新学习策略探讨.doc

Abstract English, as a foreign language, has been widely learned throughout China in the past thirty years or so. In the 21st century，English is becoming more and more important in the international communication due to the globalization. At college, all the students, including the English majors and the non-English majors, have to learn English. Both the teachers and the learners have tried a variety of strategies in order to achieve high proficiency of English. Language is a tool for communication and it can only realize its function when it is used in different realistic communicative contexts. Thus，to learn a foreign language successfully means to acquire the skill of using the target language properly and exactly in different social situations. In order to achieve this final aim, productive vocabulary and fluent usage of all grammatical rules in sentences making become especially important in learning a foreign language. And in the development and acquisition of the skill, recitation plays a very important role in China where the learners have their own particular learning background and traditional learning strategy. In China, English can only be learned as a foreign language instead of a second language since there is no English language environment at all. In order to make the learners acquire the language skills effectively, different learning strategies have been used in the past years. These strategies include grammatical translation, direct approach, the situational approach, listening and speaking approach and the communicative methodology. Because of the variety of teaching strategy introduced into China, recitation as the Chinese traditional learning strategy is submerged and abandoned. In this paper, the writer reviews the related language learning theories and the studies of recitation and attempts to explore a learning strategy which is practical for the Chinese English learners at the basic stage in college. That is “extensive recitation”, whi