The Inspired Teaching Method of English in Middle School

1、the inspired teaching method of english in middle schoolthe inspired teaching method of english in middle school摘要：以“启发”为主的教学方法在我国古代教学过程中就已存在，并且得到了完善的发展。文中介绍了西部英语教学的现状，分析了启发式教学的基本特点和理论原理，并结合作者实习和学习等方面的成果，探讨了启发式教学方法在现实教学中的一些关键问题。 关键词： 教学效果；传统教法；教学改革 ；启发式教学；abstract: the teaching method has existed in

2、 the ancient time of teaching in our country and got a full development. the advances of the inspired teaching method are briefly introduced, and the principle and properties are analyzed in the paper. finally, some important problems in real situation are discussed according to the establishment of

3、 the authors studying and practicing. key words: teaching efficiency; traditional chinese teaching; teaching reform; inspired teaching method contentsabstract.1key words.1i .introduction . .1ii. theoretical grounds.2iii. solutions and problems.43.1.problems in language teaching. 43.1.1.teachers prob

4、lems .43.1.2.students problems .53.2.solusion about this problem.63.2.1.discuss the role of the teacher .73.2.2.the main theories of solving this problem.8. conclusion.12 references.13i. introduction with the coming of global economic integration and chinas entering the world trade organization, eng

5、lish has been paid more and more attention by chinese. in recent years the reformation of english teaching has been carried out widely in universities and middle schools. at the same time many foreign teachers are absorbed by china to teach english with their own special teaching ways, which are qui

6、te different form the traditional chinese teaching method and which have a great effect on chinas educational reform. the purpose of this study is to explore possible advantages of inspired teaching method as its application in english teaching in middle school and to improve the teaching effects. s

7、o school education in our countrys can quickly follow the international education level as early as possible.school teaching has a long history and the teaching effect is the very essential and important things that most the educators go after all the time. in order to achieve their goals, they prom

8、oted their theories and methods. however, we, as the 21st century master should have ourselves teaching ways that are the most suitable for us both in teaching goals and following social steps. in order to follow the time steps and adapt to the fast developing, we should have our own teaching ways,

9、which follow our basic country conditions. here i put my eyes on the middle school teaching mainly. not only on the teaching aspect but also on the learning aspect i will give a discussion and statement.now we enter into the 21st century which is a fast changing and a full of vigors society. having

10、timely a good method in middle school english teaching is very necessary especially for a high efficient method. the reason why my attention to this subject is that most northwest part of our county schools teaching ways dont leave away from the traditional method, even some south parts. when i did

11、my duty in wu su no.1 middle school on october 5th, 2005, i dictated that all the english teachers want to teach their students as much as possible, and most students want to have a good english marks and learning ability, but after their longtime great effects, their bear fruits are always a little

12、.ii. theoretical groundsthe concept of inspired teaching method is based on the theories of modern , ancient education method and some survey papers.tao xingzhi, who is a famous educator of our country, stated a theory compose of five libations. the first is to liberate the childrens mind. intending

13、 to develop the childrens creativity, the primary duty is to liberate the childrens mind from superstition, prejudice, misinterpret, and illusion. the second is to emancipate childrens hands. truth comes after practices; the practices depend on hands. people cannot live without hands. the third is t

14、o set the childrens mouths free. he believed that only children get the freedom of speaking, particularly the freedom of asking, and his creative ability can be fully developed. there are thousand inventions, but all the start of them are asking questions ; the cause of people are superior to animal

15、s is people understand how to ask questions, the intelligence have the smart questions, however, the foolishness have stupid questions. the forth is to liberate the childrens space. he believed that the old school like a bird cage, the improved school is an enlarger bird cage. we emancipate children

16、 space; let them close to the flowers, trees, green mountains, blue water, sun, moon, stars of nature and scholars, farmers, workers, businessmen and other special skill people. the fifth is to set childrens time free, let them control their time. the five liberation “theory” is got from tao xinzhi

17、long time creative teaching and studying, then it returns to the students and teachers. an unpredicted influence will be formed in china teaching process.as a research shows that people have many purposes to study a language. we can accord these to improve the teaching results.1) people learn langua

18、ge for different reason 2) people learn language for different ways 3) people have different understandings about language learning 4) people have different capabilities in language learning thus the challenge the language teacher is confronted with is how teaching metrology can cater for learners w

