A Survey on Students’Oral English Ability in High School

摘要

Oral communicative ability is of great importance to measure students’English ability. However, it long exists that English course of high schools focuses on grammar. In economically backward cities where high schools don ’t treat speaking as a necessity, there is a prevailing phenomenon of high marks but dumb English. Based on the fact above, the author adopts some methods to conduct an investigation among teachers and students in a high school in Shanxi province. After an elaborate collec-tion of data and a comprehensive conclusion of information related to students, the author points out problems existing in stu-dents’oral communication in the Grade Two; by analysis, the author points out some possible reasons for these problems; and lastly, the author puts forward some suggestions to these problems accordingly.