The Implementation Of Microteaching System To Cultivate Primary And Middle English Teaching Skills

Microteaching is a method for training teacher to grasp teaching skills in classroom. At the beginning of the 1980s, microteaching came within the vision range of Chinese, and developed with leaps and bounds. With its theoretical and methodological advantages, it meets the demand of teacher education development in China. It absorbs ideas such as designing teaching activities, classifying teaching skills, analyzing, discussing and evaluating teaching effect. Microteaching simplifies complex teaching process into teaching skills which are practiced in the training one by one.As to primary and middle English teaching, teachers should be skilled in organizing and controlling the activities and resorting to teaching aids. It is far from enough for them to teach only by their stock of knowledge but without teaching skills. However, it is the skills that many teachers, especially those newly graduated, is weak in. For this reason, the training aimed to the development of English teaching skills is extremely urgent.In the search for effective training methods to improve primary and middle English teachers'teaching skills, the author looks to microteaching during which the skill of lead-in, questioning, drilling, instruction language, activity designing and organizing, variability, strengthening, closure, and using instructional media are practiced and improved. The training on 30 seniors majoring in English in Hubei University of Technology was put forward according to the designed microteaching system so as to confirm its effect and make it more available.The experiment includes three steps—pre-text, training and post-test. During the training step, students'learning consists four phases: to cognize and understand microteaching; to learn and write lesson plan; to play teacher role and evaluate in group; to review and amend. After the thirty class time of training, the author administrated the post-test as the pre-test did, gaining data of the assessment. By comparison the results, as well as resorting to the questionnaire and interview, the findings were worked out. It was found that the designed microteaching training was really an effective and efficient way to train prospective English teachers'teaching skills and the training model is reasonable. In short, the study contributes to the issues about how to make the primary and middle English teacher training more completed, more logical, more suitable in modernized world, and about how to equip prospective teachers with professional skills.