First of all, update the concept and find out the obvious characteristics of efficient English classroom.
In the process of creating an efficient English classroom, teachers should renew their ideas, change their roles and create a "democratic" atmosphere. Students should explore cooperation and learn independently. Therefore, as teachers, we should grasp the essence of curriculum reform, and organize students' autonomous learning should be reasonably combined with teachers' teaching. The author thinks that an efficient English classroom has the following four obvious characteristics: (1) An efficient English classroom should be student-centered and teacher-led. The main task of junior high school English teaching is to cultivate students' enthusiasm and interest in learning English; Cultivate students' study habits and learning ability; Cultivate students' practical ability and communicative ability; Cultivate students' comprehensive English quality. (2) An efficient English class should be the unity of density, breadth and depth. Teachers should carry out intensive and rapid activities around a certain teaching content. The classroom atmosphere will be active and students' enthusiasm for learning will be high. (3) Effective English classroom teaching methods should be flexible. There are various teaching methods, such as speaking, asking, doing, looking at pictures, discussing, classroom competition and so on. , comprehensive and reasonable use. (4) The teaching objectives of an efficient English classroom should be very clear, which is the foothold of an efficient classroom and one of the criteria for judging whether the classroom is efficient or not.
Second, a variety of means to cultivate students' interest in learning English independently
(1) game stimulation method. Games can easily stimulate students' curiosity and guide them to transition from what they have learned to new knowledge in simple situations. The whole process is natural, true and smooth. For example, in a reading class with the teaching theme of "Travel Tips and Suggestions", let students watch a video (about the conversation before going out for a trip), then find out the problems and make suggestions. The following are the students' answers: s 1: Don't take so many things. S2: She should bring a credit card. S3: Don't change money in the street. S4: Don't hold the passport in your hand. S5: The trip is so short. Three days is not enough. Video simulates and reproduces real life scenes. Students discover problems by observing, interacting and using language.
(2) Methods to stimulate performance interest. For example, in a reading class with the teaching theme of "Fisherman and Fish", let the students play the role of narrator, fish, fish-Herman and fisherman's girl in groups of four, perform on the stage, and then ask what you have learned from the story. What do you think of this story? First, let the students sum up independently. Finally, the teacher presented a sentence on the courseware: enough is needed, not enough is greedy. It effectively sublimates the main idea of the text and tells students that people's pursuit is easy to satisfy, but greed is endless.
(3) stick figure method to stimulate interest. For example, if the teaching topic is "Why don't you get her an ascarf?" In the listening and speaking class, the new words are introduced step by step by asking questions, and the word map is drawn on the blackboard, which is intuitive, clear and impressive. T: What's it like to see the flowers on the screen? They are beautiful. It's really beautiful. S3: They are warm and full of love. What can you do with these flowers? S4: We can give them to our friends as gifts. T: Is there anything that can be given as a gift? Ss: A teddy bear, a watch ... The teacher draws a picture of words on the blackboard according to the students' answers, and asks the students to spell out the listed words to strengthen their memory.
(4) Scenes to stimulate interest. Use festivals to create a festive atmosphere. Then the teacher asks questions with the new calendar to guide the students to understand different festivals. T: What can you get from the calendar? Student: Children's Day/Halloween/Birthday.
Thirdly, optimize the teaching design and build an efficient English classroom.
American educator Spencer pointed out: "The process of personal development should be encouraged as much as possible in education. Children should be guided to explore and infer for themselves. Tell them as little as possible and guide them to discover as much as possible. " Therefore, we should optimize the teaching design based on students' autonomous learning;
(1) Design a reasonable and smooth teaching process. In the design, life elements are introduced into the classroom, which is close to students' life, so that the English classroom has the real nature of verbal communication, thus cultivating students' ability to use English properly. A novel beginning. If students' attention and interest are mobilized from the beginning, different methods are adopted to guide students into the state of English classroom.
(2) The new curriculum standard encourages teachers to use teaching materials flexibly, including supplementing, deleting, expanding and adjusting teaching order and methods. Teachers should also actively make use of radio and television programs, audio-visual materials, visual teaching AIDS and objects, multimedia CD-ROM materials, various forms of network resources, newspapers and magazines, etc. Design some topics that students are interested in, so that students can acquire the rules and skills of language use, and cultivate students' language ability through these activities. For example, in the reading class with "an invitation to a party" as the teaching theme, the task-based teaching model is adopted to design activities. The specific teaching steps are as follows: ① Students dance while listening to the song Mac-erena (warm-up activities); ② Pre-reading activities: Task 1: Use "brainstorming method" to understand students' understanding of "Party". T: Do you like parties? What kind of parties have you attended? S 1: farewell party. S2: Welcome meeting. S3: Eating party. ? S4: Wedding party. Thanksgiving party. Task 2: Students predict the content of the "invited" reading materials and ask some questions. ③ Reading activities. Task 1: read quickly and check the forecast; Task 2: Intensive reading. After answering the questions, discuss in groups. Find out the sentences that mean "rejection" and "acceptance" from the two replies to "party invitation". ④ Post-reading activities: Task 1: Group discussion and design a party; Task 2: The group designs the invitation and displays it. Teachers have adopted many teaching skills in this course, such as brainstorming, prediction, skimming, extensive reading, discussion and demotion. It is worth learning and learning from.
In a word, improving the efficiency of classroom teaching and building an efficient classroom has become an unavoidable and urgent problem for every English teacher. This is the fundamental need of English quality education.