“Language is not something that can be learned casually.” This is true for learning your native language, and even more so for learning English. But if you teach the right way, you can get twice the result with half the effort. To achieve such good results, fun teaching can be said to be a good method. Einstein said: "Interest is the best teacher." Create a harmonious teacher-student relationship; a relaxed and pleasant learning environment; adopt flexible and changeable teaching methods to allow students to learn by doing and apply what they learn, thereby stimulating interest, taking initiative in learning, and improving efficiency.
An English teacher should consciously cultivate students' lasting interest in English during teaching, motivate students to constantly be in the best learning state, so that they are willing to learn English, good at learning, and able to learn English. Be selfless and never tire of it, classroom teaching methods must be constantly updated, use flexible and diverse teaching methods, organize students to carry out extensive language practice activities, stimulate students' enthusiasm for practice through various means, strengthen the cultivation of students' interest in learning English, and let students Turn interest into motivation to participate in practice, and maintain this interest throughout the long teaching process, providing a steady stream of motivation for language practice activities. How to improve students' interest in learning and complete the tasks required by the new curriculum standards. I will talk about some insights from my teaching practice based on my several years of teaching.
1. Seize teaching opportunities, enhance the classroom atmosphere, and cultivate students’ interest and curiosity.
Primary school students are unscrupulous, dare to think, dare to speak, are active, and seek novelty and difference. The desire is strong. However, due to their immature psychological development, primary school students have weak self-control and cannot concentrate for a long time. This requires teachers in the English living room to "schedule" to attract students' interest in participation from time to time.
(1) Start with daily life to stimulate students’ interest in learning English
A good start is half the battle. Therefore, in classroom teaching, special attention should be paid to using the first ten minutes of class to create a good classroom atmosphere (Warming up). For example, sing some English songs and carry out interesting review-based games such as "Let me guess." or "Follow me." to activate the pre-class atmosphere, enhance the interest of the English class, and arouse students' thirst for knowledge. In teaching practice, I strive to make classroom teaching interesting, flexible, and more authentic.
1. Start with emotions and demonstrate gracefully to attract students
For example, teaching: Hello, class! How are you? 1 am fine, thank you. When I teach with passion, I smile and my beautiful tone first attracts the students. When the students see my expression and hear my voice, they are inspired and learn from me. In high spirits.
2. Use object-based teaching to mobilize students' awareness of participation
Make full use of object-based teaching to mobilize students' senses, and students can touch, smell, hear and touch together. For example, when teaching words such as sweet, sour, spicy, chocolate, sandwich, a hot dog, etc., I let students look at real objects to learn the words, touch, speak, taste, and use interesting actions to draw students in. In reality, and let them perform it realistically, the classroom atmosphere reached a climax, and even students who usually don't like to use their mouths and hands started to perform happily. Students regard the classroom as a place for entertainment and have endless aftertaste after class.
3. Make use of students’ instincts and do hands-on operations
After students learn words such as door, light, desk, blackboard, window, etc., they make their own word cards and paste them on real objects. Feeling that they have learned something has stimulated their interest in learning, mobilized their enthusiasm for learning, and cultivated their self-confidence in learning. It is a child's nature to be active. For example, when teaching English letters, use plasticine to knead the letters and matchsticks to place the letters, allowing them to use their own thinking methods and use an intuitive and flexible learning method to master the writing of English letters, making it easy to learn and remember what they have learned, and play a role in Get twice the result with half the effort and achieve good learning results in a shorter period of time.
Introduce a competitive incentive mechanism to improve the efficiency of English learning interest. Being competitive is a common psychology among primary school students. The use of appropriate competition activities and comprehensive training that organically integrates certain or several knowledge and skills play a great role in cultivating students to flexibly apply the knowledge they have learned. In the intense and interactive competitive atmosphere, students from both participating parties and those watching will be very involved. Teachers can use competition formats such as group time limit, individual arena, and boy and girl competition to compete in spelling words or the speed and ability to pronounce letters. During the competition, students can develop their foundation, quality, and ability. The more they compete, the more interested they become. The use of competitions taps students' learning "potential" and maximizes their enthusiasm, initiative and thinking agility. Students gain knowledge in a tense and joyful atmosphere and are less likely to suffer from psychological fatigue, which effectively avoids the phenomenon of students "distracting" in class.
Activities are an important way to develop intelligence, allowing knowledge to be put into use. If students learn English more and carry out more activities, students will remember the knowledge they have learned more firmly and their interest will naturally become stronger.
