英语教学法开题报告

2011年 12 月 6 日

一 、选题背景和意义

People who have already mastered the language to learn another language called a second language learning, academic known as the "second language acquisition." Many students feel that learning English is time-consuming, inefficient and less effective. Some people jokingly say Chinese students can "read" and "write" English, but is "deaf" and "dumb" to English. To know the reason, a lot of researchers have carried out extensive and in-depth investigation and researches and the results indicate that more or less a very important reason is the absence of a good way of learning. We know that learning strategies in second language acquisition plays an important role. As the linguist Andrew D. Cohen pointed “The success of a language acquirement depends on the learner’s own efforts, one’s own ability in making good use of the leaning chances.”

And also, one important task in foreign language teaching in college is to make the learners to know how to learn. As an old saying goes, “It's better to teach a man fishing than to give him fish.” Therefore, it’s quite important to study the functions of different learning strategies and the development of the learning methods in language learners. The purpose of this study was to report on the differences in frequency of strategy use for EFL learning by the successful and unsuccessful English majors of NCEPU.

二、国内外研究现状

Language learning strategy research has attracted the attention of researchers. The previous researches mainly pay attention to the relationship between language learning strategies and the achievements of the language learners by using these methods through evaluate the language learning strategies used by successful or unsuccessful students, trying to find out some effective language learning strategies and apply them to language learning for both successful language learner and