"Interest is the best teacher." Interest in English learning is one of the main emotional factors in English learning. In middle school English teaching under the new curriculum standards, teachers should cultivate and maintain students' strong interest in learning.
Teaching psychology shows that when teaching can arouse interest, it can make students pay attention to learning, better perceive, remember, think and imagine, thus gaining more and more solid knowledge and skills, making them feel that learning is not a kind of suffering or heavy burden, showing joy and desire for knowledge, strengthening the power of exploring knowledge and arousing the will to overcome difficulties. However, from the current situation of English teaching in middle schools, students are happy with English learning and regard it as a pleasure. Take English learning as a daunting road and a heavy burden; There is less active learning and more passive learning, and the higher the grade, the greater the differentiation. The reason is that we didn't pay attention to cultivating students' interest in this subject at the beginning of teaching and didn't stimulate their motivation to learn English. It can be seen that in English teaching, it is very important to make students learn actively and achieve good learning results, and to cultivate students' interest. It can even be said that this is the premise and guarantee of learning English. Then, how to stimulate students' interest in learning English and fully mobilize their enthusiasm for learning English, so as to improve the quality of English teaching? We need to do:
First, how to improve interest in English learning
1. Colorful import
Aristotle said, "Thinking begins with doubt and surprise." People's thinking begins with problems. Students' thinking is accompanied by endless problems. Only with the problems that need to be solved can we arouse the enthusiasm of thinking and stimulate students' interest in learning. Common import methods are as follows:
1) Tell a story. Middle school students have a soft spot for stories. When they heard the story, their interest came at once. For example, Unit 9 in the first volume of Grade 8, when was he born? This paper introduces some famous people, including "Air Jordan", and introduces new lessons by telling Jordan's growth experience, which can not only arouse students' interest, but also achieve the purpose of educating students through Jordan's tortuous experience.
2) Simulate life scenes. Students have too much to say about life, and they are also willing to tell their own lives. As long as you are close to life, you can use this introduction method.
3) debate. Middle school students especially like to compete with others. As long as there is an opportunity to express themselves, they will never miss it.
In addition, successful import can also be achieved through experiments, songs and imagination. A good introduction is half the battle, and students' interest will increase sharply because of the wonderful introduction, thus unconsciously entering the best learning state.
2. Novel and diverse teaching methods
Physiologically speaking, a single form can easily lead to the transformation of brain stimulation from excitement to inhibition, which will reduce learning efficiency. Psychologically, middle school students are active and like to change. No matter how good the teaching form and practice form are, if they are simply repeated too much, students' interest will drop sharply. Therefore, English teaching in middle schools should take various forms according to students' psychological characteristics such as curiosity, activeness, interest and competitiveness and the law of thinking development. In short, different classes adopt different teaching methods to make students feel fresh, thus improving learning efficiency and enthusiasm. The following are several teaching methods:
1) formula method It is especially suitable for learning grammar rules. There are many grammatical rules in English learning, and rote learning is not only easy to forget, but also ineffective. At this time, the formula method is a good choice. For example, the law of changing the ordinal number of cardinal words can be compiled into the following formula: one, two, three special notes, eight pairs of t, nine pairs of e, f pairs of ve, and then add -th, a decimal integer ending in ty. When changing ordinal numbers, change Y into ie, and then add -th. If you encounter "dozens" above the 20th, you can only change to one place. Besides,
2) Competition method, word segmentation by syllable, and word guessing method. All of the above are applicable to word memory. The biggest obstacle to English learning is word memory, and word learning is the most boring. If the process of memorizing words can be concrete, visual, interesting and competitive, then memorizing words will be much easier and students' interest in learning will be mobilized accordingly. Middle school students like to catch up with each other and remember words in groups to see which group remembers faster, more accurately and more. The effect is definitely better than repeated mechanical memory. Word segmentation by syllable is suitable for words with long syllables but regular syllables, such as comfortable and * * *, which can be recorded by com, for and table respectively, meaning that it is natural to be comfortable when you come to a place with a table. Word guessing is especially suitable for words close to life, such as dancing. Let the students perform the corresponding dance movements on the stage, and the rest of the students guess the words according to the performed movements. The message-telling method can be used not only to recite words, but also to practice sentence patterns. Specifically, students can participate in the competition horizontally or vertically in the teacher's seat, or they can act in groups of two horizontally and two vertically. The teacher whispered a sentence or word to the first student in each group and asked him to pass it on in a low voice. The last student in each group stands up and repeats loudly, which is fast and difficult to win. Over a period of time, the content of the message can be gradually increased.
