Classroom teaching is the main part of English teaching in primary schools. How to improve the efficiency of English classroom teaching in primary schools is a concern of every English teacher. To this end, the author believes that in primary school English teaching, to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching, we must pay attention to the following three aspects: paying attention to basic education, using textbooks flexibly, using various teaching forms, and improving teachers' basic quality. In today's world, science and technology are developing rapidly and international competition is becoming increasingly fierce. The key to the competition of comprehensive national strength in the world is the competition of science and technology. The main symbol of modern science and technology is information technology. With the informationization of social life and the globalization of economic activities, foreign languages, especially English, have increasingly become an important tool for China's opening up and international exchanges. Primary school is the best time for students to learn English. To grasp the current teaching, we must first do a good job in classroom teaching. Classroom teaching is the main part of teaching, so that students can avoid detours and the efficiency of classroom teaching must be improved. Teachers can give full play to their potential, let students talk more and do more, and improve the quality in class for 40 minutes. How to improve the efficiency of English classroom teaching in primary schools? To this end, we must pay attention to the following three basic aspects in teaching:
First, pay attention to basic teaching.
English teaching in primary schools is the teaching of English basics, and it is a project to lay the foundation for students' English building. If the foundation is not solid, the building will be unstable, so English teaching in primary schools must be taken seriously. The foundation of primary school English includes language foundation, psychological foundation and learning method foundation. We must not be biased in any basic aspect. English teaching in primary schools must focus on cultivating students' language ability, application ability, thinking ability and imagination ability in an all-round way, so that students can really use English knowledge and skills flexibly in real life.
1. Language Foundation
Under the guidance of the new curriculum standards, many primary schools have begun to attach importance to English teaching, from the previous reading and writing exercises to the students' practical ability to use the language. But when we emphasize the application of communicative language skills, we can't ignore students' mastery of the most basic language foundation, which includes not only listening and speaking ability, but also reading and writing ability. In other words, most of the teaching activities in the classroom should be based on language practice and put an end to the practice of simply imparting and explaining language knowledge. Teachers are required to design the teaching process scientifically, create rich situations as much as possible, help students acquire language knowledge through various channels, lay a good foundation for the initial language, and prevent the phenomenon of "polarization" in English teaching in primary schools. Then how should we tie this "foundation" firmly? This must start from the following two aspects. On the one hand, it is necessary to grasp the students' oral English foundation, which requires us to start from the lower grades of primary school, because the students in the lower grades are not simply imitating, which contains the intellectual activities of their brains, which is the reason why children learn languages efficiently. Moreover, in English teaching in primary schools, students first come into contact with the teaching of English conversation, which is the basis for accepting the original English language and the link and bridge to the English language world. Therefore, the foundation of spoken English. On the other hand, students need to master the basics of reading, and skilled spelling and reading skills are particularly important. It is understood that students from the United States, Britain and other countries have learned more than 50,000 English words on average before entering colleges and universities. Most students learn by reading. This shows the importance of reading, which is the main channel for students to learn and feel the language, the main way to expand their vocabulary, the main means to cultivate their sense of language, and the core of using language for oral and written expression. Especially in the teaching of senior grades in primary schools, we should pay more attention to improving students' reading ability, so that they can accumulate more vocabulary from reading and improve their sense of language, which is very important for future English learning. English classroom teaching in primary schools is based on language, and it is an important link to lay a solid foundation of English language in an all-round way.
2. Psychological basis
Students in grades 3-6 of primary school are about 9- 12 years old. Students of this age are curious, good at expression and good at imitation. They have keen hearing and strong memory, especially the desire to touch unfamiliar things. According to the psychological characteristics and cognitive rules of primary school students, classroom teaching in primary schools must create a pleasant classroom atmosphere, so that students can keep active physically and mentally, develop their intelligence and have a continuous learning of English. If we don't emphasize oral training and vocabulary accumulation blindly according to the unique psychological characteristics of primary school students, it will lead to primary school students losing interest in English learning, then English teaching in primary schools can only stay at a shallow level, and the teaching efficiency is naturally not high. Therefore, to improve the efficiency of English classroom teaching in primary schools, we must bring students a happy classroom according to the psychological characteristics of primary school students, stimulate their interest and motivation in learning, and make students have full confidence and happy mood, so as to really improve their English level.
