Abstract

English teaching in primary school has long overemphasized the explaining and imparting of grammar and vocabulary but neglects the development of students’ abilities of using language, resulting in the loss of students’ interest in learning English. Situational teaching utilizes the well-designed situations to organize teaching, contributing to activating students’ interest and eventually helping cultivate their abilities of using language, which is consistent with the concept of new curriculum standards. On the basis of constructivism theory, second acquisition theory and the summary of related researches of situational teaching and with the combination of current situation of primary school English teaching, this thesis focuses on exploring the strategies to make the best use of situational teaching.

Keywords: situational teaching; new curriculum standards; primary school    English teaching

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-2

2.1 The long history of situational teaching-2

2.2 The definition of the situational teaching-3

2.3 Features and principles of situational teaching-4

2.4 The theoretical basis of the situational teaching-5

2.5 Present research of situational teaching at home and abroad-7

3. Current Situation of English Learning and Teaching in Primary School-8

3.1 Characteristics of primary school students’ English learning-8

3.2 Problems of primary school English teaching-8

4. Approaches to Improving the Situational Teaching in Primary School-9

4.1 Creating various types of situations-10

4.2 Using different resources to teach-12

4.3 Improving classroom management-13

4.4 Expanding the positive function of classroom teaching evaluation-14

5. Conclusion-14

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