During English classes, more interesting activities are carried out, and students' interest in learning will be stronger. Teachers actively cooperate in the activities and try to use English to communicate with students to encourage students to actively participate. After class, carry out English dialogues in the class, or hold English writing, English story speech competitions, etc. to consolidate and apply the knowledge learned, so that students can learn to think, speak and do frequently, and can also Let students learn to speak, learn to live in harmony with others, learn to learn cooperatively, and develop good study habits. It can also cultivate their sentiments, encourage them to practice, promote the development of their innovative thinking, and gradually enable them to use language comprehensively. Ability improves and interest in learning becomes stronger.
(2) Teacher-student interaction mobilizes students’ enthusiasm for participation and stimulates their interest in learning English
l. I will guide you to act and practice speaking
Keep students always in the In a state of active activity, because English learning is a kind of language learning, the authenticity and nature of the language is particularly important. How to cultivate students' spoken English to be authentic allows them to imitate. Sometimes I help students arrange scenes and music, and I also act as a "director" when necessary. I record the students' voices reading aloud and answering questions in class, and then play them to them to mobilize students' enthusiasm for activities and make them more active. Speak and act more seriously. Because students have strong self-awareness, they are afraid that others will regard themselves as "weak" and strive to express themselves on various occasions and establish their own prestige. Therefore, in order to make their recordings leave a better impression on other students, everyone Consciously perform at your highest level. Over time, the level of classroom question and answer and reading aloud has been significantly improved. At the beginning, students recorded the sounds they read aloud at home and brought them to class. The students were very interested in this and checked each other's completion. In order to further improve their oral communication skills, I also organized students to write stories and role dialogues at home. Recordings of text sketches, etc. Practice has proved that the effect is very good.
2. Games and singing, live classroom
Games and activities are in line with the cognitive structure and psychological characteristics of primary school students. Teachers can make the boring and mechanical word learning and sentence pattern practice more interesting by interspersing games and activities in the classroom. Singing and games are particularly popular activities for students. Therefore, if we express the teaching content in the form of singing games, it will arouse students' interest, students will love and enjoy learning, and they can easily master the knowledge they have learned. For example, in terms of word teaching, I first prepared pictures of the new words tiger and elephant, then showed the pictures to teach the words, and used the words to compile and sing an English song: "Two Tigers", plus interesting actions, so that the students In the process of singing, doing and playing, I firmly memorized the new words.
3. English Day, broaden horizons
I designate every Friday as English Day. Students take turns to play English stories, riddles, etc. in class. This not only trains students' oral English, It also broadens students' horizons and increases students' knowledge. English competitions are held regularly to give full play to the main role of students in the activities and mobilize students' enthusiasm. Students set their own questions and serve as judges, so that students can unknowingly integrate the words, vocabulary, sentence patterns and other knowledge they have learned. It provides students with the time and space for independent learning and independent development while stimulating students to explore independently. Desires and Interests.
Through these activities, students can learn English in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, making them feel that learning is an interest rather than a heavy burden. This can not only improve the teaching effect, but also play a role as a teacher. It plays no role in the lecture.
4. Experience success and focus on fun
Provide students with a successful experience. When students learn English for the first time, they find it novel and interesting, but it is difficult and difficult. Based on the principle of more encouragement and praise and less criticism, I grasp the content of the activities and the difficulty of the questions according to the differences in students' learning levels, so as to provide students with the necessary guidance for success. Opportunities to allow all students to taste the joy of success and gradually develop their interest in learning. For example: let students with poorer learning answer easy-to-answer questions, and let students with better learning answer questions with a certain degree of difficulty. The words of praise are often changed, and very good, excellent, great, clever, etc. are used according to the actual situation. In this way All students can enjoy success.
Use various teaching media rationally and strive to make English learning more interesting. "The success of students' learning comes from teachers' praise, and from family's praise and encouragement." Paying attention to students' learning status at any time should not just focus on the consistent good grades, but also pay more attention to the underachievers! Even if they make a little progress, I will give them correct evaluations to enhance their self-confidence in learning English, so that students of different levels can gain something and experience the joy of successful learning. At the same time, I will also conduct more home visits and conduct courses. Follow up the investigation and carefully write the teaching postscript, so as to grasp the teaching methods and progress, and promote the students in the class to work together and make progress together.
(3) Create an environment for using English and cultivate students’ English ability
The key to students learning English is to use English for communication. In order to enable students to truly master and use English, teaching , I paid attention to the following points:
① Guide students to use English to think.
In normal classes, I usually spend a few minutes instructing students to practice self-reporting, free conversation and other forms. I also pay attention to organizing teaching in standard and beautiful English to create a good language environment, and the explanations are humorous and entertaining. Students practice boldly and actively participate; at the same time, students' handwritten newspapers are displayed and reviewed on the walls of the classroom to form a physical environment for learning English. A variety of English extracurricular activities and English games are organized, English textbook plays are arranged, and self-made English handbooks are organized. Copy newspapers to create an interesting environment for learning English, so that students learn better.
