Improving Spoken English For Primary School Students Through Guessing Games

English teaching, especially spoken English in primary school is attracting more and more attention since the National Educational Committee made the regulation in 2001 that all primary schools should start teaching English at least from Grade Three. Many primary school teachers are trying different methods including games to improve teaching results. The writer thinks that if properly designed and carefully considered, games are good teaching methods which are appropriate to children's psychological and cognitive characteristics. The writer employs guessing games in teaching practice. In fact, many teachers use guessing games in class but few of them have studied their teaching effects systematically. The purpose of the paper is to study the teaching results of guessing games through a term of teaching experiment. The writer believes the guessing game can improve students' spoken English effectively. In order to prove this hypothesis, the writer carries out a 4-month experiment.The writer chooses 2 classes of Grade 6 in a private school in Huhhot to do the experiment. The experimental class plays the guessing games twice a week, while the controlled class would never play the game. The guessing game the writer used is that most of students describe the word freely, and several students try to guess. Through negotiation and communicating between two parts, spoken English is practiced. After the 4-month experiment, the students' spoken English in experimental class will be improved effectively. At the beginning of the term, all students in both experimental class and controlled class have a pri-test, and the same test is done at the end of the term. Both tests are recorded. Meanwhile, the first and last guessing games are also recorded. All the data will be analyzed after the experiment. The data are compared cross sectionally between the experimental class and controlled class, and the first and last time of guessing games are also compared longitudinally. The conclusion will be made according to the data.It is proved by the experimental results that the guessing games can improve most students' English speaking ability effectively, and the more one speaks in the guessing game, the more opportunities one gets to practice English, the more his spoken English is improved.