On the English Teaching of Listening and Speaking in Middle

On the English Teaching of Listening and Speaking in Middle School in China

Abstract　　In middle school, most students feel that it is very difficult for them to listen to English and speak English. As we know, the teachers always spend a lot of time in practicing written English, such as the words, grammar, and so on, which leads to a serious problem for the students' future study. The aim of learning English is to communicate with others, and oral English is becoming more and more important, so at the beginning stage, the teachers should pay more attention to listening and speaking. As long as the students have a good base in middle schools, they will save a lot of time and be more interested in learning English. This paper first introduces the problems in listening and speaking teaching in middle school, and then gives some suggestion about the solutions, such as group-work method and two-way communication. Both of them are very beneficial for the students.
Key wordsEnglish teaching in middle school; listening; speaking摘要　　在中學，大部分的學生髮現英語聽說方面非常難。就我們所知，老師們通常花大量的時間在書面英語上，如，單詞，語法等等。實際上這種情形將在以後的學習中成爲一個比較嚴重的問題。學英語的目的主要是交流, 而當今口語的重要性顯得日益突出，因此，在英語學習的入門階段，老師應當更加關注學生聽說能力的發展。只有在中學階段打下良好的基礎，才能使學生們在日後的'學習中節省許多的時間，也將大大提高學習英語的興趣。這篇文章主要介紹了英語聽說教學方面所存在的一些問題及解決這些問題的基本方法。如小組活動教學，功能教學法的應用，它們都是在理論與實踐方面被證實是行之有效的，對學生的幫助很大。關鍵詞 中學英語教學；聽；說Introduction　　Nowadays, English is becoming more and more important after China entered the WTO, which can encourage us to study English well. To study a foreign language, we should master four abilities: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Generally speaking, communication is the main aim of learning a foreign language, and we know that most students have less difficulty in reading and writing. From this point, we should pay more attention to listening and speaking. In fact, in China, a lot of students spend a great number of time in learning English, but they still feel that they can not understand well what they have heard and can not speak fluently. This is partially because of our examination system, and partially of teaching method. As we know, as long as the students get a high mark and they can enter into a good school. So we just focus on the grammar. In the past several years, the government realized the seriousness of Examination - oriented education and did a lot to change the situation. The teaching outline has been informed. In the text books, there are a lot of activities involving listening and speaking, including pair work and group work. In the examination the part of listening comprehension has been added, and it is more difficult. At home and abroad, there are many experts studying the methods of teaching, and the main method is Functional method, which has been used almost all over the world. Here I would like to introduce some useful methods to help students to improve their listening and speaking and raise their interest.