English Communication Ability Research Articles

Study on How to Improve Tourism English Major Students’ English Communicative Ability in Higher Vocational College

Study on How to Improve Tourism English Major Students’ English Communicative Ability in Higher Vocational College

An Empirical Research on the Effectiveness of the English Communication Ability Cultivation Program for International Applied Talents in Guangzhou College of Commerce

With the acceleration of globalization, Guangdong, as one of China's emerging economic development engines, has an increasing demand for international applied talents, among which English communication ability is particularly critical. This study designed a cultivation program to enhance the English communication abilities of international applied talents in Guangzhou College of Commerce, an institute in Guangdong, which included a series of training courses. The program was implemented over a one-year period with 300 college students. Through empirical research methods, by comparing the English abilities of participants before and after the training, the effectiveness of the cultivation program was verified. The results showed that participants' English communication abilities were significantly improved after systematic training, thereby affirming the positive role of the proposed cultivation program in enhancing the English communication abilities of international applied talents in Guangzhou College of Commerce. This study not only provides useful references for the training of international applied talents in Guangzhou College of Commerce and other institutes in Guangdong, but also offers new perspectives and practical foundations for future research in related fields.

The Effectiveness of Online Speaking Tasks (OST) on English Communication Ability of Thai EFL Undergraduates

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of online speaking tasks (OST) on the English communication ability of Thai EFL undergraduates. The study further examined students’ perspectives toward online oral presentation tasks. A questionnaire translated into the participants’ native language was utilized and distributed to collect data during the pandemic. The data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics, t-tests, and exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Four hundred and eighty-two students from Prince of Songkla University and Walailak University participated in this study. The study reveals that the use of technology is key to improving students’ English communication skills. Discourse analysis further showed that oral presentation tasks helped students improve their English communication skills. Pronunciation activity was the most difficult task students faced. It is strongly recommended that online learning through technology could be incorporated to complement the in-person learning environment.

An Analysis of Audio-Lingual Method and Communicative Language Teaching in Chinese EFL Class

There has been a variety of teaching methods in English teaching. However, there is no doubt that audio-lingual method and communicative language teaching are more suitable for the increasingly close needs of communication between countries, and more conducive to improving students' English communicative ability. In fact, audio-lingual method and communicative language teaching can not only effectively improve students' English communicative ability, but also promote students' logical thinking ability. Therefore, they have been used for teaching English in Chinese EFl class since they were introduced to China. Audio-lingual method and communicative language teaching have been considered to have many advantages, but their disadvantages cannot be ignored. They should be applied for teaching English in Chinese EFL class.

초등교사의 목소리를 통한 TEE 수업 실천에 대한 기반연구

This study is to explore and analyze three current English teachers’ thoughts and attitudes on their TEE practices in elementary English classroom settings. Adopting a qualitative approach, data were collected through interviews, teachers’ journals, and informal communications from the three elementary school English teachers. The analysis of data revealed three main themes: 1) thoughts on effective TEE classes, 2) factors affecting TEE classes, 3) the difficulties of conducting TEE classes. The participants presented their views on effective TEE classes. They also expressed their opinion on the timing and usage of TEE. The teachers said TEE classes are influenced by teachers’ English communication ability and willingness to use English as the instructional language, students’ English proficiency and the class atmosphere. Finally, the participants said that TEE classes were difficult due to the same factors influencing TEE class effectiveness. This study has implications for the direction of TEE implementation in elementary education.

Design and Construction of an Interactive Intelligent Learning System for English Learners in Higher Education Institutions

At present, the traditional teaching mode of English teaching in higher vocational institutions is not compatible with the characteristics and teaching objectives of higher vocational education under the new situation. The rapid development of interactive multimedia technology has brought a new teaching style and experience to English basic education. Interactive teaching mode breaks the shackles of traditional teaching mode and focuses on cultivating students’ English language application ability and communicative ability. By using interactive multimedia technology, to begin with, students can improve their English communicative ability more effectively in several aspects, including stimulating their interest in speaking, creating an English-speaking environment, and mobilizing their subjective initiative, and can organically integrate with the learning of professional knowledge to lay a foundation for employment. This paper proposes an interactive intelligent learning system based on artificial intelligence algorithms. This new English teaching system with the interaction theory realizes the transformation of a new student-centered teaching mode, which is a great contribution to English classroom learning in higher education institutions.

