Role of Teachers in Oral English Teaching
In oral English teaching, students are the implementers, while teachers play different roles during this process. Teachers are conductors, guiding students to start activities. They are directors, designing scenarios for the activities and assigning roles
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Role of Teachers in Oral English Teaching Wanyu Liu
Abstract In oral English teaching, students are the implementers, while teachers play different roles during this process. Teachers are conductors, guiding students to start activities. They are directors, designing scenarios for the activities and assigning roles to students. They are also critics, evaluating students’ oral expression appropriately. The appropriateness of roles that teachers play can change the traditional oral English teaching which is teacher-centered. In this way, teachers can develop students’ initiatives to a large extent and improve their abilities of oral expression in English. Keywords Oral teaching
Role positioning Initiatives
2.1 Introduction Language is a subject. It is also a kind of tools and means [1, 2]. Human beings communicate with each other by way of languages, jointly contributing to the formation of the global village [3, 4]. Spoken language is an important form and means to realizing the value of languages. Correspondingly, oral English teaching is one of the most important contents in English teaching [5, 6]. In many colleges in China, classes in oral English are opened or added for students to develop English application talents, which indicates the important status of oral English in English teaching. Teachers are the organizers and implementers in oral English classes. They have great influence on the effects and quality of the classes [7, 8].
W. Liu (&) Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan 430023, Hubei, China e-mail: [email protected]
Z. Zhong (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 219, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4853-1_2, Ó Springer-Verlag London 2013
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Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the research on the role positioning of teachers in oral English teaching so that the quality of oral English teaching can be improved. It is also very important to improve the forms of oral teaching.
2.2 Mistakes in Oral Teaching In order to make students study and use English better, many colleges in China have opened oral English classes in English teaching so that students have more chances to speak English. Compared with the dumb English classes before, oral English classes improve students’ enthusiasm and interest in learning English. They can also improve students’ impression of oral English. However, it is still great far away from the tasks established. Generally speaking, the following mistakes exist in modern oral English teaching. First, the English classes are organized in a dumb way. Because some of the English teachers are relatively old or they have been teaching English in a dumb way for a long time, their oral teaching still focuses on explaining grammars, idioms, memorizing, and reciting. Some of the teachers adopt the methods of reading and writing, spending more time on input. Some even play a monodrama so that students have less time to exercise. Although some teachers have realiz
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