On How to Improve Rural Middle School Students’ Spoken English.doc

On How to Improve Rural Middle School Students’ Spoken English

Abstract: In this thesis, the author makes prehensive study on how to improve spoken English ability of junior middle school students in Chinese rural areas, which is his personal teaching experience in spoken English teaching in fact. The author proposes a new model for spoken English teaching and a useful method to teach spoken English— task-based teaching. He also supplies some other factors which is helpful to spoken English teaching. According to his study, all the factors are improved to be effective.

Key Words: spoken English, teaching, improve, students

1. Introduction

As we know, listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four abilities which junior middle school students must have as foreign language learners in China. There is an old saying: Chinese students can be good at English testing, but bad at speaking English. What they are learning is deaf-mute English. Whatever it means, we can see spoken English has been being a weak point to Chinese middle school students all the time, especially to Chinese rural students. Because they live in the country and have narrow field of vision. What’s worse, Chinese rural students have poor thoughts and are timid contrast to the students in cities. And they have poor English enlightening. Most of them wouldn’t like to speak English in class. And they can hardly believe they can speak English well. They are not confident.
As the deepening of China’s reform and its openness to other countries and the necessity of the entry of the WTO , English , as a foreign language , is ing more and more important. It is much more widely used not only in its written form but also in its oral form in China. What’s more English is not only a language but also a modern municative tool. And all kinds of interpreters are urgently needed. Spoken English teaching is now paid a great more attention. And the ninth curriculum innovation is being carried out