The Implication Of Communicative Strategies For College Students Of English In China

The present thesis principally deals with the implication of communicative strategies for college students of English in China, with an aim to improve college Englishteaching in the country.Starting with an introduction, this paper is an attempt to investigate into the communication strategies adopted by Chinese college students. The findings of the study will provide an empirical basis for understanding the theory of Speech Act, particularly from the perspective of culture-based students in university communities. To investigate into the general situation of English teaching to students of higher institutions in China, the writer examines current ways of teaching English to students in college. The result of the paper shows that the students' practical knowledge of English is essential to teach. Based on the analysis of the college English teaching, causes of result are found in the following aspects:1) Difference in the types of communication strategies, which students prefer to use, can affect the second language learner (L2), especially college students.2) College students lack motivation to communicate in English, although they passed college English examination with high scores.3) Flaws of teaching methods.4) Incompetent teachers of English pronunciation course and their inefficient teaching procedure.This study explores the nature and examines the rules and principles that govern communicative behavior in the light of the Speech Act theory, implicature and pragmatic strategies. This enables us to view verbal communication in terms of itstwo functions: transmitting information and establishing or maintaining social relationships, with the latter being termed as the "interactional use of language". The paper then goes on examining the "interactional use of language" in real-life communication, especially the L2's communicative practice. Hence both teachers and students should be made aware of the importance of the interactional use of language in the first place. Based on this awareness, teachers must make efforts to integrate this use of language into an effective foreign language teaching curriculum, which will make use of advantages of different approaches, including the traditional grammar-translation and the contemporary communicative approaches, and facilitate not only learner's mastery of the linguistic elements such as vocabulary and grammatical structures, but also their development of pragmatic competence, that is, to use the learned language to achieve social goals.The findings of this study have clear implications for the field of foreign language teaching, especially the areas of English teaching, in terms of training in the use of effective communication strategies.The limitation of the research is the small size of sample adopted due to limited tune. However, the same method can be applied to a larger and more representative sample in the future to ensure its external validity, that is, generalizability into a large population of college learners of English in China. Future research is suggested at the end of the paper.This dissertation is divided into seven chapters. Chapter One serves as introduction, which introduces the framework of the dissertation. Chapter Two provides literature review. In this chapter, I will also explain the terms that will be used in the present thesis and provide some relevant theories by some linguists. Chapter Three studies language, communication and the roles of the teacher, In this chapter, we look at the nature of language, the nature of communication, and the teachers' role in classroom interaction. Chapters Four, Five and Six are the core chapters, looking into the area ofEnglish teaching with a focus on communicational strategies. Chapter Seven concludes the whole dissertation, with suggestions for future empirical study.