How to improve oral English

何茜

【Abstract】Nowadays, a 9-year voluntary education program is put forward in China. A Standard English course is being used to replace the former teaching outline. The new standard adopts the international system according to which English language education is divided into 9 levels. This has changed the old style of teaching, which attaches importance to grammar and vocabulary. Moreover, The new method places more stress on “listening and speaking” than “reading and writing”. Therefore, speaking is getting more and more important in English teaching.

1. Introduction

As is known to all that English is the most widely used language in the world.In order to keep the closest pace with the rapid development of our modern society, English teaching has been getting more and more attention in our China. However, many students often can't communicate well in a real occasions, Why does this happen? Well, it comes from many factors. One of the factors is their English speaking ability.. So it requires the English teachers to improve their student's oral English.

2.problem

As an English teacher, during my teaching process, Ive found that the problem is that most students cant speak English correctly and fluently. In my teaching, the problem was identified a really serious one. There must be something wrong in the activities I designed in my class.

First maybe I focus our pupils' attention only on verbal communication and ignore non-verbal communication.

Second some pupils' vocabulary was small, they had not plenty of knowledge of grammar necessary for learning spoken English, hence they had more difficulties in speaking English.

Third the content of the textbook was limited, and they are not motivated.

Fourth maybe my teaching methods were very old, so my pupils were not interested in speaking.

3. Project objective

Methods for improving students' oral English.

Arousing students' interest to speak English.

As we all know, “the aims for English teaching is to train the students how to use the language, yet this kind of ability will more quickly be developed on condition that the students are greatly engaged in the English language and immersed in an atmosphere of using the language ” In accordance with the theory, an English teacher is required to observe the communication principles to make the whole class full of communication. To some extent, the students 'attention and interest are aroused and in the meantime, the students' speaking is effectively practiced. As a learner of English in the classroom, if he shows great interest in English learning, of course, he should listen to the teacher carefully, follow his teacher step by step, fix all his attention on what the teacher is saying and try his best to catch on. Then he is active to take part in activities; he is willing to communicate with others to show off. Little by little, his speaking ability will be definitely improved. On the contrary, the student who has no interest in learning English will be unwilling to listen to the teacher and communicate with others, then, gradually, he will be a“stranger” to English. Just as what Mr. Li Yang says that if you want to speak fluent and pure English, you must speak English loudly and crazily and change the muscle on Chinese face into that on western face .So in order to improve the students' speaking ability, teachers should stimulate students' enthusiasm for English learning .Let them speak it as much as they can happily.

4. Conclusion

English learning is really a long hard process that requires a lot of efforts and techniques. During this process, as we all know, the biggest problem is how to speak fluent and idiomatic English. like building a house, improving oral English takes some time, but just be impatient. Remember, Rome was not built in a day. With the help of the above five methods, and do more oral and listening practice, the oral English ability is surely to be greatlyimprove.

References：

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[2]实用中学课堂教学方法大系编委会.中学英语课堂教学方法[M].内蒙古大学出版社,1999.

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