3) Bingo. Write nine words or phrases on the nine blanks of the bingo card at random, and the teacher will read three at random each time. Students will cross out the words or phrases they hear on the filled bingo cards. If the crossed words or phrases are horizontal, vertical or oblique (in any direction), they will shout "Bingo" and the fastest winner will be rewarded.
3. Traditional and modern teaching methods
1) Encourage students to make teaching AIDS themselves to improve their interest in English learning. Sometimes, due to the limited teaching conditions, in order to make teaching more intuitive, students can be mobilized to make teaching AIDS, such as fruits and vegetables for English learning. Students can draw all kinds of fruits and vegetables on paper, color them and cut them out for classroom teaching. After the teaching, put the teaching AIDS made by the students together to hold an exhibition, so that the students can share their own labor results and experience the fun of learning.
2) Multimedia teaching. Multimedia teaching is an organic combination of computer technology and teaching process, and it is a new teaching method. The emergence and development of multimedia teaching has made a qualitative leap in teaching effect and students' participation. It is the trend and inevitable requirement of the development of English activities to introduce various media into English classes by using modern teaching methods. Multimedia provides students with comprehensive stimulating information such as sounds, images, pictures and words in the way of watching, listening and speaking, which is conducive to maintaining students' attention. At the same time, wonderful multimedia courseware can also stimulate students' interest, broaden their knowledge, enrich their thinking and imagination, and enable them to master and use knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere.
4. Carry out colorful extracurricular activities.
In order to increase and stimulate middle school students' interest in learning English and give students more opportunities to communicate in English, teachers can not only work hard in class, but also edit colorful campus culture. Chen Lin, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said: "No matter how realistic the scenes set in the class are, they are all fake. Only when students use language in their daily lives can they truly master the language. " Professor Chen Lin emphasized the importance of developing English extracurricular activities. Therefore, in order to improve students' interest in learning English, extracurricular guidance is essential. So how to carry out English extracurricular activities?
In addition to the common English speech contest, English essay contest and English corner, activities such as English calligraphy contest, English song chorus, English culture festival and English Day can also be held. In particular, the English Culture Festival can introduce some interesting knowledge about English-speaking countries that are quite different from our customs, traditional culture, history and humanities. For example, "White Elephant" is neutral in China culture, but derogatory in English. It literally translates as "Love me, love my dog", which actually means. Aristotle said, "Thinking begins with doubt and surprise."
Through activities, students can apply what they have learned, make them know themselves, gain a sense of accomplishment in different degrees, increase their self-confidence and interest in learning English.
5. Join a study group, evaluate it once a month and reward it.
The specific way is to group the whole class. It should be noted that the English scores of each group of students are equal, and each group has English experts, which can help students with poor grades. The items participating in the evaluation include not only the average score of the test paper within one month, but also the usual performance, such as the number of speakers in class, the handing in of homework, and the discipline in class. The score of each item is quantified. Through the evaluation, the enthusiasm and participation of students are improved.
6. Foreign teachers and successful English speakers give lectures
If conditions permit, foreign teachers can be hired to comply with students' curiosity and promote their exploration of English knowledge. Let successful English speakers give lectures, on the one hand, students can learn useful learning methods, on the other hand, appearance and celebrity effect can also motivate students to some extent.
7. Transfer students' interest and stimulate their curiosity.
Einstein said, "Interest is the best teacher." "In addition to encouraging students in a positive way and cultivating their interest in learning, we can also try to stimulate their interest by deviant methods. If some students are interested in cartoons, we can recommend them to watch foreign language cartoons such as Ice Age to stimulate their desire to learn English. This method can play the role of "four or two".
Second, create teaching strategies for classroom teaching situations of new junior high school English textbooks, so as to mobilize students' enthusiasm for learning English and stimulate their interest in learning.
[The so-called "creating scenes" refers to introducing or creating vivid and concrete scenes with images as the main body, such as vividly depicting new materials by demonstrating objects, cards, stick figures, body language, pictures, playing videos or recordings. , so as to bring students to a specific realm of classroom art, so as to arouse the same emotional experience and stimulate students' emotions in a short time. We should pay attention to cultivating students' comprehensive language use ability, reform the traditional teaching mode, create a communicative and diversified learning atmosphere for students, and cultivate students' habit of speaking English boldly and well. It is the overall goal of our English teaching reform to stimulate students' potential in communication practice, publicize students' personality and embody the language teaching mode of "learning by moving, learning by using and learning by music". In the usual classroom teaching, I mainly use the following teaching strategies to create situations:
1, music rendering, creating situation
Playing beautiful classic English songs or familiar music 3-5 minutes before class, on the one hand, can make students quiet down and play a role in psychological relaxation; On the other hand, it can be effectively used to introduce new lessons; For example, I wanted to teach the tense of "present continuous tense" when I was teaching unit5 in the seventh grade of the new target English, so I chose the song "Are you sleeping" in the tense of "present continuous tense, adapted from the children's song" Two Tigers "that students are very familiar with, and changed the word" two tigers "into" Are you sleeping ". As soon as the students heard the music, they felt.
