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English is the most widely distributed language in the world. With more and more international cultural exchanges, there are a huge number of people who learn English as a second language. English has always been the most popular second language in China. International language tests such as IELTS and...

In order to keep up with the requirements of College English Diagnostic Test System developed by our team, after analyzing the pros and cons of current test paper generating algorithms, the MCKP algorithm, which is based on maximum coverage of knowledge points (MCKP), is proposed. In this paper, the...

In recent years, as the domestic economy is growing continuously and steadily, China’s international competitiveness is also increasing. China is playing an important role in the world development. More and more big corporations enter into China. The Ministry of Education has reformed CET, which is vital...

At present, most universities and colleges in China have enrolled students majoring in Less Commonly Taught Languages, which refer to languages except English. English as a lingua franca has been recognized by people all over the world. Therefore, students majoring in Less Commonly Taught Languages have...

It is well-known that the computer and the Internet technology offers numerous advantages to English language teaching and learning. This paper aims to testify the efficiency of English language reading teaching in a university in Northeastern China as well as prove how to help college students promote...

Computer assisted teaching (CAT) has been widely used in College English Teaching (CET) in China, while whether CAT is conducive to its classroom climate finds few studies. Based on the data obtained from interviews and focused description, this paper attempts to evaluate the classroom climate in College...

China uses Chinese as the official language, while most students take English as a compulsory subject since senior high school to the university level. However, the language education institution is not completely rational. In this paper, a comparison between Japan and China in second foreign language...

Having a long history, testing has played an important social and educational role in China. Nowadays, there are many large-scale English tests designed locally, including the College English Test (CET), the National Matriculation English Test (NMET), the Test for English Majors (TEM), the Graduate School...

Based on Dynamic Systems Theory, this study investigated the developmental trajectories of four Chinese EFL learners’ oral proficiency and explored the dynamic correlation among complexity, accuracy and fluency used for measuring oral proficiency. The four EFL learner’s speaking performance was traced...

With massive storage of language information, high-speed and stable computer retrieval mode, intuitive and mass operation of language observation interface, corpus linguistics has made great influence on college English teaching in the context of educational informationization. Corpus-aided language...

Test fairness is a compulsory factor besides the validity and reliability in English language testing. The major objective of this paper, with combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, is a preliminary effort to research the fairness of passage of CET-4 based on the validity. And the tokens...

Recently all-English teaching has been widely adopted in most universities in China. This study investigates the following two questions. First, does all-English teaching improves students’ academic performance? Second, if it improves students’ academic performance, is the effect the same for students...

This paper utilizes meme theory as reference in order to rethink about CET 4 writing teaching pattern. As an essential part of cultural replication factors, language has its own rules in reproduction and transmission. Those laws that language obeys can be properly applied to writing teaching process....

In non-English major college English teaching in China, cultural introduction is attached much importance to but cultural output is greatly ignored, so cultural aphasia phenomenon is serious, affecting the effects of spreading Chinese culture to the world. Based on the question types reform of CET 4...

College English education is the focus of the University's basic course teaching, it has practical characteristics, currently, the classroom teaching approach has problems such as unreasonable teaching contents and monotonous teaching methods and classroom teaching interaction is not good, cause the...

To establish whether Successful-Intelligence-based instructional mode may arouse students’ interests in college English learning and other positive influences on their English academic achievements, this paper, aiming at the cultivation of students’ analytical, creative, and practical intelligence, highlights...

This paper explores the correlations between Chinese college students’ English learning achievements (ELA) and their influencing factors, including intrinsic motivation (IM), External motivation (EM), External regulation (ER), and self - perception of competence (SCS)，in a bid to analyze further the...

Since the reform of CET-4 (College English Test Band-4) and CET-6 (College English Test Band-6) in 2013, paragraph translation has become a difficult part for most students. The traditional translation teaching model of “explaining translation theories and comparing reference versions” no longer meets...

The paper, based on the theory of discourse cohesion from Halliday and Hasan, is to analyze the reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction of passage reading in CET-4. The analysis indicates that the tests of passage reading in CET-4 is characterized by semantic categories and syntactical functions,...

The College English Test (CET), comprising the CET-4 and CET-6 exams, serves as a critical tool for assessing English proficiency across the nation and has become an essential benchmark for the enrollment and graduation of university students. Recognizing the significance of reading in the mastery of...

The primary purpose of this paper, based on the test paper from 2016 to 2018, is to provide the evidence to demonstrate the validity of the cloze test in CET-4. The quantitative analysis is applied to illustrate that the figures of type-token ratio (TTR) account for the validity of blanked cloze testing...

This paper investigates the relationship between the level of high-frequency vocabulary and CET-4 scores of 302 first-year non-English majors of a normal university in China along both the receptive and productive dimensions. The results indicate that (1) students’ high-vocabulary size is somewhat restricted...

This paper explores the performance of English teaching at university (ETU) in China and its influencing factors based on literature review and questionnaire analysis. The results of the questionnaires showed that the ETU performance in China could be promoted, which could be proved on the average scores...

The English learning level about non-English majors was divided into three levels which are primary level (College entrance examination scores), secondary level (each semester final exam scores) and final level (CET-4 scores). The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between three levels...

This paper attempts to address, through qualitative research, the strategies to remotivate Chinese vocational students in English language learning. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed to share the expectations. The study results showed that the same group of students (n = 52) were tested College...

