《英语新课程标准》指出,英语教学的目标是使学生掌握一定的语言基础知识和基本的技能,建立初步的语感,获得初步运用英语的能力,为真实交际打下基础。由此可知,英语口头表达能力的地位和作用是十分重要的。如何在英语教学中培养学生的口头表达能力呢?一、建立新型师生关系,让学生“敢说”在进行口语训练之初,学生普遍存在畏难心理,不敢开口。此时,训练的难度要小,要求要低,可采取讲述式的方式进行。同时,要建立民主、和谐、平等的新型师生关系,消除学生的畏难心理。教学时,教师可鼓励学生用所学的词汇、句型来讲述身边发生的事, The New English Curriculum Standard states that the goal of English teaching is to enable students to acquire a certain basic knowledge of language and basic skills, to establish a preliminary sense of language and acquire the initial ability to use English so as to lay the foundation for real communication. From this we can see that the status and role of oral English ability is very important. How to cultivate students’ verbal ability in English teaching? First, to establish a new relationship between teachers and students, so that students “dare to say ” in the beginning of oral training, students generally fear psychology, afraid to speak. At this point, the training is less difficult, less demanding, can take narrative style. At the same time, it is necessary to establish a new type of relationship between teachers and students that is democratic, harmonious and equal and eliminate the students’ fear of being mentally challenged. Teaching, teachers can encourage students to use the vocabulary, sentence patterns to tell what happened around them,