College English Education and Study
[ 2007-06-08 15:00 ]
People say, learning a foreign language well is a thing of one's life time.
But people still tend to get better education in college so that they'll become
more professional and competitive after graduation.
However, it
seems the current college English education is not so satisfactory. Teachers
feel extremely difficult to motivate and inspire students to speak English up
while most of them remain silent in class. Why don't they open their mouths and
speak? Is there anything easier than to open the mouth? Surely, according to
those students in college, sometimes they are lazy, but most importantly they
don't have any interest in the textbooks they are reading. The content id
either obsolete or too unattractive. They feel reluctant to take a glance at
them.
So here comes the first problem: the textbooks are too outdated.
Lots of college students just skip oral English classes and go to watch hot
American TV series like LOST.
Well, the second problem lies in the
educational system. Nowadays students can not graduate from college if they fail
to pass CET-4 or CET-6. Inevitably, this has put more pressure on the students
who have been worried about their English study. Actually, they have just begun
to learn English with interest.. Now they might feel pushy and stressful by the
exams.
last but not the least, teachers in college should shoulder the
responsibility of educating their students. It's far from enough to tell us the
knowledge points about grammar. Especially when some English teachers write down
every detail about a word's definition on their own books and read them aloud in
class, students believe it's nothing but a waste of time. Don't we know how to
look up a work in the dictionary?
Good teachers know all through those
years of English study, students are forced to do better in reading and writing.
Nobody really cares what you listen to or what you say. Now we're asked to
listen more and speak more so that we may express ourselves in a more accurate
and profound way. Therefore these teachers are doing their best to draw the
attention of their students to how to make a better presentation step by
step.
Problems can fall into all kinds of categories. The question is how
to solve them properly. On the one hand, students should know what they are
capable of and make their focus on listening and speaking on the basis of
well-round developing. On the other hand, the schools and related authorities
should take some effective measures to change the old pattern of teaching and
studying so that the process will be interactive and enjoyable.
作者：劉偉 天津外國語學院 |
