How to implement extracurricular development in junior middle school English teaching

The "English Curriculum Standards" clearly point out that English extracurricular activities are an important part of students' English learning and can provide a greater platform for students' language practice and independent learning. For teachers, the new curriculum reform requires teachers to completely change their educational concepts. They should be student-centered, take students' interests and hobbies as the starting point for classroom teaching design, pay attention to the extension and expansion of classroom teaching, and truly realize the "organization" proposed by the new curriculum standards. The new concept of "lively extracurricular activities and expanding students' learning channels".

Keywords: junior high school English; extracurricular expansion; expanded form

With the progress of the times and the development of society, junior high school English teaching has also entered a new stage. Under the guidance of the new curriculum concept and task-based teaching concept, the majority of English teachers have gradually established the new concept of "taking students as the center and focusing on the extension and expansion of classroom teaching", rationally using teaching materials, and on the basis of giving full play to the role of teaching materials as models, Fully and effectively carry out various extracurricular activities to promote students' English learning. This article combines the teaching practice of the author's school to elaborate on the necessity, principles, forms and other aspects of extracurricular expansion of English teaching.

1. The necessity of extracurricular expansion of English teaching

1. New curriculum standards and new teaching concepts and teaching methods require English learning to be extended from the classroom to extracurricular activities

The new curriculum standards require English teaching to lay the foundation for students' comprehensive and lifelong development, require teachers to provide students with space for independent learning and mutual communication, and encourage students to develop comprehensive language abilities through experience, practice, discussion, cooperation, inquiry, etc. , create conditions that allow students to explore issues of their own interest and solve problems independently. Task-based teaching advocates that "activities should not be limited to classroom teaching, but should be extended to learning and life outside the classroom."

2. Students’ own learning needs also require extracurricular expansion of English teaching

Students in the 21st century have multiple ways to obtain information. They are no longer satisfied with the inherent knowledge in textbooks and hope that teachers can provide them with more opportunities to use English. There are many children who have musical talents, painting skills, and are masters of using computers. If the extracurricular activities we design are conducive to the interpenetration and practice of English subjects and other subjects, they will certainly promote the comprehensive development of students' cognitive abilities, thinking abilities, aesthetic tastes, imagination, creativity and other qualities.

3. The lagging textbook content needs to be supplemented and improved with content that keeps pace with the times

Some of the content in the "Go For it" textbook of the People's Education Press we are currently using is outdated. . For example, pen pal appears in textbooks. In fact, students now rarely have the opportunity to write letters. It should be e-friend that appears more in their lives. There are also contents such as the Olympic Games. In 2006, they all appeared in the future tense, but now they appear in the past tense. Students are not interested in discussing them. Therefore, when teaching this part, we modified the content, such as discussing with students the problem of netizens, how to make netizens, and what should be paid attention to when making netizens. The students are very interested in it and the teaching effect is very good.

2. Principles of extracurricular expansion in English teaching

1. Principle of fun

Junior high school students like interesting learning content and hope that the learning process is full of fun. This is in line with the concept of the new curriculum standards: encouraging students to learn languages ??in a relaxed and enjoyable environment. If students are always interested in what they are learning during the learning process, it will be easier for them to internalize them as part of their own knowledge. Therefore, we have designed a variety of interesting extracurricular English assignments, such as: English handwritten newspaper competition, English calligraphy competition, English song competition and other activities, which not only enrich the students' learning life, but also allow them to actively participate and gain something.

2. Principle of innovation

Middle school students at this stage have a broad vision and are well-informed. Appropriate expansion will help improve their learning ability and ability to interact with others. However, expansion should be based on teaching materials and make breakthroughs on the basis of existing teaching materials. You cannot expand for the sake of expansion, otherwise it will be divorced from the actual situation of the students and make the learning process unstructured. We can add appropriate extracurricular content to the teaching materials by integrating textbooks. In the process of selecting and integrating materials, we must take into account the age, knowledge level and other aspects of the students, and must not overthrow the teachings.

3. Expansion should create conditions for students’ independent inquiry learning and cooperative learning

There are various forms of English extracurricular expansion, including activities that can be completed independently and activities that can be completed independently. Tasks that students collaborate on. For example, we organized an English film dubbing competition. This activity not only requires students to complete independently, but also requires tacit cooperation between them. During the preparation process, the teachers saw fierce arguments among students due to different material selections; everyone helped correct a student's incorrect pronunciation of a word; and they practiced a certain sentence over and over again because they didn't speak it well enough. All of these are learning beyond knowledge and valuable learning experiences. In the process of completing learning tasks together, students learned tolerance and cooperation, and realized the importance of teamwork.

3. Forms of extracurricular expansion

The "English Curriculum Standards" clearly point out that language learning requires a lot of input. Rich and colorful course resources are especially important for English learning.

