My opinion on optimizing English classroom structure

The new Standard emphasizes that teachers should take students' all-round development and lifelong development as the starting point, make their classroom teaching design conform to students' physiological and psychological characteristics, face all students, and strive to meet the needs of students of different types and levels. However, due to the influence of traditional English teaching concepts, English teachers put too much emphasis on the learning of language knowledge and neglect the cultivation of language ability. As soon as I have an English class, the teacher never misses every word and sentence pattern from beginning to end, especially likes to talk about grammar seriously, regardless of students' interests; Students are busy taking notes, so it is difficult for them to actively participate in teaching activities. But the talents we cultivate must be applied talents who can listen, speak, read and write, which is the requirement of the times for English teachers and the mission entrusted to us by history. So how can we cultivate such talents to meet the needs of social development? We must start with optimizing the classroom teaching structure. Only in this way can we make English classes lively and interesting, create a relaxed and happy learning environment, provide students with opportunities for active participation, free expression and independent thinking, and truly implement English quality education.

First, optimize the classroom environment and create a learning atmosphere.

Language environment is very important for English learning from "I want to learn" to "I want to learn", and in order to stimulate students' interest in learning, we must create an environment for students to learn and use English. However, traditional English classroom teaching often introduces new lessons in the form of review. Teachers check students' mastery of what they have learned by asking questions, dictation and reciting, which makes some students nervous at the beginning of class and afraid of being asked by teachers. Therefore, it is necessary to create a relaxed and happy learning environment at the beginning of class. This is conducive to arousing students' happy emotional experience, thus achieving the purpose of cultivating students' interest in learning and improving learning effect. By telling humorous stories in English, enjoying English songs, playing games, looking at pictures and talking in English, playing roles in English, holding competitions in English and thinking and imagining in English, we can create a dialogue environment to the maximum extent, so that students can really have a kind of interest and motivation of self-pursuit, self-improvement and self-improvement when learning English. In order to further achieve the goal of speaking English everywhere, we can also set up English wall newspapers, slogans and English illustrated magazines indoors, and set up an "English corner" outdoors to strengthen the memory of English names of various items, so that students can really integrate into the atmosphere of learning foreign languages. For example, when teaching the words "socks, shirts, T-shirts, sweaters, shoes and skirts", the difficulty in teaching is to read the words correctly, so I drew a stick figure of socks on the blackboard. Every time I draw a stroke, I ask, "What is this? Guess. " Until the final shape, the students shouted three times together: "socks, socks, socks." "In this way, it not only creates a certain teaching atmosphere, captures students' attention, mobilizes students' emotions, brings constant surprises to students, creates a small climax of teaching, and breaks through the difficulties and difficulties of this class.

Second, optimize teaching methods to stimulate interest in learning

The same teaching content, different teachers' methods and different students' learning effects. If the teaching method is proper, students can learn easily, flexibly and well. If the teaching is improper, students will study hard, resulting in weariness and even weariness, which will eventually lead to weariness. Therefore, according to different teaching contents and students, teaching methods should be flexible and diverse, and it is forbidden to repeat the pattern of "word-sentence pattern-grammar-text-practice" in the same way. Especially in English grammar teaching, most students think English grammar is boring and difficult to learn, because in the past, English teachers talked too much and practiced too little in grammar teaching, teaching grammar for the sake of teaching grammar, but neglected the cultivation of students' speech ability. Since the new curriculum reform, more and more English teachers have realized the disadvantages of traditional teaching and are reforming their teaching methods: breaking the traditional teaching method of "emphasizing teaching but neglecting practice"; Change the teaching methods of "spoon-feeding" and "full-house irrigation". Instead, we should adopt the methods of "combining teaching with practice" and "intensive reading with more practice", highlight teaching key points, break through difficulties, carefully arrange classroom teaching content, let students actively participate in teaching activities, boldly practice language skills, and form real teaching interaction. For example, when explaining the tense of "present continuous tense", you can first show the basic form and usage of sentences through demonstration animation, and then use animation to play games, guess actions and say sentences. In the meantime, the teacher only needs to make some simple explanations, so that students can easily understand and master the usage of this tense. Then you can present some pictures of students' activities on the playground, let the students make a comprehensive written description and oral expression, and consolidate the basic usage of "present continuous tense" In this way, through animation teaching and teacher-student interaction, grammar learning will become more interesting, and students will learn quickly, remember it firmly and use it vividly.

Thirdly, optimize the teaching process and improve the application ability.

