Not paying enough attention to English learning has always been a headache for many teachers. This article attempts to discuss how to improve students' interest in learning English by creating an English learning atmosphere. "Interest is the best teacher." There are many ways to improve students' interest in learning. As English teachers advocated by the new curriculum standards, we should really change our previous thinking and try to consider the reasons why students are not interested in many aspects. Solve various contradictions existing in reality in many aspects. English learning atmosphere, learning interest activity planning, primary school English itself is a very interesting subject. It combines rich teaching methods, vivid teaching tools and lovely teaching materials to lead students into the English world through vivid life scenes. , learn to use simple English for daily communication. But for a long time, primary school English teaching has been in an embarrassing situation. It is a main subject, but it is not "strong" enough compared with Chinese mathematics; it is a language skill, but when children return to this In a language environment where Mandarin and Changsha dialects are mixed, this skill immediately seems "useless". So how to teach primary school English vividly? Change teaching materials? Our teaching materials have been compiled quite well. Change the environment? Judging from the current popularity of English across the country, the environment for learning English cannot be changed in a day or two. Therefore, if we want to truly establish a clear banner for primary school English teaching, we can only start by improving children's interest in learning. Only when the child's interest is improved and he is subjectively willing to learn this course, then all problems will be solved. Easy to solve. Then, another question comes before us. How to improve children's interest in learning English? Through observation, I found that current English teaching is facing a series of practical problems: 1. Students lack a correct understanding of English learning. For us, English is a skill. Learning English can help us understand the culture of Western countries more directly and communicate with foreigners more easily. In our daily life, English can be seen everywhere. To master English is to master something. Door survival skills. Yes, this is what we adults think. But do kids think so? Would they think that far ahead? Do they realize the importance of learning English? The answer is a question mark. First of all, for children, their world is full of color and carefree. It seems that few students think about what will happen to me if I don’t learn English well, let alone the college entrance examination, employment, and life. Skills and the like. So, from this point on, they lack the correct understanding of English learning, and they also lack the motivation and goals to learn English. 2. Students have limited class hours and lack of appropriate language environment. For children, the environment for learning English is too limited. Only 2 days out of 7 days a week are exposed to English classes at school, and only for 40 minutes. The rest of the time they live in the "Chinese world". How can such an environment emerge? The charm of English learning? Maybe the child will think like this: "I speak Chinese every day at school and Chinese at home. Only in English class does the teacher speak English to us. Why should I learn English? They don't speak it, and others still laugh when I speak alone. Me. Besides, even if I say it, they can’t understand it! So why should we learn it?” What can we say when we face such doubts? The child simply lacks a sense of achievement in learning English. He learns a word, recites a sentence, and at most gets praise from the teacher in English class. What else is there? He told his parents that the parents didn't understand; he told other teachers that the teachers were not cooperative; he told his classmates that the classmates were not cooperative; he told foreigners that they did not have the courage. Therefore, English to them is just a bunch of letter combinations that they cannot understand or use. So what is the use of the English he has learned? Where is the motivation? Where is the confidence? 3. The embarrassing status of primary school English. The embarrassing status of primary school English also determines that she cannot fully mobilize children's interests. I usually talk about the number of words and the number of words.

