湖南冷水江七中 袁蓉 王志平
The teaching purpose of senior middle school is to train the ability of the social intercourse in oral and written English, to train the reading ability and to make the students get some self-educated ability.
As a teacher of English, one must teach language points in the teaching process, and above all, one must train students’ technical ability of learning languages. If we want to increase the teaching efficiency and improve the ability of learning English for students, we teachers must change from‘regarding teachers as the center’to‘students as the corpus and teachers as directors ’.
In traditional education, teachers are always the center and they often teach knowledge to students. They don’t teach the way of learning English. So students are always placed in the passive position and they don’t have the active power of learning. Teachers explain the language points and grammar in detail, they don’t train students’ abilities of listening, speaking，reading and writing. This goes against the regulations of language learning and the purposes of English teaching.
In the teaching process of education, we should make good use of the role of students under the guidance of teachers. The student is the study’s corpus, and is also the corpus of developing himself. In class teaching we should teach students to form the consciousness of participation, the consciousness of active speech, the consciousness of being good at listening, the consciousness of accepting knowledge and the consciousness of comprehension. As long as students take active part in the class teaching process, they can improve the ability of speaking languages, form a good habit of studying and gain the self-educated ability.
Without students’ participation or equal, harmonious atmosphere, it is impossible for students to improve the language ability and technical ability and it is also impossible for them to educate the creative ability.
In the teaching process, we teachers must change “from teachers as the center to teachers as the predominance”. We must make full use of the leading function and we must let the students take an active part in their studies. Thus, it can be good for training the students’ consciousness of active learning, the language ability and the creative ability and it can be good for developing the studying potential of the students.
We teachers must start with the mental and physiological characteristics of the students to stir up the students’ learning desire. And we must try our best to build positive, harmonious and relaxed communication atmosphere in order to promote the intercourse of the language.
We teachers must continuously change the role in class teaching according to the contents and demands of the language. In the revision, we teachers are advisers. In the led-in of the new lesson, we teachers are actors. In organizing the teaching and stabling the scene, we teachers are organizers. In the consolidation, we teachers are supporters. Only in this way can we finish the predominant function of the teachers and then stir up the positive and creative actions of the students.
In the English teaching process, teachers must not only teach the knowledge, but also teach the knowledge construction, and still we must teach the method of learning this knowledge. Teachers must tell students how to obtain the knowledge, how to consolidate the knowledge and how to make use of the knowledge, etc. and then we can develop the students’ ability of using English to obtain the information and handle the information. We can still develop the English language application ability of the students, instruct the students to study by themselves and guide the students to using their knowledge to do research in other fields, which makes the students become the real corpus in studying.
Practice proves that instruction in learning methods is the basic path to increase the students’ creative ability.
The students’ creative ability is not the result of the teaching, but primarily it is the result of the students’ learning. Teaching is just the outer factor for the formation and development of the students’ creative ability. The active learning of the students is the inner factor for the formation and development of the students’ creative ability. Only when we pay more attention to our teaching method and the students’ learning method, have them form into a good habit of learning and let them learn to study, learn to consider and learn to create, can we educate the real creative persons.
On the teaching target, we must teach from teaching pure language knowledge to the social intercourse ability of the language. The traditional English class considers the teaching of the phonetics, grammar, vocabulary and so on as the teaching target. Teachers spend much time and energy in explaining the details of knowledge and analysis of sentences. In class the students receive the education passively. They remember points of the language one by one. Their abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing have not been trained. Once the students want to communicate with others, they may face many difficulties and they will make lots of mistakes.
These problems lie in the teaching process, during which teachers only teach the students pure language, but neglect the educating of language technical ability and social intercourse ability. The facts prove that knowledge is the basis of the ability, but not the same as the ability.
Language is a tool of delivering information, exchanging thought and expressing emotion. In the studying of English, the knowledge of the language is a means of learning and mastering English. In the teaching process, teachers must teach the basic knowledge, such as phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and expressions. We must also enhance the basic training to make the students master the basic construction of the English language and yet the basic technical abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
However, the purpose of the English teaching is not just to make the students master the knowledge of the language in the textbook, most of all, it is to let the students use the knowledge they have learned from the textbook. in their daily lives. So long as we teach the students the English language as a social intercourse tool, we can make the students really learn to use English.
First, in the teaching process, teachers must be good at stirring up the students’ thinking and put forward some interesting and valuable talks for the students to discuss, which can stir up the students’ thinking and desire for knowledge. The desire for knowledge is motive and it is the origin of invention of creation. The ability can’t be improved without the desire for knowledge.
Then, we must make a proper language environment for the students, which is good for the students’ language ability. In this process we can combine the sight, hearing and speaking together. If we want to enlarge the outer environment of the English language teaching, we can extend the English language training. This kind of form is more vivid, active and imaginative, which is liked by the students. It is helpful for the students to imitate, comprehend and memorize.
Finally, teachers should pay attention to the language construction in the teaching process and use English in class as much as possible. And we should ask the students to communicate with each other as much as possible. In class, we should explain the words, grammar and the texts in English accurately and fluently. We teachers should teach English as a tool of social intercourse and the students should learn English as a tool of social intercourse, master it as a tool of social intercourse and then use it as a tool of social intercourse. Then we can improve the students’ language ability and social intercourse ability.
While strengthening the basic knowledge and basic training, we should enhance the training of the language in order to improve the students’ ability of the social intercourse.
The teaching purpose is to improve the ability of the social intercourse in English. The control of the knowledge and the exaltation of the ability is indivisible, and the knowledge is a foundation to increase the ability. And the ability can further promote the control of the knowledge.
In the teaching process, teachers must think out all kinds of ways to make the students learn more knowledge and improve the language ability, which can help the students in further study. We must give the students a lot of practice of listening, speaking, reading and writing, which can improve the students’ ability of using the language.
Mr Ye Shengtao once said, “The teachers’ teaching should aim at the ability of the students. Only by doing so, can we teachers solve the problem of one’s life.”
In the teaching process, teachers must make full of all kinds of teaching means, such as slide, multi-media and so on, to make the students more positive and active. Only if we stir up the students’ interest of learning English and teach them how to learn English can we increase the teaching efficiency as much as possible. As we all know, interest is the best teacher of learning.