speakingability

How to improve college student’s English speaking ability

As is known to us all, English is the most widely used language in

the whole wide world , and with the openning-up China, English is

becoming more and more important and necessary，nowadays, English

means opportunity and power , especially to us college students. While

somehow for some reason , which may due to the passive teaching

methods and lack of emotional climate of learning situation , our English

speaking ability is very poor. As a college student , and a English major

student , I think, there are three ways to improve our English speaking

ability.

Firstly, practise more. “Practice makes perfect”, we should grab

every opportunity to practise our oral English , this is even more

neccecary when we are facing with the fact that the english speaking

surrounding around us is quite needy. To start with , we should practise

after class ,we cannot only rely on the poor little class time and after all,

there are plenty of spare time for us since we are in college. As to my

situation, I usually watch English movies and copy their accents,

sometimes I read after the titles, it’s really helpful. And singing with an

English song does some good ,too. But, this is not enough, mostly

important is that we need to speak more in class. Some research shows

that because of low and uneven participation during class time, college

sutudents tend to poor at speaking English. Nowadays, English teachers

are mainly using English to teach so as to arouse our intrests in English,

So we should take full advantage of class time to speak, communicate as

much as we can. So we should practise more in and after class and

alwasys carry on never give up.

Secondly , create a good English surrounding . Most students

contribute their poor speaking skills to the lack of climate of english

speaking situation, and complains they don’t have the chance to speak

with English speakers. This is true , but if we do our best ,we can create

our own good learning environment . For example, we can chose a

long-time english speaking partner, and with this partner ,English is the

only tool allowed to communicate we practise a lot , the two of us

will make great progress , it’s a two win theory. There also other

suggestions that we only speak English at our dormitory or even in

classroom.I think , if we do so, the learning of English will become more

interesting and welcoming , with the high enthusiasm, we surely will

become a master of speaking English. In other ways, it’s also essential for

the college to create a good learning environment. Most schools have

English corner where students can only speak English with each other ,

and there they have the chance to speak with foreign teachers. But it do

have a lot of shortcomings, like there are always very few foreign

teachers there ,and with a lot of students surrounding them, you have little

chance to speak with them. Most impottant is that , it is not a study palce

to us but rahter a niosy street where everyone are yelling to sell

my opinion, college should create a English speaking

environment which is more wided and larger where everyone is

participating and has the chance to speak. With the corporation of college

and oueselves we can create a new English speaking “world”.

Finally, combine our speaking ability with writing, reading,and

listenningabilities. These four English abilities are closely connnected

with each other. Without anyone of them , there would be no ability at all.

So in order to improve our English speaking ability , it’s impottant for us

to take great efforts to practice our writing, reading ,and

instance, we can writing while speaking, or listenning while speaking ,try

to do two things a time , you will benefit a lot . With the improvement of

other three abilities, we will have a great progerss in speaking.

Beasides, it’s also suggested that we have a large vocabulary. Although

college students have accumulated a certain extent words when we enter

college, we still can’t use words freely and most of us are lack of words.

Due to poor vocabulary, we often find it hard to express ourselves and

pause a lot during conversation. So we need to large our vocabulary , read

more, write often and listen frequently.

To conclude, learning English is like making a big building, we need to

put in a lot of time, and be patient. Rome was not built in a day .

Speaking , as a main part of the building , needs lots of practice .And in

order to complete the building, we have to conbine reading ,writing and

listenning and have a lot of bricks----words . As long as we comand a

good knowledge of English and practise more ,and with the good English

learning environment created positively by college and students, the

English speaking ability of college students is bound to be improved

greatly.