First, transfer students' interest and stimulate their curiosity.
It is a headache for many teachers to let "double poor students" learn English. Learning English well requires perseverance, and what "double poor students" often lack is this perseverance spirit. If we just talk about the benefits of learning English well from the front, I'm afraid it won't help much. If these students' other interests can be transferred to learning English, it will get twice the result with half the effort. Once, the author called several classmates who often played computer games in the street to the dormitory, turned on the computer and let them watch games such as Red Alert, Dune 2000 and StarCraft. Shocking 32-bit sound effects, pleasing 3D animation and humanized interactive operation make 16-bit or even 8-bit games in street game halls far behind. Soon, they were integrated into the game. However, whenever they are commanding thousands of troops, they are about to liberate all mankind and realize their dreams, a few lines of English prompts appear on the screen, and these students are dumbfounded. At this time, I will give the translator an understatement. Students will have an epiphany in the next century, and they should also understand English when playing. Afterwards, it was discovered that these students were "reformed" in English class. It can be seen that skillfully transferring students' interest is just like "four or two". This is of great benefit to cultivating students' interest in learning English.
Second, use formulas to help memory and improve the enthusiasm of learning English.
English grammar rules, word differences and pronunciation rules often confuse students. In view of this, teachers can make up some formulas to help students remember, reduce the difficulty of learning and warm students' enthusiasm for learning English. Say the usage of "be" to junior one students, and remember the formula: I use am, and you use are to follow him, her and it. What do you mean by plural? After that, use it all. For example, the long and short sounds of double O are compiled as follows.
Burn firewood, read books, send your feet, and set up a back room. In addition, read length |u|.
The first seven words are cook, wool, woud, look, good, book, foot, followed by the past tense of two verbs, take (take away) and stand (stand), bringing out the other two past tense, understood, and then some "secret rooms", such as classrooms, bedrooms, reception rooms and so on. As long as teachers regularly ingest, accumulate and sum up frequently, formulas will keep pouring in, and teaching will make learning methods in senior high schools interesting.
Third, let students make teaching AIDS to stimulate their interest in learning English.
For beginners, intuitive teaching is particularly important. Due to the limitation of conditions, the school lacked the necessary wall charts, so the author began to let students draw them themselves. The pictures to be used in teaching are arranged one week in advance, and it is required to use colored strokes on white cardboard, and then write the words and phonetic symbols expressed by the pictures on the back of the paper. In order to facilitate future storage, I made a unified regulation on the size of the paper. A week later, some "works" were used in the classroom. In this way, students are very interested in making pictures after class, and they are all looking forward to their "works" appearing in class. The meaning of painting has gone beyond the picture itself. It makes students feel successful, which greatly stimulates their interest in learning English and makes them willing to come to English classes. In addition, drawing also cultivates students' drawing ability, develops their intelligence, and makes students familiar with the new lessons to be taught first, so as to achieve the purpose of preview. What a kill two birds with one stone!
Fourth, write short plays to arouse the enthusiasm of learning.
Learning should be "applied", especially English learning. We should let students speak English after learning English. To this end, in each class, the author spends about five minutes for students to perform their own textbook plays in front of the podium. The specific methods are as follows: Before class, the students (two) who are on duty on that day make a duty report in English, including the week, date, attendance, weather and so on. (Items that have not been studied can be deleted appropriately). Then, these two students on duty, or they invite two or three other students to perform the short plays they arranged before class. The plot can be based on the scene of the text you have learned, or you can create your own scene, but the lines must be in the type you have learned. The reason for doing this is to review old lessons, which is not a simple repetition, but a kind of creation and a flexible use of language, so as to deepen the understanding of new learning content and finally achieve "applying what you have learned". Self-written and self-performed textbook plays help students review with laughter, consolidate old knowledge, and avoid questioning the review method that suffocates students, but the effect is far better than the latter. I have a deep understanding of this. Some students still insist on performing for five minutes in English class after graduation. This method can make students in a positive learning state, and can also cultivate students' creative thinking ability. Try it.
Five, to carry out competition activities to mobilize interest in learning.
Junior high school students have a sense of professionalism and honor, especially under the influence of market economy competition, students' sense of competition is more intense. It is an effective form to introduce competition mechanism into English classroom teaching. For example, you can change the language of daily oral practice into the language of competition; Question and answer can be a "quick answer"; Learning to spell words includes "Word King" contest, writing contest, riddle guessing contest and whispering contest. It is better to give encouragement by integral method. Appropriate competition in the classroom, students are willing to participate, be willing to compete for the first place, and be willing to learn, which has aroused all students' interest in learning.
