Keywords Interesting Teaching Strategies in Primary English Teaching
With the acceleration of globalization, English is becoming more and more important in the world. The number of countries that use English as a second language has been increasing. Therefore, English is also very important in our country. For primary school students, the most important thing is to stimulate their interest in learning English. Interest teaching method is very necessary for teachers to stimulate students' interest. In addition, teachers' research on interest teaching method is also very meaningful.
Keywords English teaching in primary schools; Interest teaching method; strategic vision
Educational psychology shows that when teaching can arouse students' interest, students can concentrate on learning, better perceive, remember, think and imagine, so as to acquire more and more solid knowledge and skills, show their joy and desire for knowledge, and strengthen their exploration of knowledge. It is also mentioned in the new English curriculum standard that the main task of English teaching in primary school is to stimulate students' interest in learning English. On the premise of stimulating students' interest in learning, teachers should focus on cultivating students' learning initiative, enthusiasm and learning intelligence through listening, speaking, reading, singing, playing and acting, so as to acquire language knowledge and skills, form a primary sense of language, pronunciation and intonation, and cultivate students' simple English language communication ability. It can be seen that it is very important for teachers to stimulate students' interest in learning in the teaching process.
Primary school students usually learn English from grade three to grade six, and the age of students at this stage is between 9 and 12.
As a teenager. Most children of this age have the characteristics of strong curiosity, love of classroom activities, love of classroom performances, and being good at imitating performances. They like new things and are curious about strange languages. If teachers can make full use of students' characteristics, they can stimulate students' interest in learning. It can be said that every student has a strong curiosity and enthusiasm when he first comes into contact with English. It can even be said that each of them has a strong desire to "learn English well". Suhomlinski, an educator in the former Soviet Union, once said: "Every pupil comes to school with good wishes." However, at present, due to the limitations of English textbooks for primary schools in China, the lack of real language environment and limited teaching equipment, the speed of improving English teaching quality is far from meeting the needs of social development. Therefore, many students lack interest in learning English.
According to the above characteristics, if primary school students want to learn English well, they should first stimulate their interest in learning and arouse their enthusiasm for learning. There are many strategies to stimulate and cultivate primary school students' interest in English learning, such as insisting on listening and speaking, connecting with real life, creating situations, encouraging and rewarding, etc. According to my own teaching practice, the author summarizes the following effective and practical methods and strategies.
First, use game methods to stimulate students' interest
For primary school students, especially junior high school students, it is particularly useful to use games to teach. Because students are young, their attention is easily distracted. Using game teaching in the classroom is beneficial to their concentration and can fully stimulate students' interest in learning. For example, when I was teaching Hunan to run the second volume of the third grade, because of my large vocabulary, students were easily confused, so I used a variety of games in class, such as loud and quiet, guessing puzzles, swatting flies, burying bombs and so on. These games are relatively simple and easy for teachers to operate in class. Grade three students have just started to contact English. Teaching with games can stimulate their interest, keep their enthusiasm for English and really fall in love with English.
1, loud game: When the teacher reads the words aloud, the students must read them softly; When the teacher reads aloud softly,
Students must read aloud. Through fast reading loudly and quietly, students' attention is very focused, and they can read words quickly and correctly.
2. Guess: Guess is a game that helps to expand children's thinking. For example, learning "where"
Cat? In the first class, the author covered some pictures with shadows, and then asked the students to guess the location, which not only stimulated the students' interest, but also developed the children's thinking.
3. Look at the mouth and guess the word: the teacher only makes the mouth shape of the word pronunciation, and does not make a sound. Look at the mouth and guess.
Say it out loud. For example, when teaching some difficult words, students can look at the teacher's mouth shape and then identify them themselves. This method can not only make students concentrate, see the teacher's pronunciation clearly and read words better, but also make students actively participate in the classroom, thus maintaining a high interest in learning. In this game, the teacher can also demonstrate first, then one student makes a mouth gesture, and other students guess, which will distract students' thinking ability.
4. Deliver the package: The teacher can divide the class into several groups, each with a card or picture.
The teacher instructed: "Start!" Each group passes cards or pictures quickly, reading the words on the cards while passing them. The teacher said, "Stop!" "Stop everything. Students who get the cards must stand up and read the words aloud.
For example, the author has been using this method when teaching difficult words, and the effect is very good.
5. Find friends: Send word cards and corresponding pictures to several classmates, and one classmate will say cards at will.
