关于大学英语精读的几点看法
Abstract:With the growing importance and popularity of College English (intensive reading) in colleges, teachers and students regard it as a main course .Teachers are likely to encounter various questions in the process of teaching. Practically, college English teaching has a concern with mastery of knowledge, which is focused on the four centers of the teacher, the textbook, grammar, and vocabulary. Teachers are dominated, with little opportunity for students' practice. Grammar seems to be taught for its own sake, as knowledge, rather than as a means of communication. Students are required to remember more words. Teachers don't pay attention to the choice of the textbook. This article intends to discuss on how to improve teaching methods.
Keywords:teaching methods cultural background interest I Introduction
For many years, intensive reading textbooks have been used by college students. With its exposure of faults, students are anxious to innovate the English language teaching. The
ineffective teaching methods have nothing but restrict the students' development. Intensive reading courses lay emphasis on teacher-centered activities and puts students into a passive role. Teachers are chained to a specific textbook and are aiming at getting their students through an examination, such as CET 4 or CET 6, which is far from ideal. Teachers focus on the memory of words and the explanation of grammar. Besides, teachers are not aware of the importance of communicative competence and the introduction of cultural background. The article intends to resolve the problems above. II Choice of textbook
The choice of textbook is vital to teachers and is directly to the success or failure of teaching. The textbook should attract students' interest and strengthen their communicative ability. Correspondingly, teachers must be careful in choosing textbook. Kinds of textbooks have different advantages and
disadvantages .First of all, please Look at the book Two Doctors College English. The book includes lots of practical problems, vocabulary, phrases, sentences, the keys to the problems, the texts translated and some optional texts. In teaching, teachers mainly focus on grammar, paraphrasing complex sentences,
ignoring the meaning of texts. As a result, the students feel tired. The investigation research shows that it is mainly attributed to non-intelligence, although there are many factors affecting foreign language teaching. Ellis has ever said: \most important factor in mastering a second language.\textbook would be better if it is designed with stories, cards, caricatures, puzzles, colorful types of characters. New College English textbook is a good example. Both form and content are acceptable. Moreover the language is regular as well as listening practice and tests. The form is lively and can motivate the students' Interest.
However, the teaching purpose required by intensive reading course can't be reached only by one book in every semester. Teachers should choose kinds of article of styles and types of literature according to students' interest and their present language level. The college can advocate all the teachers and students to collect good materials and recommend appropriate articles to students. In order to offer them good opportunities to exchange ideas with each other, let them exchange experience and hold reading communication activities on terms.
III. Helping Students to Adapt the Textbook