Contrastive Analysis of Microstructures in Pubic Speeches by Native and Nonnative English Speakers

Public speaking has been extensively used as a means of communication in realizing communicative purposes. In the field of school education in China, English speech organization and strategies have constituted an increasingly important part. Consequently, how to guide students to write a speech in a native way poses a big challenge to English teachers, especially in colleges and universities. By applying different speech microstructures, native and nonnative English speakers differ in their speech effect. Thus, a contrastive analysis is carried out with an expected effect of providing some enlightenment to both English teachers and language learners in China.