Application In The English Teaching In Implementing Inquiry Learning In Rural High Schools

Today, the school in high schools of China is going through a profound transformation. This transformation is a fundamental change of teachers' teaching methods and students' learning methods .The inquiry learning, which is under implementation in our country, with city schools in the lead and rural schools following, is the main way to carry out this transformation.With the use of methods of literature, investigation and my own experience this dissertation, based on the grand background of elementary education reform in China, made an investigation on the present situation of implementing inquiry learning in the rural schools of Da La Te Qi, aiming to find out the main problems and difficulties in implementing inquiry learning in rural schools and to analyze the causes of the problems. To deal with these problems and their causes, this dissertation has also proposed some tentative countermeasures to propel implementing inquiry learning in rural areas. The first four parts of this dissertation deal with theoretic and practical significance of implementing inquiry learning in rural schools through discussing the background, conception theoretic basis of it. and research situation, and The fifth part is an investigation by means of questionnaire survey as well as interview survey, which involves two such dimensions as the attitudes and practice, and the subjects include headmasters, teachers, students and their parents. The survey shows that there are some problems on the aspects of attitude and practice in implementing inquiry learning in rural schools. In detail, the basic facilities and equipment can't satisfy the demands of study; traditional attitudes obstruct the new course from being implemented; the atmosphere for supporting education in the whole society has not been...