How to Cultivate Students' Practical Language Ability in English Teaching

How to cultivate students' practical language ability in English teaching is the central link of English teaching in middle schools, and it is also an important way to cultivate students' "four skills". All classroom teaching activities of teachers must be student-centered. In English class, we should not only impart knowledge to students, but also cultivate students' ability to use language. In practical work, I summarized the following methods.

First, create a learning atmosphere and a conversation environment.

To stimulate students' interest in learning, we must create an environment for students to learn and use English, which includes material environment and spiritual environment. The so-called physical environment is to set up English posters, English slogans and English illustrated magazines indoors, and set up an "English corner" outdoors to strengthen the memory of English names of various items, so as to embody and strengthen the foreign language atmosphere; The so-called spiritual environment means that teachers and students, classmates and students often talk in English inside and outside class. Use flip charts, slides, etc. Create scenes in the classroom, look at pictures and speak in English, play roles in English, take quizzes in English, think and imagine in English, and create a dialogue environment to the maximum extent, so that students can have the interest and motivation of self-pursuit, self-improvement and self-improvement in learning English.

Second, understand the teaching content and use various teaching methods.

English teaching is not just about how much content is taught in a class. The most important thing is to see how much students have practiced, learned and used in practice. Therefore, in English teaching practice, it is necessary to improve students' language use ability as the main purpose. This requires teachers to understand the teaching content, thoroughly understand the teaching materials, activate the teaching materials, make the teaching materials come alive, make students feel that the language of books is closely related to our life practice, and have a close affinity with the teaching content, thus generating a strong thirst for knowledge and a strong desire for enterprising, thus changing passive absorption into active exploration. Therefore, it is practical and effective to improve English teaching by creatively studying teaching content, promoting teaching, promoting learning and memory, and cultivating students' ability. Using various teaching methods, we must make full use of and create scenarios, whether it is language scenarios, physical scenarios or audio-visual scenarios, which can stimulate students' interest in learning. For example, listen to the recording, watch the projection, role dialogue, etc. Let the students immerse themselves in the scene, try to unify the book language with the practical application, and let the classroom teaching be carried out easily and happily in all-round and multi-level activities. In the process of teaching, we must pay attention to improving students' language use ability. We must correct the simple memory of reading and memory from books to books, but the leap from memory and practice to application. To achieve this goal, students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills must be fully developed and comprehensively applied. It is necessary to improve students' thinking ability, speaking ability and practical ability through intensive training, keep daily duty report, and carry out some colorful competition activities, such as reading, telling stories, singing, calligraphy and stick figure. This is to improve students' foreign language quality and practice "internalization" of foreign languages.

Third, carefully organize teaching activities to improve students' language use ability.

1, story method. It is the teacher who weaves the text into a short story and tells it to the students. In this way, students understand the general idea of the full text from the beginning, which is helpful to stimulate students' learning motivation and urge them to read the materials consciously and understand the details. At the same time, students are trained to listen. What we encounter in life, what we say is often accidental, and the stories that happen in life are ever-changing. When students have a short story in a small scene, let them connect these stories with the language in their hearts into ever-changing stories. So I arranged for students to write their own sketches and let three groups of students perform in each class. If it is performed according to the text, give 5 points; if it is adapted on the basis of the text, add 8 points. It is completely different from the text, but a self-made story. Some languages in the story have been forgotten by everyone, so you can add 10 points. The students' enthusiasm is quite high. After seeing other groups get high marks, they will imitate after class and actively use their brains to put all kinds of stories in life on the platform. This is good exercise for students. Create opportunities for students to speak English, express their life and personality in English, cultivate students' interest in learning English, and guide students to learn to develop and learn actively. Of course, it is much more difficult to actively express new feelings and new ideas and flexibly use English knowledge than to listen to the teacher. After the students finished speaking, the teacher gave a concise and appropriate comment. When commenting, they should give priority to encouragement and never bury their own bright spots. It also points out the shortcomings of words, sentence patterns and grammar. When the conditions are met, other students can also make comments, and teachers can make a brief summary.

2. Question and answer method. English interrogative sentences, especially special interrogative sentences, are like a master key in a teacher's hand, which can be used to open the door to the treasure house of English knowledge. If teachers use interrogative sentences properly in text teaching, they can organically combine students' listening, speaking and reading training to achieve the goal of killing three birds with one stone. Because students must re-conceive and use their own language when answering some questions, which is helpful to cultivate and improve students' expressive ability and understanding ability. The condition of using "question and answer method" is that teachers must ask students to preview before class.

3. Reading comprehension. This method is similar to the "question and answer method". The difference is that the "question-and-answer method" emphasizes "listening and speaking" in the form of questions. The reading comprehension method takes the form of multiple-choice questions and true-false questions, aiming at highlighting the understanding of the text and the processing of the text information. This method is generally suitable for high school teaching, focusing on cultivating students' reading comprehension ability.

4. Audio-visual method. It means that teachers make full use of relevant pictures, objects or stick figures before class, and let students know the main idea of the text in advance by means of "seeing, listening and speaking". By using eyes, ears and brain at the same time, students are deeply impressed by all kinds of language information and expressions input into the brain, which is not easy to forget, which prepares students for future language use.

In a word, I think the fundamental purpose of language teaching is to highlight the word "practical application". Without this foundation, the essence of language teaching will be lost. Only when teachers pay attention to the cultivation of students' language use ability in teaching can students get good grades in the exam. Isn't this the real purpose of our classroom teaching?