How to Improve Middle School Students’ Oral English Through Activities in Class.docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 16 How to Improve Middle School Students’ Oral English Through Activities in Class Abstract：Language is the tool of communication. One of aims of teaching English in middle school is to develop the ability of communicating with English. In practice, some students feel that speaking is difficult and the practical communication is little. Many factors lead to the situation. The main factors are: students psychological factors, teachers traditional teaching methods and lack of practical drills. It introduces some effective teaching techniques: practical drills and setting situation in which we can improve the students speaking ability through some activities. The practical drill approach includes simple practice, group work, dialogues, games, discussions and debates, warm-ups and fillers, listening to tapes. The setting situations includes performance actions and visual aids. So students apply English to communication in the real life and study. Now more and more English teachers are gradually changing their traditional teaching concepts from basic knowledge to cultivating student ability of using the language. In a middle school, generally the activities are developed in a teachers guiding. The teacher use the practical activities which is necessary to cultivate students interest and effective to improve the students ability of using language. So how do we improve the speaking ability of middle school students in class? This is an important problem. The best way is to practice more and more. Key words: speaking, situation, drill, communication  摘 要：语言是一种交际工具。中学英语教学的目的在于发展英语交际。在实践中, 很多学生感到掌握口语有困难, 缺少实际交谈, 导致这种结果的因素很多。但最主要的原因是学生的心理因素, 学生基本操练甚少和教师的教法陈旧。该文介绍了几种通过课堂活动来提高学生口语的教学方法：实际操练法和情景设置法。实际操练法包括简单活动、小组活动、对话、游戏、讨论、课前热身活动和听录音；情景设置法包括活动演练和教具演练。从而在学习和实际中, 运用英语进行交流. 现在很多老师逐渐改变他们传统的教学观念从基础教学向培养学生运用知识能力转化，所以学生在老师的指导下通过一些实际活动不仅能培养他们学习运用口语的兴趣，而且对提高学生的语言运用技能也有成效。怎样在课堂上提高学生的口语能力，是一个重要的问题. 而最好的方法是反复操练。 关键词：口语；情景；操练；交际  Contents Abstract …………………………………………………