1 Commonly used junior high school English teaching methods

To implement quality education, we must change this subjective and passive learning state and turn learning into human subjectivity, initiative, and independence The process of continuous generation, promotion, development and improvement of sex. To improve teachers’ teaching level and quality, we must improve teaching methods. Below are some commonly used junior high school English teaching methods collected by the editor. Let’s take a look!

1 Task-based teaching method

< p>In teaching activities, teachers should design specific and operable tasks around specific communication and language projects. Students can complete tasks through various forms of language activities such as expression, communication, negotiation, explanation, and inquiry, in order to achieve The purpose of learning and mastering language. Task-based teaching method is formed by absorbing the advantages of various previous teaching methods, and it is not exclusive of other teaching methods.

2 Situational teaching method

Situational teaching method is that teachers create vivid projected pictures based on the scenes described in the text, supplemented by vivid literary language, and with the help of music Artistic appeal reproduces the scene and appearance described in the text, making students feel as if they hear their voices, see their people, feel as if they are in it, and feel as if they are there; teachers and students are engaged in a kind of scene blending in this situation. teaching activities.

3 Lecture method

The lecture method is a teaching method in which teachers use oral language to describe situations, narrate facts, explain concepts, demonstrate principles and clarify rules to students.

4 Conversation method

Conversation method is also called the answering method. It is a method of spreading and learning knowledge through conversations between teachers and students. Its characteristic is that the teacher guides the students to use their existing experience and knowledge to answer the questions raised by the teacher, so as to obtain new knowledge or consolidate and check the knowledge they have learned.

5 Discussion method

The discussion method is that under the guidance of the teacher, the whole class or group expresses their opinions and views around a certain central issue, discusses together, and interacts with each other. Inspiration, a method of brainstorming for learning.

6 Demonstration method

The demonstration method is when teachers show real objects or models of real objects to students for observation, or through demonstration experiments and modern teaching methods, so that students can obtain knowledge updates. a teaching method. It is an auxiliary teaching method and is often used in conjunction with lectures, conversations, discussions and other methods.

7 Visiting method

The visiting method is to organize students to certain off-campus places according to the requirements of teaching purposes - nature, production sites and other social living places, so that students can learn about actual things through Observation and research of phenomena and methods to obtain new knowledge.

2 What are the teaching methods for junior high school English?

(1) Translation Method The translation method is also called the grammar translation method, which was used by Europeans in the Middle Ages to learn Greek and Latin. method. In the classroom, teachers use grammar to teach, believing that reciting grammar rules is a shortcut to learning a foreign language.

The main features are:

1. The materials selected for the teaching materials are in "standard" language

2. The teaching language is mostly the students' mother tongue.

3. In the classroom teaching process, focus on using grammar and developing students' understanding skills to improve the effectiveness of foreign language teaching. The translation method was once popular in continental Europe, and some people still use this teaching method in primary school English textbooks and apply it in teaching practice. This is because the translation method is easy to use. As long as the teacher has mastered the basic knowledge of foreign languages, he can teach foreign languages ??with foreign language textbooks and does not require any teaching aids or equipment.

(2) Direct Method The direct method emerged in the second half of the 19th century. At that time, some European linguists and language teachers felt that the translation method lagged behind foreign language teaching, so they launched a teaching Reform movement, direct method came into being.

Its main features are:

1. Emphasis on direct learning and direct application of foreign languages, so that students can truly master foreign languages.

2. Emphasis on oral English and pronunciation teaching.

3. Pay attention to practical exercises and cultivate language habits.

4. Through sentence pattern teaching, students can learn practical grammar in a planned way in language practice, and play the role of grammar in foreign language teaching.

5. Use various teaching aids, widely use teaching methods and methods close to real life, and teach more lively.

6. When selecting teaching materials, pay attention to practicality and step-by-step arrangement. With the continuous deepening of opening up to the outside world, people have more opportunities to communicate with foreigners, and there is an urgent need to master spoken English. It is even more urgent for students to get rid of the "oral language barrier". Therefore, when compiling primary school English textbooks and choosing teachers’ teaching methods, the direct method must be considered.

3 Junior high school English teaching methods

(1) Listening and speaking method (Audio-Lingual Method) The listening and speaking method is also called the sentence pattern teaching method, which originated in the United States in the 1940s. Before World War II, foreign language teaching in the United States still used the translation method. With the outbreak of World War II, the U.S. military was in urgent need of a large number of foreign language talents with good listening and speaking skills to join the army. From this, the Dharma of hearing and hearing appeared.

The characteristics are:

1. The content of the new lesson is developed in the form of conversation.

2. Use imitation, memory, repetition and other methods to learn to develop language habits.

3. The language structures are arranged in order and taught in sequence.

4. Sentence structures are practiced repeatedly. Grammar teaching uses induction and analogy, with little grammar explanation.

5. Vocabulary is strictly controlled, and vocabulary learning depends on context.

6. Pay attention to pronunciation teaching.

7. Make extensive use of audio-visual equipment and language laboratories.

8. Immediately reinforce students’ successful responses and try to prevent students from making mistakes.

9. Arrange teaching in the order of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

10. Emphasize the importance of the cultural background of the second foreign language. Judging from the characteristics of the listening and speaking method, today's primary school English teaching materials follow the listening and speaking method to a large extent. Starting from listening and speaking, they actively guide students to learn reading and writing, compare foreign languages ????with students' mother tongue, and make students aware of their mother tongue. Cultural differences with foreign languages.

(2) Cognitive Approach The cognitive approach was produced in the 1960s and is based on the knowledge structure theory of J. B. Carroll, Bruner, and Chomsky. The transformational generative grammar proposed by (N.Chomsky).

Its characteristics are:

1. Through systematic and purposeful explanation and practice, students can acquire certain language abilities.

2. In teaching, use students’ own mother tongue knowledge to compare with the foreign language they are learning to help them understand and master language rules.

3. Connect language materials with students’ existing knowledge and create a good context for teaching.

4. Listen, listen, read and write simultaneously to promote the simultaneous movement of various senses.

5. The teaching sequence is from language ability to language performance. First, establish the necessary cognitive structure, understand certain language rules, and then create conditions for students to apply the rules and use language creatively. The cognitive method conforms to students' cognitive structure and can better help students complete the three stages of learning: understanding, ability development, and comprehensive application during teaching. Therefore, the cognitive method is accepted by many language educators and teachers and used in the preparation of English textbooks and specific teaching.