The Study Of Designing TEFL In Middle School Large Classes

Since more and more Chinese students choose English as the second language, English has its special importance in the many phases of Chinese primary school, middle school and college education. This thesis concentrates on one burgeoning problem existing in EFL classes: EFL classes are facing great pressure —one teacher has to deal with a larger and larger language class. So when the class size becomes larger and larger, how to find appropriate coping methods accordingly?Based on two questionnaires, the thesis firstly analyzes the current situation of large EFL classes which demands for urgent innovation and improvement. Then this thesis tries to explore the solution to the three categories of large class related problems: the difficulties of methodology, management and affective interaction between teachers and students, which are collected by using an interview with English teachers,Since the role of teachers has greatly changed in the large class situation, the students are central in the classroom instead of the authoritative teachers. So how should EFL education at this level adapt to the large class situation without decreasing its quality? How should teachers prepare to play a different role in the process of managing large classes? How should students be accustomed to large EFL class environment and take good advantage of the facilities available to serve their academic needs? So many questions unsolved are waiting for researching, experimenting, and designing. Luckily, constructivism provides the theoretical support to the possibility for the students to effectively construct their knowledge timelessly and spacelessly though they are in large EFL classes. This redirection of focus is, as constructivism proposes that a constructivist learning environment should be, posing another challenge for both teachers and students involved in large classes. Constructive teaching and learning theory provides an ideal approach and solution to the dilemma of large EFL classes.This thesis then discusses a number of student-centered and learning focused techniques and strategies, which are used successfully in large EFL classes both here and abroad. After that, based on constructivist theory, this thesis presents a large EFL class record with multimedia, internet and teaching strategies involved to show that large EFL class can be richly presented, more vivid, interesting and effective. From this, the debatable future of large EFL class can be enlightened to a great extent by applying scientific techniques and technology to create a real student-centered constructive learning...