In daily teaching, we mainly carry out extracurricular activities from the following aspects:

1. English extracurricular reading

We use the newspapers and periodicals we order, For example, "Learning English Newspaper", "21st Century Newspaper", etc. insist on a "newspaper reading class" every week. When preparing lessons, teachers first select articles suitable for students to read based on students' cognitive abilities, starting from easy to difficult and proceeding step by step. In the first grade of junior high school, in order to stimulate students' interest in learning English, choose more interesting materials such as stories and jokes. English in the second grade of junior high school focuses on the analysis of grammar and discourse. This change also prepares for future English learning in senior grades, but the material must still be combined with students' actual life. For example, one issue introduces English singers that students love very much, and another issue introduces the latest movies. The article is much more difficult than the first grade, but students do not find it difficult to read it. When reading newspapers and periodicals, material selection is the key. If you grasp the difficulty well, students' enthusiasm for reading will not be dampened. While reading, we encourage children to look for key words, phrases and sentence patterns in the article and accumulate them in their notebooks. As the difficulty of learning increases, in order to further improve reading ability, teachers' guidance on students' reading skills is essential. In the process of reading newspapers and periodicals, tell students how to understand the content structure of the article through scanning; demonstrate to students how to skip reading, that is, ask questions to find specific information in the sentences and paragraphs of the article; answer some questions that ask for details. , teaching students to read carefully and quickly find answers related to the questions in the complicated information.

2. Daily duty report

Daily duty report, also known as Duty Report, is a kind of extracurricular activity that is short in time, wide in participation, easy to operate, and can be carried out for a long time. Activity.

Starting from the first semester of seventh grade, five minutes before class every day, students take turns taking the stage to give reports according to their student numbers. In order to alleviate students' fear of difficulties, in the initial stage they can tell stories, guess riddles, play games or teach English songs, etc. In the eighth grade, we require that students’ duty reports should not only be limited to things obtained from the Internet or newspapers, but should have more original things of their own. We also want to improve their writing skills through duty reports. Therefore, starting from the second grade of junior high school, we require students to provide a handwritten or printed document after completing their duty report.

In order not to make the duty report a formality, students who finished the duty report asked questions on the spot to test the effect of other students' listening. Nowadays, students not only have a wide range of topics, but some students also find new ways to create exquisite PPTs based on their expertise in computers, making their duty reports exciting and fascinating. In short, if the teacher guides the students to have something to say and write, the duty report activity will be carried out in a lively and vivid manner.

3. Extension and expansion of in-class knowledge

The process of English teaching is not only an explanation and reproduction of textbook knowledge, but should be based on textbooks and explore the depth and breadth of course resources. . Therefore, we have added a "Let the word fly" section to each unit, the purpose of which is to help students learn some vocabulary with "polysemy and familiar words". Through this link, students can have a thorough understanding of the usage and meaning of some common words. For example, the word "get" appears in unit 8 of Go for it 8 (Part 2), and is used in the textbook as "Why don't you get her a scarf?" Since this word is a key word in English vocabulary , we expanded it. (1)Everybody gets tired sometimes. (2) Go and get your breakfast. (3) Get John a drink. (4) Every day we get a lot of homework to do. (have) (5) Li Ming doesn't study hard, so he often gets low marks in tests. (get) (6) You should get your friends to help you. (make) (7)Dad has gone to Hong Kong . He got there last night. (arrival)

In each unit, we and the students will further expand some key vocabulary. Over time, it will greatly promote students' learning interest and learning effect.

At the same time, we also consciously enhance the cultivation of students' English cultural awareness. When teaching Go for it 8 (Part 2) Unit5 Can you come to my party?, taking into account the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, we added some topics to discuss during the lecture, such as: When should we go to a party? What presents are proper for a party? How do the kids hold a party? How to write an invitation to a party and how to reply the invitation? In the ninth grade textbook, when we teach Chinese and foreign table manners, we take advantage of the situation and let students We work in groups and look up relevant table manners in various countries after class. The students take it seriously and gain a lot from the group exchanges. Through expansion, students can have a better understanding of English culture. They felt that the knowledge they learned was very relevant to their lives, and their interest in learning was greatly improved.

4. English tabloid display board

The display of English tabloids provides a space for versatile students to display their talents, and is deeply loved by students. Our tabloids have themes and form series. After returning to school during the summer vacation, we made a tabloid display board for My Colorful Vacation.

Later, we made blackboard posters for Chinese and Western festivals, such as Spring Festival, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas, etc., taking this opportunity to let students better understand Western festival culture. Every time after the English tabloid display board is set up, many students hang around, appreciate and study it carefully, and it becomes another place for students to learn English.

All in all, there are various forms of extracurricular English development in junior high schools. If teachers can fully and effectively play their role in the teaching process, they will definitely improve students' English learning ability and ability to solve problems in English. At the same time, it also helps to improve the efficiency of English teaching, promote the professional development of teachers, and achieve the best results in teaching and learning.