| The development of English optional courses is one of the major points in the new round reform of English basis education. It can meet various demands of senior high school students, and much emphasis is put on the idea of human-oriented curriculum reform, meanwhile it will also enhance the professional development of teachers; English optional courses are important part of school curriculum, showing differentia, diversity and flexibility of curriculum. As people have a better understanding of the new curriculum, more and more attention have been paid to the developing and utilizing of school-based curriculum resources. It is urgent for us to search out the real English level of today's students and the problems we are meeting with nowadays. The results of the search will certainly help us to focus on the methods of the development of the school-based curriculum. The objective of language learning is to cultivate the students' practical ability of language. You must learn its culture as well as its knowledge when you learn a language. Language is a kind of representation of national culture.The essay is based on the practical experience from our school. We think that we should strengthen the study of language knowledge, culture and translating ability. Also, it can boost teachers' spirit in teaching career. Its development has brought us a lot.The essay will talk about the idea from three aspects. In part one, it refers to the relationship between translation and language teaching and quality-based education as well. The essay states that in the translating course teachers can make use of task-based method to help improve students" translating ability along with the other abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing; it is known that translating is an activity of both cross culture communication and cross language communication, so translating activities can help improve the ability and strength the idea of cross culture: Students will have more opportunities to communicate with others, therefore, their communication ability is trained. But in our county the situation of translating teaching is not to our satisfaction.In the second part, the implement of the development of the school-basedEnglish curriculum, which has dealing with the attempting and researching of curriculum development. It is based on the theory and our school's individual analysis of optional course development. For the students' individual development, all these courses greatly arouse students' interests and boost the improvement of teachers'... |