摘 要英语作为一种交际语言在当今世界起着越来越重要的作用，同时英语教学也越来越被社会所关注。为了了解英语专业学生的口语交际能立，我们对浙江科技学院100名英语专业大三，大四学生进行了问卷调查。结果发现学生的口语交际能力亟待提高，反映在教学上就是传统的教学法过分强调了语法教学而忽略了语言在现实中的运用。因此笔者提出将任务型教学等方法运用到教学中去。此外，调查、分析和实验也给英语教学提供了几点启示即：课程设计要以培养交际能力为目标，以学生为中心；同时教学要注重文化、语境意识的培养。关键词：英语专业；口语交际能力；调查分析ABSTRACTNowadays, English as a communicating device is playing a moreand more important role. Therefore, English teaching and learning become matters of considerable social importance. In order to know the present situation of English majors oral communicative competence, a questionnaire survey is made on it.The writer tries to analyze from the students utterances with the contextualization cue as a focus in the process of inference. Whats more, the empirical investigation and analysis and the experiment show us that FLT curriculum should also be both learner-centered and communication-oriented and the teacher should cultivate the students awareness of culture and context through implementing a serious of activities.Keywords：English majors, spoken English communicative competence; investigation and analysisContents1. Introduction. 12. Oral Competence.22.1 Four standards of oral English.22.2 The requirement of English speaking abilities for English majors.43. Survey.43.1 The survey of current status of Spoken English.4 3.2 The results and analysis of survey.54. Problems of cultivating English speaking abilities of English majors.74.1 Problems in the curriculum setting.74.1.1 The limited oral English courses.74.1.2 The problems about the teaching material and evaluation system.84.2 Lack of diversification means in English Language Teaching.84.3 Traditional Culture and Learner Anxiety.94.4 Problems of students in the improvement of English speaking ability.105. Solutions in cultivating English speaking abilities of English majors.115.1 Adjust the curriculum setting.115.1.1 The reform of curriculum setting.115.1.2 Make uniform and standardized teaching materials.125.2 Use of diversification means in English Language Teaching135.3 Activators to Release Students Speaking Potential.155.4 Classroom English for Students.166. Conclusion.17Appendix: Questionnaire.18Acknowledgements.18References .19中国最大的论文知识平台www.lwxiezuo.com1. IntroductionThe ultimate goal of English language teaching is making students improve their English language abilities of thinking and communicating 11.In foreign language teaching, the four basic skillslistening, speaking, reading and writing-have been greatly improved on the part of English major students in the past decades. However, these skills have not been developed at the same rate. Many students understand others English but can not express themselves effectively in English. For the majority of students, speaking still remains the most difficult skill for them to master even after four years study at universities. It is well known that the teaching of oral English has been the weak aspect of our EFL (English as a foreign language) teaching213. The production of spoken Englishlearning to speak English is considered to be one of the most difficult aspects of English learning. It is often the case that even English major students find it hardest to improve their oral English. Although they have strong desire and motivation, in terms of concrete learning and practice, they find it much more difficult than expected. As a result, some students are in the dilemma that they can hardly express themselves freely even when they are juniors or seniors. In that case, their advantage over other non-English majors is weakened. Therefore, how to improve and develop oral English teaching in Chinese schools has drawn attention of both teachers and educators, and it becomes one of the most important issues in EFL teaching field nowadays. To change this situation, more efforts have been made to work out more effective ways to improve students oral English level. Although many researchers and educators have tried to put various teaching theories and methods into practice to improve the teaching of oral English, there is not much progress made so far. Thus, its urgent for teachers to conduct research on other aspects and to find more effective wa