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• TITLE: Integrated Teaching Model for Undergraduate English Majors’ English Public Speaking Course in China

  AUTHORS: Xuwei Li

  KEYWORDS: English Public Speaking Course, English Major, NLP, Cooperative Approach

  JOURNAL NAME: Creative Education, Vol.9 No.3, March 27, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Recently more and more universities in China design public speaking course in English for the undergraduate English majors. This course can facilitate the students’ oral presentation skills as well as critical thinking improvement. In practice, the outcome of public speaking course is not satisfactory for most students feel anxious to speak in a foreign language and the traditional teacher centered teaching model is not sufficient for the enhancement of students’ achievement in such oral skill focused course. In this paper,the author investigated a new and creative teaching model to activate students’ motivation and forester their performance in English public speaking course for English majors. This model combinesneuro-linguistic programming and cooperative approach to create an integrated model. NLP can help recreate a positive and friendly atmosphere for students’ success in English public speaking course and cooperative approach is the learning model which emphasis that a group of students to learn together to optimize the learning environment and reach the learning goals. The newly designed integrated model can be an effective model for a valuable and productive English public speaking course.