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1、Oral English Teaching In Middle Schools Speaking is regarded as a major objective in foreign language learning , so foreign language teaching mainly aims at communication. But it is often neglected in middle schools. Exam systems limits the procedures of teachers, Students still spend much time on l
2、anguage structures, grammar and reading. The result of doing so leads to more students who are deaf and dumb in communication. Why should teachers focus on spoken language in initial stage of learning a foreign language? This may be justified for some physical and psychological reasons rather than l
3、inguistic ones. Middle School students ability to imitate is greater than that of grown-ups. Young students have an advantage in quick responses in English. They are less shy and less afraid of making mistakes and this places them in fovorable position to learn foreign languages . The spoken languag
4、e is more closely related to everyday life and this is more appealing to young students. How to develop the students speaking skill ,especially, their speaking ability, is the problem I want to discuss in this thesis. 1. Build up self-confidence.Firstly, the most important thing is to create ample o
5、pportunities to practise speaking and make students selfconfident. Students should be told that they neednt be afraid of making mistakes or of failure. Everybody including native speakers makes mistakes. Secondly, a relaxed atmosphere is conductive to free expression. A skillful teacher can create a
6、n atmosphere in which students feel at ease to find words to express themselves . When a teacher stops a student numerous times to correct errors in his speech, he is running the risk of silencing the students forever, and what is worse, of scaring the rest of the class. In class, the students shoul
7、d have many chances to speak without tension or fear.It is certain that students would make grammatical or communicative mistakes in language activities, however, its completely wrong to require them to use the language as accurately as possible and correct their mistakes frequently while they are e
8、xpressing themselves. No one can learn a language well without making mistakes. What teachers should be concerned most about is that students can play an active part in communicative activities and make themselves understood, especially in the beginning .It is believed as long as people use language
9、, they are learning to use it consciously or unconsciously. In a word, the more they practise, the fewer mistakes they will make. And the fewer mistakes the students make, the more progress they will make. Surely the students can easily attain their goal.2. Stimulate study interest and motivesStudy
10、interest and motives are the inner power for students to achieve a certain goal and to change from passive study to active one. The motives to study actively:1. Help students to master the knowledge and to form their speaking skills.2. Help to digest the language learned .The process, which includes
11、 memorizing dialogues, drilling and practising, for digestion is to personalize the knowledge, to form the ability and to practise it in everyday life.3. Help to better the relationship between teachers and students.4. Help teachers to adjust their teaching methods to meet students needs and to impr
12、ove the effect of their teaching after receiving the information from students. In a word, it is necessary for teachers to take all kinds of measures to educate and stimulate students study interest and study motive to improve their English. Most students are required to learn English well in order
13、to graduate, to pursue good jobs and to do the work competently. Yet due to some subjective and objective reasons, the ability in speaking is almost totally neglected. It is disadvantageous to speak a foreign language in the sealed-off circumstances in an ordinary school where there is no target lan
14、guage community and thus no meaningful oral communication. I. First of all, the teacher should try to create language environments in classTeachers can develop the students speaking skill inside the classroom. It is necessary to speak as much English in class as possible. Meanwhile, an English learn
15、ing environment is badly needed without the language environment, they cant remember and strengthen what they have studied by putting them into practice. They have to remember new words, phrases, idioms, sentence structures and grammar rules consciously, which are the burden weighed upon their mind.
16、 Creating a pleasant atmosphere for the students and putting them in a cheerful mood is very important. In class, the teacher should impart knowledge in English and should explain the words, grammar, and the text all in English. At the same time, encourage the students to try as hard as possible to
17、use English. At the beginning undoubtedly, some students found it difficult to adapt to. But once they were familiar with the terms of English teaching and basic class English, they felt more interested in class. Thus environment came into being, and it enhanced the students interest and their sense
18、 of participating in communication. There are some aspects to train the students speaking skills inside the classroom.Do some comprehension tasks about the text. Different comprehension tasks on the reading texts are designed in addition to the ones set up in the books. For example, students are req
19、uired to retell the text or to summarize the main points of the texts and play the roles of the characters in the text. They may even be asked to give a performance of their own. These tasks cannot only help the students understand the texts better, but also give them a challenge in expressing thems
20、elves in English orally.1.Retelling Retelling can help expand vocabulary. It is one of the best methods to make using the new words easier. After a detailed study, the students are encouraged to describe what they have with their own words. Encourage them to sum up the material, using newly learned
21、words. Sometimes the teacher may invite one or two students to retell in front of the whole class, but mostly, they do it in pairs so that everyone has a chance to practise. Retelling can set the students free from the hard and boring work of memorizing word lists which decreases self-confidence and
22、 deepen interest in English study. It can associate an isolated word with something we are already familiar with and put the lifeless new words into meaningful context. All these can make the study interesting, the flow of thought possible and the memorizing of the new words easier. Its advantage is
23、 that it improves the students speaking abilities as well as helps them to learn new words. Take The Diamond Necklace for example. Ask the students to turn the play into a short story. Pierre Loisel used to work in a government office. One day he and his wife Mathilde Loisel received an invitation t
24、o a ball in the palace. Mathilde Loisel spent 400 francs on a new dress but had no more money for jewellery. She borrowed a beautiful necklace from her friend Jeanne .The couple had a very good time in the palace. But after the ball Mathilde found the necklace missing. They borrowed money to buy a d
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