The teaching process is a bilateral exchange activity between teachers and students through textbooks. Traditional English classroom teaching is often teacher-centered. Teachers always talk from beginning to end-explaining vocabulary, analyzing structure, commenting on exercises and so on. And often study the teaching of a class and an article in isolation, without studying the whole process of teaching. The teaching of a lesson, an article and a grammatical phenomenon is a complete cognitive process for students to master a knowledge. Although it has also gone through the process from ignorance to knowledge and from knowledge to application, it is only a system as a whole. Only by studying the teaching process as a whole can we see the important reasons for the polarization of students' English learning. Teachers are the absolute authority in the classroom, and students must study according to the requirements of teachers, which makes teachers ignore the cultivation of students' independent thinking ability and innovation ability. Sometimes students have to sit in the classroom and listen patiently, even if they fully understand what the teacher is teaching. Therefore, English classroom teaching must realize the transformation from "teaching the main points of language knowledge and taking teachers as the center" to "cultivating language ability and taking students as the center". In the process of teaching, teachers should form teaching levels and teaching slopes according to students' cognitive rules, actively guide students to directly participate in some creative activities, provide them with more opportunities to participate, and make them the masters of learning; Encourage students to speak more English and ask more questions; Encourage students' grades more and criticize them less to help them build their self-confidence; Carry out some colorful competitions, such as reading, telling stories, singing, calligraphy, stick figure, etc. To improve students' foreign language quality; Cultivate students' independent thinking and imagination, such as through more open teaching methods such as discussion, speech and debate. In this way, students can truly develop in an all-round way in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and can use them comprehensively. For example, when I teach the present participle of a new verb, I don't directly explain its form, but let the students "find the difference", that is, find out the difference between the learned verb form and the original verb form. Find out the differences, and then let the students try to read the present participle of the verb by themselves. When some students don't read well or accurately enough, I will tell them the standard reading method. This not only cultivates students' ability of independent thinking and active exploration, but also mobilizes their enthusiasm for learning English.

Fourth, optimize teaching methods and inject fresh vitality.

To optimize teaching methods, we must make full use of and create scenes that can stimulate students' interest in learning, whether it is language scenes, physical scenes or audio-visual scenes. Traditional classroom teaching methods mainly rely on several pieces of chalk, a blackboard and a textbook. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, especially with the computer entering the field of education, there are more and more English teaching AIDS. VCD teaching discs, computer teaching software, English TV programs, especially multimedia language laboratories have injected new vitality into English classroom teaching. They fully reflect the image, intuition and visibility of modern teaching, and also provide strong technical support and material guarantee for us to improve classroom teaching methods. Creating a situation through multimedia can make students immersive, unify book language with practical application, arouse students' pleasant effect, stimulate students' desire for knowledge, inspire students' thinking, and help cultivate students' spirit of exploration and innovation. Classroom teaching can be carried out easily and happily in all-round and multi-level activities, which is very beneficial to improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching. For example, when teaching words about colors, we can combine colors (purple, green, etc.). ) Make vivid pictures and show them to students in the text with related objects, and match them with sounds, so that students can not only feel the colors more intuitively, but also learn and remember words with stronger interest in learning. Therefore, learning English in such an audio-visual environment is clearer and more vivid than explaining it directly in Chinese, which can stimulate students' thirst for knowledge.

Fifth, optimize the evaluation language and integrate the affinity relationship.

The new curriculum requires not only returning the classroom to the students, giving full play to the students' main role, but also requiring teachers to appreciate the students. Students should be regarded as developing people with great development potential. Therefore, teachers should always pay attention to the advantages of students, even praising the smallest progress of students is much better than reprimanding students for their mistakes. Moreover, middle school students are experiencing obvious psychological and physiological changes, with strong self-esteem and sensitivity to external reactions, and their behaviors are often influenced by others' expectations. Moreover, because English class is a practical class, teachers and students have frequent contact, and teachers' words and deeds always have factors of praise, criticism, rewards and punishments in the eyes of students. Therefore, teachers should respect students everywhere in class, find their positive factors in time, and give affirmation and encouragement. Only in this way can we be welcomed and respected by students, thus establishing a harmonious relationship between teachers and students. At the same time, teachers should be kind, natural and affectionate in class, just like talking with students, creating a pleasant classroom atmosphere, so that students can turn hard study into happy study. At the same time, they should constantly stimulate students' learning emotions, adhere to encouragement, and leave room for encouragement for students with good grades. Students with poor grades should pay more attention and provide them with opportunities to answer questions as much as possible. In this way, they can keep their confidence in learning English well and their enthusiasm for learning, thus improving their academic performance. For example, there is a topic around "How do you go to school?" A dialogue started, and a small group performed the dialogue. The sentences were correct and fluent, but the dialogue was not supplemented or expanded at all. After this group of students performed, we all clapped our hands together to encourage them. Then I commented: "This group of students performed very well, performing the main contents of this dialogue, and also having different expressions and actions in their respective roles. It would be better if you could add the beginning and end of this conversation. " This group of students readily accepted my evaluation and knew how to behave better in the future. On the other hand, if you speak frankly, your performance is average and there is nothing to add. I feel that if students' grades are evaluated in this way, they will definitely not accept it, and I believe that their grades and even English learning will not improve in the future.

In a word, the English classroom structure is a whole, and all aspects of its structure penetrate, contact and influence each other. Only by grasping the optimization of English classroom structure can we grasp the key of English teaching reform and lay a solid foundation for improving English teaching quality.