2. Use illustrations, stick figures and cards to create situations.
Illustration is the image representation of language, and language is the rational expression of illustration. For example, what's the weather like? Sometimes, the teacher can put a picture of two people talking, and one of them has a picture with a weather sign in his hand. Please make up a dialogue according to the picture. Students can also draw pictures according to a dialogue or a short passage. It not only creates a scene, but also makes students feel the fun of learning.
3. Listen to the sound and create the situation.
When learning animal names, you can record the sounds of small animals first, so that students can imitate the sounds and looks of animals to learn. For example, cats meow; Dog, dog, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Difficult words become fluent in students' mouths, and boring words are quickly remembered by students. You can also use listening to distinguish animals. This can greatly arouse students' learning enthusiasm in the classroom.
4. Expand imagination and create scenarios.
Junior high school students have active thinking and rich imagination. Teaching New Target English in Grade Seven, Unit 4
Teachers, student nurses, doctors, policemen, actors, reports, waiters and workers, some of whom have heard of it, such as simply reading words, which students find boring. Teachers generally take the form of objects, pictures and projections. However, if this form is adopted, the words in this class will not be of interest to students, because students are not faced with "what is your occupation?" The problem is that even if I make some headdresses or pictures about my career to tell students, it is very lacking in authenticity, and students' enthusiasm will not be too high. I can use it. I am … I recently learned to draw all kinds of words at the prepared class meeting. Therefore, I extend some words about occupation to students, such as drivers, farmers, policemen and so on. Students are particularly interested in this.
5. Choose real cases and create situations.
Students usually like to talk about real cases. Therefore, the scenes chosen by teachers in designing activities should be close to students' lives. For example, when teaching the vocabulary of family members, teachers can ask students to bring photos of "family fun" and let students introduce their family members to each other.
6. Use body language to create images of body scenes.
Body language can concretize abstract things and connect strange letter combinations with living things, which is convenient for students to understand and remember. English classroom teaching focuses on communication, and lifeless communication makes students feel boring, while lively and even exaggerated gestures, expressions and actions can enliven the classroom atmosphere, attract students' attention and happily promote the smooth communication. When teaching the words fat, thin, tall, short and tense, teachers can use exaggerated gestures to express them, and at the same time let students participate in the performance to express these words. The children are happy to take part in the performance. Another example is teaching "I'm hungry". Teachers can grin while covering their stomachs and show their hunger, so that students can understand what it means and take out food and say, "Have some bread. Have an apple. Eat a cake ... "The scene created by body language is conducive to quickly mastering the language knowledge they have learned. At the same time, because students watch the teacher's actions in class, imitate their own learning and think with their brains, they greatly attract students' attention and keep them in a positive learning state from beginning to end, thus achieving good teaching results.
Third, pay attention to classroom teaching methods.
Psychology has proved that English is easy for students to understand and master under the joint action of hearing, vision and kinesthetic channels. Therefore, English teaching should make full use of the eyes, ears, mouth, hands, brain and other organs to carry out comprehensive training in listening, speaking, reading and writing, so that listening, speaking, reading and writing can promote and improve each other and stimulate students' interest in learning.
(A) the use of visual AIDS
Intuition is a cognitive activity directly influenced by teaching media. "From image intuition to abstract thinking" is the basic law of human cognitive development, which must be respected in the teaching process. In the teaching process, using intuition about things and focus, improving perceptual knowledge and using intuition correctly can stimulate students' interest and enthusiasm in learning, help students understand, understand and master what they have learned, and thus improve the teaching quality. Commonly used intuitive teaching includes objects, pictures, charts, classroom performances, etc.
1, use of physical objects
In the initial stage of language training, we should make full use of things in life to learn their names and describe their shapes, sizes, colors, properties and uses. For example, when teaching three groups of antonyms: big-small, heavy-light and full-empty, the teacher can take several brightly colored boxes and two bottles of different sizes, one is empty and the other is filled with water. You can also use the teacher's chalk box, clock box and students' schoolbags as teaching AIDS, that is, you have taught these three groups of antonyms and practiced various sentence patterns.
