English teachers can tolerate students' mistakes, but not their own. "This sentence made me think deeply, and my academic accomplishment needs to be improved. The theme of Professor Shu's lecture is "Junior Middle School English Teaching Methods and Skills". We listened to the lecture without rest for three hours in a row, which added nutrition to my teaching:
First, jointly create a reasonable educational environment.
1. Establish an educational atmosphere with different subject characteristics.
As we all know, mainland students with high scores and low abilities cannot live in HKU and are forced to drop out of school. This story left a deep thought for our teaching. The names of classrooms in western countries and Guangdong are "classrooms" rather than "classrooms" because each classroom has a strong educational atmosphere. For example, in chemistry class, there are stories of people who have made achievements in chemistry from all over the world, stories from their families and stories around students, creating a specific chemistry learning atmosphere, which is the case in all disciplines. Such an educational environment is worth learning, and we should also create such an inspiring atmosphere in English teaching.
2. Cultivate interdisciplinary innovative students.
The new curriculum reform requires the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents with comprehensive skills, and it is natural for universities to require foreign language majors to attend classes in the literature department. As English teachers, we should not be the transmitters of knowledge, but should understand all aspects of knowledge, expand our humanistic quality, learn from students in a society with multiple intelligences, and learn from both teachers and students.
Teaching should not be like "the blind touch the elephant".
All subjects can't go it alone, because such a teacher is like "the blind touch the elephant" and can't let the students develop in an all-round way. Therefore, we should take care of each other in teaching.
Second, English teachers need to improve their own quality.
1. English teachers should establish an English education view and a scientific education view.
Belief restricts teachers' behavior, and teachers should regard students as teaching partners. Your own understanding of the language determines your teaching attitude. Language is not flat, but three-dimensional.
2. English teachers should have a firm view of English language.
English teachers should not only have their own ontological knowledge, but also be good English users in the environment of teaching English abroad. English teachers must organize teaching in English to create opportunities for students to learn and acquire knowledge in English. English teachers should also strengthen the study and training of language features such as pronunciation and intonation, instead of being "grammar teachers". In English class, in order to make students speak English better, we can tolerate students' mistakes, but we can never tolerate our own mistakes, because we affect a group of students. You can't give up the requirement of teaching English in English. Teachers should be strict with themselves and tolerant of students.
3. Healthy personality psychology.
An English teacher should be a caring person in education, who is constantly studying and studying, is good at working style of cooperation and communication, and has good psychological endurance, tolerance and humility.
Third, English teaching skills
1, flexible use of teaching materials
Teachers can use teaching materials selectively, and the book Teachers provided by teachers is also very good. If it suits your students, you should make good use of it.
2. Teaching strategies to stimulate motivation
A large number of cramming teaching deprives students of the process of thinking, students have no time and space to deal with their own problems in their studies, and teachers should not take up students' time. At the same time, we should use positive attribution methods to analyze students' problems, teach students in accordance with their aptitude and stimulate students' learning motivation.
3. Question setting should be flexible.
When presenting questions on ppt, there should be poor information. Show "birthplace" on the screen and ask the students "Where were you born?" Students can practice listening and speaking through brain thinking, and both skills have been trained.
4. Pronunciation and intonation are taught in context.
Students' learning intonation is boring, and teachers should guide students to learn intonation in context. In addition, when practicing intonation, the same information is often at the beginning of the sentence, which can guide students to read from the back to the front, and the information behind is more important. Poor listening is a problem of students' pronunciation, and the wrong intonation will hinder students' understanding.
It can be seen that English teachers should faithfully and firmly improve their English language features and create their own teaching methods according to certain theories.
There is no end to junior high school English learning. "To give students a bowl of water, you have to have a bucket of water." In today's society with knowledge explosion, teachers should keep learning and study all their lives to make themselves an endless river. Only the source of living water can have life and vitality. Using traditional teaching methods to explain mechanically, treating them purely as containers of knowledge and spoon-feeding them, they are not interested in the boring and cold grammar and vocabulary in their eyes, so they can't talk about their enthusiasm and initiative in learning. Personally, I think the core issues of interesting teaching are: building a harmonious relationship between teachers and students; A relaxed and pleasant learning environment; Flexible teaching methods are adopted, so that students can use them in learning and learning, stimulate interest, take the initiative to learn and improve efficiency. Because teachers' qualities are different, teaching objects are different, and teaching materials are used differently, there is no fixed model for interesting teaching. But these aspects discussed in interesting teaching are the same as the effect to be pursued. This paper wants to talk about some humble opinions in order to arouse the interest of colleagues and discuss this issue in order to promote English teaching in middle schools.
