improve the students′ oral english 英语专业.doc

Improve the Students Oral English I. Introduction I work in No.3 Middle School. In my teaching, I’ve found some problems, especially the problem that some of my students are not interested in speaking English. I’ve told them time and again the importance of oral English and urged them to take an active part in oral work. However, their interest in speaking English does not seem to be enhanced. I hope I can find solutions to the problem that has troubled me for some time through action research so that I can apply what I have learned into practice. Hopefully, the present situation in teaching oral English can be improved and my students can also benefit from the project. II. Problem analysis 2.1 Summary of the problems In my teaching, the problem identified was really a serious one. My preliminary research confirmed that there were three main reasons that accounted for students’ lack of interest in oral class. Firstly, some students were afraid of being laughed by others because of their poor pronunciation and performance. Secondly, some students wanted to say, but they didn’t know how to get start and what to say. Thirdly, some students particularly those who did not do well in the traditional grammar-oriented written exam lacked Self-confidence in oral work. They thought that the oral class was only the showing- time for the “top-students”. Fourthly, some students didn’t think the oral practice is useful to their grammar-oriented exam, so they were not interested in it at all. The Problems had been troubling me for a long time and now I was determined to work towards the solution to the problem. I started off by making an analysis of the problems. 2.2.Methods of analysis (see Appendix A) 2.2.1 The analytic method My problem is: Some of my students are not interested in oral practice. Through the analytic method analysis, I made a chain of reflections about “others” and “my colleagues’ students” compared with “some of” and “my students”. The result showed t