河池学院课程考试试卷(考查卷）（2010 --2011 学年度第 1 学期）课程名称：学术论文写作考试时间：2010.12本(专)科：07 年级班：1、2、3、4、5 专业：英语班级3班姓名梁川学号2007103520 得分_______Term Paper WritingDirections:Choose a topic of your own and write a mini research paper about 800-1000 words. Your final copy should include the title, abstract, 3-5 key words, the introduction, body, conclusion and the reference list. Marks will be awarded for Introduction (5%), Body (20%), Content (35%), Clarity and Correctness of the Writing (15%), Conclusions (10%), Sources & Citations & Proper APA Format (15%). Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.(注：文章标题4号，Times New Romans 字体，全文使用小四号字，1.5倍行距；从下页开始写)Application of English Original Movies in Listening and SpeakingTeaching in Higher Vocational Schools[Abstract] The article is written under the unfavorable situation of listening and speaking teaching in higher vocational schools.Aiming at illustrating the role and benefits of the English original movies using as assisted material,providing some methods to select a suitable movie and carry out some activitiese in the class.[Key words] English original movies, listening and speaking teaching, higher vocational schoolsIn College English teaching, listening and speakingl has always been an important part of teaching, which is also one of the weakest link,as well as in higher vocational schools.The traditional listening and speaking teaching is not only boring but also unfavorable. Most English original movies come from the real life of the native speaking people,its visuality,vitality, flexibility and practicability can create a realistic language environment and attract the interest of the students.Thus this article analyze the problems of listening and speaking teaching in higher vocational schools,proposing the use of English original movies to support the teaching process.In an attempt to explore some effective ways in this course.The listening and speaking teaching has been teacher-center for a long term.The listening and speaking is artifically seperated which lead to a disjointed phenomenon in ability training(Liu Jie,2009).Generally,teachers play the matieral,students listen and finish the exercises,then check the answers.Especially in some higher vocational schools,the teachers neglect the importance of listening and speaking teaching.giving lectures with the simplex teaching material and activity approach.Students are more like passive listeners which lead to a consequence of lacking oral training in the class.It says nothing of active communicating in English after class.The higher vocational students’listening and speaking ability is on a various standard,and most of them have no interest and motivation to concentrate on the lesson.Even just open their mouthse to speakEnglish is too difficult for the higher vocational students because of anxiety and self-abasement.Gradually,they treat listening and speaking course as a burden. they won’t want to listen or speak,even give up learning English.As the unfavorable situation among higher vocational students,English original movies have been suggested to improve listening and speaking teaching. “Movie-teaching is a comprehensive art ,bearing the factors of language,images and audio,which makes it possible that sound combines with image,language combines with scene,visual stimulation combines with auditory stimulation.It creats a language environment for students and different sensory organs work at the same time. Thus it helps to improve the teaching effectiveness”(Li Ting xiang, 1983). There is necessity and superiority of bring English original movies into teaching of English listening and speaking in higher vocational schools.First of all,it provides visual and real communicative context to stimulate students' learning interest and mobilizes the students' initiative.When the class become active,the teaching and learning efficiency will improve.Secondly, English original movie provides authentic language materials,which help to promote students’listening basic skill,then lay a solid foundation for speaking training.The language in the movies is the dialogue between the people who come from different geographical regions, social class, and with different educational level, occupation and at different age.It relates to the real life,so the genuine expressions, slang,pronunciation and speed could train students listenning and speaking imitation. Next,movies is the most direct channel to understand the culture in the English speaking countries,which removes the barriers to completely understand the material.Moreover, when teacher use a movie with Chinese subtitles,it could reduce the difficulty for student to listen.That lessen the tension when students are doing listening and speaking practice.According to the level of higher vocational students,teacher should choose some easy-understand and relaxed movies,but not the kind full of sex,violence or politics.As well as the one with clear pronunciation ,appropriate new words.Such movie is comedy or cartoon,The Princess Diaries,Ice Age are two of the them.There are some suggestion to utilize English films for teaching.Developing listening training by combination of watching and listening, combination of listening and writing and combinition of intensive listening and extensivelistening.Teacher set the questions about one scene in the movie,play it for the students and ask them to take some notes or find out the answers by listening and understanding.And developing speaking training by imitation,retelling,discussion,dubing or role-play.Among the methods,imitation could use as the main training.Teacher choose a particular scene,guiding students to imitate the actors’ pronunciation and intonation with repeated practice.Then dubing and role-play could be arranged as compititions between groups in the class or as homework.During both listening and speaking process,teacher should pay attention to students’ reaction and emotion towards such kind of training.Be sure the movies can arouse their interest and reduce their tension to practice.In summary,using English original movies as assisted material in higher vocational schools to teach English listening and speaking is a exploration to improve the unfavorable condition.Hoping to break the limitation of the traditional listening and speaking teaching. English original movies could provide realistic and favorable language environment through the vivid visual and audiotry context,and attract students interest to study English or doing listening and speaking training.And visuality,vitality, flexibility and practicability of the English original movies makes it an effective teaching method used into listening and speaking course.The author illustrate the role and benefits could present in English listening and speaking,and propose some ways to carry out class teaching activities,aiming at promoting more uses of English original movies in English listening and speaking,especially in higher vocational schools,and attemping at more exploration in this field.References[1]刘婕.浅析高职英语听力、口语教学现状及对策思考.安徽文学,2009[2]李庭芗.英语教学法.高等教育出版社,1983[3]叶晓英.高职英语听力课教学现状及对策.辽宁高职学报,V ol.6, No.4,2004[4]黄慧娟.利用英美原版电影促进高职学生的英语听说.九江职业技术学院学报,2007.2。
