初中英语课堂小活动运用的研究_英文_.docVIP

语 文 学 刊 · 外 语 教 育 教 学  2009 年第 8 期  A Research on the Use of Group Work in Middle School English Class ○ Gu Siyi （Foreign Languages College, Shnu ，shanghai 200000） ［Abstract］ This paper reports the merits and the problems of the current use of group work in middle school Eng－ lish class. Through a tentative survey with students in Shanghai Yinghua Middle School, the research finds that the cur－ rent use of group work has a positive impact on motivating students, promoting their interaction and alleviating their lan－ guage anxiety; however, it has some problems such as the strong students’dominance of group activities, the pseudo group, the in-group discipline problem and the unbalanced in-group labor division. At the end of the paper, suggestions on how to improve the effectiveness of group work have been given to teachers and students respectively. ［Key words］ group work；English class；group activities ［中图分类号］ H319.3 .Introduction ［文献标识码］ A ［文章编号］ 1672-8610（2009）08-0117-03 .Research Design Middle school students in Shanghai are using Oxford English as their textbook at present. McArthur and Etherton (1996), authors of Oxford English, suggest that some communicative activities such as“talk time”,“speak up”, and“writing”can be finished by students in groups. This suggestion has been accepted by teachers and group work has been widely used accordingly. This paper tries to report the merits and the prob－ lems of the current use of group work in middle school English class. Ⅱ.Previous research on the use of group work The use of group work in class can make a big difference in comparison with the traditional lockstep teaching. Olsen and Kagan advocate, group work is “a way of structuring a class－ room and learners to actively promote not only communication, but a sense of community, responsibility and sharing”(1992: 8). Every group member is held responsible for his own learn－ ing and is motivated to increase the learning of other members (ibid). Xu