But compared with the number of languages, two foreign language classes per week are really too few. Once students have less exposure, they will know less. If they know less, they will naturally not have much interest. Why should they spend so much time and energy? "Wasted" on complex English words? In addition, many parents also lack understanding of English. They believe that English in primary school is not important and they have to learn it all over again in junior high school. Therefore, they relax the requirements for their children to learn English at home. This is also an important reason why students do not pay attention to English and do not like English. reason. When various problems are discovered, we should find ways to overcome them and prescribe the right medicines. Through the analysis just now, we found that how to improve children's interest in learning English should be regarded as a difficult "project". We should seize the root of the problem, carry out targeted activities, and strive to let children re-understand English through one activity after another, correct their attitude towards learning English, not only let them discover the fun of learning English, but also let them Understand why they should learn English and what learning English can bring to them. Only in this way will their learning path become smoother and smoother. Taking my school in Chuyi as an example, through understanding the English learning situation of Chuyi school students, I found that the common problem among current students is that their English foundation is relatively weak, they do not pay enough attention to English, and they are not interested. Maybe the problem is multifaceted. , including several aspects mentioned before. In response to this problem, I think we can gradually develop the English learning atmosphere in the school by carrying out a series of activities, and actively create a relaxed, interesting, free, and rich English environment for students, so that they can learn English in their daily lives. During play, in competitions, and in communicating with others, you should be exposed to English as much as possible, understand English, and use English unconsciously. After discussion at a school meeting, it was decided that April this year will be the school English learning activity month. The purpose is to gradually expand the atmosphere of English learning to every corner of the campus through a series of activities, so that every child can truly experience English is all around us. Below, I will take several plans for this event month as examples to talk about feasible measures in terms of specific details. This activity aims to strongly call on students to take English outside the classroom and use English more in daily games, extracurricular activities, and when greeting classmates and teachers. For example, when meeting, use: Good morning! Hello! How are you ? Use when saying goodbye: Goodbye! See you! Use when saying thank you: Thank you! Use when helping others: May I help you? and so on. These daily expressions can be gradually taught to students in class through teachers, and then encourage them to use them more after class, and praise students who really do it. In this way, when they find that the English sentences they have learned can be used in class When you use it outside and get recognition, a sense of accomplishment is gradually established. This activity has been carried out in our school for nearly half a month. Judging from the performance of the students, the effect is quite good. They have gradually developed a habit, that is, seeing the teacher is no longer the same. : Hello, teacher! Instead: Hello! Good morning! Good afternoon! etc., and they are also happy to greet the teacher in this way, and they are even more excited after receiving the teacher's response. English “Do-re-me” There are many beautiful English songs for students in the current textbooks. In ordinary classes, due to insufficient class time, this section is often not paid enough attention to. When the text content is actually finished, there is no It's time to sing the song. I think that in order to arouse children's interest, this part should be used to share the joy of English learning with students. We cannot blindly emphasize how much students need to master the text content, nor can we spend all their time on On the teaching of words and sentences. You must know that the learning of English songs is also a teaching task. Since it is placed in the textbook, it has a reason for its existence. The learning of songs is often related to the teaching of this module. Letting children learn to sing English songs can not only make the class more lively and friendly, but also allow children to practice their pronunciation during singing.

For example, when I was teaching students in fourth grade to sing "At the Factory," I found that if children were asked to read the lyrics individually, they might not read them accurately enough and learn them more slowly. But when children are asked to sing along with the tune, they can do quite well in terms of pronunciation and rhythm. After practicing more times, they can naturally understand the main idea of ??the song, bring their own feelings into the singing, and finally achieve the goal of breaking away from the original sound. The effect of accurate singing. This phenomenon was something I had never thought of before, and it also surprised me. Therefore, in future classes, including after-school time, teachers can play beautiful English songs and teach children how to sing intentionally or unintentionally. We may be able to change the learning atmosphere in a different way to relax, relax again; relax, and relax again. Learning English should also focus on daily accumulation. Only through accumulation day after day, year after year, can students continue to accumulate raw materials for their own "knowledge warehouse", and only when they are actually used, will they have "goods". Therefore, in primary school English education, we should also consider how to let children develop the habit of accumulating more on weekdays. First of all, this is the year of the Olympics. I think we can make full use of this opportunity to teach English to children using the Olympics as a carrier. Everyone is welcoming the Olympics. Can we take practical actions? That is to learn English phrases related to the Olympics, such as: Welcome to Beijing! I love China! We are ready! One World, One Dream! and so on. I believe that as long as the Olympic Games are mentioned, children will definitely be excited. If we teach English appropriately while their enthusiasm