3. Learning method basis
To lay a good foundation of primary school English, we should not only pay attention to the language foundation and psychological foundation, but also pay attention to the learning method foundation. Nowadays, English classroom teaching requires students to be the main body, and teachers only guide students how to learn. How can teachers guide students to master so much English knowledge and skills in just 40 minutes? This requires teachers to change the role of imparting knowledge in the past. A good English teacher depends not on how much knowledge he teaches students, but on whether he really teaches students learning methods. Students mastering learning methods will also be of great help to their future English learning. Learning methods must be taught from primary school, because although primary school students have strong memory and cognitive ability, they cannot be generalized. Most of the time, what they have learned in English is just a language fragment in their minds, so the more knowledge they have learned, the easier it is to be confused. At this time, teachers must play a guiding role and guide them to organize their knowledge. In fact, this process is to teach them how to learn, let students master the methods of learning English, and prevent rote memorization in previous teaching.
Second, flexible use of teaching materials, using a variety of teaching forms.
In order to improve the efficiency of English teaching in primary schools, we must attach importance to the teaching of basic English knowledge, use various teaching forms, make clear the teaching objectives, and naturally integrate the teaching materials into teaching activities on the premise of fully understanding and mastering the contents of teaching materials. With the comprehensive promotion of the new curriculum, more and more English teachers are actively trying to take activities as the center and tasks as the main line of classroom teaching mode, but in many cases, many teachers only pay attention to these various teaching forms, ignoring the tasks and teaching objectives of textbooks. To improve the efficiency of English classroom teaching in primary schools, we need to learn to enrich the classroom by using various teaching forms, and at the same time, combine teaching materials and use them flexibly. If teaching activities are divorced from teaching content and teaching objectives, even interesting teaching activities can hardly receive ideal teaching results. Based on my own teaching practice, the author puts forward some experiences on the flexible use of teaching materials and the use of various teaching forms.
1. Fun
Interest is an important factor to promote students to explore knowledge and is the driving force for students to learn. Interest is particularly important in English teaching in primary schools. With interest, students can keep high spirits, full spirit and strong thirst for knowledge in the whole learning process, thus achieving good learning results. In primary school English teaching, to stimulate students' interest, we must improve the interest of the classroom. The new curriculum clearly advocates stimulating students' interest in learning English through singing, games, performances and competitions, and cultivating students' ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing in English.
English ballads play an indispensable role in English teaching and can also improve students' interest in learning. For example, when teaching English numbers in the third grade, teachers can use the English nursery rhyme "ten"
Little Indian
Boys "to teach. This song can not only help students master English numbers easily, but also practice new language knowledge by adapting songs. For example, you can put "India"
"Boy" has become another new word. In this way, teachers can make use of what students have learned and introduce new knowledge, making boring language learning easy, simple and enjoyable.
The language ability of primary school students is mostly obtained from singing, playing, acting and doing. Therefore, teachers must present, consolidate and apply their language knowledge and skills in the form of games that students like. Games are a form to improve students' interest in learning and a means to create a relaxed classroom atmosphere. Only in a pleasant atmosphere can students learn quickly and live well. According to the learning content of primary schools and the characteristics of primary school students, we can generally use the following games in classroom teaching to arouse students' enthusiasm and make an ordinary English class light up: "guessing game" and "moving"
Games, Match Games, Search
Games ","missing games "and" group games ",such as teaching" occupation "in the fourth grade.
When talking about this topic, students need to master a lot of vocabulary about various occupations. Teachers can help students master and consolidate words in simple and intuitive games through simple jigsaw puzzles. When carrying out game activities, teachers must be particularly clear that the purpose of games is not to let students simply play, but to guide students to master knowledge and complete learning tasks. English game teaching is to turn students' learning process into the source of students' happy encouragement and all-round development, pay attention to the psychological and physiological characteristics of primary school students, stimulate students' learning motivation and cultivate students' interest, thus improving the efficiency of classroom teaching.
