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Strategies For Improving Listening And Speaking Abilities Of Junior High School Students

Posted on:2005-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360152955664Subject:Curriculum and pedagogy
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English as a communicative tool has been paid attention by more and more people. But for a long time, what has puzzled most people is how to communicate. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are considered the four skills in the fundamental English teaching. But in the realistic teaching process, the importance of listening and speaking are not recognized. Nowadays, more and more students who have high grades in English find it difficult to communicate face to face with others after they graduate. Why? That means a great lack of practice in listening and speaking. When English teachers teach language knowledge to the students, they should also make the students learn to communicate with others freely and express their own ideas and thoughts. However, it needs a rather long time to develop this ability. The period of the students in junior high school is the starting stage to learn English, so it is the most important stage for them to develop a good habit to be actively involved into listening and speaking activities. So far, a number of teachers and experts have done lots of researches on this aspect, but most of them take college students and senior high school students as subjects. We can hardly find out any of them concerning how to improve the listening and speaking abilities of the junior high school students in China.The author, being a teacher in a junior high school for a long time, tries to seek for a series of teaching methods suitable for junior high school students to improve listening and speaking abilities. During this process, the author has consulted a huge amount of works on linguistics, pedagogy and English teaching methodology and so on and studied carefully the present situation of the listening and speaking abilities of the junior high school students with interviews and a questionnaire. After an analysis about the data colleted, the author draws a conclusion that English teacher should integrate listening and speaking activities in daily teaching practice and promote the students' reading and writing abilities on this basis, and lay a foundation for their lifelong learning.
Keywords/Search Tags:junior high students, listening and speaking abilities, improvement, use of language
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