Words on the blackboard, students with words and corresponding pictures run out quickly, stand together, make friends, stand right, and read the words together, which will help students consolidate the words and better remember the sounds, shapes and meanings of the words. For example, when the author teaches the four seasons, he distributes word cards to students, and then asks students to find the corresponding pictures and read the words aloud. Students are particularly active in this link, thus achieving the teaching goal.
Second, the application of TPR teaching method
The so-called TPR teaching method, the abbreviation of teacher's "whole body response", means "all action response" This teaching method is based on the theories of developmental psychology, learning psychology and humanistic psychology, and advocates learning language through behavior and action. English teaching in primary schools should always keep in mind that students are the center and attach importance to students' existing experience. In teaching, we should prevent the inhibition of children's physical activities, perceptual activities and language activities, promote the discussion and cooperation between students and teachers and students as much as possible, develop good interpersonal relationships and create a relaxed psychological atmosphere. Primary school students, especially junior students, are likely to reduce their interest in learning English when they encounter difficult English words or sentence patterns. Teachers should flexibly design various actions to stimulate students' learning enthusiasm, which is conducive to stimulating and maintaining students' interest. For example, when the author is teaching the body unit of the third grade of Hunan Shaoban Edition, the teacher tells the password to let the students point out the corresponding body parts such as head, face, eyes, ears, arms, legs, legs and feet. Through this link, students can not only practice words, but also easily integrate into the English learning atmosphere. For another example, when teaching Unit8 Spring is warm and nice, the author designed a special and memorable action for each word in the classroom teaching process, so that students can learn and remember four words with actions: spring, summer, autumn and winter. This not only makes students move in class, but also greatly stimulates their interest in learning English.
Third, skillfully compose poems.
In English class, teachers skillfully compile children's songs that can make students catchy, so that students can master new knowledge and consolidate what they have learned in a relaxed and pleasant environment, and at the same time, they can greatly stimulate students' interest in learning. For example, the author is teaching a fifth-grade book, Do you have any hobbies? In this unit, a children's song: I like swimming, swimming is my hobby; I like singing, singing is my hobby; I like skating, skating is my hobby, I like painting, painting is my hobby. In this nursery rhyme, I not only reviewed my favorite sentence patterns …, but also introduced new sentence patterns …
For another example, the author skillfully compiled a chnat:sleep sleeping I was sleeping when I was teaching the unit Peter is writing, and Hunan Shaoban Edition was the second volume of the fourth grade; He is working; She is cooking; Let students practice this chant first, and then let them write a new chant according to examples, which not only consolidates new knowledge, but also cultivates students' creativity and greatly increases students' interest.
Fourthly, the content of cross-cultural communication should be properly infiltrated.
The new English curriculum standard clearly points out that "the task of English teaching in the basic education stage is to help students understand the differences between the world and Chinese and Western cultures, broaden their horizons, cultivate patriotism and form a healthy outlook on life. Lay a good foundation for students' lifelong learning. "In the practice of English teaching in primary schools, teachers can appropriately infiltrate students with' cross-cultural awareness' according to the teaching content or topic, which is also one of the effective ways to stimulate students' interest in learning. Students are particularly interested in novelty, so the more they know about colorful foreign cultures, the stronger their interest in English and English-speaking countries, which will greatly help and promote their English learning. For example, the teaching of some words is a bit boring, and students are also a bit boring. In the greeting unit of the first volume of the third grade, the author added the content of greeting when westerners meet. Some of them put their hands together, some kissed their cheeks, some hugged each other, and the students were particularly interested in learning. For another example, in the second volume of Grade Three, the author takes "white" as an example to introduce the meaning of white in western countries, and then compares it with China culture. In China, white is often associated with "disease" or "death", which not only enables students to master new knowledge, but also broadens their horizons.
In a word, the purpose of English teaching in primary schools is to cultivate students' interest in learning English, so as to gain perceptual knowledge of English, develop good study habits and lay a good foundation for further learning English in middle schools. Interest is the psychological tendency of students to actively know things and participate in learning activities. It is the internal motivation to learn English and the best teacher to learn English. In primary school English teaching, teachers should stimulate students' interest in learning through various means, create a good English learning environment for students, and let students really feel the fun of learning English in a relaxed and happy environment. Teachers should fully and effectively adopt advanced teaching concepts, improve students' learning enthusiasm, turn abstract into concrete, turn boring into interest, and let students enjoy learning and learn and acquire knowledge actively and easily.