Methods and skills of oral English learning
SOURCE：21stcentury
How can I speak fluent English?
When speaking a foreign language, we should mainly do four things: understanding-answering-asking questions-oral expression.
As long as you train these four basic skills yourself (or find a teacher who can train you), you will speak fluent English.
How should we treat the mistakes we make when speaking English?
You should distinguish between accurate oral training and speaking.
Seek the difference between &”;understood&”; oral communication. If you speak English for communication, most of your mistakes can be ignored. It is important to communicate with confidence (that is not easy! ）。 If you are really communicating, it doesn&;t matter even if you make mistakes, as long as these mistakes don&;t interfere with your communication. All you have to do is correct the mistakes that will hinder others from understanding you when you speak or write.
My listening progress is slow. How can I improve?
The method of practicing language listening should be proactive rather than passive. If the teacher introduces a text with a short comment and asks a question, the students will actively listen. For example, the teacher said, &”;Today I&;m going to read you a story about an accident. After reading it, I want to ask you how it happened. &”; This will encourage students to listen carefully in order to find the answer to the question. If the teacher just says, &”;Please listen to this story,&”; the students have no focus on listening. Their eyes may be open, but their minds are closed.
In the process of practicing listening, I can&;t catch the general idea of the full text. Why?
This is because you focus on listening to words instead of understanding the meaning. Don&;t listen to individual words and then try to translate them into Chinese. You should understand the meaning of the whole text. When listening to English, we should exclude Chinese interference. This is exactly what a good translator needs: they must first understand the meaning of a language and then translate it into another language so that the listener can understand the main idea of the speech.
How to practice answering skills of coherent expression?
I think when you say &”;speaking English intermittently&”;, you may mean speaking in a burst. First of all, you must understand that most oral expressions are the product of communication with others. We seldom make long speeches, which means that we must cultivate our own ability to understand what others say and then answer according to what we hear. The nature of the conversation is different, and the skills required are naturally different. For example: #8226; Exchange information. This is the most common form of communication we have every day. Your friend tells you what he or she likes to do in his/her spare time. You listen carefully and then tell him/her what you want to do in your spare time. That&;s how you answer. In this kind of communication, you usually use the simple present tense a lot. #8226; Narration. Your friend used the past tense to tell you an experience (how he/she missed the bus, then came to work late, what the boss said, and so on).Listen carefully and then tell your own experience. In this kind of communication, you usually use the simple past tense or the past continuous tense. It is easier to tell a story in chronological order: something begins with …, then narrates the text, and finally ends. #8226; Exchange views and opinions. Your friend tells you what he/she thinks of something. He/she first describes a scene, then expresses his/her opinion and gives reasons. Listen carefully, and then give the same answer. Can you state the facts (what you read in the newspaper), give one or several examples, and then explain your opinion? You are likely to use phrases such as In my opinion…, I think…, I agree with what you say, but… and I &”;m afraid I disngree. I think ….
Yes, practice more to improve your spoken English, but don&;t expect to meet foreigners (I think you mean people from English-speaking countries). If so, you will have fewer opportunities to practice speaking English. First of all, it is not easy to meet foreigners often; Secondly, they may not want to be used by you to practice English; Furthermore, if you talk to a foreigner, you may not be clear about your English level and cannot express yourself.
Thought (like the example you mentioned). So, what should you do? You can create opportunities for yourself. You can find people with the same cultural background and facing similar problems to practice your oral English skills. You can attend English conversation classes regularly, practice under the supervision of teachers, or get together with friends who are in the same situation as you to decide a topic of conversation. You can choose some topics that you know or are willing to talk about when you speak Chinese. It is self-evident that when you feel something in your heart, you will find the words you need to express your thoughts.
When listening to English radio, I can sometimes understand, but I can&;t write down complete sentences.
If you are listening to the radio, why do you have to write a complete sentence? The broadcast is usually a piece of spoken English. It&;s not dictation. I think what you said is that you didn&;t catch the meaning of a single word. My suggestion is: when listening to the radio, don&;t try to grasp the meaning of individual words, but concentrate on listening to the complete sentences and try your best to grasp the meaning of the full text. In other words, you must judge the meaning of new words according to the context. Train yourself to listen to the broadcast to understand the meaning of the article, not to listen to the broadcast for individual words.
Listening to sports reports makes it difficult to understand words. Can you introduce some tips?
