| A foreign language is a tool to learn the developed countries' technology and their experience on the management; a tool to know about a foreign culture rite and it is also a carrier for people to commute with each other and express their sensibility. What's more, it is a bridge for us to take on the world and accept it. With the reforming and opening developing further, the global New Economy Age is coming around, and the New Education Age comes after it.For a long time, under the pressure of the examination-oriented education, teachers of the Junior English laid so much stress on grammars and vocabularies that they neglected to train students to use the language in contexts. Consequently, students couldn't satisfy the requirement of the Knowledge Economy Age for lack of language skills, language knowledge, emotional attitudes, learning strategies and culture awareness. In light of this the traditional teaching modes cannot meet the requirements of modern times any longer.In order to make the education's quality higher to face the challenge of the 21st century, people are trying their best to reform the teaching methods in the basic education system. Now in China a new curriculum reform in elementary is being deepened in all-round way. According to the new curriculum standards, great emphasis must be placed on how to turn the tendency (i.e. paying excessive attention to the vocabulary and grammatical knowledge and correspondingly neglecting to the develop the students' communicative competence .) Meanwhile, it is proposed in the new standards that the curriculum should help develop the students' comprehensive... |