Principles And Techniques In Activity Design Of Interactive Teaching

Nowadays, it's highly necessary and vital for the Chinese to learn English, especially in a more open China today. In the future society, the competitions among the talents from different countries are very fierce. This severe situation requests teachers to take active and various approaches to train the students' practical communicative competence to satisfy the needs of competition. However, in the daily teaching, there are still some shortcomings. As Prime premier Li Lanqing described the primary education in foreign language teaching: "More time wasted, less effective results." Thus, the New Course Reform in 2000 challenges us to a new and effective teaching model. New Course Standard asks teachers to change traditional teaching and teaching situation in class. Considering the advantages of interactive teaching which have proved to be true in China and aboard. Therefore, in order to make learners grasp English effectively, this essay will seek to explore the possibility of advantageous principles and techniques in activity design of interactive teaching. Besides, in my paper I will talk simple considerations about my daily teaching in how to design activity in interactive teaching.It is based on theories, such as psychology, pedagogy, etc. Research methods take questionnaire investigation, and the integration of theory and practice which have been carried out in English teaching in No6.Middle School. The results of research and practice indicate that by the interactive teaching via learners' doing different activities, learners' creative thinking has been improved, especially learners' creative ability and practical ability in English learning have made great progress. For instance, a duty report, discussion, debate before class. They value every opportunity to show them off, sometimes even they can finish a better composition than ever. They make great trouble to bring their "stage property" to the school for their own or others' small performances. They get a lot of fun in learning. Some students said in cards: " Thank you for your hard-working. InEnglish lesson, you have taught us new modem learning strategies. We no longer concentrate ourselves on the grammar work. During the period of learning, we have got great fun." For the teacher, interactive teaching can stimulate the teacher's witness and inspiration, inspire the teacher to study further and research more scientific teaching approaches and strategics. In addition, interactive teaching has encouraged teacher to build up the idea of lifelong learning and helped the teacher's continuous development.As interactive teaching is of great importance in middle school, this paper has introduced, besides other things, one general principle and six concrete principles such as: Activities are to be designed emphasizing the student-centered learning, students' overall and lifelong developments; Activities are designed to foster learners' communicative competence and so on. It also has explored the techniques of designing activities through concrete examples including activities in textbooks and in class as well as out of class. This dissertation has also touched upon the results analysis of activity designing and teaching practice.