One of the most difficult skills to master in a foreign language is the ability to understand the natural language spoken by native speakers at normal speed. In addition, in sports reports, the speed of speech is usually fast. Listening to the comments on a horse race or car race, you will find that the commentator can hardly keep up with his own speed, because he has to try to keep up with the progress of the project he sees. You can go through a fewMethods to train your ability to understand the mother tongue speaker. One way is to use &”;audio books&”;. These books are published in the form of tapes, CDs or videos. They mainly include novels or biographies read by famous actors, which are aimed at native speakers who don&;t want to read stories themselves but want to be read by others.
When talking to foreigners who speak English, my tongue often becomes stupid. How to overcome it?
You feel timid in front of strangers and have no confidence in your English. Why? Because you are afraid of being laughed at. This situation will especially affect adults who speak foreign languages. The younger you are, the less scruples you have! ) What should you do? You can convince yourself that it is not a shame to make mistakes in other people&;s languages. Imagine that the situation is reversed, and foreigners are trying to speak Chinese with you. What would you do? Will you laugh at their language disorders or help them? Many English-speaking people, especially those who have been abroad for a long time, understand the situation of English learners trying to speak English, and generally have patience and tolerance to help. Knowing this, you can try to talk with foreigners. Listen carefully and generally understand what they are talking about. You can express your opinion when it&;s your turn to speak. Where you think you may misunderstand, you can ask the person you are talking to to explain it, or you can ask them to correct one or two key mistakes. So you will gradually build up your confidence.
When the teacher told us a story in English, I couldn&;t remember the Chinese meaning. What should I do?
Don&;t think about Chinese in your mind. When listening to English, you should listen with English thinking, and don&;t try to find a Chinese equivalent for every English word you hear. If you persist stubbornly, you won&;t understand the meaning at all, and you won&;t hear any English. Don&;t stick to a single word, but concentrate on trying to understand the meaning of the whole phrase, sentence and paragraph. When you hear something you don&;t understand, try to deduce the meaning from the context. After listening to an English article, recall what it is about and test yourself.
Can you recommend some more vivid and non-virtual spoken English books to us?
A puzzling question! &”;Fictitious&”; is a grammatical form rarely used in English. Maybe you want me to recommend English recordings that sound like real English, not like grammar books. If so, I suggest you consult the English Language Teaching Catalogue of the publishing house, find the &”;reading materials&”; section, and choose audio books (that is, story books on tape). Choose the grade you think is suitable, and then choose the topic you like to order. If your English level is high, you can buy or borrow a &”;audio book&”;, which is an original novel read by an actor.
How to deal with our mistakes when speaking English?
Errors only constitute problems when they seriously affect communication. If the person you are talking to understands most of what you say, you have done well, and it doesn&;t matter much how many mistakes you make. If you like, you can ask someone with a higher English level to correct it for you, but it is usually boring and interferes with communication. If withIt&;s good that the person you talk to can understand what you mean, and you shouldn&;t worry about mistakes at all.
How to avoid &”;idiomatic English&”;
The reason why you always translate Chinese into English is that your oral skills have not reached the level that makes you confident. You need to master four skills before taking part in a conversation. They are:-Understanding-Answering-Asking-Speaking, so you should focus on improving these skills: training yourself to understand spoken English, training yourself to ask questions, training yourself to answer questions, and finally speaking English. After you have mastered the first three skills, you can naturally master the last (and most difficult) one: speaking.
I can understand what I saw in the book, but I can&;t remember when I want to express my thoughts.
You are right: it is easier to understand spoken English or articles than to make others understand what you say or write. This is because understanding is a receptive skill, while speaking and writing is creation. We can understand far more than we can express, and the same is true when we use our mother tongue. After you accept this reality, you should train yourself to express your thoughts in languages that you can recall immediately. When you can&;t find the right words (you may understand them when you see or hear them, but you don&;t need them when you need them), you have to use other words to express your meaning. Keep listening to English and read as much as possible. In the long run, it will improve your speaking and writing level.
Compilation of oral English learning methods
Yin Yuanyuan: Teacher of Listening and Speaking Department of Guangzhou New Oriental School.
I collected and translated some oral English learning methods from the Internet for your reference. However, please remember that the method is the method, and it can&;t replace hard study in the end. Therefore, if you want to practice a pure and authentic English, please use an effective learning method that suits you and keep practicing step by step!