English Proficiency Evaluation Model of College Students by Using Intuitive Fuzzy Information Theory

English is a required university course in China and is a long-standing and consistent undergraduate-level course in China’s universities. It uses English as the medium and language of instruction to promote general education. As the most important content of undergraduate foreign language education, college English has different characteristics from other courses. It is only when its objectives, content, teaching activities, and assessment system fully reflect its unique requirements that it can truly achieve the ultimate goal of teaching this subject. With the advent of the information age, global economic integration and international exchange are deepening in various industries and fields. It is increasingly common for countries to require professionals to have foreign language skills, especially English as an international language. As a result, the demand for deeper English proficiency has become more prominent. In international communication, the English intercultural communication ability of key personnel directly affects the process of international communication, science and technology exchange, and the smooth transition of cultural conflicts in various fields and even determines the ultimate success of project cooperation. In this context, the effective use of English and cross-cultural communication skills is very important. Therefore, our higher education institutions are mainly responsible for training foreign language talents. However, the core problem facing English teaching in Chinese universities is the teaching value orientation. In particular, it seriously restricts the effectiveness of university English teaching. First, the value orientation of university English teaching deviates from the teaching objectives. It emphasizes the basic knowledge and skills of the English language, which makes teaching mainly stay on the foundation of the language. In other words, it is still limited to learning English for the sake of learning English, and the examination-oriented education is obvious, with a preference for instrumental teaching. Secondly, university English teaching focuses too much on the accumulation of English grammar rules and imitation drills, and the teaching style is dull and the teaching context is empty. This approach deviates from the characteristics of English intercultural communication, which makes the gap between the actual university English teaching and the real intercultural communication more and more obvious. Third, university English teaching lacks integration with other teaching values, especially with the humanistic orientation of university English teaching. Nowadays, a single teaching value orientation dominates university English teaching. As a result, the teaching around various English examinations has become a strange phenomenon in college English teaching.

Evaluation of College English Textbooks Based on Computer-Aided Analysis Corpus

In order to improve college students’ perception and acceptance of college English textbooks and improve their professional English communication ability in their future careers, the application of corpus plays a guiding role in college English teaching reform and provides reliable resources for college English language research and learning. This study analyzes the college English textbooks in the corpus based on the comparison of conventional technology assistance and computer technology assistance. Through the comparative analysis of the coupling degree, corpus vocabulary, and students’ perception of teaching materials between conventional technology and computer technology, it can be seen that the evaluation of college English textbooks based on computer-aided analysis corpus is more in line with the needs of college students. College students’ learning ability and their English application ability are improved. The establishment of a corpus of college English teaching materials is of great significance to the research of college English teaching and also has a positive impact on college students’ learning English. With the help of computer technology, college English teaching materials can be closer to the diversified concept of university scholarship. Its content is more in line with the current social demand for talents, provides a better scheme for the cultivation of talents, and is conducive to the development of the country and society.

The Satisfaction of Tourists on Community-based Tourism in My Hoa Hung, Vietnam

The research was conducted to assess the satisfaction of tourists with local community-based tourism services in the My Hoa Hung (MHH) commune in Long Xuyen, An Giang, Vietnam. The research findings will be the scientific and practical basis for effective and sustainable tourism development in MHH. A mixed-method of qualitative and quantitative is used in this study. Tourist local officers and tourist providers were interviewed as key informants. Such samples of domestic and foreign tourists were interviewed using a questionnaire survey to collect and analyze the tourists' satisfaction with tourism services. The result shows that tourists visiting MHH come from different regions and countries, from different age groups, and occupations, so their needs and satisfaction with MHH's community-based tourism services are also very diverse. The study uncovers that tourists are most satisfied with the human factor, especially the enthusiasm attitude of the tourist service provider (reaching 4.07 points), and then environmental landscape (3.90 points), infrastructure (3.90 points), price (3.80 points), and the lowest security- safety factor (3.73 points). However, in each factor, there are still a number of criteria that tourists are not satisfied with, which should be paid attention to for sustainable tourism development, such as environmental sanitation, traffic safety, and English communication ability of tourists' service providers.

