How to use modern educational means to enrich teaching forms and cultivate students' interest in learning English in many ways?

Author (Source): Written by Ye Shuxian and uploaded by Liu Sufang.

Gaoming district Lianhua town neighborhood Xi' an experimental primary school English department

First, the background and significance of the topic.

(1) Project background: Our school is an urban and rural primary school with 1422 students and 27 classes. Students come from rural areas and cities, and some are children of migrant workers. Their learning environment, family environment and learning methods are quite different. At the same time, due to the subject characteristics of English, students' learning interests are quite different. As a result, the English scores of students in our school are very uneven. At the same time, with the increase of language knowledge and content, especially the continuous increase of vocabulary, a considerable number of students feel at a loss. Students are tired of learning and afraid of learning because of their lagging study, which leads to the weakening of interest in learning English, initiative and learning ability, which directly affects the formation and development of students' ability and English knowledge level. Therefore, how to improve students' interest in learning and keep their interest is a common task for our English teachers.

Cultivating students' interest in learning English is one of the important purposes of English teaching in primary schools. The success of primary school students in learning English depends largely on their interest in learning. Therefore, primary school English teachers attach great importance to stimulating students' interest in learning. The traditional way to stimulate interest is as follows: 1. Stimulate students' interest through games, performances and singing. 2. Stimulate students' interest through intuitive means such as things and actions. 3. Stimulate students' interest through multimedia and other audio-visual teaching methods. 4. Stimulate students' interest by creating scenes. These ways of stimulating interest have aroused the interest of beginners to a great extent and played a very good role. ㄡ The teaching process of the Outline of National Basic Education Curriculum Reform points out that teachers should meet the learning needs of different students, create a teaching environment that can guide students to actively participate, stimulate students' learning enthusiasm, cultivate students' attitude and ability to master and use knowledge, and make every student fully developed. Driven by the atmosphere of promoting teaching by scientific research, the promotion of subject research to teaching can be fully realized. In teaching and research, we feel that we must explore a new modern teaching form, which is conducive to the healthy development of English teaching in primary schools. Therefore, we put forward a research on how to use modern educational means to enrich teaching forms and cultivate students' interest in learning English in many ways.

(2) the meaning of the topic:

1. Advantages of using modern educational means:

(1) Modern educational technology has broken the original teaching mode of "blackboard+chalk", making it difficult and easy, and boring and simple. Multimedia teaching provides us with a brand-new teaching method, overcomes the disadvantages of traditional teaching, and turns abstract and boring learning content into vivid, interesting, visual and audible dynamic content, which has become the development trend of English teaching. This not only improves students' interest in learning English, but also stimulates students' thinking, so that children have multiple excitement points in a class; It also makes the advantages between teaching materials and media complementary; Multimedia teaching is novel and vivid, which can not only stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning, but also guide students to learn actively, thus forming a virtuous circle of learning process. It integrates words, sounds, images and animations, which is vivid and intuitive. It can also create scenes that textbooks can't provide, reflect the comprehensive effects of multimedia, improve the teaching environment and optimize the teaching structure.

(2) Modern educational technology can cultivate students' innovative ability. Primary school students' existing knowledge is the material and tool for the development of creativity, and a large amount of information provided by multimedia and network is conducive to students' accumulation of knowledge, thus laying the foundation for the cultivation of their creativity.

(3) The interactivity and intelligence of multimedia computers have become a good medicine to cure the common problem of "dumb English" of China students. Using the powerful function of multimedia computer, students can not only talk with the virtual characters set by multimedia computer, but also correct their mistakes according to the judgment of computer (including pronunciation, morphology, syntax and even idioms), which is undoubtedly very beneficial to the improvement of students' expression ability. Interactive training such as follow-up, imitation, question-and-answer exercises and role-playing in courseware is also beneficial to students' cognitive development and thinking training.

(4) The advantages of multimedia, such as large amount of information and high speed, can help teachers transmit a large amount of information, provide various training methods, give students more opportunities to practice their language, and help students improve their language use ability. The great expansion of classroom capacity makes the classroom content more substantial. English teaching requires highlighting the function of oral communication and allowing students to learn more and practice more. However, the class hours are limited, which is prone to the defect of small classroom teaching capacity. It is different to use modern educational technology to assist teaching. In the process of designing teaching, teachers rearrange and carefully screen the teaching content from the expected teaching purpose and teaching effect, and prepare the teaching content and procedures in advance, which saves a lot of time, obviously speeds up the teaching rhythm and increases the teaching density, so they can squeeze out a lot of oral practice from the limited teaching time and let students fully express their time.