English teaching has always been the focus of education, Chinese College English Test Band 4(CET-4) is an important benchmark to test the college students' English proficiency in China. In recent years, CET-4 and CET-6 exam questions were drastically changed, test questions of CET-4 and CET-6 are basically...

Since the reform of the CET-6 in 2013, a major change has taken place in the type of translation part, shifting from the original single sentence translation to Chinese-English paragraph translation. The subjects and vocabularies are more closely related to Chinese culture. Based on such a change, the...

The present study investigated the general situation of university students' second language writing anxiety and its influence on CET-4 writing score by taking 150 non English major students in Jilin Agricultural University as the research subjects. Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) developed...

CET 4, a national English teaching test hosted by Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, is now a large-scale nationwide criterion-referenced test for non-English majors. Reading comprehension, as a typical type in English test, its validity has captured most people's attention. Thus,...

Energy coupling realized by contactless magnetic tank transformer as new approach of rotator excitation in synchronous machine could replace brushes and slip rings of traditional excitation. For new contactless energy transmission(CET) system, its research about energy-efficiency quality still remains...

Boron diffusion is a conventional process in N-type silicon solar cells fabrication. The boron-rich layer (BRL) usually formed on the surface of silicon wafer in boron diffusion process, and the effective carrier lifetime can be sharply reduced by the BRL. In this paper, three methods were used to remove...

Through the important position of college English course in the teaching of navigation majors, the author combines the teaching practice to analyze the current situation and existing problems of college English teaching in navigation majors. Based on this, the CET formula is proposed to improve the professional...

In recent years, there are some reforms in the CET-4, and the latest one in Dec. 2015 has made great changes in the listening test. These reforms change the CET-4 from a content-center test to an ability-center test. The aim of the reform is to cultivate students' comprehensive language application skills....

This study investigated the level of writing apprehension and its triggering factors during the College English Test Brand 4 (hereinafter referred to as CET-4) for university students through a questionnaire survey of 150 students from Hebei Agricultural University, and compared whether there were differences...

The good grasp of vocabulary was beneficial to the improvement of learning of English in all aspects. This paper collected, analyzed and categorized the vocabulary usages in 30 English compositions for test of CET-4 randomly chosen from the Corpus of CLEC. The research found that spelling mistakes and...

Guidelines on College English Teaching, released by China's Ministry of Education, guides the future college English teaching. In this document, English for Specific Purposes is regarded as one of the 3 key curriculums. It is under this background Kunming University explores the feasibility of ESP education...

Autonomous learning ability has long been a hot issue, which is also one of the objectives of college English teaching (CET) reform being carried out in most Chinese universities and colleges nowadays. The paper puts forward a few personal views on how to cultivate students’ autonomous learning ability.

Metacognition, as a kind of deep cognitive activity, is the learner's self-monitoring of their own learning process, the knowledge and ability of the learner to take strategic actions for the effective organization of learning activities, and the concrete ways of using the strategies in the specific...

In the year 2011, China Administration issued The Cultivation Program of Talents of Special Requirements in which 5 privately owned colleges and universities are approved to recruit postgraduates. Since then, many independent colleges (ICs) and privately owned colleges (POCs) began to apply for the authority...

This paper studied feasibility and achievements of ordinary college and university non-English major master candidate hierarchical English teaching and proposed the reform direction based on the 3-year hierarchical teaching practice centering on master candidates enrolled in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and the...

Objective: To explore the effect of blended teaching mode in listening course of college English. Methods: The overall sampling method was adopted, three classes of 2017 grade, 1-4 c class, pharmaceutical drugs in the 2 & B, image A class were selected as the research objects, blended teaching mode was...

College English Teaching and Learning Reform aims to cultivate students’ comprehensive abilities, especially in listening and speaking. With the dramatic development of computer, global networks and information technology, foreign language teaching under interactive network platform has gradually become...

The instructors should adjust their professional English teaching strategy, as the graduate students' English ability keeps increasing year by year. Generally, students are better at reading and writing, compared to listening and speaking, which is typical of Chinese students. Most students could only...

This article explores the correlations between Chinese college students’ English achievements and their learning strategies, learning interests, and learning anxieties, in a bid to analyze further the differences made by the effects of respondents’ individual variables (gender, age, expertise, and allowance)...

As one of the basic principles in communicative language teaching (CLT), Information-gap Principle (IGP) is also attached great importance to by some college English teachers nowadays in China. This paper has concentrated on expounding the roles of IGP in college English teaching (CET). The Information-gap...

Learning motivation has been a hot issue in the sphere of foreign language acquisition for years. Studies proved that motivational factors are critical to the achievement of language learning. In order to have a better understanding of students’ English learning motivation and how their motivation impact...

This paper, based on the scholar, Fraser’s theory on classifications of discourse markers, targets CET-4 passage reading from 2014.6 to 2019.6 and analyzes the characteristics of discourse marker application. The results present that topic markers, contrastive markers, elaborative markers and inferential...

Based on characteristics of applied talents cultivation in application-oriented university, the purpose of present study is to improve students English language ability (ELA). It rebuilt the curriculum of integrated English course and developed a model of REPE (reconstruction + e-platform + process evaluation)....

A well-functioning intellectual property (IP) regime plays an important role when the country pursuits innovation and low-carbon society as well. Though such a proposal can be applied to any nation or society, China provides an excellent experiment for the emerging economy countries in the transforming...

English writing is a tough course for post-graduate students in science universities. Traditionally the students are instructed and trained in order to pass a national examination, CET-6. Most students just recite writing models of argumentative, enjoying no right to do creative writing. But an investigation...