First, harmonious teacher-student relationship
Teaching and learning are contradictory. As representatives of both sides of the contradiction, how to coordinate the relationship between teachers and students is very important for the completion of teaching objectives. Teachers should go deep into students, mingle with them, understand the changes of students' interests, hobbies, joys and sorrows, always care for students, love them, respect them and help them in a targeted way. Let you be not only a respectable teacher in the eyes of students, but also an amiable intimate friend of students. Of course, this does not mean that their shortcomings cannot be criticized and can be left unchecked. That is, criticism and praise are for the same purpose to love them. Therefore, the way of criticism is more important than criticism itself. Let them not hurt their self-esteem and their personality not be insulted. Let them feel from the heart that the teacher's criticism is sincere love, sincere love and help. In this way, the relationship between teachers and students will be harmonious, we will feel harmony and we will be interested in learning.
Second, create a relaxed and pleasant learning environment.
Traditional teaching models and methods are always "centralized" by teachers, and students are always instilled in the classroom. Students are always in a passive and passive learning position, and there is nothing easy and pleasant to talk about, so there is no interest to talk about. Even those students who study hard regard themselves as the memory of knowledge and do so for the sake of grades. But most of them give up English learning gradually because they are not interested, which leads to polarization and poor teaching quality. Classroom environment has a great influence on stimulating students' interest in learning, and teachers' responsibility lies in creating a relaxed and happy learning environment for students. To do this, teachers should devote themselves to classroom teaching with full enthusiasm, and should have free and easy appearance, full spirit, relaxed and happy expression, kind eyes, cordial attitude, generous and elegant manners, concise speech, pure and fluent language, standardized and beautiful calligraphy, and reasonable and eye-catching layout design.
In order to dilute the impression of traditional teaching. It is necessary to achieve "entertaining", "combining static and dynamic", "combining learning with application" and "cooperation between teachers and students". Before class, the teacher can tell a humorous joke and proverb in English that the students understand and roughly understand according to the teaching content, and can also let the students practice English conversation for three minutes before class, speak freely and sing an English song collectively. So as to enliven the atmosphere and stimulate students' interest. Finish the warm-up activities before teaching.
An English proverb says, "A good beginning is half the battle. We should pay attention to art when introducing new courses. According to the teaching content, suspense can be set to attract students; You can also ask a thought-provoking question to catch the students; You can also start with visual teaching AIDS and demonstrations. In teaching, you can't move the teaching materials. Read it out loud and quietly, even if it is teaching. We should be good at using people and things in class and visual teaching AIDS such as pictures, wall charts and stick figures to set up scenes. Language is always associated with scenes. Without scenes, there is no language. With the scene, students can be impressed, and the sound, shape and meaning can be organically combined, so that they can learn interestingly and master accurately. Teachers should avoid tedious, complicated and heavy explanations (that is, tedious, messy and repetitive). To be precise, it's boring. In order to turn speeches into questions, students spend a lot of time participating instead of being bystanders, using what they have learned and learning from it. Only such students are interested. In practice, we should pay attention to satisfying students' desire for success. Different levels of questions and language materials should be practiced by students of different levels and levels. In this way, every student can taste the joy of success and a sense of accomplishment. This has greatly stimulated interest and doubled enthusiasm. Once students make mistakes, don't complain, reprimand or blame, but pay attention to the skills of error correction to protect students' enthusiasm from setbacks. A class is a complete work of art, which needs not only a good beginning and development, but also a good ending. According to different situations, students can set a new "suspense" before class, leave an intriguing question, replay the recording of the text, and let students summarize the main contents of this lesson and sing a song.
Third, the teaching methods should be flexible and interesting.
