2. Students' Background Conditions
By the time they have entered college, Chinese students have already had six years' experience of studying English. However, they have been studying hard preparing for university entrance exams. So most of them, being accustomed to memorizing new words and expressions and paying attention to grammar points and language structures, find it hard to express themselves in oral English. On the other hand, they may find that the textbooks for oral English, which are largely full of dialogues and conversations, appear to be of little or no use to them, because they find few new words or expressions.