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Introduction
1.Background of the Study
It is well-known that language is the vehicle for human communication.The aim of English teaching is to develop the learners’communicative competence,which has been widely accepted by English teaching fields in China and abroad.From an objective perspective,the globalization of economy and information drives people from different countries to communicate more frequently than ever before,and English,as the most frequently used communicative tool,has become more and more important.Naturally,following this trend,English Education has been highlighted since the opening and reform in China,during which college English teaching is even paid more attention to for the sake of directly affecting the quality of talent training.
However,after 30 years’teaching reforms on English education,our students’ English proficiency is still far away from what we have expected.In our country, many English majors can pass TEM-4 and even TEM-8 as they have been trained to be good at grammar and vocabulary,but only a few of them can speak English fluently,let alone communicating with native speakers due to the great lack of doing practical communication.
According to the author’s observation,roughly there exist two reasons for this phenomenon:for one thing,traditional teaching methods,such as grammar-translation method,sentence-text-analysis method and PPP method are typical“teacher-centered methods”,which still pay attention to teaching basic knowledge of language and emphasize practicing pattern drills and imitations mechanically.In such classrooms which are dominated by the teacher,the students have no appealing positivity to take part in the activities.Gradually,they will lose interests in studying English.And more, much more than this,the deep-rooted English language teaching tradition can hardly be changed within a short time;for another,there must be something wrong in the teaching process.It can’t be denied a basic fact that nowadays more and more language teachers have been aware of the disadvantages of the abovementioned methods and try to take different teaching methods.The question is that there is a need to focus language teaching on communicative proficiency and developing their communicative competence while the students are in fact lack of opportunities of training their spoken English in real context and there is a mismatch between what students have learnt in class and real life.These problems directly result in the poor communicative ability which is far from the demand of the times.
The reasons that particular students who only acquire some“Dumb English” after many years’efforts and hard study are no doubt various and multi-dimensional, but the negligence of the information-gap principle by teachers should be the main factor.It is the absence of information gap in the language teaching process that makes it non-communicative.

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