Strategies for Listening and Speaking Teaching of College English under Professional Interpretation Pattern

Abstract

The grammar-translation method trained used in the traditional English listening and speaking classes cannot meet the needs of college English to cultivate practical talents. The reform to English listening and speaking teaching pattern is imperative. The professional interpretation method is just applied into English listening and speaking teaching under such historical background. This method plays an important role in promoting better participation of students into practice in class and comprehensively improving students' application ability in English listening and speaking. Based on a specific analysis on positive effects of the professional interpretation pattern on English listening and speaking classroom teaching, the author discussed in details relevant strategies for English listening and speaking teaching, and expected to promote the teaching of college English to cultivate more practical talents for the society. Listening and speaking courses of college English can not only cultivate reading and writing competence of students but also gradually help students to realize the parallel state between English listening & speaking competence and reading & writing competence of students. Besides, these courses also play an important role in social practice of students' English competence. In this paper, the author expected to provide certain ways of implementation for the listening and speaking teaching of college English under the professional interpretation pattern through a brief analysis on the practical role of professional interpretation in the listening and speaking classroom teaching of college English, so as to make the listening and speaking teaching to play a more excellent role in cultivating students' comprehensive application competence of English language. 1. Positive Effect of the Professional Interpretation Pattern on the Teaching of English Listening and Speaking (I) Play a role in aided teaching of oral expression of English In the implementation process of English listening and speaking classroom teaching, the following scenes often appear: when several students are communicating with each other in English, other persons in the communication still fail to have a correct understanding of the speaker's meaning even through it is repeated or even transformed into another statements. Under this circumstance, the speaker always uses interpretation to express the original meaning considering the needs to save the learning time so that other members can understand. Similarly, a student will automatically ask other teachers or students around for help, when he cannot understand other's oral expression. The teachers or students are asked to provide relevant reference to his understanding of teaching upon reasonable interpretation, making the communication in the process of teaching to proceed in a normal state. To some extent, this conscious English interpretation behavior of teachers and students is served as the lubricant of the listening teaching of spoken language, which not only provides certain convenience for students to have a deep understanding of text meanings but also improves students' practical competence of English listening and speaking to some extent. Imperceptibly, this consciousness also promotes the effective realization of English listening and speaking teaching. (II) Reasonably supplement communicative approaches The pattern of group-teaching is generally adopted for college English teaching in most Chinese colleges and universities. There are certain limits to the realization of teaching effectiveness. In the process of teaching, it is usually difficult for teachers to solve students' problems in the life and the learning one by one according to actual learning conditions of different students. Under the