A Study On Effective Use Of Videos In College English Listening And Speaking Teaching

Facing the continuous reform of college English teaching syllabus and CET in the new era, it is necessary to adjust the college English teaching which aims to cultivate the students’English comprehensive application ability, especially listening and speaking skills. Therefore, this thesis directly studies College listening and speaking teaching based on the combination of listening and speaking textbooks and various video materials to increase authentic language input, and provide students with more practical communicative activities. Thus it can help to achieve the balance of language input and output, and meet the students’need of practicing oral English ability.There are already many scholars fulfilling successful researches in studying the use of video in college English teaching, and they also put forward specific teaching steps, however, the author finds out that most of them study teaching College listening and speaking only by using videos, ignoring the importance of textbook in the new era. Moreover, only using videos in teaching has many drawbacks, as it will take more time and efforts for teachers to select videos and do lesson planning, and it is not convenient for teachers to control the time in class and it is difficult for students to preview and review without the references of textbooks. In addition, most researchers limited their teaching materials to movies neglecting other video materials such as news, interviews which are the main souse of the Internet-Based CET.In order to study the feasibility of the teaching mode combining College English listening and speaking textbooks and different video materials, the author briefly introduces some related input and output theories as a guide, and analyzes the shortcomings of traditional way of teaching listening and speaking as well as the advantages of using video for teaching. Therefore the study found that this model can not only greatly improve the students’ interest in learning English, but also meet the higher requirements of students’ listening and speaking ability in the new Internet-Based CET containing videos. Besides, it can let language testing better serve for language teaching, and let students avoid "dumb English" without only studying for exams.All of the teaching experiment application, questionnaires and classroom observation analysis indicate that:students generally acknowledged and preferred this teaching mode, and their comprehensive application abilities, especially listening and speaking skills were improved.