Step 2 Use pictures and charts
It is an effective teaching method to use wall charts in English classroom teaching. The size of the wall chart should be appropriate so that the whole class can see it clearly. The wall chart can be made by the teacher, or you can find an existing calendar at your side. Pictures can create meaningful context, use visual organs for training and train students' hearing ability. Pictures can be used in classroom teaching, grammar and vocabulary teaching and language testing. Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks. Listen and answer this question. You can also get good results by using charts. For example, in classroom teaching, the teacher first asks several students' parents' occupations, and asks a student to fill in these items in the tables that the teacher has drawn on the blackboard, and then continue to practice the language with these tables.
3. Classroom performance
Teachers should give full play to their leading role in the classroom and mobilize all positive factors. Create a relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere. Teachers are like actors. If students want to enjoy their classes, they must have good quality and good acting skills. Teachers use actions, expressions or role-playing methods to teach, which can make students lively and achieve good results. For example, teaching English, the number is 1- 100. In order to make students remember these numbers more quickly and accurately, I randomly call a classmate's number in class, for example, four. The called students should stand up and say any number (they must be able to speak English). In this way, the whole class pays attention, improves the ability of listening and speaking numbers, and receives good results. We can also change the text with plots into short plays for students to perform, and the effect will be better.
4, the use of stick figure
A stick figure is a very simple picture. A painting that can express a certain idea or situation can be outlined with a few simple strokes. In class, the teacher can quickly draw a set of stick figures on the blackboard, and then he can teach. The use of stick figures can arouse students' enthusiasm. Among many teaching methods, board painting is superior to others because of its intuitive and vivid advantages. It is an intuitive teaching method commonly used in English classroom teaching. Board drawing is a kind of stick figure that teachers draw quickly on the blackboard with chalk in classroom teaching. Its function is to make abstract content vivid and vivid with concise painting language.
5, the use of audio-visual teaching methods
Commonly used audio-visual teaching equipment includes: tape recorders and tapes, slides, projectors, movies and videos, foreign language broadcasting, audio-visual laboratories, etc. Insisting on listening to standard recording can help students learn authentic English pronunciation and intonation, which is conducive to improving their listening ability. Therefore, students should listen to the original tapes in teaching. Students should be encouraged to listen to more tapes at home, or they can be asked to record what they read or speak in English, so that they can easily compare and correct themselves.
(2) Summary and application of the formula
English grammar rules, word differences and pronunciation rules often confuse students. In view of this, teachers can make up some formulas to help students remember, reduce the difficulty of learning and warm students' enthusiasm for learning English. Tell junior one students the usage of "be" and remember the formula: I use am, and you use are to follow him, her and it. What do you mean by plural? After that, they all used. Teachers should always collect and summarize, accumulate and summarize frequently, so that formulas will flood in and teaching will be interesting.
Fourth, carry out a variety of extracurricular activities.
1, self-made short plays to arouse students' enthusiasm.
Learning should be "applied", especially English learning. For this reason, we want students to speak English after learning English. In each class, the author spends five minutes for students to perform their own dialogues or speeches in front of the podium. This not only reviews the old knowledge, but also deepens the understanding of the new content, and finally achieves "applying what you have learned".
2. Conduct competitions to stimulate students' interest.
Junior high school students have a sense of professionalism and honor, especially under the influence of market economy competition, students' sense of competition is more intense. It is an effective form to introduce competition consciousness into English classroom teaching. For example, the language of daily oral practice can be changed to the language of competition, and questions and answers can be answered first; Words can come to a "word king" competition; And writing competition, riddle guessing competition, whispering competition and other forms; Then use the integral method to give the best encouragement. Appropriate classroom competition, students are willing to win glory and study, thus mobilizing all students' interest in learning. There are various ways to cultivate interest in learning. It is a good way to stimulate interest in learning and improve teaching. One of teachers' teaching tasks is to cultivate students' interest in learning, from short-term interest guidance to stable interest, from direct interest guidance to indirect interest. Similarly, teachers should also pay attention to the improvement of their own quality in improving students' interest.
In a word, interest is the memory power to promote students' learning. Interest comes first in English learning. The level of students' language ability is greatly influenced by their interest in English learning. It's hard to imagine how to cultivate communicative competence without interest. Teachers should create a variety of teaching situations that can stimulate students' interest in learning according to time, place and person, enhance the effect of English classroom teaching, improve students' English level and implement the requirements put forward by the new curriculum standards. There are many ways to cultivate and stimulate students' interest in learning English. In practice teaching, teachers should selectively use some teaching methods and means according to the actual needs of classroom teaching, and strive to make the lifeless classroom vivid, interesting and wonderful through certain channels, fully mobilize students' learning enthusiasm, improve students' interest in learning English, and comprehensively promote quality education.