Besides "singing" and "playing", we can also give students the opportunity to perform, so as to improve our classroom teaching efficiency. Teachers must provide students with familiar venues, so that students will be interested in expressing their feelings in the face of familiar materials and actively participate in performance activities. For example, teachers can let students perform Cinderella, the wolf, the three little pigs and other roles in English, which not only provides students with space to think in English, but also mobilizes their enthusiasm and expands their imagination. Performance provides students with an opportunity to communicate with each other, encourages them to speak English boldly, and can also express their feelings with body language and expressions, which can effectively improve students' practical language communication ability.
English teaching in primary schools emphasizes starting from students' interest and cognitive level, advocating students' practice, participation, cooperation and communication, and developing students' language application ability. Therefore, in the process of English classroom teaching, we should make full use of various means to improve classroom interest and arouse students' interest, so that students can truly become the main body of learning, thus improving classroom teaching efficiency.
2. Briefing
Scenes in English refer to life scenes. In English teaching, creating vivid situations can not only enliven the classroom atmosphere, stimulate students' interest in learning, exercise students' language ability, but also cultivate students' thinking ability and imagination ability. However, in specific teaching situations, many teachers are not clear about the purpose of creating situations, and the effectiveness of creating situations is not high. So how can we create real and effective situations in English teaching, so as to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching? In fact, situational English teaching in primary schools requires teachers to externalize the teaching objectives into situations that students can easily accept, so that students can be there, have an intuitive image to grasp, and have a strong emotional atmosphere to feel, so that students can feel first and then express. Situation is the synthesis of people, things, things and their correlation, and emotion mainly refers to people, their behavior and psychology; Context emphasizes the naturalness of objective external composition. Therefore, in primary school English teaching, we can use multimedia, video, projection, objects, pictures, stick figures and other teaching methods to create specific teaching situations, fully mobilize students' senses and let them actively participate in classroom teaching activities. In colorful situations, it can stimulate students' desire to learn, make the boring learning process relaxed and happy, and help improve the efficiency of our classroom teaching.
3. Close to life, reflecting openness
In order to achieve good results in our 40-minute class, we should adopt various teaching methods in the class, and these teaching methods must be closely linked with students' lives, that is, to make the class alive, this is not simply imitating, talking, singing and playing. To make English class really close to students' life, we should pay attention to the following aspects: First, use language truly and naturally, and avoid mechanical practice. Teachers must master what students usually talk about in order to create appropriate language teaching situations. For example, if you teach your family, you can ask students to bring photos of their families and introduce them to each other. In this way, students can understand the things around them and improve their learning mood, thus effectively improving our classroom teaching efficiency. The second is to integrate language into life in fun. Teachers must pay attention to interest and diversity in teaching design, and let students use language to obtain information related to their own lives. For example, when teaching how to introduce others, students can draw their good friends first, which can stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning, and then let them describe their friends in their own language. Through activities, students not only learn and apply new language knowledge, but also teachers can successfully complete teaching tasks. Language learning should be applied to life, and language learning cannot be separated from life. Therefore, we must make our English class really become a kind of life class and let students devote themselves to the class.
In primary school English teaching, we should pay attention to the interest of the classroom, the presentation of the situation, and be close to students' lives. While paying attention to using these various forms of classroom teaching, we should not throw away the teaching materials. The form of teaching activities should be related to the content of teaching materials, serve the teaching objectives, and cannot be blindly active for the sake of activities. Moreover, the forms need to be more and not messy, so pay attention to operability. Only in this way can we help students improve their interest in learning English, so that they can truly master language knowledge and use language skills flexibly.
Third, improve the basic quality of teachers themselves.
