Abstract
There has been universal existence of malpractice of China's primary school English education for a long time. Some teachers still adopt traditional teaching methods in class, concentrating merely on explanation of text content and language knowledge, thus ignoring the creation of language contexts, which leads to the ineffective mobilization of students’ interest and motivation for learning English. The class performs as a bridge connected to the teaching side of teachers and the learning side of students. Under higher requirements of the New Curriculum Standards, only by a more ingenious and elaborative class designing, can teachers avoid previous conventional class of inefficiency, thus create a highly effective English teaching class so as to ensure the high quality of both teaching and learning.
The thesis initially carries out its research background and current situations of the topic. Based on the characteristics of primary students, it then discusses and analyzes two major categories of methods on improvement of China’s primary school English teaching: the game-playing teaching method and the situational teaching method. In addition, this thesis also gives some recommendations from new perspectives on realization of promoting English teaching efficiency concentrating on the establishment of high-quality English teaching teams as well as teachers’ guidance on students’ learning and memorizing methods
Keywords: China's primary school English education; game-playing teaching method; situational teaching method; high-quality English teaching teams
Contents
Abstract I
Contents II
Introduction 1
1. Current situation of primary English education in China 2
1.1 Generalization tendency in teaching content 2
1.2 Unilateralization in teaching method 3
1.3 A lack of flexibility during teaching process 3
2. Teaching characteristics of current classroom English teaching 4
2.1 Perception and memory 4
2.2 Imagination and thinking ability 4
2.3 Emotion and strength of will 4
3. Measures to improve primary school English education in China 6
3.1 Game-playing teaching method 6
3.1.1 Pre-class games can stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning. 7
3.1.2 During-class games lead students to better digest new knowledge. 7
3.1.3 Post-class games make students enthusiasm last longer. 7
3.2 Situational teaching method 8
3.3 Other perspectives on improvement 8
3.3.1 Establishment of high-quality English teaching teams 8
3.3.2 Guidance on students’ learning and memorizing methods 9
4. Conclusion 11
References 12
