小组活动在中学英语课堂教学中的应用研究.docVIP

小组活动在中学英语课堂教学中的应用研究 A Research on the Implementation of Group-work in English Class Teaching of Middle School Abstract: According to the notions promoted in the new National English Curriculum Standards, the English class teaching highlights the development of students’ affection and attitudes，and especially put much emphasis on the cooperative spirit of students. The present research chooses senior middle school students in NO.1 Middle School of Shihezi, Xinjiang as samples to do investigation. It mainly aims to find the answers to the three questions: 1) What contributions does topic make to the implementation of group-work？2) What are the features of the implementation of group-work in English class teaching? 3）What possible solutions can be given to improve the efficiency of implementation of groupwork? Through the analysis, it is found: 1) The topics designed by the English teachers can help arouse students’ interest when applied in group-work, and students have some opinions on the topics because they are real-life-related and comprehensible. But the teacher can choose a better topic to motivate the students’ initiative so that they show more interest in discussing on it and have more output in target language. 2) Group-work is applied in class teaching with quite low frequency and it has positive effect on the students’ affection development and ability improvement. But the monitor done by teachers is not enough since students speak little English in group-work. The teachers are aware of giving suggestions and assistance to students but they do not give enough feedback. 3) Through the approach of literature review and analysis, it is suggested that the efficiency of group-work implementation be improved through the teacher’s strengthening monitoring and designing the topic used in group-work with enough consideration. To be specific, language teacher needs to play many different roles, not only as a knower and activity organizer, but also a task designer, le