| In China, the teaching of oral English is neglected at the elementary and secondary stage. At the advanced stage, courses concerned with oral English are set up only for English majors. However, the social requirement for English learners' speaking ability is continually increasing, so, it is urgent for us language educators to research into the ways to improve learners' oral ability.This thesis mainly discusses which elements affect oral English teaching and learning most and how they work. It involves discussions on macroscopical factors such as society and policy, cultural background in addition to microcosmic basics like learners' factors and main constituents in teaching.In introduction, reasons are given as to why I select such a topic for my thesis and from which aspects I will spread my discussion. There are four chapters in the thesis.The first chapter points out the main deficiencies in the teaching of oral English. Through macro-sociological and micro-sociological analysis of English teaching in China, it demonstrates that social demand is the leading factor deciding the orientation of the making of language policy. Furthermore, taking the choice of content in English learning as an example, it also concludes that the former deviation in the making of language policy is an important cause leading to students' unsatisfactory oral ability.The second chapter deals with learners' factors. It illustrates how factors such as age, cognitive style, language aptitude, attitude and motivation, personality and mentality as well as learner's strategies give influence onIVforeign language learning and learner's final achievement. And enlightenment drawn from discussions on each of these ingredients is put at the end of each section.The third chapter touches details in oral English teaching. Argumentation continues with regard to the design of scientific and complete curriculum, the diathesis of a qualified oral English teacher and the effective teaching methods at different stage of oral English teaching.The fourth chapter involves with the necessity of making culture as an organic part of language teaching. It accounts for the relationship between language and culture, emphasizes that the final object of foreign language learning is to achieve communication and understanding between different cultures and illustrates in which ways culture affects communication. In the end, it calls for emphasis on culture in language teaching and heightening culture knowledge learning and culture understanding.In the conclusion part, there is a summary of the main points in this thesis. In addition, it provides the major suggestions for oral English teaching. |