The single teaching method is boring. No matter how good the method is, it will lose its charm if it is used frequently. In order to stimulate students' interest, keep students' interest and consolidate students' interest, teachers should study the teaching materials carefully. According to the different teaching contents such as beginner, consolidation and review, we can't adopt the same method, which requires teachers to make painstaking efforts and keep exploring and pursuing. In teaching, this should be a place where teachers can make great achievements. When we begin to teach words, we can make full use of direct teaching AIDS, such as teaching football. We pointed to the football and said, "What is this? This is a football. Football, football once again impressed the sound, shape and meaning of football on students' minds. When they see football in the future, they will blurt out football, football, without Chinese translation as an intermediary; Teaching vocabulary is also teaching thinking. If you review vocabulary, you can do "guessing", such as reviewing terms such as bell, football, pen, book, car and jeep. We can put the prepared small objects, pictures and models on the platform, let the students have a look at them first, then put them under the stage, secretly put a book in the prepared big bag, then take it out and ask them with the sentence patterns they have learned:
T: What's in my bag? Students guess and then answer (suitable for singles)
This is a football. If the answer is wrong, say it.
T: No, don't ask another student.
T: what's this? Students guess and answer.
This is a book. That's right. The teacher encouraged the students to speak.
T: Yes, you're right.) If you learn to be smart, you can go further.
T: You are very clever.
Then change another one to continue. And so on, not only reviewed the words, but also became familiar with sentence patterns and practiced listening and speaking. Students did not regard learning as a chore, but participated in it with great interest.
At the beginning of teaching sentences, a listening contest can be held to see who speaks the sentence first and who reads it well. Then word group sentence competitions and so on can improve students' interest, which is much better than the teacher talking over and over again and the students reading over and over again.
Teaching texts can take many forms according to different genres and contents at different stages, such as simulating dialogue, playing roles, telling stories, telling the main idea, changing characters, changing dialogue into narrative, changing narrative into dialogue, improvising oral composition, speaking with pictures, writing sentences and so on. In this way, the dead textbooks will be used flexibly, and students will be interested in learning and have more opportunities to use them. The effect must be a combination of in-class and out-of-class activities.
Foreign language teaching should focus on the classroom and emphasize quality in 45 minutes. But to learn English well, it is not enough to attend English classes several times a week. Therefore, we should vigorously carry out extracurricular teaching activities. But this kind of talk should not be a continuation of in-class teaching, nor should it be an unorganized indulgence. Teachers should organize students according to different classes, levels, levels and hobbies. For example, training the backbone purposefully, holding English games, concerts, recitations, speech competitions, word recognition and dictation competitions, composition competitions and listening competitions. , can be carried out in each class, can also be carried out in the same grade, the whole school. Its purpose is to enliven students' extracurricular life, consolidate the knowledge learned in class, create an English atmosphere, cultivate students' interest in learning English, and make the combination inside and outside class complement each other.
Junior high school English research journal 3 through the example of junior high school English research journal, we can correct incorrect ideas about English and make better plans for future teaching without delaying students' study.
First, junior high school English training diary, strengthen emotional education, to induce interest.
English teaching is not only a cognitive process, but also an emotional activity process. Students' learning mood is well regulated and they can change passive learning into active learning. First of all, let students feel the extensive application of English knowledge in the process of acquiring knowledge and solving problems, so as to stimulate students' thirst for knowledge, make them feel positive about learning, and make them realize that if they want to have a bright future and be better qualified for future work, they must learn English and learn English well. Secondly, teachers should pay attention to the emotional input to students. Through the scientific guidance and enthusiastic help of many nuances in regular teaching, students can truly feel the love and care of their teachers, and always feel that teachers are paying attention to themselves, so as to "love their teachers and believe in their ways". In this way, there will be an emotional voice between teachers and students, and students will have a strong interest in English classes, from being tired of learning to being eager to learn, loving learning and enjoying learning. Finally, in the teaching process, teachers should pay attention to the art and skills of criticism and safeguard students' self-esteem.
Second, junior high school English training journals use audio-visual means to stimulate interest.
