On 'Waste' In High School English Teaching And Learning: Manifestations, Causes And Countermeasures

This paper studies wastes in high school English teaching and Learning. By waste, we mean the disproportionate paradox of 'high investment, but low efficiency' phenomenon in the high school English teaching and learning.Many people have been doing researches on English teaching and learning, but most of them focus on how to teach and how to learn, and few concern the output of investments in English teaching and learning.In order to reveal the manifestations and causes of waste in high school English teaching and learning, we handed out questionnaires in four high schools in Guangdong province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region. It was found that: Waste exists in high school English teaching and learning, the manifestations are as follows: 1)unnecessary repetition, 2)leaving Multimedia equipment unused, 3)low efficiency, 4)high marks but poor abilities, 5)learning separated from application, 6)excessive materials for learning, 7)waste of time.To us the causes of the waste are: 1)absence of a proper social and cultural environment, 2)unclear recognition of the teaching targets and evaluation of high school English education in social education. 3)improper handling the relationship between the left and right hemisphere of human cerebra, 4)non-scientific teaching syllabus and education management system, 5)poor qualities and inadequate teaching techniques of teachers, 6)high school students' improper attitudes and methods towards English learning,;To eliminate and avoid waste in high school English teaching and learning and the paper suggests taking the following possible countermeasures:l)establish a good social environment for high school English teaching and learning, 2)Reform the teaching management system and teaching syllabus and make the management activities more scientific, 3)improve the qualities of high school teacher of English and the efficiency of classroom teaching activities as well as teaching methods; make high school English teaching more scientific, 4)help students to develop proper attitudes towards English learning and improve their methods of learning English.The study is significant. It will help to improve the efficiency of high school English teaching and learning; to lighten the students pressure in English learning and enhance the students' interests in English learning. However, this is but a preliminary study on the issue. Further studies are expected to gather more sources of data and to probe into the courses and countermeasures in English teaching and learning.