According to local conditions, stimulate interest in learning English.
Changle is the hometown of overseas Chinese. In recent years, the number of people working abroad has surged. People who have been abroad have deeply realized the benefits of knowing English. Because those who apply for going abroad or have already gone abroad are people familiar to the students, feel credible and are interested in English. Of course, the author also pays attention to helping students set up lofty ideals, telling them that learning English is not only for working abroad, but the real purpose is to make China go global.
In a word, interest is the memory power to promote students' learning. Teachers should create a variety of teaching situations that can stimulate students' interest in learning according to time, place and person, so as to enhance the effect of English classroom teaching and improve students' English level.
Although English is a foreign language, it is becoming more and more important in our life. At present, most primary schools begin to offer English courses in the third grade and begin to learn English. Therefore, English teaching in primary schools is English enlightenment teaching and basic teaching. Most of the students are between 8 and 12. Children of this age are active, enthusiastic, well behaved, imitative and plastic, but at the same time, some students have poor self-control ability and short attention time in class. If our teachers don't pay attention to these things, students will certainly find learning English a boring thing. Therefore, we should observe more and pay more attention in the usual teaching, make use of their psychological characteristics, cultivate their enthusiasm and interest in learning English, make them realize their interest in learning English, and make them have enough learning motivation and strong desire to learn English in the future. Russian educator ushinski believes that compulsory learning without interest will stifle students' desire to seek truth. This requires teachers to use a variety of teaching methods to stimulate students' interest and enthusiasm in learning English, so that students can feel the joy of learning English.
First, positive affirmation and timely praise.
Many times, people's sense of joy is brought by success, and students feel that most of the happiness of learning comes from the success of learning. They are eager to experience the joy of success. Therefore, in actual English learning, our teachers should affirm students' academic achievements, praise students more and criticize students less, so that students can feel success and enjoy learning as much as possible. However, some students are not aggressive in class. For a foreign language, some students are afraid to speak because of their personality, and they are "unknown" in class, almost playing the role of audience. However, some of our teachers often ignore these students in order to achieve the predetermined teaching goals and complete the teaching tasks in the classroom. They are not satisfied with their occasional irrelevant answers and rush to find good students to replace them. Some teachers even scoff at students' wrong answers. If they do this, they will gradually lose interest in English learning, and some students will be tired of learning. So how can we arouse these students' interest and make them feel the fun of learning English?
I think as a teacher, we should not be stingy with our praise and praise. If we want a student to change and make progress, we should first affirm him and then praise him, even if it is a little progress, because praise is often much better than criticism. There is a student in the class I am teaching now. She used to be a "poor student" in the eyes of teachers. When I took over their class, I found that there were almost no mistakes in her English homework and her English pronunciation was a mess. The English teacher in front gave the student a poor evaluation and almost gave her up. I think I should do something. I can't let this go on. Children are the hope of a family. At first, I was strict with her, but I found her stubborn. I tried to change my method, so I tried to find out her strengths and praise her. For example, she did her homework today and her handwriting is good. Even if sometimes she doesn't do as well as them, I always admire her, affirm her bit by bit, and often say to her, "You did very well today, even better than before." The teacher believes that you will be as good as other students. " I also give her the opportunity to speak in class from time to time and try to praise her in front of the whole class. Slowly, the student developed confidence in himself and began to like me and my English class. I no longer feel that I am a "poor student" in the eyes of teachers. Because of my affirmation and praise, the students' views on her have changed. All these have given her confidence and interest in learning. She changed the silence in class and can now have a simple conversation in English. Homework can also be basically completed independently; The results are also improving day by day. Once after an English class, the student came to me and said; "Miss Jin, now I think it's really interesting to have English classes." I know this is from her heart. This student is interested in English learning, and she will definitely learn English better and better in the future.
Second, create scenarios to stimulate interest
People can't live without situations, and learning a language can't live without situations. The new curriculum standard points out that the process of classroom teaching should be a new process in which teachers and students participate, cooperate and creatively achieve teaching objectives. In the usual teaching process, I combine the interest and practicality of English, the physiological and psychological characteristics of students, and create some childlike and fascinating English scenes according to different class types, so as to improve students' interest in learning English and feel the fun of learning English in the scenes. In class, I often create the following scenarios according to the teaching content.
