ABSTRACT
Nowadays, English as a communicating device is playing a more
and more important role. Therefore, English teaching and learning become matters of considerable social importance. In order to know the present situation of English majors’ oral communicative competence, a questionnaire survey is made on it..The writer tries to analyze from the students’ utterances with the contextualization cue as a focus in the process of inference. What’s more, the empirical investigation and analysis and the experiment show us that FLT curriculum should also be both learner-centered and communication-oriented and the teacher should cultivate the students’ awareness of culture and context through implementing a serious of activities.
Keywords：English majors, spoken English communicative competence; investigation and analysis
Contents
Introduction 1
2. Oral Competence 2
2.1 Four standards of oral English 2
2.2 The requirement of English speaking abilities for English majors 4
3. Survey 4
3.1 The survey of current status of Spoken English 4
3.2 The results and analysis of survey 5
4. Problems of cultivating English speaking abilities of English majors 7
4.1 Problems in the curriculum setting 7
4.2 Lack of diversification means in English Language Teaching 8
4.3 Traditional Culture and Learner Anxiety 9
4.4 Problems of students in the improvement of English speaking ability 10
5. Solutions in cultivating English speaking abilities of English majors 11
5.1 Adjust the curriculum setting 11
5.2 Use of diversification means in English Language Teaching 13
5.3 Activators to Release Students’ Speaking Potential 15
5.4 Classroom English for Students 16
6. Conclusion 17
Appendix: Questionnaire 18
Acknowledgements 18
References 19
