C1.1 Reading and Presentation on a Topic

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SUMMARY A very common concern among Chinese students is how they can improve their spoken English; even though they seem to be practicing during the day; the true is that they do not feel fully prepared when they are faced with the need to speak the language in a real communicative setting. This is not only a concern for Chinese students; Mexican learners share the same burden. Clearly, achieving communicative competence is a concern learners everywhere share, but it is important to mention what sets successful and unsuccessful learners. Therefore, it is crucial to motivate both kind of learners throughout the two types of motivation. The instrumental motivation in which the learner desires to use the language as a tool to reach some goals like studying abroad or perhaps they would like to acquire a good job. On the other hand the integrative motivation in which “learners may choose to learn a particular L2 because they are interested in the people and the culture represented by the target language group” (Ellis, 1997, p75). The students with an integrative motivation are most likely to be successful. In other words, our job as a teacher is to work with both kinds of motivations at the same time. Showing them to use the language learned in the classroom in the real life. As Stephen Krashen proposed in the Input Hypothesis in 1985. This hypothesis claims that the learners make progress in English acquisition through exposure to comprehensible input; “ understanding input that contains structures at our next stage – structures that are a bit beyond our current level of competence” (Krashen, 1985, p2) The majority of successful Chinese students listen to the right kind of input in which they can understand the main idea but not some parts. Thereupon, the teacher must develop strategies to make it comprehensible also, to motivate learners to use English in and
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