19、ho have more differences than commonalties. as the author said “if i were a teacher, my philosophy for teaching is based primarily on the structural learning theory, and the theory suggested by several different researchers that students learn from the concrete to the abstract. therefore, the order

20、of the skills, the time spent on task, and the process of moving from concrete examples to abstract concepts will be reflected in my teaching. both deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning are needed in the decision making process. when possible, decisions should be based on facts that are known

21、about the particular system in which you are working. these two types of reasoning will also be reflected in my teaching. the method will have three steps, recognition, recall and reaction. i will let students how to recognize a problem, recall a scheme to attack the problem and react to the situati

22、on by using the scheme. when i model problems for a class, i will lead them through the problem by asking questions. my questions give students an opportunity to get involved in the discussion. this method was chosen because students need to be actively involved in the learning process if they are g

23、oing to be successful. students will not be penalized if they choose not to participate in the class discussion.” confucius, who was also a famous educator of our country, promoted the inspiration education, he said “teaching students, do not indicate him unless he wants to know but he puzzled by it

24、; do not enlighten him unless he wants to say but do not own how to say. pointing out one aspect of the affair inspires him, but if he cannot infer other relative things, i no longer tell him. although this famous speaking was written thousand years ago, it is still useful for todays school teaching

25、. actually all the theories talked above are belong to the inspired method at some point, in other word, each of them contain some elements of inspired teaching principle. we can draw something that is useful for our teaching and give up something that is useless. we combine the advantages of the an

26、cient of our country and abroad teaching theories to form a new method that is fit for our country conditions. iii. problems and solutions3.1. problems in language teachingin this part, i will give a vividly example to find the problems in schools english teaching and show the necessary of introduci

27、ng a new teaching method. for example, about the vocabulary study, we should combine mechanical memory with comprehensive memory.3.1.1. teachers problemssome teachers with an excellent command of a foreign language cannot teach the language well. however, some teachers with a general command of the

28、language can teach it very well. through the discussion of this problem, we can gradually improve this matter, because as a good teacher should have three aspects: ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal styles. person who has g good command of english may not be a good teacher, because

29、she/he might have only one of the elements of professional competence. here, the assessment of a good teacher is whose teaching way can benefit a lot to students. actually, that all is dependent on the teachers attitude.there are two categories of teaching for chinese english teachers. one kind of t

30、eaching is that teaching is that teachers have a strong sense of responsibility for their teaching career and seem eager to teach their students whatever they know. they are the busiest persons in english class. trying their best to explain the essay clearly and tell students other words and phrases

31、 related to the teaching material as possible as they can in case something is left and students cant get high scores in the examination. what the students can do is only listening to the teachers and occasionally answering some questions. another kind of teaching is that when teachers teach they ar

32、e bold in employing new methods in teaching. they are energetic and open-minded. they ask students questions and drop hints to help them find answers. they leave much time for students to converse. students are the main role of the class and can accept the knowledge by themselves. the second categor

33、y is the one which we are looking after and also is my writings main discussion point.in junior middle school, there is more perceptual knowledge and mechanical memory, but in senior middle school, there is more rational knowledge, comprehensive memory is more useful and important. the teacher shoul

34、d not only ask the students to understand some repeated words with a lot of meanings and usages but also make sure they can use them.3.1.2 students problemsa survey paper about 60 students attitude toward english teaching of wusu in no. 1 middle school.1. do you like studying english, why?here are 4

35、9students who like english. the main reason is that they think english is very useful for their feature life, but the students who really like english are less than 20. however, the students who bored english are only 8 students, and only 2 students wondering about. the principle reason for them is

36、that they have difficulties studying english, not only the vocabulary, but also the grammar difficult to them.2. do you think the teachers method is traditional, whether or not?most students think their teachers methods are not traditional, but i think their teaching ways are traditional. for them,

37、the best explanation is that most students come from countryside; even some of them have not been out of their hometown (province). in their village, they received the typical traditional teaching method. so as they come to a small city in which its teaching ways are more traditional than many weste

38、rn parts of our country, let alone the east part which is the developed area of our country, they feel they touch the advanced teaching ways, actually these methods were passed by some developed parts at least 10 years in our country.3.whether or not do you think the studying time occupied your rest

39、 and entertainment time?most students answer is yes except a few persons who are the top students think not, because they can quickly finish their works. for the adolescence students, its unbelievable to let them sit on the desk whole day. if they were bored by one subject, thats a difficult job for