② Stimulate students' emotions and design inspiring situations.
Look for factors that can stimulate students' emotions in the teaching materials, and design inspiring situations so that students can apply what they have learned. For example:
(1) After teaching the fourth unit of the fifth textbook, when a classmate is thirsty, they have a conversation like this:
A: I am thirsty, I want to drink . Do you have some juice?
B: Yes, here you are．
A: Thanks.
B: You are welcome.
(2) When a student wants to express his preference for various items and smells, they use the fifth textbook Unit 5 and Unit The sentence pattern of 6 is like this:
A: Do you like chocolate?
B: No, I don't like chocolate. It's too sweet for me. Do you like ginger?
A: No, I hate the smell of ginger. It's too spicy for me. Do you want some wine?
B: Yes, I like the smell of wine.
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A: I like it, too.
③ Create opportunities and apply the knowledge you have learned.
March 10th is the birthday of classmate Yu Mingming. The classmates held a birthday party for him and used the knowledge they learned in English to prepare homemade Western food for him, such as hamburger, toast and jam, soup wait. Looking at the innocent and lovely smiling faces of the students, and listening to the young and loud singing voices of the students - "happy birthday to you!", I seem to have returned to my childhood, where teachers and students are all working together. Immerse yourself in a happy English situation. This not only consolidates the knowledge learned in a specific situation, but students also learn new content such as birthday wishes.
2. "People-oriented", student-centered, giving full play to the main role of students
Students are full of interest when they first learn English, but as time goes by and their knowledge capacity increases, As the difficulty of learning increases, the degree of interest retention will vary from person to person, and some students may even lose interest completely. In response to this natural phenomenon, we should pay more attention and encouragement and provide more practical help. The specific measures are as follows:
① People-oriented, layered teaching
According to the actual situation of the students, Differences in non-intellectual factors provide target incentives and layered mutual promotion. Students with low levels of knowledge should do question-and-answer exercises and conversion exercises, and their enthusiasm for asking questions should be protected. Simple questions should be left to them as much as possible to attract their attention, gradually cultivate their thinking ability, and enable them to answer more questions. Be mentally and intellectually prepared for difficult questions. Students with outstanding intelligence factors do exercises with strong reading and reasoning skills. According to the principle of gradualness, when some students do have difficulties and find it difficult to continue, the progress should be slowed down appropriately, omissions and gaps should be checked, and even "small tasks" should be carried out, so that with the patient help of teachers, they can be confident and catch up step by step. . Teachers can expand the difficulty and concentration when teaching, and can also increase the amount of information in exercises or tests so that they are constantly stimulated by new information. In short, let students at different levels have something to do, be able to do whatever they encounter, gain something from doing it, and enjoy it endlessly.
② Sincere care and genuine encouragement
Caring for students will stimulate students' motivation to learn. Encouraging students will inspire students' confidence in learning. Teachers should not hesitate to praise and encourage, especially for some students whose grades are not ideal, they should be more sure of what they have done well, discover their shining points in time, and enhance their confidence. For example, I implement a daily score scoring system in the class to encourage students to perform more and get more points, which increases their motivation to learn.
③ Extracurricular activities to expand English knowledge and maintain interest
Carry out a variety of English extracurricular activities with a wide range of content to maintain interest. Suhomlinski said: "The source of interest lies in application." In order to enhance students' interest in learning English and give students more opportunities to use English for communication, teachers can design and organize a variety of extracurricular activities that are easy and moderately difficult. .
Through activities, students can apply the knowledge they have learned to practice, enable students to understand themselves, achieve varying degrees of sense of accomplishment, enhance their self-confidence, increase their interest and fun in learning English, and change "I want to learn" into "I want to learn". Want to learn", and thus maintain their interest in learning English for a long time.
Teachers can regularly edit English learning forums or run English posters to solve difficult problems, analyze common mistakes, analyze word usage, lecture on British and American customs, etc. They can also publish some game methods and English poems appropriately. , riddles, allusions, anecdotes, student diaries, etc.; you can set up an English extracurricular activity group to carry out group activities such as learning extracurricular materials, singing English songs, performing English conversations or short plays; organize English competitions based on actual conditions, such as: English writing competitions, Recitation competition, word dictation competition, word solitaire competition, intelligence competition, etc. Let students help each other and infect each other in these activities, thereby jointly improving their level and maintaining their interest in learning English for a long time.