ABSTRACT
With the development of the economic globalization, China needs to develop students who have the competence both with professional knowledge and English communicative ability. people are paying more attention to the use of a language instead of just learning its grammar. And communicative competence is of more value nowadays. Language is actually a means of communication. There is no doubt that foreign language learning is to cultivate students communicative competence of using a foreign language. However, how to apply communicative approach fully to English teaching practices in China still remains to be solved. And oral English teaching is a very important part of English teaching. The improvement of the teaching eects and the cultivation of students communicative competence are keys to oral English teaching. Communicative language teaching has therefore in recent years become a fashionable term to cover a variety of developments in syllabus design and, to a lesser extent, in the methodology of teaching foreign languages.
