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Why do Chinese study English? What is the purpose of high school English teaching? It is clear that it’s necessary to improve students’ four fundamental skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and let them master necessary phonetics, large vocabulary and good grammar, but this is not enough. The final purpose is to let students be able to use English freely.
Ⅰ.How to improve listening skill
Firstly, try to let students be in a language environment. We know the largest difference between mother language learning and foreign language learning is the environment. A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something. Then after he is able to say, he has a good chance of listening to more mother language materials. Before he goes to school, he has already been a good listener and speaker. The more English he listens to, the more English he’ll speak out!But for a foreign language,students can only hear or use in classes, They can hardly have other chances to hear or use it.
Secondly, try to let students grasp correct phonetic symbol. Phonetic symbol is the base of a language. In the beginning, it is a good method to let students read after a radio. Pay attention to theoral reading skills, including stress, strong form, weak form, intonation, incomplete plosive consonant, affricate consonant, syllables and so on. Training and practicing oral reading cannot be finished in a day. The teacher must give correct information about it. There is no easy way.
Thirdly, try to letstudents keep confident. It is clear that to learn a foreign language is difficult for everyone. If you are able to listen well, you’ll be more confident in communication. And the more confident you are whenlistening, the more confident you will be when speaking. Keep a relaxed and natural mood when you listen to some materials.
The last but not the least, try to enlarge students’ knowledge about English. Encourage students to read something in their spare time about geography, history, culture and so on.
Ⅱ.How to improve speaking skill
1.Use modern teaching methods
Communicative Language Teaching is one of the modern methods that can be applied to improve students’ communicative abilities. In this method, teachers can set different tasks and activities to encourage students to communicate in English. The task of activities includes newspaper report, information exchange, role-playing, discussion and problems’-solving in pairs or groups. It can increase the amount of students’ talking in a limited period of time and also lower the inhibitions of students who are unwilling to speak in front of the whole class. This method emphasizes the communicative functions of a language, helping students to pay attention to whom they are communicating with and what messages they want to convey.
2. Use some communicative strategies
When students experience a problem in expressing themselves and must either change their meanings or find another way of expression. Teachers can offer them some communicative strategies, such as using approximation, using nonlinguistic resources and using a paraphrase, etc.
2.Error-analysis
Another method for dealing with students’ errors is to approach them from an analytic perspective, which can be especially fruitful for teachers. Teachers, as error-analysts, look for patterns in the errors of an individual student, trying to discover how the mistakes were made by analyzing the errors (lack of knowledge about a certain grammatical point, or a careless mistake), and plans strategies accordingly.
3.Ask students to keep a diary
Keeping a diary is an effective way for students to practice writing. It is not only a good chance to record their real life, but also a good way to improve their writing ability. As English teachers, we should encourage our students to foster a good habit to keep a diary. We also need to provide some help for them.
4. Publish students’ writing
The final basic strategy is publishing. Students need a reason for laboring over a draft until it is perfect; the urge to see their works in print can be a powerful drive toward revision and proof reading.
As English teachers of the students who are in high school, we should try every means to improve their four basic language skills and thus master the language well.
(责编 周侯辰 黄 晓)
Ⅰ.How to improve listening skill
Firstly, try to let students be in a language environment. We know the largest difference between mother language learning and foreign language learning is the environment. A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something. Then after he is able to say, he has a good chance of listening to more mother language materials. Before he goes to school, he has already been a good listener and speaker. The more English he listens to, the more English he’ll speak out!But for a foreign language,students can only hear or use in classes, They can hardly have other chances to hear or use it.
Secondly, try to let students grasp correct phonetic symbol. Phonetic symbol is the base of a language. In the beginning, it is a good method to let students read after a radio. Pay attention to theoral reading skills, including stress, strong form, weak form, intonation, incomplete plosive consonant, affricate consonant, syllables and so on. Training and practicing oral reading cannot be finished in a day. The teacher must give correct information about it. There is no easy way.
Thirdly, try to letstudents keep confident. It is clear that to learn a foreign language is difficult for everyone. If you are able to listen well, you’ll be more confident in communication. And the more confident you are whenlistening, the more confident you will be when speaking. Keep a relaxed and natural mood when you listen to some materials.
The last but not the least, try to enlarge students’ knowledge about English. Encourage students to read something in their spare time about geography, history, culture and so on.
Ⅱ.How to improve speaking skill
1.Use modern teaching methods
Communicative Language Teaching is one of the modern methods that can be applied to improve students’ communicative abilities. In this method, teachers can set different tasks and activities to encourage students to communicate in English. The task of activities includes newspaper report, information exchange, role-playing, discussion and problems’-solving in pairs or groups. It can increase the amount of students’ talking in a limited period of time and also lower the inhibitions of students who are unwilling to speak in front of the whole class. This method emphasizes the communicative functions of a language, helping students to pay attention to whom they are communicating with and what messages they want to convey.
2. Use some communicative strategies
When students experience a problem in expressing themselves and must either change their meanings or find another way of expression. Teachers can offer them some communicative strategies, such as using approximation, using nonlinguistic resources and using a paraphrase, etc.
2.Error-analysis
Another method for dealing with students’ errors is to approach them from an analytic perspective, which can be especially fruitful for teachers. Teachers, as error-analysts, look for patterns in the errors of an individual student, trying to discover how the mistakes were made by analyzing the errors (lack of knowledge about a certain grammatical point, or a careless mistake), and plans strategies accordingly.
3.Ask students to keep a diary
Keeping a diary is an effective way for students to practice writing. It is not only a good chance to record their real life, but also a good way to improve their writing ability. As English teachers, we should encourage our students to foster a good habit to keep a diary. We also need to provide some help for them.
4. Publish students’ writing
The final basic strategy is publishing. Students need a reason for laboring over a draft until it is perfect; the urge to see their works in print can be a powerful drive toward revision and proof reading.
As English teachers of the students who are in high school, we should try every means to improve their four basic language skills and thus master the language well.
(责编 周侯辰 黄 晓)