1 life scene. Once a person is out of society, he can't learn a language. The life scene is to move the actual situation in life into the classroom. For example, when I was teaching Oxford English 5B "A Class in physical education class", I specially arranged a class on the playground to make this class a bilingual physical education class. Students feel very fresh and interesting, so they are all very active. I spoke English and performed with my students, and soon I learned some sports terms in this unit. After their speeches, I also asked some students to be PE teachers and have a bilingual PE class with the phrases and sentence patterns I just learned. Because of getting rid of the shackles of traditional classrooms, even those students who have difficulties are no longer bound. They try their best to communicate with other students there and try their best to express themselves. They not only learned knowledge, but also increased their confidence in learning and experienced the fun of learning English.
2 posture scene. If we teach English only by ordering students to read and write, we will soon get bored, which will not only fail to achieve the purpose of learning, but also reduce students' interest in learning English. Posture scene means that teachers use faces, gestures and postures to express and embody teaching content. Posture situation helps students to understand the teaching content and produce the desire for further study and participation. It is very suitable for us to use when teaching junior students to learn animal nouns. For example, when we teach snakes, monkeys and other animals, teachers can combine the characteristics of animals, talk and do, and imitate learning with students. In this way, students can avoid boring study and experience the happiness of learning.
3 game scenes. Pupils are curious, happy, competitive and fun, and have a special liking for games. The game scene is to use games, competitions and other ways to mobilize students' enthusiasm and improve their interest in learning. We can arrange suitable and interesting games according to the types and stages of different classes to enrich students' classes. These games can be in the form of performances or competitions. As long as it meets the new curriculum standards and is consistent with our English curriculum, it is helpful for students to master and understand knowledge, and our teachers can adopt the form of games. Students can use and consolidate their English knowledge through these games. Novel and diverse games can make students experience the fun of learning.
Third, extend the classroom and entertain and educate.
Danish linguist Ye Spasen once said, "The first condition of foreign language teaching seems to be to let students contact and use foreign languages as much as possible. Learning a foreign language is like swimming. Students must be immersed in water, not accidentally immersed in water. " There are few English classes in primary schools and the interval is long, which is very unfavorable to our English majors. At the beginning of every English class, I insist that students make a short English "speech". The so-called "speech" can be an English short poem, an English short essay written by oneself, or even an English short play performed by several people. Don't stick to form, don't pay attention to grades, and try to understand and use English.
In addition, we can set up a second classroom for English learning, hold English evenings, English calligraphy competitions, oral English competitions and the creation of English sketches, so that students can speak more, watch more and listen more. These are the extensions of activity-based English classes after class, which can cultivate students' communication and cooperation ability and stimulate students' participation consciousness and learning enthusiasm. More importantly, the second English classroom has formed an open, * *, positive and interactive atmosphere of language activities, which will have a penetrating learning effect, that is, let students happily integrate into the English environment and learn consciously or unconsciously. These can not only consolidate what students have learned, but also make them feel the pleasure of applying what they have learned.
Due to age and psychological reasons, many primary school students feel that learning English is a "chore", including memorizing a large number of words, mastering and using sentence patterns, and the pressure of exams. However, all this can be changed and overcome. Our teachers should use their personality charm to infect and love students, and often encourage and praise students in teaching; Our teachers can also use a variety of innovative and creative teaching methods to stimulate students' interest in learning; Our teachers should communicate with students more after class and enrich their language world with colorful after-school life. I believe that as long as our teachers pay attention to the art of English teaching and regard English teaching as a pleasure, students' confidence and interest in learning English will increase day by day, and they will really regard learning English as a pleasure.
Many people know that the left and right parts of the human brain have different functions. Specifically, the left half mainly deals with language, logic, mathematics and order, while the right half deals with rhythm, melody, music, images and fantasy. Traditional mechanical memory only uses the left hemisphere. It is one of the earliest ways to improve memory by linking the memory content with related pictures, that is, using the left and right hemispheres for memory at the same time.
The so-called "seeing is believing" is the truth. Intuitive understanding of things contributes to lasting memory and reasoning based on this memory. Einstein once said that genius's thinking is intuitive. Therefore, as long as you learn to express abstract things graphically, people's memory and information processing ability will be immeasurably improved.
All the texts are to explain something. Such a thing may be easy to imagine. For example, descriptions of the appearance of people and objects. It may also be difficult to visualize, such as the description of people's personality and psychology, and the debate on philosophical issues. Pictographic memory is unique in that it provides an intuitive way to describe things and processes, and makes the artificial language environment in the brain have an intuitive, clear and gradually standardized representation, thus facilitating memory.
