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1、The Problems and Solutions to College English Teaching大学英语教学中的弊端及对策AbstractEnglish plays a more and more important role in the world nowadays. In the 21st century, with the development of society and science and technology, especially, after China entered into the WTO, China has a more important pos

2、ition in the world. Though college English teaching in our country gets greater progress in recent years, it still has many serious problems. For example, to a great extent the college English teaching ignores the subjective positions of students in English learning, and the college English teaching

3、 is greatly influenced by test-oriented education. Most college students cant communicate with foreigners in English freely. The current college English teaching is in contradiction with the quick development of modern society, so it is very imperative to reform the college English teaching. The aut

4、hor puts forward four solutions to the problems of the college English teaching, namely, cultivation of English learners autonomy, “student-centered” in English teaching, using the multimedia to teach in the process of college English teaching, training the college students English comprehensive app

5、lication abilities.Key Words：College English Teaching; Problems; Test-oriented Education；Solutions; Subjective Position;摘要英语在当今世界发挥着越来越重要的作用。在21世纪，随着社会的进步和科学技术的发展，特别是中国加入世贸组织后，中国有更多的机会与世界各国交流了，中国在世界上发挥着越来越重要的作用。尽管我国的大学英语教学取得了很大的进步，但仍然存在很多问题，比如，忽视大学生在学习英语中的主体地位；忽视学生兴趣的培养；大学英语教学当中仍然存在着较强的应试教学的色彩，其结果是尽

6、管学了很多年的英语但却不能用英语与外国人熟练地交流。当前的大学英语教学与现代社会的快速发展存在着很多矛盾，因此改革大学英语教学就成了当务之急。就当前大学英语所存在的问题，作者提出了一系列的解决办法: 增强学习者自主性，教学中坚持以学生为中心，利用多媒体增大课堂容量和提高兴趣，培养大学生的英语综合运用能力，关键词: 大学英语教学；弊端；应试教育； 解决办法； 主体地位ContentsIntroduction5I. Problems of Contemporary College English Teaching.5A. The Neglect of Students Subjective Pos

7、ition.5B. The Neglect of Cultivation of Students Interest.5C. Mute English.6D. Impact of Test-oriented Education7E. Students Passive Position in Learning English8II. The Counter-measures to College English Teaching9A. The Cultivation of English Learners Autonomy.91. The Preconditions and Bases of Le

8、arners Autonomy.102. How to Cultivate the English Learners Autonomy.102.1. Instructing Students to Master the Right Study Method.102.2. Helping Students Form a Good Study Habit .102.3. Stimulating Students Initiatives of Learning College English.11B. “Student-centered” in English Teaching.11C. Using

9、 the Multimedia to Teach in the Process of College English Teaching.121. Fostering Students Interest by Using Multimedia.122. Reducing the Teachers Pressure by Using Multimedia.13D. Training the College Students English Comprehensive Application Abilities.131. Teaching the Students in Accordance wit

10、h their Ability.132. Strengthening the Oral English and Listening.133. Carrying out the English Contest.14Conclusion.14Acknowledgements.16IntroductionEnglish is a lingual communication tool that plays a more and more important role in China. In the 21st century, with the development of society and s

11、cience and technology, especially, after China entered into the WTO, China has more opportunities to communicate with other countries in the field of economy, politics, science, culture, etc. The world develops and changes so quickly, so does China. Consequently, the severe condition requires that t

12、he college students should have the superior English level. In recent years, our country makes great progress in college English teaching, but at the same time it still has some problems. College English teaching does not lessen the color of the test-oriented education, and people still regard the “

13、CET-4 and CET-6” as key points to evaluate students English proficiency, and “60 marks is enough”. And some teachers ignore the subjective position of students. So these problems hinder the college students from heightening their English level, and it is very imperative to solve these problems, so a

14、s to improve their college English comprehensive application abilities.I. Problems of Contemporary College English TeachingA. The Neglect of Students Subjective PositionPeople emphasize the teaching functions excessively. Accordingly, they ignore students subjective position in college English teach

15、ing, and it seriously hinders their development of individuality and exertion of innovative spirit. A famous educator Wei Shusheng said: the intelligent people would become extremely stupid when he is in a passive position. The teaching activities will become tedious if it has no students participat

16、ion. In our country most teachers attach importance to their own positions in college English teaching; they have plentiful experience in holding the teaching and controlling the classroom, but they ignore the importance of students subjective positions. Most teachers spend much time in explaining,

17、but they seldom give students enough time and space to practice their English; students have few opportunities to go to the platform, so their courage and interest decrease. And most teachers seldom lead students to learn English by themselves, and help them to master the correct study methods, they

18、 only infuse knowledge into them, and they cant motivate their interest in learning English. Thus, it is difficult for them to improve their English comprehensive application abilities.B. The Neglect of Cultivation of Students InterestTo stimulate and keep the students interests in learning college

19、English is a important aim for the college English teaching, at the same time it should try its best to help the college students cultivate their interest. Einstein said that interest is the best teacher, and this tells us that interest is very important for us; it enables students to acquire plenti

20、ful knowledge. Moreover a Russian famous educationalist Ushinski indicated that the study which has no any interest will prevent students from pursuing the truth, so we can say that if we want to learn the college English well, we must have enough interest in it. But on one hand, the college English

21、 teaching in our country ignores the cultivation of students interest in learning English and teachers dont pay more attention to the reaction of students, so we can say that it is a cramming education. (It means in the process of teaching, the teacher only explains knowledge correctly and clearly,

