一直以来,在英语课堂教学中,教师给学生布置适度的课外作业已经成为一次完整课堂教学默认的最后一环,对此,似乎很少有学生会质疑:为什么要做这些课外作业?似乎也很少有教师会深层次地思考:这些课外作业的逻辑起点是什么?那么,我们不妨重温一下义务教育阶段英语课程的总目标,即:通过英语学习使学生形成初步的综合语言运用能力。这一目标的达成始于教师主导的英语课堂教学,但更离不开学生在课外开展的更为丰富的英语学习活动。我们常常需要通过布置课外作业,使学生的英语学习活动从有限的课堂 It has long been rare for students to question why they need to do these extra-curricular activities-and few seem to have been the last-of-a-kind default classroom assignment for teachers in English classroom instruction Some teachers think deeply: What are the logical starting points of these extracurricular assignments? Then, we may wish to review the general goal of the compulsory education English course: to enable students to form initial comprehensive language proficiency through English learning. This goal has been reached in teacher-led English classroom teaching, but it can not be separated from richer English learning activities that students take after class. We often need to arrange our homework assignments so that our students’ English learning activities will go from limited classes