is still intact, I believe that good results will be achieved. To this end, we specially set up an exquisite Olympic countdown board at the school gate. In this way, on the one hand, we can cultivate students' patriotic sentiments and let them understand the Olympics, look forward to the Olympics, and love the Olympics; on the other hand, we also make full use of this publicity position to Create a small English section on the countdown card: one sentence per week. Recommend an English quote or common expression to the children each week and write it on the countdown board so they can see it as soon as they enter the school. Then, the teacher will ask the children in class whether they have noticed what the sentence is this week, test their memory, and praise the students who answered. In this way, this position is fully utilized and has the effect of killing two birds with one stone. For example, in the past two weeks, we have displayed on the countdown cards: We are ready! (We are ready) and gymnastics (Gymnastics: Chu Yi’s school-based courses). It is very popular with students and they remember it instantly. The cultivation of interest is inseparable from games. How to bring games into English learning is also a question worth thinking about. In addition to playing English games appropriately in the classroom, I think the scope of games can be further expanded into students’ homework design. We should get rid of the stereotyped copying, reciting, reading and other dull assignments in the past. Students have become tired of these, and the results of such assignments are often not great. Introducing games into homework design should achieve unexpected results. For example, in word solitaire, we can give students a word and ask them to go back and complete the word solitaire in their homework books to see who can catch the most and the best word! Considering that the vocabulary of primary school students is limited, we can "open books" and read various vocabulary books (but preferably words that have been learned before), so that they have no pressure, everyone can complete it, and everyone can Participation, and the most important thing is that through this kind of solitaire, they used various methods and means to find suitable words. In the process of searching, they completed learning and gained happiness. We have regular red scarf broadcasts every week. We make full use of the school radio and use the time every Friday at noon to broadcast English tips, English songs, etc. to all students in the school, and carefully organize students to listen. Through the radio, we directly teach interesting English knowledge, foreign culture, customs, etc. to the children, making every corner of the campus dance with English letters and English melodies.

We even set up an English mailbox. Children who have difficulties or doubts in learning English can write letters and drop them into the mailbox. The teacher then uses the broadcast time to answer typical questions to the whole school and calls on everyone to speak out their problems. ***Solved together. For example, in the last two weeks of our Red Scarf Radio Station, the English teacher personally served as a guest, introducing to the children in the school the slogans of the Olympic Games: One World, One Dream! and the saying of the Olympic Games: Olympic Games. And tell the children how to say: We are ready! by playing the Olympic song "We are ready!" This form of English teaching has a wide coverage, is highly interesting, has obvious effects, and is easy for children to accept. Through the above planning, we can find that the creation of an English learning atmosphere and the improvement of children's learning interest cannot be achieved in a day or two, nor can children immediately feel the fun and interest of English learning through one or two games. Practicality. We still need to do a lot of preparation work, and only through a period of trial and practice can we gradually discover the secrets. In the specific operation and implementation process, the following points are worthy of our attention: 1. Extensive publicity and mobilization work must be done so that every student understands, feels and even participates in the activities. Only in this way can we It has truly achieved the effect of bringing English closer to students. 2. Continue to pay attention to students' performance and provide timely feedback on the progress of activities. During the activity, all teachers should be involved and cooperate with the English teacher to carry out a series of interactions with students, such as greeting students in English. Students who perform well should be praised in class in a timely manner to make students aware of the teacher's We attach great importance to this. At the same time, students' performance in activities is often fed back so that necessary adjustments can be made. Only when teachers take it seriously will students take it seriously. 3. Various activities should be designed according to the actual level of students. Children in every school are different, so when we design activities, we must be child-centered and fully understand what is most interesting to them and what is truly useful to them. Any shoddy or copied product will not become a high-quality product. The so-called "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" is exactly the same principle. 4. The activities should be carried out in a continuous and orderly manner, and should not be rushed to the end. It is said to be English Activity Month. In fact, all activity planning is prepared to be carried out in our school for a long time in the future, because the creation of a learning environment cannot be completed overnight. Only through our continuous efforts day by day, in the process of carrying out the activities By constantly discovering and solving problems, our students can gradually develop good study habits and develop interest in learning. Only through unremitting efforts can a strong English learning atmosphere be formed. An anticlimactic approach will only bring more negative consequences. To sum up, improving children's interest in learning English is not an empty talk. We still have a lot to do, and there are still many contradictions that need to be resolved. Of course, this arduous project will not achieve significant results overnight, but I believe that as long as we take this first step, first create an atmosphere, and then make English learning come alive, then the children will You must be able to slowly accept it and love it slowly. Only then can English truly become a subject that students are happy to learn and benefit from.