English teachers in primary schools play different roles in classroom teaching. He is a planner, a manager, a memory enhancer, a demonstration performer, a participant performer, a referee and a commander ... This shows the important position of primary school English teachers in classroom teaching. Therefore, it is very necessary to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching and the basic quality of teachers themselves. Only when primary school English teachers have professional ethics and excellent personality, good language quality, exquisite teaching skills, skilled teaching strategies, thorough foreign cultural awareness and rigorous educational and scientific research ability can they be competent for their jobs.
First of all, primary school English teachers must love English teaching, have a high sense of responsibility for teaching and love their students. Any teacher must be full of sense of responsibility in order to win the respect and love of students, stimulate their enthusiasm for learning and stimulate their self-motivation.
Secondly, primary school English teachers must have a solid language quality. Language quality includes language knowledge and language application ability. On the one hand, it refers to the knowledge of English pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics and cultural background; On the other hand, it refers to the ability to use language in listening, speaking, reading and writing. English teaching in primary schools needs teachers' language quality. If the English teacher's pronunciation and intonation are not standard, it will directly affect the quality of students' imitation. Therefore, primary school English teachers must seriously improve their language quality and spell letters and phonetic symbols accurately; Be able to lift and read in groups according to the meaning; Be able to speak a certain number of ballads fluently, as well as daily language and classroom language; Can speak English short stories fluently. Pupils are good at imitation, so to improve students' language level, as primary school English teachers, we should first consciously improve our language quality.
Thirdly, English teachers in primary schools should also master basic teaching skills. Teaching skills mainly refer to teachers' ability to design teaching and organize classroom teaching activities. It is a comprehensive reflection of teachers' ability to control classroom teaching and teaching theory literacy. English teachers in primary schools should consider the age characteristics, personality characteristics and language level of primary school students, design corresponding teaching tasks according to the teaching content, effectively carry out classroom activities, and strive to achieve better teaching results. To achieve the teaching goal, teachers need to be clear about what to teach, how to teach and why to teach like this. Teachers must analyze what teaching methods can be used to achieve the best results according to different teaching environments. For example, when teaching the word pen, students can read it directly and then explain the meaning of Chinese. They can also use objects for intuitive teaching or present words through multimedia. Which method is the most effective to teach? This requires our teachers to seriously consider students' cognitive ability and actual teaching needs. Mastering basic teaching skills is an important step for primary school English teachers to improve classroom teaching efficiency.
In addition, primary school English teachers should also know about foreign cultural knowledge. Foreign language teaching generally requires teachers to know the history, geography, customs, traditional customs and living habits of the country where the language is taught. English teaching in primary schools also requires teachers to be familiar with foreign cultural knowledge, because the teaching goal of cultural awareness in primary schools is to cultivate students' interest in foreign cultural customs, so as to understand foreign cultures. Classroom teaching is the main way to impart cultural knowledge and cultivate cultural awareness in primary schools. It is an effective means to stimulate students' interest in English learning to introduce some similarities and differences between English and Chinese cultures. Therefore, teachers should know more about the cultural knowledge of some English-speaking countries and master more cultural teaching methods.
Finally, English teachers in primary schools should have comprehensive educational and scientific research abilities, including being good at thinking about educational phenomena, choosing topics and determining research directions, collecting and processing information, and making scientific judgments, analyses and evaluations on information. Teachers should strengthen their study, constantly update their knowledge structure, enrich their theoretical and practical knowledge, be good at reflecting on their own teaching practice, take some small problems in teaching as research topics, and apply scientific research results to the teaching process. This can improve our educational and scientific research ability and classroom teaching efficiency.
Primary school is the initial stage for students to learn English, and primary school English teachers shoulder the heavy responsibility of cultivating students' interest and laying a good foundation for them. Therefore, primary school English teachers must consciously improve their own quality from all aspects, so as to improve our classroom teaching efficiency.
In short, as long as we strive to improve our basic quality, give full play to the leading role of teachers and students, attach importance to the teaching of basic knowledge, and adopt appropriate teaching methods according to the content of teaching materials, we can improve the efficiency of 40 minutes in class, thus improving the quality of English teaching in an all-round way.