2. Literature Review

2.1 Spoken English teaching

With the development of society, globalization has become an irresistible trend of history, and Oral English has become more and more important in interpersonal communication. How to improve oral English ability has become the urgent problem of educators. The new curriculum standard put forward a clear goal, on the development of students’ oral English level, and the target of the development of students’ oral English ability is required to rise to a new height. Therefore, it is very important to develop student’s oral English. Oral English teaching as a different from a general examination courses, needs to research how to make the course more interesting, and more efficient. No matter what kind of spoken language you learn, you have to put efforts to learn well in pronunciation, vocabulary, sentences, listening, thinking, and cultural. So English teachers should help students learn all these matters to improve their oral English. 

Written by Zhang Jinghua, the paper “the input and output of the oral English teaching” is focusing on the function of input and output in oral English teaching. The paper analyses the present situation of oral English teaching. It stresses that we should base on our national situation in combination with students’ practical level and correctly handles the relationship with input and output so that the best teaching effect can be attained (Zhang Jinghua 94). The conclusion of this paper: based on national conditions, according to students’ actual situation, in accordance with their aptitude, we should balance the relationship between input and output and explore an effective mode of oral English teaching. But this paper doesn’t show us the specific effective mode of oral English teaching, just stressing on the relationship between input and output which cannot carry out a specific way.

 Written by Wu Xiaoxin in 2008, the paper “New exploration of oral English teaching in multimedia environment” is focusing on the application of multi-media in oral teaching. In the traditional oral English classroom, students tend to be either silent or busy talking about tings unrelated to their class, and there is no focus in teaching or learning. Students’ interest in the oral English class is constantly changing. Accordingly classroom teaching cannot be easily conducted. The employment of multi-media in the oral English class plays an important role in effectively removing psychological obstacles from students, thereby activating their learning interests, improving communication strategies and increasing their communicative competence (Wu Xiaoxin 9). This paper attempts to find out the functions of multi-media in oral English teaching. The conclusion of this paper is that Multimedia used in oral English teaching can play to its unique advantages compared with the traditional way of teaching. Deepen teaching content through audio visual it, and reflect the vividness of oral English teaching to the maximum extent. It is one of the directions of Oral teaching reform. But this paper focus on the multi-media way of teaching oral English, which cannot break through the limit of time and space to learn oral English, it’s just a promoting way of the traditional way of teaching oral English in class. So this paper can also refer to the Internet dealing with the teaching of oral English, only in this way can we overcome this problem better.

2.2 Researches on Internet in spoken English teaching   

     The benefits network brings for human is numerous, the emergence of the network is the modern social progress, a sign of the development of science and technology. In the modern sense, illiteracy is no longer refers to those who can't read, but do not understand the computer from the information age. Science is not developed in ancient times, people hopes to never leave home, but knows what's going on in the world, now the information highway has put this fantasy into reality. Surfing the Internet has a lot of benefits, including widen student’s field of vision, provides students with the communication, liberalization of dating, let students know the constant innovation and have a sense of accomplishment and so on. First students approaching to the Internet help early intelligence development. Fingers with the linkage with computer help to improve children's intelligence. Therefore, primary and middle school students surfing the Internet itself is necessary, and with proper guidance and control, students will receive the really great benefit from it. Second, the Internet will help expand children's knowledge, because the network access to a wide range of new knowledge. Also, as population increases, online helps to accelerate the process of social informatization, and the process has a very important role for economic development and social progress. And Through the Internet to sending E - mail, we can since the childhood set up E-mail, e-commerce, electronic writing consciousness, which can save a lot of wood paper and improve the level of environmental protection. Moreover, students can foster a sense of electronic commerce, and the improvement of the consciousness of the use of electronic money is an important index of the whole nation quality, which can also help the process of electronic currency, which eventually improve the quality of the whole nation. 中学英语口语教学中网络的应用(2):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_66247.html