Brain map memory is the latest scientific and technological achievement in the creative application of neuroscience, mnemonics, psychology and linguistics in English. By reasonably dividing English words into exquisite brain pictures or cartoons, each word becomes the perfect unity of sound, form and meaning, thus helping learners realize their dream of remembering words quickly and never forgetting them. It has two characteristics: magic and happiness.
A panacea for magically awakening the memory potential of the human brain. Roger Sperry, the Nobel Prize winner, suggested that the memory ability of the right brain is 1 10,000 times that of the left brain, but the memory efficiency is low, because words are mainly memorized by the left brain. Brain map memory training English opens your magical brain and allows you to carry out a memory revolution. Memorizing 300 words a day is still easy for the brain.
I am happy to fall in love with English, and I can't get tired of reciting English words with my brain. Watching humorous cartoons and listening to the teacher's humorous and vivid explanations, the boring words and texts have unconsciously entered and stayed in your mind for a long time, and English learning has since become a pleasure and enjoyment.
Memorizing English words and texts, watching humorous cartoons, listening to teachers' humorous and vivid explanations, boring words and texts unconsciously enter and stay in the depths of your mind, and English learning has since become a pleasure and enjoyment.
Here are a few examples.
Say [sei] v stands for; speak of
Split s+a+y
Remember to listen to the trophy (Y). People say that you won another one in the fifth Olympic Games.
Scream [skrim] vi scream; (of a machine, whistle, etc). ) make a harsh sound; Whistle (the wind)
Split s+ cream
Memory snakes scream as soon as they eat ice cream.
Confucius said, "Those who know are not as good as those who know, and those who know are not as good as those who are happy." . It can be seen that happiness and interest are the great motivation to know and engage in certain activities, the important psychological factors to promote people's knowledge and pursuit of life goals, and the key to developing intelligence.
Whether you are happy or interested in learning English is directly related to the learning effect of learners. People's interest in English learning not only arises in the process of English learning, but also dies in this process. The difficulty in learning English discourages many people and reduces their interest in learning English. For example, struggling to remember English words; Suffering from not knowing English grammar; Suffer from poor English, etc. All these lead people to lose interest and confidence in English learning in senior high schools.
How to cultivate interest in learning English and turn distress into happiness? Next, the author will discuss how to experience happiness in English learning from three aspects: vocabulary learning, extracurricular reading and leisure and entertainment.
First, experience happiness from vocabulary learning.
Words are the basic unit of English, and mastering words is the most basic thing to do in English learning. Only by remembering words and expanding English vocabulary can we lay a solid foundation for future English learning. On the contrary, if we don't even master many words, it is "a clever woman can't cook without rice". But memorizing words is a very insurmountable gap in the eyes of many people, and rote memorization makes them particularly bored, so they can't talk about their enthusiasm and initiative in learning. How to cross this gap to feel happy and remember words? In short, the method is the most important.
(1) Insert Lenovo's "wings". In daily study, we should be good at finding familiar simple words around us, constantly expanding association and divergent thinking, so as to know one word and remember a string of words, thus expanding our English vocabulary.
The author used to teach in the computer department. Most students majoring in computer science are not particularly interested in English. They are often lazy to learn and memorize words actively, but they are very interested in computer-related knowledge. Using this learning interest to guide them to use divergent thinking and expand associative learning methods has achieved good results. For example, most students know that computer is the English word of computer, so how to express all the components, operating procedures and commands of computer in English? This association produced a lot of curiosity, and the thirst for knowledge suddenly became strong. Driven by a strong thirst for knowledge, students will take the initiative to consult teachers or consult dictionaries, dictionaries and other learning tools, so that all related vocabulary can be presented in a panoramic view and the problems can be solved. Such as the following computer-related parts name screen, monitor, mouse, keyboard, printer, software, hardware, modem, floppy disk and driver; Seeing these words, we can't help thinking that monitor means "monitor", but it means "monitor" in computer English; Mouse originally means "mouse", and here it means "mouse", which is very vivid and easy to remember. Many students think that through such associative learning, they not only expand their vocabulary, but also feel the fun of learning vocabulary.
In addition, we can constantly use familiar things around us to find some fresh and interesting words, from the English words of apples and watermelons to the English expressions of favorite fruits such as apricots, longan and litchi. From the English vocabulary of tomatoes and cucumbers to the English expressions of vegetables such as celery and potatoes; The English translation of popular sports such as football and baseball comes from the English words of volleyball and basketball. In this way, let your brain plug in the "wings" of association, draw inferences from others, and constantly familiarize yourself with new words and review old words with the help of dictionaries and other tools, so that learning daunting words becomes a happy thing.
