【正文】 requiring the students to participate in the meaningful munication in the way of learning mother tongue, not only displaying the grammar or glossary knowledge. In addition, the design of learning tasks should provide clear and real language information, so that students can study English in a natural, authentic context, master the language applied. Outofclass activities should be looked as the same as the activities in the real life. We must create an environment similar to real society。s Chicago experimental school, has founded. With 18961903 Dewey Chicago experimental courses in school activities the United States began to criticize the traditional courses. Instead of it are the outofclass educational activities. These activity courses are based on the pragmatism, lasted more than 50 years in American schools, and their affects are profound and widespread. Researches in ChinaIn our country, no matter what stage, these courses have different names, for example, outofclass activities, the second classroom, class activities, integrated social practice and so on. The process of changes is closely related to our theoretical study courses. In history, the development of activity courses is closely related the progress and reform and guiding rules of the government.3. Presentation of the English Teaching The Drawbacks of Traditional Teaching MethodsReviewing the traditional English teaching method, in the past decades we have indeed made the very big progress. But with social progress and development, its shortings are also increasingly revealed.First, because the Chinese test system is imperfect, the traditional English teaching method is just an examinationoriented education model. In this teaching, evaluation of English level is to see the scores. This causes many students to get a high score, but they can not municate with people using English. Secondly, in the traditional English teaching, teacher is the leader, takes the most important part in the classroom. The teacher stands on the platform proposing the questions, analyzing and explaining them, grasping the entire teaching process. And the student is just passive audience, understands the content passively, and records the massive notes. Such teaching method does not have interaction。On Extracurricular Activities and Cultivation of English Communicative Ability of College Students Applicant: XX Supervisor: XX Faculty: XXX May 10, 2008XXX UniversityContents摘 要 iAbstract ii1. Introduction 1 The Significance of Topic 1 Research Methods 12. Theory Research 1 Linguistics Rationale 1 Theory of Communicative Competence by D. H. Hymes 1 Theory of Communicative Competence by Canale amp。 hardly train student’s municative ability and language ability. Third, in teaching, to stress the accuracy of knowledge, teachers usually use Chinese to explain. So students have very little opportunity to municate using English. Obviously, the traditional English teaching is knowledgebased. Compared with the language plastic function, it pays more attention to the form of language and the grammatical function, rather than raises the munication and utilization ability of it. Modern Interest Teaching——CLT Definition of CLTThe content of municative language teaching is mainly on the language functions. Emphasis carries on language teaching in the real scene, advocating teaching process to socialization, and cultivating the ability of application, studying for the purpose of application. While prominent municative language teaching, auxiliary by some grammar, translation, sentence and so on, is based on the goal to promote the culture language municative petence.The core of municative language teaching is to put the teaching process as a process of munication. The basic principles of teaching may be summarized:The language is the information carrier, is the tool of munications. The language teaching must realize munication through each kind of activities.Language utilization39。 cultivate students39。 they are at a loss on how to deal with them, when lacking the appropriate cognitive strategies. The same is true for their social affective strategies. In a word, the lack of strategies gets its way to their dependent language learning. Carrying Out the Outofclass Activities in Scientific and Effective WayHow to carry out the outofclass activities scientifically and effectively? I think we have to pay attention to the following three aspects:First, the socialization of the activity courses. Oral language is the facetoface munication, so information interaction is very important. Students and teachers (or students) talk about the social life which closely related to the hot issues. These topics often can lead to great interest in students, such as: love values, the pros and cons of puters and television, population growth, fake and shoddy, consumption, the increase of tuition, family relations, and some plan of the future. We are very sensitive to these topics. So they often talk about them with highly interest, and the language is rich. It is of practical significance for students to study foreign language munication. Teachers also can organize the language practice, for example: weekend excursions, shopping, piics, and so on, organizing students to listen English news, watching films, videos and television, because these modern media can provide standard English and lots of western cultural. Simultaneously they can mobilize students to use their own eyes and ears. In addition, the organization of specialized foreign language activities is a pretty good choice for students with various forms of English reading contest, speech contest, Eng