The Application Of Interactive Approach To The Classroom Teaching Of College English Intensive Reading

With the deepening of economic globalization and internationalization of scienceand technology, the requirements of social all circles for college students’communicative competence are getting increasingly higher and higher. In2007, theState of Ministry of Education issued College English Curriculum Requirements (therevised edition) which stipulates that the aim of college English teaching is to developstudents’ English comprehensive proficiency, especially in listening and speaking, sothat they will be able to perform an effective communication in their future studiesand careers as well as social interactions. Besides, it emphasizes that the model ofcollege English teaching should hold the principle that pragmatism, informativenessand interest ought to be embodied in English teaching, which particularly highlightsthat the embodiment of student’s status of subject and teacher’s leading part in thecourse of English teaching. Therefore, the primary task of college English teaching isto develop students’ English communicative competence so as to facilitate students’English comprehensive proficiency. The importance of College English IntensiveReading Course which is a basic integrated course, is apparent to all. However, thecurrent situation of College English Intensive Reading Course shows a bleak outlook.At present, most of the intensive reading classes，influenced by traditional teachingconcept, still adopt indoctrination and ignore students’ subjectivity ofself-advancement, which restricts the improvement of students’ Englishcommunicative competence. So how to optimize students’ communicativecompetence has caught many foreign language teachers’ and researchers’ attention.Interactive Approach emerged in America in1970s, which has extensive andprofound influence in the world. This approach, aiming at developing students’English communicative competence, emphasizes that college English class should bestudent-centered, and proposes that two-way or multi-way interaction should beadopted in classroom activities and that students should be given more opportunitiesto practice English. Domestically, what is true is that most of researches for classroominteraction are introductions or validations for foreign interactive teaching, whilediverse empirical researches are in short supply. Consequently, starting with the analysis and discussion of essential concepts and theoretical bases of InteractiveApproach, this thesis does this research on the interactive approach in an attempt tofigure out the effect of Interactive Approach on students’ learning interest, initiative,classroom participation, English reading comprehension, communicative competenceas well as English comprehensive proficiency, and to know students’ attitudes tointeractive teaching, so as to propose some coping strategies for the implementation ofinteractive teaching with the desire to generally push the development of classroominteraction.The research goes through the whole term, whose subjects are80students fromtwo classes majoring in Business Administration at Qingdao University of Technology.One is set as the experimental class in which the interactive approach is adopted; theother is set as the controlled class which still receives traditional approach. During theprocess of the research, English tests, questionnaires and interview are employed asthe instruments to collect data. With the help of SPSS, the data produced from thisexperiment is analyzed and discussed, comparing the two teaching approaches’ effecton students. The results of the experiment shows that interactive approach is helpfulto motivate students’ English learning interest and initiative, promote classroomparticipation, and improve reading comprehension ability, communicative competenceas well as English comprehensive proficiency, and thereby better achieve teachingobjectives.On the basis of research findings, the thesis, combining the students’ attitudeswith personal attempts and improvement to Interactive Approach, is allowed topropose the following effective strategies for classroom interaction:1) clarifyinginteractive teaching objectives;2) constructing interactive teaching environment;3)designing interactive English learning context;4) optimizing group work;5) stressingon strategies of questioning;6) evaluating student interactive performanceappropriately.