A Practice Research For Cultivating English Listening And Speaking Ability In Vocational Colleges--Based On ESP Theory

With the global economic integration, the people who have both petroleum engineering professional knowledge and English communication ability are becoming more and more popular. It caused higher vocational college pay great attention on talent cultivation however, there are some problems in election of teaching material, the teaching method, teaching emphasis in higher vocational colleges. The research is to study professional English education course in higher vocational colleges, focusing on the cultivation of students’ English listening and speaking skills.This research from the "Needs Analysis of ESP Theory" talks about the specific English teaching reform based on demand analysis to which I carried out a questionnaire survey which included interviews of students, teachers and teaching experiments in Tianjin Engineering Technical Institute. Through the results of the surveys and interviews, I have come to realize: students’ learning needs, English teaching’s present situation, discovered problems in the teaching. According to the problems, I put forward the corresponding suggestion through one semester of teaching experiments, then I compared the test results; pre-experiment to post-experiment between the experimental class and control class. Based on verifying the scene--the task-based teaching model is more effective in professional English situations that explores how to improve English teaching methods in order to improve the English listening ability of students.Finally, I points out the deficiencies existing in this research, and gives the suggestions for the improvement of English for special purposes; Finally, it proposes improving the cultivating method of training students’ listening and speaking skills of English in the similar vocational colleges which will promote and perfect the specialized teaching of English.