An Experiment On English Listening & Speaking Integrated Skills Teaching For Non-English Majors In Vocational College Under The Guidance Of Output Driven Hypothesis

As globalization deepens, more and more emphasis has been attached to the English skills training among many vocational colleges where graduates with English skills can be found to fulfill the need of workforce. The reality, however, is great majority of their employees have a poor performance in listening and speaking, which obviously undermines the prosperity of Chinese trading business abroad.English listening and speaking skills training course in vocational colleges is usually integrated with strategy and practice, which aims at strengthening students’ listening and speaking skills so as to lay a solid foundation for their future career. As for teaching methods, apparently, rooms are to be filled in such as the existing mode, the conception, the definition and the evaluation system. Therefore, a reform on the vocational college English listening and speaking teaching is an argument in its favor.This study begins with a one-year teaching experiments in Jiangxi Technology College between two classes of the non-English major freshmen, analyses data collected through questionnaires conducted both before and after the experiments and puts up with effective measures on reforming of teaching to integrate students’listening and speaking skills under the guidance of out-put driven hypothesis, which serves as a sample for other counterparts in this field.