【正文】 ents, municative petence, learning strategies, outofclass activities 1. Introduction The Significance of TopicEnglish is the international language of the mon. In order to learn advanced scientific knowledge in the developed countries, to strengthen economic trade with all countries, the importance of English is easily obvious. However, the teaching methods and teaching effectiveness of our schools in China are worrisome. In the recent years people usually think the English condition of Chinese students as “mute English” or “deaf English”. Their English learning starts from the primary school, with a long period of seven years, eight years, or even 10 years, they still can not use English to make dialogue, can not understand when the Britain and the Americans speak. The reason is that the examoriented education can cultivate students who are only good at examinations, overlooking to raise their overall quality. Outofclass English learning may enable them related knowledge, further their skills. Research MethodsThe main methods for the study are insisting on bining the theory with practice and widely referring to the domestic and foreign literature material. On the basis of this analysis and research, some regular understandings are to be summarized. Put forward proposals to improve.2. Theory Research Linguistics Rationale Theory of Communicative Competence by D. H. HymesIn 1972, Hymes delivered a speech entitled “On municative petence”, put “municative petence” as a highly plex system of the knowledge and skills. It can be summarized as a person’s ability to use the language. It mainly includes four aspects: grammaticality, acceptability, appropriate, and actual operational. The municative petence is including a person39。s duty cannot merely confine to the instruction of language knowledge. His “On municative petence” theory has provided the theory basis for municative language teaching. Theory of Communicative Competence by Canale amp。s TheoryConstructivist learning concept proposed that knowledge is not simply to be taught by teachers, but to be learned by each student in a certain situation (social and cultural background).Students can obtain knowledge and information by making use of other people, using the necessary learning materials through interpersonal cooperation, and taking the initiative to construct meaning. Therefore, the situation, collaboration and conversation and constructing meaning are the four elements in the learning environment. American ScholarAlan Andean amp。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。s smoothness is more important than accuracy. Making mistake is natural and inevitable。 enthusiasm and initiative participation。s duty is to provide and create the real human relations scene, enable students to utilize the language freely and initiatively. The Content and Substance of CLTThe purpose of the municative language teaching is to cultivate students39。 major character and employment need, make sure student39。 teachers should adopt various means to enable students to have sufficient information added, and quickly change into actual munication ability. In addition, the design of English outofclass activities is diversified. It can make teachers to teach through playing, cause the student to bee the truly independent learner gradually.4. Outofclass Activities and Cultivation of Communication Ability The Role of Outofclass Activities in Training of Communication AbilityOutofclass activities are an effective way to develop municative petence. The classroom instruction and the outofclass activities are two important constituents in the foreign language teaching system. The foreign language classroom instruction is the basic teaching form, plays the leading role. However, it is undeniable that outofclass activities play an active role in cultivating municative ability. It can consolidate and strengthen the classroom knowledge, so that the knowledge can be