A Study Of Spoken English Teaching In The Rural Middle School Based On Multimodal Theory

Nowadays,with the increasing trend of internationalization,good spoken English communicative competence has become a necessary condition for communication between people.Because of the rapid development of science and technology and the continuous change of communication forms,the transmission of communicative discourse meaning is more diversified.At the same time,the multimodality of language communication provides a new way of expression for teaching,which makes more and more scholars at home and abroad explore language teaching from this perspective and seek more effective spoken English teaching methods.With the help of symbolic resources such as words,pictures and sounds,multimodal teaching can stimulate students' various senses in English learning,arouse students' interest in learning,and cultivate their initiative in practicing spoken English.Comprehensive utilization of various modes of resources can make up for the shortcomings of the traditional spoken English teaching mode.It highlights students' principal position,guide students to take part in the teaching activities actively.Then it can also promote interaction and communication between students and teachers,improve the teaching efficiency in class and raise students' spoken English level,in order to achieve an ideal language teaching effect.English teaching in rural middle schools is weak,so it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of students' spoken English communicative competence through effective ways.Based on the current situation of spoken English teaching in rural middle schools,this paper explores the effective ways to implement multimodal teaching.According to the experimental results,the author analyses the influence of multimodal teaching on spoken English teaching in the rural middle school.The research questions are as follows:1.How does the teacher implement multimodal spoken English teaching mode in rural middle schools?2.Can the application of the multimodal spoken English teaching mode improve the oral expression ability of rural middle school students?3.What is the impact of the application of the multimodal spoken English teaching mode on rural middle school students' learning attitude,interest and behavior?In this paper,63 students from two parallel classes in Grade 8 of a rural middle school in Zhenjiang New District of Jiangsu Province were studied for one semester.Before the experiment,a questionnaire survey was conducted among the students to find out the current attitude,interest and performance of rural middle school students towards spoken English.At the same time,the author interviewed the English teachers at school to understand their spoken English teaching methods,as well as the current students' attitude towards spoken English teaching and spoken expression ability.In the experiment,the multimodal theory is used to guide the spoken English teaching,forming a relatively complete classroom teaching mode.After the experiment,the students in the experimental class were asked to know the changes of their attitude,interest and behavior in spoken English learning.Through the analysis of interviews,questionnaires,pre-test and post-test,the results are as follows: First,the multimodal spoken English teaching mode has been effectively implemented in the rural middle school.Second,multimodal spoken teaching mode can improve students' spoken performance significantly.Third,multimodal spoken English teaching is helpful to improve students' attitude towards spoken English learning,stimulate their interest in spoken English learning and change their behavior.This paper fully explains the advantages of multimodal teaching method through experimental analysis,but on the other hand,there are still some deficiencies in this study.For example,the range of the research sample selection is small,the selection of teaching materials is not rich,the experimental period is short and the research methods are not diverse enough which we hope to continue to improve in the future research.