Beijing won the bid to hold the 2008 Olympic

9、Games. People are enthusiastic about learning English. Most of our students begin to learn English from Grade 3 in primary schools. And since Chinas accession to the WTO, the level of Chinas opening to the outside world rises ceaselessly, and the world exchanges have become increasingly frequent. So

10、cial life presents the feature of normalization and globalization. English, as an international language, plays a critical role in our foreign relations. Meanwhile, Spoken English in Chinas current economic construction, culture and education exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries also pla

11、ys a decisive role, such as interviews for jobs, foreign negotiations, visit abroad and cultural exchanges are inseparable from the spoken English. Therefore, learning English especially oral English is very importantHowever, the English level of current Chinese is uneven, most students only have a

12、little common language communication, besides they are shy to speak in class, whether understand or not, they wont actively communicate with the teachers and needless to say to go to the English Corner to practice oral English, which reduce the opportunity of oral practice, therefore dumb English al

13、so formed .In addition, teachers master the classroom and just transform knowledge to the students mechanical, the teaching mode centered on students has not been fully used widely. Teachers only teach, not leaving students to enough practice time. This phenomenon has led to the study of oral Englis

14、h to form an inert. Symbolically accepted, but failed to be innovative converted into useful knowledge, at the same time the examination of English learning reduces the learning enthusiasm. Faced with this situation, what can we do to change it? CHAPTERThe importance of speakingSpeaking as one of th

15、e four language skills has played a very important role in English teaching in middle schools. All the communications are established on the basis of speaking. To be able to have a good pronunciation and tone, that is, speaking well can give you confidence in communication. In daily life speaking is

16、 the best way which make the communication of information become more quickly, especially in the present society with such quick development of people s life pace .so it is necessary for the students to develop the ability of speaking. Whats more, with the reformation of new process of teaching, it

17、requires that the students will have the expressing ability to receive and pass information in English in real occasions. But many students often can speak well in class or in relaxed occasions, and when they are put in a real condition, they cant. Why does it appear? It is affected by many elements

18、; one of the elements is their English speaking ability. So it demands the English teachers in junior schools to develop the students speaking ability. And it is necessary for the teachers to help the students develop the ability of speaking.2.1 The importance of speaking existing in the language of

19、 human beingsLanguage is vocal; this means that speech is the primary medium of language. While, writing is secondary. Firstly, for any language speech existed long before the writing system came into being. Even today languages which have lonely a spoken form outnumber language which have a well-de

20、veloped writing system. Secondly, normal children always learn to speak first. They begin to read and write only when they have reached the school age. Thirdly, speech is more important than writing for peoples daily life. A person who cant read and write is only an illiterate. However, a person who

21、 cant speak is normally regarded as disabled.(Gu jiazu, 2002)So speech is very important in the development of human beings.2.2 The position of speaking in the four language skills Of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, &writing), listening takes the first step. However, communic

22、ation is a two-way activity. When you can understand what the others said to you is, however, you cant express your ideas clearly because of some reasons and then the communication cant be continued. So this communication has to become a fail. During the learning of a language, listening and reading

23、 are a process of understanding and absorption, speaking and writing are a process of expression and use. Understanding and absorption are foundation while expression and use are improvement. That is, the former is a process of input; the latter is a process of output. Without the latter, the develo

24、pment of the language practical ability to understand and absorption will be meaningless. The final aim of language teaching is to develop the students ability to communicate in the form of spoken and written. And often the spoken English is more important than the written English in language using.

25、 Especially in modern society with so quickstep, undoubtedly speaking communication is the quickest way. Although in the modern Internet world, its convenient for people to use the E-mail, when they write and read the E-mail, they will spend more time than speaking directly. Whats more, writing cant

26、 exactly express the writers feelings sometimes, and the reader cant understand the writers feeling .For example, one person is happy now. And he wants to tell his friend his present feeling .So he writes to his friend who cant understand his feeling just by reading his letter or E-mail better. But

27、if he can speak to his friend directly, then his friend can know his feeling by his tone or expression. And he can also know how much his happy is .So this is a quick and direct speaking effect. Meanwhile, reading and writing have no this effect. On the other hand, it is only our tongue that builds

28、a communication bridge between the listener and the speaker. Thereby, the listening ability must rely on the speaking in a way. Moreover, it is proved that if the speaking is trained best, it will be helpful for students confidence to learn English.2.3 The importance of speaking existing in the teac

29、hing syllabus The aims of teaching syllabus stipulates that “ English teaching in middle schools are mainly to train students to have a definite foundation of listening and speaking so as to attain the aim to communicate comprehensively with others in English.”(Teaching syllabus for Middle School, P

30、2)It requires the teachers of English to organize their 45-minute class in English to create a living and lively English environment of English learning. Thus the students listening and speaking will be spontaneously trained and be practiced.2.4 New tests focus on speaking at present, the teaching s

31、yllabus stipulates. “Examination and test should include written part, listening test and oral test as well.”(Teaching syllabus for Middle Schoo, P9)And now you can find listening test in our all kinds of tests. And many areas take the oral test as an important part to estimate the students comprehe

32、nsive level. However, as early as ten years ago, you couldnt find the oral test in the final examination. Even you didnt hear of the word of “oral test”. Now, we can see that in the final examination the students speaking ability is very different from those in ten years ago. Their intonations and tones and even expressions are much better. And it contributes to the daily training. So the voiceless English is increasingly developed. Whats more, now you often can find that there are many English-speaking competitions on TV and many areas also hold all kinds of speaking competitions. At th