The so-called interest is a tendentious psychological phenomenon produced by people in the process of cognition. Bruner, an American psychologist, said: "The stimulating force of learning is the interest in the textbooks you have learned." All these illustrate the important role of interest. Compared with urban families, the family cultural atmosphere of rural primary school students is relatively low, and parents pay insufficient attention to learning, especially foreign language learning, which exerts a subtle influence on students' attitude towards English learning. If they don't pay attention to arouse students' interest, they will easily feel tired of learning English. Goethe said: "Where there is no interest, there is no memory." The formation of English language learning habits and the cultivation of communicative competence are inseparable from memory. Therefore, it is particularly important to stimulate students' interest, initiative and spontaneity in English teaching, especially in rural primary schools.
Second, pay attention to the effectiveness of classroom teaching and insist on taking interest as the starting point.
(A) to create a good language atmosphere and establish a harmonious relationship between teachers and students.
As a language, English is a thinking tool. In order to create an English language atmosphere for students as much as possible, and to minimize students' dependence on their mother tongue and the interference of their mother tongue thinking, we should use all available time to provide students with an English environment. We should not only teach English as much as possible in classroom teaching, but also make full use of the time before and after class, and let students feel English imperceptibly by playing English songs and singing English rhythm songs, so as to gradually form a sense of language.
Pupils are in a special age stage, and dependence and rebellion coexist. Too strict and too gentle education methods are not suitable for students in this period. Only by establishing an equal teacher-student relationship, treating every student fairly, respecting students' independent personality, being a strict teacher in education, being a "loving mother" in life, constantly expanding their knowledge reserves and becoming an "encyclopedia" in students' minds, can a harmonious teacher-student relationship be formed. As the saying goes, "kiss your teacher and believe in his way." Forming a good and harmonious relationship between teachers and students is the basis of teaching English well and learning English well.
(2) Carefully design the situation of teaching materials and create an entertaining classroom teaching.
At present, students use the first edition of English textbooks for the first grade of Hebei Education, and the study and life of Danny, Jenny, Liming and other characters runs through. The real communicative situation provides a good opportunity for situational teaching. It is worth noting that teachers should consider the characteristics of students' learning periods and the living environment of students in rural schools when designing situations, and adjust the situations set in textbooks appropriately to make them conform to students' real life. Teachers should flexibly use the five teaching links of review, presentation, practice, practice and consolidation to make each class wonderful and effective.
(1) Combine visual teaching AIDS with modern technology and body language.
When teaching simple and easy-to-find things that can be touched in daily life, we can choose physical objects to increase students' interest, which can not only achieve vivid results, but also combine intuitive things with abstract thinking. If taught:
Ball, pen, ruler, banana, etc. , you can directly display or indicate the item. Teachers can also encourage students to make their own teaching AIDS, which can arouse students' enthusiasm on the one hand and improve their memory on the other. When teaching shape and color, students can make color graphics, and perceive, understand and remember from three aspects: sound, shape and meaning, which is very efficient. At the same time, teachers should also pay attention to the application of modern teaching technology when teaching abstract vocabulary or objects that are difficult to find in life, such as palaces.
Museums and other institutions should play a multimedia role; The role of image is also essential in practice teaching. For example, when teaching dynamic vocabulary such as jumping and running, a simple action by the teacher can help students understand its meaning and make the class lively.
(B) the combination of teaching materials and life practice.
The textbook for Grade One of Hebei Education Publishing House pays attention to the cultivation and training of students' English listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities, strives to create a context for learners, is rich in phonetic information, and emphasizes students' thematic role. Therefore, situational teaching can not only arouse students' enthusiasm, but also cultivate students' communicative competence in life practice. For example, books
Unit 2 Lesson 12 Palace
The first lesson of Museum, using multimedia rendering environment, supplemented by physical camera and film, allows students to be in the Forbidden City and quickly enter the situation. Teachers from welcome to
The introduction of the Palace Museum will naturally teach key words such as the Palace Museum, and then naturally let students understand the key sentence pattern May I have through the situation.
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Camera? Meaning and reading. In the process of demonstration, you can play the role of the object, enhance students' enthusiasm for participation, learn knowledge step by step with the demonstration, and actively participate in the situational demonstration with high enthusiasm, eager to try and quickly accept new vocabulary and new sentence patterns.
(3) Review content and new teaching content.
Students often have resistance to the knowledge that they find difficult, so adopting the method from the shallow to the deep will reduce their psychological burden, arouse their enthusiasm and enhance their self-confidence. Yi My
Take the face as an example. Many new words have appeared, and the concept of singular and plural has appeared. It is difficult for teachers to explain clearly through simple explanations, but it is much easier to involve old knowledge. The teacher first takes the students to review the shapes and numbers they have learned before through games, and then uses stick figures to express the structure of faces by adding graphics one by one. Students naturally understand the meaning without the teacher's deliberate teaching. By adding their familiar graphics, students' attention is greatly attracted, and their enthusiasm for reading new words is high. When it comes to the difficult part, it first presents the singular form, and then presents two bands.
Eyes, students don't need to explain too much further. The difference between simple numbers and complex numbers is clear at a glance. The whole process was completely completed in a game atmosphere, and the students were very interested.
Third, establish and improve the reward mechanism to stimulate the motivation of teamwork.
In order to further stimulate students' subjective initiative and main role and cultivate their interest in learning English, the reward mechanism is essential. Teachers should not only make full use of compliments in daily teaching, but also establish a long-term reward mechanism to give students goals and motivation and turn short-term interests into long-term preferences. Group cooperative learning is one of the most effective methods. Teachers can divide students into several groups according to the principle of "homogeneity between groups and differences within groups", which is helpful to the development of cooperative learning mode within groups, and the competition between groups is also easy to stimulate students' enthusiasm. Therefore, it is very important and necessary to formulate an effective group reward mechanism. This will not only help the transformation of potential students, but also strengthen the sense of cooperation. Teachers learn from each other, supervise each other and make progress together in groups, reward groups with excellent learning tasks, and carry out inter-group competitions to stimulate students' sense of honor and responsibility, and further stimulate students' motivation to learn English. After a period of observation, the combination of group cooperation and reward mechanism not only improves students' English scores, but also increases team spirit.
To sum up, attaching importance to the role of interest and making use of it can promote students' English learning. A good English teacher should not simply focus on how to teach stiffly, but on how to make students willing to learn and how to cultivate students' interest in learning English. As long as students' interest in learning is improved, the quality of English teaching and learning will naturally improve.