On interrelations between language teaching and speech teaching

Abstract

There exists a universal problem in college English teaching among most colleges in China: most teachers have laid too much emphasis on language teaching, but awfully neglected speech teaching. Thus the competence of language application and intercultural communication students urgently needed cannot be developed and the phenomenon of "deaf English" appeared. The amount of language teaching and speech teaching are out of rate. In order to change the situation, the current college English teaching system should be changed in time mainly from the two aspects of the teaching mode and syllabus design to strengthen the amount of speech teaching. At the same time teachers should also pay attention to the role students play to mobilize their activity to develop their intercultural communicative competence. This thesis attempts to explore an effective way to balance language teaching and speech teaching to improve the quality of college English teaching, and to pursue its guiding and operational significance to college English teaching. © 2012 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland.