Application Of The Task-Based Approach To Navigation English Reading In Vocational College

Since the beginning of the nineteen-nineties,HVTE(Higher Vocational Technical Education) has developed at a rapid rate.As a significant part of HVTE in China, shipping colleges and schools have manned many ocean-going vessels with thousands of graduates.Because English is the working language of the shipping industry,the English teaching in shipping HVTE aims at overall proficiency and does stress the importance of communicative competence.However,there has bitter contradiction between the objective and the present approaches with the characteristics of teacher-centered, examination-oriented,and-vocabulary-based English class.TBA emerges in the early 1980s.Its emphasis converts from teaching methods to learning methods.And it mainly focuses on communicative function and its social use.It fulfils the shiftiness from teacher-centered to learner-centered.Therefore,this thesis is intended to explore an effective and feasible model in task-based language pedagogy and how to implement it correctly to achieve best results,especially in HVTE navigation English classrooms,so as to improve the quality and effectiveness of navigation English.Drawing on Jane Willis' methodological framework,the most extensive worked-out one for TBA,this thesis examines its effects on the improvement of learners' reading competence in navigation English when such a framework is applied,and thus tentatively explores the feasibility of the task-based approach to the teaching of navigation English.Results yielded from the experiment designed for this research,and reveal that the application of Willis' framework for TBA to navigation English reading classrooms will have some positive influences upon learners' understanding of navigation English and thereby significantly improve their listening and oral competence.