TeachingStrategiesofImprvingTietanJuniormiddleSchoolStudents’OralEnglish.docVIP

Teaching Strategies of Improving Tibetan Junior middle School Students’ Oral English I．Introduction English is the world’s most widespread language. The ultimate objective of learning English is to communicating with others freely. Thus, to improving students’oral English proficiency is one of the most important aims of English teaching. However, oral English teaching has always been a weak link in China’s English teaching，let alone the students from minority areas—Tibet. And students` communicative competence is even more far from satisfactory. However, Hu Chundong published the English teaching method in 1990 in which the author emphasizes that speaking, is to evoke students’ interest, foster their positive attitude to English, set up their confidence which can help them communicate in daily life in simple English for establishing the foundation to learn English much deeper later. Besides the teachers have to set up merry circumstance and atmosphere, students are enjoyable and happy to take part in the English speaking activities How to improve the quality of oral English teaching has become an imperative problem for Chinese educators to solve. This article, therefore, by analyzing the problems existing in spoken English teaching in Tibet, aims at putting forward some effective methods for Tibetan junior middle school spoken English teaching. It is hoped that it can help to improve the teaching and learning of spoken English in Tibetan middle school. So as to enhance the students’ interest and confidence of learning English in Tibetan II．Factors?influencing?Tibetan?students’?oral?EnglishIn recent years, quite a few scholars focused on the problems existing in English teaching in minority areas and carried out significant researches. Their findings have significantly promoted English teaching in these areas. Zhong Ling, Wang Ying pointed out in their books many problems and strategies regarding spoken English teaching in minority areas. The authors emphasize tha