【正文】 e petence. Of the four basic language skills, speaking is very important because it helps students to municate with each other. However, too much attention paid to the national entrance examination made students in high school fall far behind the requirement of speaking. This paper examines the problems of current oral English teaching in high school, and discusses the application of municative language teaching in oral teaching, and gives some suggestions..Key word：Communicative Language Teaching。t pay attention to the training students oral English, for the sake of finish the teaching objectives and cope with all kinds of usual test, Almost each lesson is used to explain the text, work the exercises, and they focus on vocabulary, sentence patterns and grammar explain, Ignoring the students39。 therefore, the aim of learning a language is to acquire the petence to conduct effective munication in the target language. Meanwhile, the structure and the function of the target language should be equally treated. Principles for applying the municative language teaching in English teachingAmong the numerous principles of municative language teaching, there are two pieces of principles, which are more important in China’s English teaching.First, Create more realistic situation. The current teaching methods don’t emphasize the real world situation and fail to cultivate students’ spontaneity. Artificial conventions and mechanical questionandanswer sequences fall short of the flexible, spontaneous kind of municative interaction required for performing a task with the context of situation relevant to the real world. Such classroom teaching forces learners to talk about things that are not of their own choosing and not based on their actual needs. Second, the class should be studentscentered. Communicative approach makes learners to be themselves and requires the classroom instructor to play a secondary role, trying to keep focus on the students not on him and encouraging students to municate among themselves. The teacher should allow full scope for his students’ spontaneous learning process and give more opportunities for the students to talk, perform and express their own ideas. In this way, the students will no longer feel inferior. Gradually, they will form a positive attitude toward English studying. The role and relationship between the teacher and students are fixed by the studentscentered principle. It is to say that the students are the main part in munication, while the teacher helps the students to municate. Three stages of municative language teachingCommunicative language teaching is a good way to improve the students’ ability of speaking, and it is thought highly by more and more people. Communicative teaching is a very plex process. The teacher can divide the students’ learning into three stages:In the first stage, the teacher is a sort of information he selects material to be learned and presents it so that the students can understand it and remember it as clearly as possible.The second stage is the practice stage. Mere the students do the talking organized from cue by the teacher this practice should be meaningful and memorable.The third stage is often omitted by many teachers. It is a production stage。 it doesn’t mean the roles of a teacher can be absolutely ignored. Because of the influence of traditional teaching, students are not used to play the center roles, so it is important for teacher to play good roles in helping them. The teacher can play several roles in the class: he directs the class activities, designs the scene of munication, and also he is a consultant guiding the munication and solving the problems in munication. At the same time, the teacher should be a partner of munication he takes part in the students’ munication. Of course, the students should throw themselves into munication actively. They can learn the target language through munication, and improve their listening and speaking ability through munication. Besides teachers are researchers and learners themselves, who contribute in terms of appropriate knowledge, try to use the new methods, do the rethinking and summarize experience from the classroom. the class teaching mode Class should be studentcentered. Teachers should deal well with the relations among the demonstration, instruct and selfstudy of students. Some municative activities will be designed around a certain subject and general knowledge. Students will feel, understand and apply language in the happy activities. Through doing things by using language students’ interests, feeling of achievement, selfconfidences and municative motivation are developed. up a pleasant and harmonious atmosphere in classroom Weir has proposed some principles in designing a municative testing as follows: [23](a) Testing should be interactive。 Wang ming Liang. Why do Nonnative Teachers of English Find it Difficult to Accept the Communicative Approach [J]. 前沿，1994,10, P80[5]Geoff Thompson,1996,Some Misconceptions about Communicative Language Teaching， E LT Journal Volume 5 0／1,Oxford University [6 ]Xiaoqing Liao,2004,the Need for Communicative Language Teaching in China, ELT Journal Volume 58／3 ,Oxford University． [7]Richards amp。(e) The test should be based on an explicit a priori specification5. ConclusionEnglish language teaching is an interdisciplinary subject for which human munication is an important source. The municative language teaching is no doubt a manifestation of how this theory