How to improve students’ oral English ability.doc

How to improve students’ oral English ability摘要：随着改革开放深入，英语教学越来越引起人们的重视，尤其北京成功深奥人们都热中于英语学习所以英语教改进入一个转折点，面临着美好的未来现在，在九年制义务教育中，标准英语课程以取代以前的教学模式根据英语语言教育分成九个等级，新课标采用了国际体制，改变了旧的方法新的教学方式通过引起学生的兴趣，鼓励他们参与去培养学生日常生活中运用英语的能力新的方法重在听力和口语，因此现在口语在中学英语教学中越来越重要本文主要讨论如何提高学生的口语能力，从下面三个大的方面阐述：1. 说的重要性2. 口语交流过程中的一些障碍3. 提高口语能力的基本方法本文从初中英语教师的观点，并且从理论和实际结合中得出结论关键词：口语；交流；能力；中学；英语教学AbstractWith the opening-up of China, English teaching has been getting more and more attention, especially since Beijing won the bid to hold the 2008 Olympic Games. People are enthusiastic about learning English .As a result, English teaching and reform are coming to a turning point, which predicts a bright future in English education in China.Now, a 9-year voluntary education program is put forward in China. A Standard English course is being used to replace the former teaching outline. The new standard adopts the international system according to which English language education is divided into 9 levels. This has changed the old style of teaching, which attaches importance to grammar and vocabulary. Adopting the new standard helps to develop the students’ ability to use English in their daily life, by focusing on arousing their interest, and encouraging their participation.The new method will place less stress on “reading and writing”, in favor of “listening” and “speaking”. So now, speaking is getting more and more important in middle school English teaching. This paper discuss how to improve students’ speaking ability and expound the theme through three aspects as follows:⒈The importance of speaking.⒉Some barriers in the process of speaking communication.⒊Essential methods for improving students’ speaking ability.The issue will be discussed from the perspective of a teacher of English in junior middle school and a possible conclusion will be reached with the help of some theoretical and practical support.Key words: speaking、communication、ability、middle school、English teaching.一、 IntroductionEnglish is a popular language --especially in the new century. As is known to us all, it is the most widely used language in the developing world and it’s getting more and more important nowadays. Recent estimates suggest that more than 400 million people speak it as their first language, with more than 1800 million people speaking it as second language. It is an official language in a large number of countries and is widely used in air traffic control and academic gatherings. ①Nowadays, with the opening-up of China, English teaching has been getting more and more attention, especially since Beijing won the bid to hold the 2008 Olympic Games. People are enthusiastic about learning English. Most of our students begin to learn English from Grade 3 in primary schools. However, classroom teaching has long been the only way to learn English in China, and the method has usually involved cramming grammar-translation knowledge into learning a language. But this approach of teaching and learning English is evidentially passive, because it goes against the principle of English teaching, which requires that listening and speaking take the lead in English teaching, and on the basis of these two skills, reading and writing will be cultivated. So speaking as one of the four language skills has played a very important role in English teaching in middle schools. What’s more, with the reformation of new process of teaching, it requires that the students will have the expressing ability to receive and pass information in English in real occasions. But many students often can speak well in class or in relaxed occasions, and when they are put in a real condition, they can’t. Why does it appear? Well, it is affected by many elements One of the elements is their English speaking ability.. So it demands the English teachers in junior schools to develop the student's speaking ability. So also it is necessary for the teachers to help the students develop the ability of speaking.二、The importance of speaking（一） The importance of speaking existing in the language of human beings“Language is vocal ,this means that speech is the primary medium of language. While writing is secondary. Firstly, for any language speech existed long before the writing system came into being. Even today languages which have lonely a spoken form outnumber language which have a well-developed writing system. Secondly, normal children always learn to speak first. They begin to read and write only when they have reached the school age.  Thirdly, speech is more important than writing for people’s daily life. A person who can't read and write is only an ‘illiterate’. However, a person who can't speak is normally regarded as‘disabled’.② So speech is very important in the development of human beings.（二） The position of speaking in the four language skillsOf the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, &writing), listening takes the first step. 。