Problems And Strategies For Chinese English Major Students’ Oral Skills Development  

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Xian-long, Fan

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: US-China Foreign Language vol. 7 no. 8 (Aug. 2009), page 27-35.
Topik: Chinese students; oral skills development; self-confidence; practice; communicative competence
Fulltext: Problems And Strategies For Chinese English Major Students’ Oral Skills Development.pdf (104.02KB)

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Among the four kinds of language skills of Chinese learners of English, oral skills are found to be the weakest, which are certainly incompatible with the demands of the increasingly growing intercultural communication. This paper, based on a survey among a group of students and the author’s observation of the Chinese students’ English learning, studies the main problems Chinese English major students face in developing their oral skills: Lack of confidence and lack of practice, two major obstacles to their improvement. In effect, students’ lack of confidence is closely related to their fear of losing face, which, in turn, affects their motivation to seek opportunities to practice the target language. Learning the language this way has actually created a vicious cycle of learning, which explains why satisfactory teaching effects cannot be achieved. Following a detailed analysis of the students’ problems and related factors, the author presents some practical classroom strategies in a holistic approach, which has proved helpful in dealing with the problems. Those strategies effectively help lower students’ “affective filter” and overcome their fear of losing face so as to build up their self-confidence. Additionally, these strategies help provide students with adequate opportunities for oral practice of the language, thus transforming the previous vicious cycle into a virtuous one and eventually resulting in enhancing the students’ communicative competence.

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