(5) Multimedia technology can expand the classroom capacity. Multimedia teaching can not only impart knowledge to students faster, but also save time, increase classroom capacity and effectively improve classroom teaching efficiency. Using multimedia, teachers can link all materials according to the teaching purpose and requirements, which greatly facilitates teaching.

(6) Using modern educational means and learning through network resources can make up for the lack of classroom, expand students' training space and develop students' ability.

2. The significance of this study lies in:

(1) This study mainly explores at the practical level, which can help teachers change their ideas, raise their awareness and explore better ways, so that modern educational means can be better applied to English classroom teaching in primary schools, and at the same time, teachers' educational skills can be improved and their professional level can be promoted.

(2) This study can integrate theory with practice, enrich theoretical research and provide more support for theoretical research.

Second, the definition and assumptions of the topic

(1) Definition of subject:

1. Modern educational means: it refers to making full use of modern audio-visual teaching tools and information dissemination tools for education and teaching, expanding teaching scope and improving teaching efficiency.

2. Multimedia technology: integrating modern means such as slide show, recording, television, film and computer, it can optimize the combination of information such as words, pictures, sounds, animations and colors, turn static words and symbols into dynamic graphics and images, and make the teaching content three-dimensional. It combines education and teaching with certain image thinking and created situations, and can comprehensively use vision and hearing, so that students can feel the constant impact of language and audio and video, with intentional attention, unintentional attention and intentional afterattention alternately.

(2) Hypothesis: If this research is carried out, the information integrated by modern educational means can act on students' multiple senses at the same time, and attract students' attention better; It can improve the amount of information students get in unit time; It can concretize abstract language and shorten the transformation process of information from abstract to concrete in the brain; Let primary school students participate in the scene, improve their interest in learning, stimulate their creative enthusiasm and realize the interaction between learning and teaching; It can better achieve teaching objectives, enhance teaching effect, improve teaching efficiency and optimize teaching process.

Third, the theoretical basis of the research.

(A) < < English Curriculum Standards > > clearly pointed out that one of the characteristics of English teaching is to let students contact and learn English from different channels and different forms as much as possible, and experience the language and language use personally and directly. English teaching is a kind of language teaching, and students often find it boring to learn. Therefore, teachers should design flexible and diverse teaching forms according to students' active, curious and competitive characteristics. According to the content of teaching materials, we should carefully design teaching plans, explore the reasons for the interest in teaching materials, strive to achieve the integration of science, knowledge and interest, try our best to stimulate students' interest in learning with novel and colorful teaching methods, activate students' thinking with interest, attract students' attention, and then fully mobilize students' enthusiasm and let them become the masters of learning. And modern educational means just provide an optimized means for this. Because using modern teaching methods and giving full play to the role of multimedia in English classroom can effectively promote English classroom to achieve the goal of cultivating English language ability, which is an important way to optimize English classroom teaching.

(2) From a psychological point of view, children are curious and often have a strong interest in learning a language. Therefore, the students in the class who just started learning English are full of curiosity, excitement and excitement about English. After class, they often imitate the words that appear in the first class. But with the passage of time, some students have a negative attitude towards Nuo Nuo and don't like to raise their hands to speak; There are also some students who are very active and love to play; Normal intelligence, but lack of learning motivation, unclear learning purpose, unable to concentrate on lectures in class, indifferent to teachers' questions, seemingly irrelevant to themselves, often turning a blind eye, listening but not hearing, teachers chasing after each other, urging each other, moving by themselves, barely coping, passive treatment. Ushinski, an educator in the former Soviet Union, said: "Forcing students to study without any interest will stifle students' desire to master knowledge. "It can be seen that learning interest is the source of learning motivation. When a student is really interested in a certain knowledge, he will do everything possible to mobilize his potential intelligence and take the initiative to acquire it. It can make students have positive thinking and interest in learning, which is a necessary condition for developing intelligence. Due to the age characteristics of primary school students, coupled with intense classroom thinking activities, students' attention is easily distracted. At this time, we can get twice the result with half the effort by choosing appropriate multimedia methods to stimulate students. Multimedia teaching uses various teaching AIDS, learning tools, projection, movies, cameras, recording and other media to integrate sound, light, shape and color, which can directly affect students' various senses, stimulate students' interest in learning and turn them into passion for learning.

