The Study Of Moral Education In Junior High School English Class In The New Era Of Chinese Socialism

Moral education is the basic task of education in the new era of China.In order to meet this requirement,the Ministry of Education in China issued The Guide for Moral Education at Primary and Secondary Schools in 2017,which must be complied with by all schools.It stipulates clearly that moral education resources in each course should be fully explored and the role of classroom teaching should be fully brought into play as it is the main channel of cultivating students.In particular,the Guide also points out that foreign language teachers should strengthen the cultivation of students’ international vision,international understanding and comprehensive humanistic quality in their classes.Moreover,The English Curriculum Standard for Compulsory Education(2011 Edition)also states that the English curriculum in junior high schools is humanistic and undertakes the task of improving students’ comprehensive humanistic quality.This requires junior high school English teachers to have sufficient ability of classroom moral education.However,it is commom that junior high school English teachers lack the awareness of moral education nowadays and the effectiveness of classroom moral education needs to be improved.Therefore,English teachers’ moral education ability needs to be promoted.The ministerial excellent lessons in the activity of“One Good Lesson per Teacher,One Outstanding Teacher per Lesson” organized by the Ministry of Education in China is of the highest teaching level for a certain node content in the same textbook in China.Taking moral education as the principal teaching standard,these lessons are valuable resources for the study on classroom moral education.This study selects 30 ministerial junior high school English lessons in 2019 randomly as the object.By using text analysis method and classroom observation method,this study analyzes the moral education categories of junior high school English curriculum and tries to discuss the following three questions: Firstly,what are the characteristics of the classroom moral education contents in these sample lessons? Secondly,are the classroom education goals of these sample lessons scientific or not? Thirdly,what classroom moral education methods are used in them? What can we learn from them about these methods?Among them,the study on the third question is of primary importance.As the result of this study shows,the moral education contents of these sample lessons are comprehensive and representative;the teachers in these lessons can set scientific and reasonable moral education goals on the basis of grasping the classroom moral educaton contents accurately;they can choose and use various moral education methods flexibly according to the real teeching needs.There are 9 methods involved.They are the lecture method,the talking method,the evaluation method,the group-cooperation method,the group-competition method,the situation simulating method,the discussion method,the role playing method and the cultivation method.Furthermore,we can learn a lot from these teachers about carrying out these moral education methods.Based on these results,the author raises practical and feasible suggestions for junior high school English teachers in three aspects—grasping the classroom moral education content accurately,setting up classroom moral education goals scientifically,using a variety of classroom moral education methods flexibly.These suggestions are expected to enhance the junior high school English teachers’ moral education ability,promote the effectiveness of classroom moral education and make the English curriculum play a better role in the school moral education.