A Study Of The Development Of The Students' Creative Thinking In English Teaching In Senior Middle School

Senior school students are ready to learn by themselves, which leads to the changing of their study methods and learning concepts. Teachers are also supposed to let students participate in the process of preparing teaching and learning. This paper, guided by the theory of creativity, aims at applying this theory into the teaching and learning of senior English. The author hopes to construct a mode of developing students' creative thinking by exploring education ideas, teaching materials and environment so as to perfect it in the quality-oriented education. The author tries to arouse more attention and study in this field.The paper applies strategies, principles of present methods of creativity education such as investigations, comparisons, experiments and interviews to develop students' creative way of thinking. By broadening their minds and exploring teaching materials, the author tries to develop students' divergent thinking, including fluency, flexibility, elaboration and originality. And through the study of experimental class and comparative class, including their observation, memory, thinking and imagination, the author wants them to obtain primary creative thinking and gradually become creative in the future,The paper consists of five chapters. Chapter one lists the background and the significance of my study. Chapter two explains the theory of creative thinking, including its definition and the relative factors. The author investigates and does some experiments in English teaching in chapter three. Chapter four focuses on the testing and analysis of the results of the test. Chapter five is about conclusions and reflections. The author summarizes the principles and methods of developing creative way of thinking, raises questions needed to be solved and puts forward how to solve them.