Abstract

Nowadays, the reform of modern English course requires flexible teaching methods. For English teaching, the situational teaching method (STM for short) fully embodies the modern educational theory and the student-centered teaching principle. The teacher plays the leading role and the student plays the main role. By creating situations, using audio-visual means, the STM in English teaching of primary school develops students’ abilities in listening, speaking, reading and writing, strengthening the students’ interest in studying, improving students’ communicative competence. Through this method, teachers create a strong atmosphere of foreign language learning, optimize the classroom teaching and improve the teaching qualities. After a brief introduction to the STM and related research on it, this thesis probes into the application of the STM in primary English classroom teaching and its effects in teaching.  

Key words: English teaching; the Situational Teaching Method; the primary school English 

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-1

2.1 A study on the English teaching methodology-1

2.2 A brief introduction of the STM-4

3.The Significance of the STM in the Primary School English Class-4

3.1 Enhancing pupils’ interest in learning English-5

3.2 Cultivating pupils’ practical abilities of using English-5

3.3 Reducing the difficulty of teaching-6

4. The Application of the STM in the Primary School English Class-6

4.1 The use of multimedia-6

4.2 The use of role-play-7

4.3 The use of game activity-8

5. The Principle of the Implementation-9

5.1 Intuition-10

5.2 Interest-10

5.3 Practicality-11

6. Conclusion-11

Works Cited-13