Zhang, Jinghong. M.S.Ed., Purdue University, May 2015. Vocabulary Teaching in Chinese Junior High Schools. Major Professor: Melanie Shoffner. Vocabulary learning is an important and indispensable part of the English language learning process. In this paper, the author tried to examine the vocabulary teaching practice in Chinese junior high schools. A questionnaire was used to investigate the pr...

Using multimedia to create a context to teach English has its unique advantages. This paper explores the characteristics of multimedia and integrates how to use multimedia to optimize the context of English teaching as its purpose. In this paper, eight principles, specifically Systematization, Authenticity, Appropriateness, Interactivity, Coordination, Pluralism, Intelligibility, and Penetrabil...

The Internet provides learners with unprecedented opportunities; student can not only share the learning resources, but also overcome the obstacles of time and space. The new teaching model make full use of the advantages of modern information technology, especially the network multimedia technology, so that English teaching has been developed toward the direction as autonomous learning and col...

In recent years, English language teaching has seen a trend away from continued dependence on native-speaker norms in favour of teaching based on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). In particular, this involves the Lingua Franca Core (LFC) of those features of English pronunciation that are claimed to ensure intelligibility but at the same time permit substantial local variation. The suggestion i...

As one of the creative and efficient teaching model, cooperative learning is widely applied to modern English language classroom. However, its feasibility and effectiveness still need further research, especially in large class English teaching for non-English majors. In the paper, two large classes with more than 100 students are involved in this research. In order to make the experiment as pr...

Nowadays, with the development of the international relationship among countries, learning English, especially the oral English is playing a more and more important role in the world. After China's entry into the WTO, China has paid more attention to the oral English teaching in some colleges, which is not only the need of current quality education but also a revolution of the foreign language ...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which is a branch of English for specific purposes (ESP), focuses instruction on skills required to perform in an English-speaking academic context across core subject areas. For Chinese graduates whose mother tongue is not English, EAP teaching consists of four parts, which are academic listening, academic reading, academic listening and academic writing. T...