A Study On Status Quo Of Extracurricular College English Learning In Colleges In Wuhan And Counter Measures

Extracurricular learning is one of the most important parts of the whole teaching and learning system. As a practical subject as college English, extracurricular learning is much more important than other subjects. Krashen ( 1981 ) divided the whole process of language learning into two parts, input and output. He believes that the two parts are equally important. In actual college English teaching and learning, however, the time for classroom teaching and learning is too limited and mostly constrained to input. There is no much time left for output in classroom. So extracurricular college English learning is even more important.The importance of extracurricular college English learning can also be seen in the College English Course Teaching Requirements published by National Ministry of Education in the year 2004. College English Course Teaching Requirements says: 'The target of college English teaching and learning is to cultivate college students' comprehensive ability of using English, especially the ability of listening and speaking; enable them to effectively use English orally and in written form to communicate with people in work and social interactions. College English Course Teaching Requirements' emphasis on comprehensive practical ability, on listening and speaking ability and on autonomy ability leads Chinese college English teaching and learning to a brand-new era. However, where do comprehensive practical ability, speaking & listening ability and autonomy ability come from? 4 to 5 hours classroom teaching per week is far from enough. More efforts should be put into extracurricular English learning so that students can have better environment and more chance to use English and improve it.The author of this thesis tried to investigate the status quo of extracurricular college English learning in colleges in Wuhan and find out the existing problems and strategies to solve them.By means of questionnaire and interview, the author found out three fundamental problems. Firstly, there is little professional help given to college students for their extracurricular English learning; secondly, management of extracurricular learning is poor, which leads to inefficiency of extracurricular college English learning; finally, organization of extracurricular English learning activities is not systematic.The author offered three counter measures to solve these problems: improve the management, give more professional help to students and improve the organization of extracurricular English learning activities.Finally, the author practiced these counter measures in Hubei University of Technology and achieved significant progress.