English,as an international language and a tool of communication in learning advanced science and technology,is playing an important role in modern international society.With the degree of China reform and opening up increasing,English has become an important instrument of foreign exchange.English teaching opens up a window for China to understand the world.As the same time,with the global integration advancement and the economy,society's development,the world economy becomes integration.So English teaching is set a higher request.As a main component of studying English,English classroom instructional activity is becoming particularly importance. However,in the daily teaching,there are still some shortcomings.As described:"More time wasted,less effective results".With the progress of New Course Reform becoming deeper,The New Course Reform gives challenges and opportunities to English teaching in primary,junior and senior school.New Curriculum Standard asks us to change traditional teaching and teaching situation in class.With the Course reforming and New Curriculum Standard carried out,the tradition teaching form can't go along with the new situation.New Curriculum Standard calls for students' initiative learning.So,how to design reasonable and valid English instructional activity in class becomes very important.Mastering the instructional activity elements in instructional activity and applying the elements thinking to designing the English instructional activity is becoming the most important thing.This thesis analyzes the notion of activity,instructional activity and English instructional activity.It also summarizes the feature of English instructional activity. There are some theoretical foundations in English instructional activity in class.They are study theory,instructional theory,design theory,communication theory and linguistic theory.This study attempts to present some essential elements of English instructional activity design,and illustrate the function of instructional activity in classroom according to the specific instructional activity case.This thesis is mainly allotted for five chapters.It consists of the chapters as follows:In the first chapter,it mainly introduces the research background,purpose, significance and describes the present situation of activity design at home and abroad.In the second chapter,it is devoted to the brief definition and English instructional activity and its theoretical foundation.In the third chapter,it analyzes the feature of English instructional activity, including the definition of activity,the feature of activity,the definition of instructional activity,the components of instructional activity,the feature of instructional activity and English instructional activity.In the fourth chapter,it summarizes essential elements of English instructional activity design,and applies these essential elements to instructional activity.In the fifth chapter,it includes the conclusion,shortages and prospects of the research. |