Kesiapan Keterampilan Komunikasi Bahasa Inggris Lulusan Lembaga Pelatihan Kerja Pariwisata dalam Bekerja di Bidang Pariwisata

This study is aimed at investigating the readiness of the graduates of Job Training Institute to work in hospitality industry in terms of the English communication ability, which includes the ability to listen, speak, read and write. As samples, 100 graduates from 5 Job Training Institute in Buleleng, Bali were asked to respond to a questionnaire. The questionnaire was analyzed statistically to find out the mean, and deviation standard. The result was then categorized and it was found that the readiness of the graduates can be categorized in the adequate level. Thus, it is suggested that the graduates need to develop and increase their ability in communicating in English, especially in speaking and writing, as productive skills to make themselves ready to work in hospitality industry.

College English Intercultural Teaching Strategies Based on Network Construction under the Concept of Teaching to the Future

With the global integration and the development of science and technology, higher requirements have been put forward for English teaching in China. Society urgently needs English talents with high English cross-cultural communication ability and strong self-learning ability. The concept of “Teaching for the Future” (TTF) advocates the use of technology as a tool for teaching and learning. In the context of the “big data” era, the rapid development of network information technology has spawned a series of new educational models. Based on the SPOC teaching model, this paper constructs a new cross-cultural teaching model for college English and conducts experiments on two selected classes of the same grade in a university. The experimental results show that students increase their interest in learning English culture and enhance their ability to communicate and collaborate. Therefore, the integration of future education and network technology represented by SPOC will play a certain role in promoting the cross-cultural teaching of English in colleges and universities.

Online learning for freshmen: opportunities and challenges in developing English communicative ability

This research had purposes: to identify (1) the challenges; (2) the opportunities taken by the freshmen; and (3) to analyze the ways they might alternately manipulate the challenges to become opportunities to develop their English communicative ability through online learning. The primary data were taken from questionnaires administered to the freshmen of EESP of FKIP UNTAN registered in academic year 2020/2021. Additional data were also taken from an FGD with the class representations. It was done for the reflection of the online learning process. The findings showed the positive values of these factors: (1) the readiness of the institution for the online learning; (2) the readiness of instructors and administrative staff with the online learning, (3) the readiness of freshmen; and (4) the characteristics of the online learning itself, contributed to the opportunities. Meanwhile, the negative values contributed to the challenges. However, the freshmen were able to manipulate the challenging factors alternately to become opportunities as such that most of them managed to survive for their first-year endurance and finally succeeded to improve their English communicative ability and to achieve satisfactory to very satisfactory level of GPA. Therefore, the online learning modality should be continually applicable in the post-pandemic situation.

Brief Discussion on the Cultivation Strategies of Junior Middle School Oral English Communicative Ability

Brief Discussion on the Cultivation Strategies of Junior Middle School Oral English Communicative Ability

On the Interaction Mode of Students in English Classroom Teaching

Contemporary college English teaching must get rid of the outdated teaching model of teachers as the main body, vigorously advocate the interaction model of students, in order to maximize the improvement of students' English communicative ability, but also cultivate students' inner quality and quality. This paper focuses on the theoretical origin of the interaction model between students and students, the specific methods of operation, the possible problems of the model and the teaching effect.

Virtual Collaborative Learning for Improving Students' English Communication Ability in Bansubjaroen and Wangnampu School Loei Thailand

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis efek perlakuan virtual collaborative learning (VCL) dalam meningkatkan kemampuan komunikasi siswa dalam Bahasa Inggris. VCL adalah metode belajar-mengajar sederhana yang mengharuskan siswa untuk bekerja sama dan berdiskusi dalam kelompok atau pasangan secara virtual sehingga mudah dipahami oleh siswa sekolah dasar di Thailand. Dalam penelitian quasi-experimental ini, desain time-series yang digunakan adalah masing-masing tiga kali pre-test dan post-test kepada dua belas siswa dari dua sekolah berbeda di Thailand. Data penelitian yang terkumpul dianalisis secara deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan komunikasi Bahasa Inggris siswa meningkat sekitar 48%. VCL juga meningkatkan kepercayaan diri siswa Thailand dalam berkomunikasi menggunakan bahasa Inggris. Penelitian ini juga menemukan potensi penggunaan VCL karena pelajar diusia muda lebih tertarik untuk belajar secara kolaboratif dengan lingkungan dan teman baru. Abstract: This study was carried out to analyze the effect of virtual collaborative learning (VCL) for enhancing and encouraging students to improve their English communication ability. VCL is a simple teaching-learning method that requires students to work and discuss in groups or pairs virtually which are easy to understand by primary Thai students. In this quasi-experimental research, a time-series design that used three times in each pre-test and post-test were applied to collect data from twelve students from two different schools in Thailand. The data collected were analyzed descriptively. The findings of the study showed that all respondents had improvements in their English communication ability with around 48% of improvements. The VCL was also improved Thai students’ confidence in communicating using English. This study had also found the potential use of VCL as young learners had more interest in learning collaboratively with new environments and friends.

