A Study Of "Story-centered" English Teaching Strategy

With English new curriculum reform's persistence, reflection and penetration, the limitation of teaching approach is becoming more and more obvious; therefore, task-based teaching approach begins to be valued, which arises by amendment of "English curriculum standard (experimental)". As improvement of task-based teaching approach, "story-centered" English teaching research focuses on its theory, feature, basement and strategy. This paper begins with analysis of its connotation and characteristic; then, it bases on "learning by doing" and reference theories, and it interprets systematically its basic ideas from the view of language, language learning, and language teaching. The paper relies on teaching strategy as key between theory and practice, which is examined into specific strategies and implementation conditions, supplying consults for teachers' real application."Story-centered" English teaching is re-thought of English teaching under the background of English curriculum reform, modern foreign language teaching theory, and challenges of practical problems. Although it is fresh in hearing, "Story-centered" English teaching has a long history. In western study, it focuses on philosophy behind teaching research; while, in Chinese study, it orients on traditional meaning of "story", which is lack of deeper understanding of its inner value. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss it from theoretical and practical view."Story-centered" English teaching is kind of being teaching, starting with students' possible "story", in which students finish experiencing story one by one in the teaching process of simulating situation. From the practical view, "Story-centered" English teaching tries to explain its teaching believes, which embodies its characteristic: story as start line, real action as core part, and meaningful situation as condition. The rationality of "Story-centered" English teaching can be found in "learning by doing" theory, activity theory and "teaching-learning-doing" theory, which induces its basic believes.Reflected on real class, effective teaching strategy is brought out according to procedures of teaching process: searching co-being story strategy, experiencing story under situation strategy, transferring story by words strategy, and role-playing story strategy.In order to effectively implement teaching strategy, it requires rational consideration of realizing condition, which including role transfer of student and teacher, rules and methods of selecting stories, and adoption of language learning model.