An Action Research On Task-Driven Teaching Approach In Secondary Vocational English Teaching

Compared to traditional teaching methods, the role of students under task-driven teaching has changed a lot, and they become the principal part of learning. The tasks assigned by teachers should be able to stimulate students' interest in learning, and let students play the main role in the teaching process. Thus, the students need to determine the direction of the study and master the learning progress, and make a serious analysis and solutions encountered all the problems based on their own characteristics. And then continue to constantly improve self-learning ability and creative ability. This paper will try to run through task-driven teaching method in vocational English teaching, as to explore whether the task-driven teaching approach can improve vocational school students' class participation and interest in learning English, and to find a more effective vocational English teaching method.Based on constructionist learning theory, and humanistic theory, this study will conduct an action research, and the 58 students majored in accounting, from class 3, 2015 will be the research participants. The study includes five phases of action: identifying problems; developing the action plan; implementing the action plan; collecting data; reflecting. The author also make a reflection and summery of the results of this action research to make feasible recommendations and effectively improve English teaching at secondary vocational schools.The results show that:(1) after task-driven teaching has been used for a certain period of time, the classroom engagement in English class has improved a lot;(2) After the implementation of task-driven teaching approach, the students learned how to cooperate with others and the interpersonal relationship is strengthened. As a performer, the teacher also participated in this action research, not only to achieve the purpose of teaching, but also improve the professional level.After the action research, the author conducted a reflection, and gained the following recommendations for teachers and students: 1) to the students themselves, they should change the wrong self-awareness and evaluation, and increase their self-confidence and establish the correct learning motivation; 2) teachers should enhance the teaching efficiency integrally as well as enhance positive evaluation, and establish a good teacher-student relationship. In addition, teachers should design a variety of classroom activities according to the teaching content and create a good,relaxed, and lively classroom atmosphere to stimulate students' interest in learning; 3) teachers should constantly adjust action programs based on the actual teaching situation. According to student learning, constantly revision of the action plan to deal with new problems arising in the course of the study is also necessary.Although this action research has achieved some success, inevitably there are still some limitations:(1) The subject of the research is only one class majored in accounting, the universality of findings is limited;(2) In this study, the author is the only implementer, and the results are inevitably subjective to a certain extent;(3) the action research is too short.