Learning a language is most afraid of the lack of language environment, and there is no English atmosphere in the classroom, which will make students with active and emotional characteristics feel bored. Using multimedia, carefully designing each class and concretizing, vivifying and visualizing abstract language, monotonous vocabulary and paragraphs will deeply attract students' attention, stimulate their interest in learning, cultivate their interest in learning quickly and improve their motivation to learn English. For example, when teaching students to know the dialogue in the school function room, before the English logo appears, use a video recorder to film the students' activities in the function room, so that students can feel immersive. Studying and practicing in such a situation makes students feel lively, interesting and memorable. Another example is to make words into sentences, and then use projection to present abstract text symbols in various color pictures. Verbs are represented by actions, nouns are represented by pictures of objects or still lives, and other things that are difficult to express alone, with appropriate language environment, or teachers use gestures and expressions to help express them, will make abstract things concrete and visual.
Third, junior high school English training journals use competitions to cultivate interest.
Creating a positive atmosphere according to students' psychological characteristics will strengthen students' behavior orientation and help to give full play to the creativity and competitiveness of participants. For example, an award-winning little red flower and an "excellent" sentence will make students feel happy and satisfied. When I study English, I tell my students that after a while, we will hold a conversation contest in the form of a competition, and select the winning group to reward. In this way, students are encouraged to learn the dialogue well in each lesson in order to win. When learning letters, tell the students in advance that a writing competition will be held after learning letters. Students are so serious in the process of learning to write that in all previous competitions, I have been worried that regardless of my height, I have basically written in a standardized, clear and serious way, laying a good foundation for future writing. I usually use symbols to motivate my homework, but if some students are not written "good" in the notebook by the teacher for some reason, let them go back and rewrite it, this time it won't count. Finally, there will be a competition to see who is "good" more, so that no one will fall behind. At the same time, there are competitions between groups and classes, which can stimulate students' competitive consciousness and cultivate students' interest in learning.
Fourth, junior high school English training logs create performance space and expand interest.
Willing to express themselves and hope to be recognized is the voice of every student. In regular teaching, teachers should provide and create opportunities for students to express themselves as much as possible. Bilateral and multilateral activities in the classroom can make students of different levels actively participate in classroom teaching. Those students who use knowledge flexibly, respond quickly and have strong oral expression skills will feel particularly "exposed". The adaptation and performance of texts and short plays in extracurricular activities won the title of "best actor" for those students with outstanding academic achievements but excellent acting skills. Those students who are talented in painting show their talents in the homework of adapting words into cartoons and help teachers turn words into projection movies. In all kinds of competitions, outstanding people have experienced the excitement of standing on the podium. The desire to "re-express" will stimulate their interest in learning, make them full of interest and concentrate in English class, and read English extracurricular books according to their hobbies after class to broaden their knowledge. So that students can get their own place and achieve the goal of healthy development of personality.
Fifth, junior high school English training journal uses extracurricular activities to extend interest.
Creating colorful activity classes can stimulate students' sense of participation and autonomy, attract students' attention and make them learn knowledge in a relaxed and happy environment. For example, holding English entertainment parties, story meetings, knowledge contests, handwritten newspapers, speeches and other extracurricular activities, from announcements to explanations, from appraisals to awards, is generally not allowed to use Chinese, so students should use English as much as possible. Such activities provide students with a real place to speak English, and the students show great enthusiasm. Besides, I also make my own audio-visual sketches. According to the content of the text and the students' reality, I organize students to write and direct several audio-visual sketches and dialogue videos every semester. For example, a student invited his classmates to participate in the dialogues and sketches at the birthday party, and several classmates' shopping dialogues and sketches. When the students saw their classmates' performances, they greatly mobilized their desire to speak English, and they all took an active part. During the replay, I used the method of silencing the students and dubbing them, so that they could learn in music, learning by doing and learning by moving. Students' listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities have been improved in these practical activities, and the good habit of being brave in exploration has gradually developed.
In a word, English is an interesting subject. If we can attach importance to the hidden treasures in English, cultivate students' interest in learning, and let students learn vividly and interestingly from beginning to end, we can overcome the stubborn enemy of learning-boredom, make English learning lasting and give full play to students' potential motivation.