Research on blended teaching of English interpretation in vocational colleges under the background of informatization

With the development of educational informationization, the traditional English teaching model is faced with severe challenges in cultivating students' English communicative ability. In developing educational system, the traditional English teaching model has serious obstacles in developing the communication skills of pupils. The present paper analyses the current situation of English learning in vocational colleges for exploring the intent and application of the Blended English learning approach, to combine traditional classroom learning with online teaching, and to improve the quality of English learning in vocational colleges effectively. The way individuals get information has dramatically changed with the advent of the information era. It also has the wave of higher education information, with the continuously innovative methods of teaching and teaching content. Recently, researchers are concerned about the integration of information technology organically into education system for supporting learning experiences and for encouraging the refinement of new abilities. It is the need of the day to be focused on the education technology. The undertaken study aims at elaborating the significance of Blended teaching English in the present era. There are currently only a few courses using the blended teaching approach. With the continual update of teaching concepts and the latest technology, the focus of forthcoming research is expected to be on the individual development of the blended teaching mode.

Improvement of English Communication Ability with Virtual Scenes Based on Electronic Schoolbag

In the context of global integration, there is a growing need for talents who master English, the lingua franca, and excel in English communication. Therefore, an important goal of English teaching is to enhance the students’ ability to communicate in English. After analyzing the ideas and principles of applying virtual scenes based on electronic schoolbag (e-schoolbag), this paper established an e-schoolbag model with several function modules, and created virtual scenes that seamlessly connect with actual scenes. Next, a questionnaire survey was carried out on students’ English communication ability, and virtual scenes were designed based on e-schoolbag for English teaching. Finally, a comparative analysis was conducted to verify if the e-schoolbag-based virtual scenes can improve students’ ability to communicate in English. The results showed that the main problems of English teaching are the lack of diverse teaching methods, the boring teaching contents, and the overemphasis on examination; students are not good at English communication, due to the absence of a suitable linguistic environment; the e-schoolbag-based virtual scenes can provide students with a favorable linguistic environment, arouse their interests in learning English communication, and significantly improve their English communication ability.

Research on the Reform of Business English Correspondence Teaching from the Perspective of Flipped Class

Business English correspondence teaching focuses on training students’ English communicative ability and helping students to communicate smoothly in the workplace. The class model under the traditional exam-oriented education system cannot meet the actual needs of students. Under the new curriculum reform, English teachers should respect the status of students as the main body of teaching and give full play to the advantages of the flipped classroom model in teaching. This article focuses on the issues related to the reform of business English correspondence teaching from the perspective of flipped classrooms.

Enhancing Oral English Communication Ability of Thai EFL Undergraduates via Interactive Reading Comprehension Teaching (IRCT)

This paper reports on the effectiveness of Interactive Reading Comprehension Teaching (IRCT) in improving the oral English communication ability of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) undergraduates. It is based on a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental study employing IRCT, composed of self–study reading assignments and a structured peer-teaching project. The participants who were purposively sampled to partake in the study included 105 second- and third-year undergraduates from various faculties who were enrolled in a functional reading course, of which 46 was assigned to the control group and 49 was treated as the experimental group. One-on-one and group oral assessments were administered to both groups at the end of the course after IRCT implementation. The results showed IRCT had a very positive effect on the oral communication skills of the students in the experimental group, significantly improving their confidence and motivation toward speaking English. The students’ opinions from a questionnaire also revealed high speaking improvement, reinforced by evidence from close observations, interviews, and student work samples. IRCT was, therefore recommended as a reading-based approach to improving students’ oral English communication.

Research on the Teaching Model of College English Listening and Speaking Based on the Output-oriented Approach

Listening and speaking class is an important way to cultivate students' English communicative ability. The use of "Output-oriented Approach" in college English listening and speaking classes embodies the teaching concept of "Integration of Learning and Use", which can help students clarify their learning goals, improve their learning enthusiasm, and enhance teaching effects. Taking the theme of Festivals as an example, this article elaborates on the teaching design of college English listening and speaking classes based on the "Output-oriented Approach".