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The author analyzes the existing problems in English for Tourism class and possible reasons why students are not highly motivated in oral communication practice : unconsciousness of the ongoing changing tourism industry, failure in their past learning, fear of losing faces, lack of words , structures and cultural background etc. Aiming to change the present situation and stimulate students’motivation in speaking, she offers some possible ways to the problems based on her perspectives:(1) choose authentic materials relevant to student’s future career;(2)adapt a more current course book which is more authentically tourist-based in content.(3)adapt authentic video and TV tourist based materials related to the experience of tourism.(4)adapt authentic materials to make it more accessible and comprehensible by adding some proper authentic materials from different sources and tasks.(5)organize team activities based on authentic situations without changing the dialogue format in order to maintain redundancy of communication but in a real life focus.
The author analyzes the existing problems in English for Tourism class and likely reasons why students are not highly motivated in oral communication practice: unconsciousness of the ongoing changing tourism industry, failure in their past learning, fear of losing faces, lack of words, structures and cultural background etc. Aiming to change the present situation and stimulate students’ motivation in speaking, she offers some possible ways to the problems based on her perspectives: (1) choose authentic materials relevant to student’s future career; (2) adapt a more current (3) adapt authentic video and TV tourist based materials related to the experience of tourism. (4) adapt authentic materials to make it more accessible and comprehensible by adding some proper authentic materials from different sources and tasks. (5) organize team activities based on authentic situations without changing the dialogue format in order to maint ain redundancy of communication but in a real life focus.