A Study On Reading Based Oral English Practice In Group-work For Independent Colleges Students

Along with the advancement of global integration, oral English is becoming more and more popular and Chinese Educational Department has been putting forward higher requirements for the reform on college English teaching. So how to improve college students’ oral English communicational ability has aroused more and more people’s attention. Through years of experience and multiple surveys, the author finds a phenomenon that independent college students who are not major in English could hardly speak in English. Because students lack the basic language skill and the confidence to open their mouth, in addition, professional oral English teachers, oral teaching equipments and methodologies are inaccessible to them. All these constitute the reality that students’ oral capabilities have been fallen behind.To cope with this, it is necessary to get reference from cooperative learning or group-work, which comes from the United States and become popularized in many countries since the last 70s. It is believed that as a new language teaching method based on group-work, cooperative learning helps to improve students’ study, to from cooperative consciousness and promote their social skills. According to Krashen’s language acquisition theory, practicing spoken language gives students chances to have more language input and with this reinforcement students are bound to improve their speaking fluency thus to improve their oral English. Therefore, in independent colleges, it is worth trying to apply reading strategies integrated with group-work in oral English teaching.The purpose of this paper is to integrate reading into group-work to promote independent college students’ oral English. Based on the study of cooperative learning theories and principles, language acquisition theories, and oral English teaching methodologies the author carries out an experiment to improve independent colleges’ non-English major students’ oral English. This experiment persists for one semester and it includes dividing students into small sensible study groups, basic reading training, imitating listening and speaking and speaking out training. Through these researching methods, such as literature research, questionnaire, interview and oral tests, the experiment turns out to be effective in proving students’ oral English. It not only improves students’ oral English ability, but also enhances independent colleges’ students’ self-confidence, cultivate students’ autonomous learning ability and interpersonal skills. All in all, this experiment provides an efficient teaching mode for independent colleges, and it helps give some reference for researchers in this area.