State Councilor Chen Zhili said: "The impact of information technology on education will be immeasurable in the 2nd/kloc-0th century. It not only brought about great changes in educational forms and learning methods, but also had a profound impact on educational ideas, concepts, models, contents and methods. In order to take the initiative in the increasingly fierce international competition in the new century, we must speed up the popularization of information technology education in primary and secondary schools and strive to realize educational modernization. " As a modern teaching method, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) makes classroom teaching reform possible with its unique advantages such as large amount of information, bright colors, exquisite animation, vivid images and realistic sound effects. The Ministry of Education pointed out at the information technology education conference in primary and secondary schools: "We should strive to promote the integration of information technology with other disciplines, encourage the wide application of information technology means in the teaching of other disciplines, and integrate information technology education into other disciplines." Under the guidance of this concept, computer-aided instruction has quietly entered the primary school English classroom, which undoubtedly injected new vitality into the primary school English classroom teaching reform.

Fourthly, the research content of the subject.

(A) to study how to use television, movies, video, recording and other audio-visual equipment to reproduce real life scenes and stimulate students' interest in learning.

(2) To study how to design and apply multimedia teaching methods in English teaching classes in primary schools. Classroom teaching is the main position of this study. How to modernize English classroom teaching and how to design it? How to organize the implementation? This will be the focus of our research.

(3) Effect evaluation and adjustment strategies of English classroom teaching modernization. As a teaching method, any kind of teaching will eventually be reflected in the teaching effect. According to the teaching goal, have you achieved it? What are the students' interests? We should all have a good effect evaluation. On the basis of evaluation, find out the shortcomings and deficiencies.

(D) How to guide students to apply modern educational means to study and serve for learning.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) is the research goal of this topic.

Through experiments, I hope to achieve the following goals:

(1) Through research, explore how to use modern educational means to cultivate students' interest in learning English, make English teaching lively and rich, make the classroom lively, make students not only good at learning and willing to learn, but also learn effectively and apply what they have learned, cultivate a large number of primary school students who are willing to learn, help them build up their sense of accomplishment and self-confidence, and enable them to master certain basic English knowledge, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Encourage children to obtain, process and use information, communicate with others in English, improve their ability to solve practical problems in English, form a certain ability to use English, and lay a solid knowledge and emotional foundation for their lifelong learning and development.

(B) through research, effectively improve the effectiveness of English classroom teaching, into the new curriculum, to meet the requirements of quality education and the progress of the times. How to put more complicated teaching content into relaxed and happy teaching activities, so that students can learn unconsciously, process and internalize what they have learned, improve their language application ability and create a new model of English classroom activities.

(three) through research, update the concept of teachers, improve teachers' professional level and teaching and scientific research ability. Through research, teachers can learn the design and development of courseware, the knowledge of computer network and the production of teaching videos, such as English listening textbooks, story CDs, songs CDs and so on. , so as to better provide students with learning materials, create a vivid and scientific learning situation and knowledge background, and lay the foundation for lifelong learning for teachers and students.

(d) Combining English topics with other disciplines through research and introducing modern educational methods into other disciplines. Teachers can develop effective teaching CAI, give full play to the functions of campus network and share resources.

(five) through research, to train students to apply modern educational means to assist learning and collect learning materials.

Sixth, the research method of the subject.