(1) We study spoken English so as to make oral communications, so this order of importanc: Fluency, Accuracy, and Appropriateness. That is to say, we have to pay more attention to practical communicating ability instead of only laying emphasis on the grammatical correctness.
(1) The purpose of learning spoken English is to communicate with others, so the important order of several elements in spoken English should be fluency, accuracy and appropriateness.
In other words, we must pay more attention to the practical communication ability rather than just emphasize it.Grammatical correctness.
(2) Try to find some partners practicing oral English together and English corner is a good place as where we may exchange English study experience, widen our sight and improve interest in English. By the way, Guangzhou New Oriental School holds an English Corn:00 to 9:00 at Haizhu No. 8 classroom. One of the teachers in our department will be the MC at the English Corner. Welcome every friend who is crazy about learning English!
(2) Find study partners to practice oral English together. English corner is a good place, where we can not only practice oral English, but also exchange English learning experience, broaden our horizons and improve our interest in English learning. In addition, Guangzhou New Oriental School holds an English corner in the eighth classroom of Haizhu teaching ar:00 to 9:00 every Wednesday night. The listening and speaking department will arrange a teacher to be the host of the English corner. Welcome all friends who love English learning to attend!
(3) If it’s not easy to get English partners or having little chance to attend an English corner, then we have to create an English environment ourselves by speaking English to ourselves. For example, you can talk to yourself about what you have seen or what you have done.
(3) If we can&;t find a study partner or have little chance to participate in the English corner, then we must create an English environment by speaking English to ourselves.. For example, you can describe what you see to yourself and dictate what you are doing in English.
(4) This method is very effective and easy to insist on–interpreting Chinese-English novels or books. First of all, we read the Chinese parts and try to interpret them into English sentence by sentence, and then compare our interpretation with the original versions in the novels or books after finishing one small paragraph’s interpretation, so that we can find out the mistakes, shortcomings and progresses in our interpretation.
(4) One method is very effective and easy to stick to, and that is: interpreting Chinese-English novels or other reading materials. First of all, we read the Chinese part first, and then interpret it directly into English sentence by sentence. After completing a short paragraph, we read the corresponding English part in the book and compare it with our interpretation. In this way, we can immediately find the mistakes, shortcomings and progress of our interpretation.
[Teacher Yin Yuanyuan&;s prompt:]
Please note: when choosing the interpretation method for oral English training at first, try to choose simple English reading materials first, and the number of new words should be controlled within 20%, and a large number of them should be done. It is not obvious to do only one or two articles. Recomm《新东方英语》, 《英语世界》, 《英语文摘》, etc.
At the beginning, interpretation training may be slow and time-consuming, but please insist that it is an d process from the overall training point of view. When you enter the advanced stage of training, please do timing exercises to speed up your reaction and improve your oral fluency.
The common problem for adults to learn English is their poor memory, so they are often unable to do retelling exercises or recite texts. Or because of the small vocabulary, it is too difficult to interpret directly, so recommend an effective method to solve this problem: first learn the English part and understand it thoroughly, then look at the Chinese translation, and then interpret the Chinese translation back to English. Doing so is equivalent to practicing both retelling and interpreting, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone! The benefits of such training are reflected in the following seven aspects, :.
oneYou can practice your oral English as long as you want.
2. A senior teacher has always pointed out your shortcomings and mistakes.
3. Training has a wide range of topics, which can break through our own thinking. For example, we always like to talk about topics we are familiar with, so we are always practicing the same language, and our progress is of course slow.
4. Choose novels, humorous stories or good short articles to read, so that we have enough interest to stick to it.
There are some idiomatic English usages that we turn a blind eye to when learning English texts directly, which are discovered by this method.
6. I was deeply impressed by what I learned and the mistakes I made. This means that we have been practicing Chinese-English translation, and many English translations have been painstakingly suppressed, so we are quite impressed, which is much more impressive than learning English texts directly.
After a lot of practice, you will feel that there is nothing you can&;t translate, your translation level has been greatly improved, and your oral expression has been greatly improved!
(5) Interpreting what you hear and Changing Rol: Three people make a group, imagine a real interpreting sc: one speaks Chinese, one speaks English acting as the foreigner, and one acts as interpreter. Then change roles after a while. This is a good interpreting training method and is good for studying from one another. I n addition, it may improve the responding ability and speed of students. The advanced stage of this method is simultaneous interpretation. We can try to interpret what we hear into English or Chinese when we listen to the radio, watch TV, or have a meeting.