22、but he ignores the reaction of students). On the other hand college students are afraid of the thousands of words, especially, the bald grammars rules. They cant get enjoyment from the English learning. In their minds, learning college English isnt the real need and happiness, but a heavy task and a

23、 burden for them. The college English is so terrible and repulsive for them that they cant learn it well. Now we can conclude that interest is important for the college students. As teachers, they should try their best to foster students learning interest.C. Mute EnglishThough we have made progress

24、in English, mute English still exists in our country and many other Asian countries; as a result it seriously influences many countries developments of English level. In our country most students hardly link English learning with their future employment; they only take the present into account, so i

25、t causes many students only to repeat a lesson, accumulate the words, and to a great extent, they neglect the practice of oral English. Of course their oral English will become poorer, and they are not able to open their mouths to speak it freely. Mr. Zhang Yujin has studied English for nearly 70 ye

26、ars. Once said “Many students have learned English over 10 years, but nearly 90 percent of students cant use it freely (translated).” According to the investigations, we find that most companies are not satisfied with students English comprehensive abilities, especially with their oral English, to b

27、e concrete, the companies deem that there are only 5 percent of students are good at oral English, but 37 percent of them are extremely poor in it. (Zou Yongzhen,1998.2). These college students can read, write, but they can not communicate with others in English. So they are incapable of making good

28、 use of English to improve their English level. These college students who are not good at spoken English dont like communicating with the good students, because they think that they will lose their faces during the communication. In fact, maybe the poor students can learn some beneficial methods fr

29、om their communication; it is useful for them to improve their spoken English. And the college English teaching lays more stresses on the accuracy and integrity of English and grammar. This concept seriously misleads the students. In their opinion, English study requires integrity and accuracy, and

30、the spoken language also should be integrated and correct, the students have heavy pressure. Consequently they have no enough courage to speak English. The mute English heavily hinders the college students from improving oral English.D. Impact of Test-oriented EducationTest-oriented education indica

31、tes that it separates from the real needs of developments of society and human. The final aim of test-oriented education is to pass the examination. It seriously breaches the development of students physical and mental health. And it only attaches great importance to the good students. To a great ex

32、tent, it ignores most students, so it is easy to hurt their esteem, confidence and their interest in learning English. As a matter of fact, it is an eliminative education.At present, the college English education does not reduce the influence on the test-oriented education, on the contrary, they reg

33、ard CET-4 and CET-6 as keys, and deem that 60 marks is enough, and this kind of wrong concept cant reach the aim of applications of college English teaching. The oriented-education has no flexible teaching methods. The students cant use the knowledge flexibly by this hidebound method. For example, t

34、hough many students have accumulated a large number of words, most of them cant recognize them when they meet them in some concrete contexts or in communications, as a result they know these words but cant use them. As assistant premier Li Lanqing said that many students have learned English for abo

35、ut eight years or twelve years, but they cant read the English books skillfully, especially, their listening and speaking are very poor. They cant communicate with foreigners directly; therefore it is easy for them to lose their confidence and interest in English. In order to pass the CET-4 and CET-

36、6, most students cheat on an examination, so their marks can not reflect their own English level correctly. Sun Fuchu, a famous English professor in Qinghua University, has taught English for nearly 30 years, and he has about a thousand students, he is an experienced English teacher. At present, he

37、is anxious about the actualities of college English in our country. He said that college English has already become a test tool completely, he even appealed that the Ministry of Education should cancel the examination of CET-4 and CET-6. We can see the test-oriented education has bad influence on st

38、udents.The best education is the individual education, but the test-oriented education cant let the students obtain the individual development, therefore under this condition of test-oriented education, students life is very tedious; their only activity is to study. And they are short of necessary s

39、kills of social communication and human communication, so they are not easily accustomed to the new circumstances and facing the trouble, and they have no enough ability to solve the problems by themselves. At the same time, their psychology endurance is very weak. Students ability cant develop comp

40、letely under the test-oriented education. The test-oriented education hinders the development of students individual character, and we can say that it cuts the throat of their creativity. Under the mode of test-oriented education, the educational aim is very narrow, the method is stiff, and the coll

41、ege will become an education machine soon or later. The college English teaching ignores the development of students individual character, so it is impossible for students to train and enrich their character sufficiently. At present, most countries think that the most important aim for future educat

42、ion is to pursue the educational creativity, and the future education needs a loose, democratic and colorful atmosphere, but the mode of test-oriented education provides a close, narrow school prison for college students. Of course, students are not able to acquire free, sufficient development from

43、it. It is difficult for students to become a creator but an operator under this kind of college English teaching.E. Students Passive Position in Learning EnglishAt present, most students are in the passive position in college English learning. They do not know what position they are in, and that is,

44、 they have no clear thought of their positions. They are lacking of the consciousness of participation in the English teaching. According to the investigations we can conclude that most of students believe that the study is accomplished by the explanations of teachers, but few students deem that the

45、y should accomplish the study by themselves or do it through their own endeavors. So this wrong idea leads them to ignore their subjective positions.Some educationalists in our country change the educational idea actively according to Deng Xiaopings motto (The education should face the modernization

46、s, face the world and future), and they suggest that the student-centered is a teaching principle; consequently, students should study how to learn it actively. But in our country many students are prone to depend on their teachers; they seldom conclude the contents, key points, difficult points and

47、 questions by themselves, and they are accustomed to accepting the ready-made conclusions. It is obvious that they dont preview and review the English book; they seldom digest the knowledge by themselves, but wait for the teacher to help them digest it in class. In class they infrequently think over the problems, and they have no habit that cooperates with teachers actively, when the teacher asks them to answer the questions, they just keep silence