(1) research object: the research object of this topic is grade one to grade six, and two classes (classes with a high proportion of students who own computers or can use computers at home) are selected for the experiment. There are *** 10 classes with 679 subjects, including 374 boys and 305 girls. Why didn't all the classes take part in the experiment? Mainly to compare the research effect of experimental class and homogeneous non-experimental class.

research method

1. Action research. The so-called action research method is a research aimed at solving practical problems, that is, creatively applying theory to solve practical problems. As a research method and approach, action research originated in America. The so-called action research is characterized by practice under natural conditions and continuous reflection on practice, which is carried out through four steps: planning, practice, observation and reflection. The first two steps are the stage of practice, which is consistent with normal work tasks, and the last two steps are the stage of reflection. Observe the results of the exercise, see how the task is completed, and then find out the reasons for the gains and losses and formulate countermeasures to guide the next stage of the exercise. According to the basic procedure of "problem-plan-action-reflection (problem)" of action research method, repeated observation and improvement are made in teaching practice. This study mainly studies how to design multimedia teaching courseware according to the teaching content and students' characteristics, and studies the application effect and operational feasibility of courseware in the classroom, and then makes reflection and improvement. Therefore, we adopt the action research method to let experimenters combine research with practice, and constantly explore, improve and solve practical problems in education through practical activities.

2. Case study method. Including: (1) student cases-three students from high, middle and low levels were selected in each experimental class to establish research files, and their changes and typical practices in the whole research process were recorded, such as comparing students' grades, collecting learning materials by modern educational means, making English computer tabloids, beautifying the campus, participating in various English competitions, etc. (2) Teaching cases-teaching cases in which teachers apply modern educational means at each stage. (3) Courseware cases-in each research topic, select some teaching courseware that exists in the implementation process and needs to be solved for research, analysis, finding solutions, continuous reflection and improvement, and at the same time select some excellent teaching courseware for popularization and use, so as to enjoy resources.

3. Observation method.

This study adopts the method of combining structured observation with unstructured observation. For example, before, during and after the experiment, students' attitude towards modern educational means, students' application of modern educational means in learning, teachers' observation of students' performance during the experiment, and students' attitude to the application and operation of modern educational means are adjusted through questionnaires.

(3) Effect detection

1. Questionnaire survey. In the initial stage of the study, we investigated the experimental students' interest in English, students' interest in multimedia courseware in classroom teaching, students' ability to use multimedia technology and teachers' ability to use modern educational means by questionnaire, and established the initial data of the study. Therefore, the research group conducted a survey of students in the form of talks and questionnaires before and after the study to test the research effect of the project. (see attached table 1-8)

2. Achieve vertical and horizontal contrast. Longitudinal comparison: Compare the effects of pre-test, mid-test and post-test subject study papers through reasonable design. Horizontal comparison: through the comparison of students' scores in various exams and competitions inside and outside the school, through the comparison of experimental classes and non-experimental classes.

Seven, the subject research cycle

The research period of this topic is two years (July 2003-July 2005), which mainly includes the following stages:

Preparatory stage (July-February 2003):

The research group learns relevant theories, declares topics, demonstrates the value and significance of the research and its promotion. Train project personnel. The key tasks and specific arrangements are as follows:

1. Preparation of project action plan: July-August 2003, Ye Shuxian.

2. Project demonstration: August 2003-September 2003 (all members of the research group participated)

3. Training for the members of the research group: from September to June, 2003, from May to 38+February, training was conducted through lectures and exchanges.

(1) Learn the relevant theoretical knowledge of modern educational means. (Person in charge: Ye Shuxian)

(2) Teachers learn the skills of making multimedia courseware. (Person in charge: Wei Xiaoling)

(3) Teachers learn how to use multimedia technology to make listening materials, such as the production of audio tapes and the use of natural English phonetic transcription software. (Person in charge: Liu Sufang)

(4) Teachers learn the skills of surfing the Internet and logging on the K 12 platform. (Person in charge: Wei Xiaoling)

(5) Teachers learn the skills of making personal web pages. (Person in charge: Wei Xiaoling)

(6) Organize teachers to go out to participate in relevant study, training and observation classes. (Person in charge: Ye Shuxian)

4. Relevant questionnaires (table 1- table 10, see annex) were distributed before the experiment (leaders: Li Hualing and Huiqun Guan).

A survey of students' English learning;

Before and after the experiment, the students' interest in English learning, online conditions, online content and attitude towards the application of multimedia technology in the classroom were investigated. Through the distribution of questionnaires, supplemented by some interviews and discussions, the online situation of experimental students is understood and analyzed in detail, which provides scientific basis for the establishment and integration of experimental classes. This course will be submitted to the comprehensive research group at the end of September 2003.