40、 us to make him or her be interest in it. this influence the harmful is uncertain. maybe for a whole life, thats the reason why many students math is very good but their english marks are always not pass 60 for at the beginning many english teacher ways were very bad. we get knowledge that put our e

41、yes on the high marks only. vocabulary, grammar, is their main concerned things. the needs of our students are more than the products of our teachers. we, the features builders must realize that this situation is the time to be changed. its the time to kick these methods to the garbage box. we shoul

42、d adopt the inspired teaching method.4. do you think what things we should learn from the text?there are 3 kinds of answers to this question. i). we should learn something about history, culture, ect. of the world.ii) we should learn the ways how to be a moral person or a good person and how to fish

43、.iii) we should improve our oral english, listening and the common knowledge about wto.according to the 4 questions analysis, to improve the teaching efficiency, especially for some remote area, a new method should be introduced; i strongly promote the inspired teaching method. because its an econom

44、ic project, we do not need spent much money on it. its a good method for the western parts which are the less rich parts of our country.we put our stress on the software (teachers) not the hardware (high technology tools) which is the necessary requirement of developed parts.a contrast exemplify stu

45、dy will be conducted here with the object to find the common bright aspects and with a piece of a survey paper about 120 students who show their views about their english teaching and learning. e.g. .in real life, language is used to perform certain communicative functions; in traditional pedagogy,

46、the teaching focus is on form rather than functions. so when students have learned a lot of sentences or patterns, they do not know their functions. thus they are unable to use them appropriately in real social situations. for various reasons, traditional pedagogy tends to focus on one or two langua

47、ge skills and ignore the others. for example, due to the needs of language writing skills virtually ignored listening and speaking skills. in real language we use all skills, including the receptive skills of listening and reading, and the productive skills of speaking and writing.in reality, langua

48、ge is always used in a certain context, but traditional pedagogy tends to isolate language from its context. for example, in traditional pedagogy, when the english passive voice is introduced, the teacher tries to present how the object in an active sentence is moved to the front of a passive voice,

49、 the teacher tries to present how the verb is changed to an auxiliary plus an ed form of the original verb. then the students will ask when the passive is used and why they should learn it. in many cases the teacher may explain the reasons, one of which is, when it is not necessary to tell who has d

50、one the action, the passive is used. then the students will ask another question “why is it not necessary to tell who has done the action?” students keep asking questions because the grammar pattern is taken away from the language context. if the teaching of the passive point starts with examples fr

51、om real language use in context, students will keep asking questions.3.2 solutions about these problemsclassroom management is one of the most important factors that contribute to the efficiency of the teaching and learning activities. the most effective activities can be made almost useless if the

52、teacher does not organize them efficiently. classroom management is the way teachers organize what goes on in the classroom. the goal of classroom management is to create an atmosphere conductive to interacting with students in english in meaningful ways. 3.2.1 first we discuss the role of the teach

53、erwe are going to discuss the most common roles that teachers play in presenting foreign language teaching.controller. an appropriate degree of control by the teacher over the class is vital in formal language teaching. the teacher controls the pace so that activities ran smoothly and efficiently. f

54、or instance, when students do skimming and scanning tasks, it is very important for the teacher to control the time.assessor. it is generally believed that it is a major part of a teachers job to assess the students work, as an assessor, the teacher does two things: they are correcting mistakes and

55、organizing feedback. e.g, when a student has made a sentence with “borrow,” “i borrowed a paper to write a letter.” the teacher says, “we dont say a paper, we say a piece of paper.”organizer. the most important and difficult role that the teacher has to play is to be an organizer. nowadays many appr

56、oaches and methods advocate task based on learning activates. so one of the teachers major responsibilities is to design and organize tasks that students can carry out in the class.promoter. when students are not sure how to start an activity, or what to do next, or what to say next, the teacher sho

57、uld give appropriate promotes. for instance, if students find it difficult to start talking in a task where they have to choose one from five places to go for an outing, the teacher may tell them to consider distance, means of transport, time available, safety, etc.participant. task-based teaching m

58、ethods encourager the teacher to participate in students activities. once the teacher has finished giving instructions and the activity has started, there is no point in the teacher standing in front of the classroom doing nothing (as some teachers do). besides monitoring the class, the teacher can also join