(5) Listening-translation method and role exchange: a group of three people, simulating actual translation. One person speaksChinese, one speaks English, plays a foreigner, and one acts as an interpreter. Swap roles after practicing for a while. This is a very good interpretation training method, and it is also a good way to learn from each other and learn from each other&;s strengths. At the same time, the reaction speed and ability can be greatly improved. The advanced stage of this method is simultaneous interpretation. We can interpret what we hear into English or Chinese when listening to the radio, watching TV or having a meeting.
(6) Oral composition and 3-minut: This method is suitable for intense training. Making an oral composition about a certain t opic for one minute the first time and record the composition on tape at the same time. Then listen to the composition and find out the room for improv ement. Then make the same composition for two minutes for the second time and also record it and listen to it. And at last repeat the above-mentioned f or three minutes. It’s an efficient advanced training method.
(6) Oral composition and 3-minute training method: This method is suitable for intensive training. First of all, find a topic to do a one-minute oral composition and record it at the same time. Then listen to the tape and find out the shortcomings and mistakes. Do another two minutes of oral composition on this topic, record and listen again (and continue to find out the shortcomings and progress). Finally, repeat what you have practiced above and make a three-minute oral composition. This is advanced oral training, and the effect is good.
(7).Retelling exercis: Retell some articles or English stories in our own words. It’s the simplest and most efficient method of practicing spoken English.
(7) Retelling exercise: Retell some articles or English stories in your own words. This is the simplest and most effective.Oral English learning methods.
(8) If possible, we may read some English tongue twisters loudly and quickly with one or two cakes of candy in our mouth (just as the Chinese cross-talk actors do.) to train our oral cavity muscle and tongues suitable for English pronunciation.
(8) If possible, we can put one or two pieces of candy in our mouth and read some English tongue twisters loudly and quickly (just like crosstalk performers practice) to train our oral muscles and tongue flexibility to meet the requirements of English pronunciation.
[Teacher Yin Yuanyuan&;s prompt:]
As a phonetic teacher in New Oriental, I think this is a very effective phonetic training method. Because, English from Germanic language family and Chinese from Sino-Tibetan language family are very different in spelling and pronunciation. Chinese is an ideographic character, and from its spelling, we can only see the meaning of the word from its expression, but we can&;t read it, for example, Hugh-a person &”;resting&”; by the tree. English, on the other hand, is a kind of phonography. You can spell it out from its spelling, but you really can&;t know its meaning, for example, English. Phonologically, Chinese is a front-voiced language, while English is a &”;back-voiced&”; language, and their vocalizations are different. Therefore, the oral cavity resonance position and tongue position are very different from Chinese. If you want to speak English well, you must pronounce both vowels and consonants in English in place, pronounce vowels well, and pronounce consonants well. Training with this method will greatly improve the flexibility of your mouth and tongue, and let you improve your English pronunciation faster and better!
These are the oral English training methods that I have collected and proved by practice, hoping to help the friends who love English to practice oral English.
Actually, spoken English is not very difficult. According to my experience, the way for me to learn spoken English well is:
1, a lot of reciting, reciting classic model essays, all kinds of articles with good English, the more reciting, the stronger the expressive ability,
2, oral English, I think, is dying, knowing nine W&;s and one H&;s, asking more questions, and having an expression from others, you need a variety.
3, listen to English materials or tapes, imitate authentic pronunciation and intonation, the article must be read and recited.
4, do more questions similar to sentence pattern conversion, understand the thinking of foreigners.
5. I often go to the English corner. I won&;t come back until there is no one. I usually talk to myself more, watch more foreign novels and movies, and expand my reading.
One way I go is, American pronunciation, BRITISH EnglishEnglish, my spoken English is casually talked in the English corner.
I also often go to the English corner of the website, ICQ. Foreigners in our school all know my name. Boldly look for
Foreigners chat, take part in English activities, such as oral English competitions, and teach others to learn English. I have benefited a lot from being a tutor for half a year. I hope I can give some help to improve my oral English so as to make use of my modest efforts. Only by studying English hard can you get a good method. Be shameless and know how to waste time.
Thick-skinned, spend time on communication. Say more.
Of course, self-study depends on self-awareness, and there will still be some defects in pronunciation! If you want to learn pure English, you should sign up for a class after laying a good foundation for systematic pronunciation training! I believe no one likes to listen to a foreigner&;s dialect Mandarin, and the same can be proved!
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