(2) Experience happiness in image memory. Some learners think that learning and memorizing English vocabulary is too boring, so they are afraid of difficulties, and their enthusiasm and interest in learning English have also declined. Here, we can use an intuitive way to remember words. Although many English words are boring, not all English words are boring. On the contrary, some English words, even quite a few English words, are vivid, vivid and concrete. As soon as you see them, as long as you think about them a little, they will conform to the characteristics of an image in your life, leaving a deep impression and even unforgettable. For example, outpatient clinics without appointments (most outpatients can walk); Wage ceiling (ceiling is used to express the ceiling, which is very vivid); Chalk and talk injection teaching method (teachers who are used to full-time irrigation always write on the blackboard while talking, ignoring students' participation. Chalk and talk are very vivid); A cram school means "cram school" and is extended to "cram school students". This teaching method is generally effective when used in tutorial schools. )
These are typical figurative words. As English learners, we should carefully observe, find and discover the characteristics of these words, make use of their imagery, deepen our impression of English words, and make memorizing words an interesting thing.
(3) Explore the mystery of affixes. English vocabulary has its own mystery of word formation. Mastering these mysteries, we can also enjoy learning English.
The formation of many English words has certain rules. It is very helpful for English learning to understand and master some basic rules. Many words consist of two parts: stems and affixes. Affixes generally have specific meanings, such as p re- (before), post- (after), anti- (anti) and so on. We can guess the meaning of new words from affixes. Everyone knows that war is war, so p rewar, post-war and anti-war mean pre-war, post-war and anti-war respectively. At the same time, we can easily see that pre-war and post-war are antonyms. For another example, the author once explained in class that ex- means "ex", and then asked students to guess the meanings of the following words containing this affix: ex-wife, ex-husband, ex-P resident, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, etc. The students spoke enthusiastically one after another, and they could basically guess the meaning of these compound words. The classroom atmosphere is very active. When learning the new word * * * (triangle), it is not difficult to find that it is a compound word composed of "tri-" and "angle". I knew in high school that horn means horn and horn. Will "three-"stand for "three"? After consulting the reference books, the guess was confirmed. Such interesting lexical structures are often encountered in our English learning. As long as we are willing to use our brains and constantly summarize and compare the similarities and differences between English and Chinese, English and English, we can not only improve the efficiency and level of English learning, but also experience the fun of English learning.
Second, experience happiness from extracurricular reading.
Extensive reading is an important way to learn English, and it is also an important way to improve English reading ability and experience fun from reading. It is important to read a lot, but what you read is more important. What is before us now is a vast reading world. We must selectively read some English books and newspapers that we are interested in and help improve our English reading ability. Generally speaking, the following books can be read.
① English humorous stories. We can borrow some short, vivid and interesting English books, such as Arabian Nights, Reading in a Day, English Humor and Jokes, etc. These reading materials have no professional vocabulary and few new words, and it doesn't take much effort to look them up in the dictionary. Some even mark all the new words. In this way, we can focus on the content and the expression of words. When we encounter interesting stories and paragraphs, we can recite them or repeat them in our own words, and share this fun with teachers or classmates in oral class, which not only improves our oral English and enriches our writing materials, but also enhances our self-confidence in learning English and helps to improve our English level in an all-round way.
(2) British and American literary classics. Some short English-Chinese classics of British and American literature are another good way for students to improve their reading ability, such as Pride and Prejudice, La Traviata, Red and Black, etc. These works are strong in story, moderate in difficulty, and carefully arranged in vocabulary selection. When reading, we can read the English part first. When you encounter new words or difficult sentences, you can refer to the Chinese part and slowly find the fun of English learning with the deepening of the story. By reading these articles, we can not only learn language knowledge, but also understand the customs and cultural background of Britain and the United States.
(3) English newspapers and magazines. As far as the coverage of knowledge is concerned, any teaching material is difficult to compare with newspapers. Reading some newspaper articles every day will expose us to articles full of the flavor of the times written in pure modern English, and it is also a good way to consolidate vocabulary and expand knowledge. Therefore, reading newspapers is the best way to improve English. Order some English newspapers that we are interested in, such as China Daily, 2 1 Century News * *, Shenzhen Daily, etc. These newspapers can bring us the latest news every day. In this way, we can not only practice reading from these news, but also get more exposure to daily life in Britain and America.