The Integrating Of CLT Into The Oral English Teaching In The Secondary Specialized School

When China opens more to the outside world, economic and intercultural activities are increasing fast. The employment market requires potentially competent employees. Many companies especially state that they want their employees have a good command of English or can communicate in English. However, in Secondary Specialized Schools, students' communicative competence is far from satisfaction and can not meet the needs of society. Most of them are poor at oral English, unwilling to, even unable to express themselves in simple English, let alone communicate with others freely. According to a questionnaire for students in Jiangxi Judicial Police School, the author finds their greatest expectation in Secondary Specialized School English period is to develop practical oral communicative ability. Conversely, the spoken English teaching in China is greatly influenced by examination-based educational system and has long been neglected; and the traditional classroom English teaching merely attaches importance to students' linguistic ability, that is to say, most attention is paid to structural items, grammatical items and language points. Therefore the cultivation of communicative competence is overlooked. As a result, though students study English for a few years, they cannot use it to communicate. So it's high time to make a transformation in teaching approaches and focus on oral abilities. Under such a situation, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is considered to be the most excellent way, which regards the development of communicate competence as the core of foreign language teaching (FLT).CLT made it first appearance in the 70s of last century, on basis of the development of social linguistic, psychological linguistic and Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. The basic idea is that "communicative ability (namely, the ability to use linguistic system effectively and appropriately) is the goal of foreign language learning and teaching." Understanding of communicative competence chiefly comes from Hymes' theory (1972), this theory is developed after Chomsky's linguistic competence theory and emphasizes the ability to understand and use language appropriately within a given context besides manipulating grammatical structures. It can be summarized as "whether (and to what degree) something is possible, feasible, appropriate and actually performed." In 1980, Canale&Swain argued that communicative competence is composed of sociolinguistic, discourse and strategic competence as well as grammatical...