| ABSTRACT | 第1-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| INTRODUCTION | 第10-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE LITERATURE REVIEW | 第12-16页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Communicative competence at home and abroad | 第12页 |
| ·Previous Studies of Spoken English Teaching | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Current Situations of Spoken English Teaching at Senior Middle Schools | 第13-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL BASES | 第16-28页 |
| ·Historical Overview of the Development of Communicative Competence | 第16-22页 |
| ·The Definition of Communicative Competence | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Different Views of Communicative Competence | 第18-22页 |
| ·Chomsky’s Study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Hymes’Study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Widdowson’s Study | 第20页 |
| ·Canale and Swain’s Study | 第20-21页 |
| ·Bachman’s theory of Communicative Competence | 第21-22页 |
| ·Second Language Acquisition | 第22-25页 |
| ·The development of SLA | 第22-23页 |
| ·Relationship between input and output in SLA. | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Application of SLA to English Teaching and Learning | 第24-25页 |
| ·The features of spoken English | 第25-28页 |
| CHAPTER THREE INVESTIGATION AND DISCUSSION | 第28-35页 |
| ·The objective of the experiment | 第28页 |
| ·The subjects of the experiment | 第28页 |
| ·The results of the experiment | 第28-30页 |
| ·Analysis and discussion | 第30-35页 |
| ·Paying too much attention to linguistic competence | 第30-31页 |
| ·Lacking the knowledge of foreign language culture | 第31-32页 |
| ·Mainly Teacher-Centered English classroom teaching | 第32-35页 |
| ·teacher-centered classroom activities | 第32-33页 |
| ·Inadequate classroom interactions | 第33-35页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE PROBLEMS IN SPOKEN ENGLISH TEACHING AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AT SENIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL | 第35-38页 |
| ·Problems of Spoken Language teaching | 第35页 |
| ·The Causes of Students’Lack of English ability in Communicative Competence | 第35-36页 |
| ·Relationship between Reciting, Listening and Speaking | 第36-38页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING | 第38-45页 |
| ·Suggestions to the Teachers | 第38-44页 |
| ·Teachers’development | 第38页 |
| ·Strategies of management of communicative activities | 第38-40页 |
| ·Cultivating the Students’Confidence | 第40-41页 |
| ·Correction and Encouragement | 第41-44页 |
| ·Suggestions to the Students | 第44-45页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第45-47页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第47-50页 |
| APPENDIX QUESTIONNAIRE | 第50-52页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第52-53页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第53页 |