Oral English Teaching in Elementary School 英语毕业论文.doc

Oral English Teaching in Elementary School Chapter 1 Introduction At present, spoken English is used in a high rate in our daily life; it also plays a very important role in communication with foreigners. However, most teachers in China are normally focused on teaching via the traditional teacher-centered methods, in which instructions are almost entirely under the control of the teaching staff. This kind of forced-feeding method of teaching plays an unfavorable role in English teaching, especially the improvement of the students’ oral English. As a Chinese teacher of English, it’s quite necessary to ponder over some elementary questions such as what? What kind of personalities do the learners have? What are the basic principles of spoken English teaching? What are the tendencies of spoken English teaching? What necessaries should a qualified English teacher have? How? How to teach spoken English more effectively? How to deal with the relationships between teachers and students? How to improve pupils’ oral skills in an all round way? And why? Why some oral English learners succeed in English learning while some were failed? Why could some teachers teach spoken English more effective? These are all the elementary questions that have relations with teachers’ teaching and students’ learning should be considered carefully. 1.1 Actuality of Current Oral English Teaching in Elementary School For a long time, English teaching in China has been over emphasizing scores, but neglecting proficiency, especially the cultivation of spoken English. Excellent students are always measured by getting high marks in exams. Teaching is always carried out around the exams; application of English is always neglected. As for the teaching mode, teachers have been adopting “instillation” and neglecting “application”. The classroom has been “teacher-centered”, students have to take in passively, and using spoken English through the whole class is a rare phenomenon. Recent years, China has