Teaching Methods of English in Rural Primary Schools

Introduction: Primary school English teaching has its uniqueness, which is based on the premise of stimulating students' interest in learning, and focuses on the development of students' learning initiative, motivation and learning intelligence through listening, speaking, reading, singing, etc., so as to enable them to acquire language knowledge and skills, to form a primary sense of language, phonetics and intonation, and to cultivate their ability to communicate in the simple English language. To achieve success in teaching English in elementary school, we should grasp its characteristics and follow its principles.

Teaching Methods of English in Rural Primary Schools

First, the opening of English courses in elementary school contributes to the improvement of the quality of the nation

Children in this age group of elementary school are characterized by curiosity, mobility, love of expression, imitation and so on. They like new things, the curiosity of an unfamiliar language can stimulate their interest in foreign languages, they like to attract the attention of others, hoping to get the teacher's praise, they love to play, love to sing, love to play, love activities. Children in this age group have many advantages in learning foreign languages that adults and even secondary school students do not have. Therefore, the opening of English classes in elementary school can also give full play to the potential of elementary school students to learn the language, through the study of foreign languages to improve their thinking, moral, cultural, and psychological quality.

The Characteristics of Rural Primary Schools

1. Rural children are timid and shy to speak English. Rural elementary school students are born and raised in the countryside, from a young age by the specific environment around and the influence of family education, compared with urban children, often appear more timid, not good at talking, lack of self-confidence, but also afraid of saying the wrong teacher criticized, and easy to fall into the mechanical provisions of the recitation of the mundane, and therefore shy to speak English and not quite dare to speak English.

2, rural elementary school teaching methods, means lagging behind the urban elementary school, in rural elementary school there is still the use of traditional English teaching methods, and this "full classroom, English to Chinese" teaching methods, not only to make the classroom atmosphere is dull, the students are in a passive state of acceptance, and is not at all in line with the physiology of elementary school students, Psychological characteristics and age characteristics of primary school students, and can not meet their interest in learning, so that the students produce boredom, unwilling to continue to learn English.

3. Lack of environmental atmosphere for learning English. In the classroom, students can hear English teachers speak fluently, but students can only contact three to four times a week, each time only 20 minutes, other teachers are teaching in Chinese, and some students even in the English teacher in the classroom when the English language, or noisy, which in turn affects the acquisition of the English language of other students. Moreover, there is little or no environment for communication in English in the society, especially in the rural areas. As a result, students have few opportunities to listen to English, speak English, and practice English, and they lack a language environment for learning English.

III. Characteristics of Primary English Teaching and Teaching Methods to be Adopted

Primary English teachers who want to make their usual English teaching more effective must first seize and understand the characteristics of primary English teaching. In order to understand the characteristics, it is necessary to first clarify what is the purpose of offering English courses in elementary school? The purpose of the English course in elementary school is to enable primary school students to learn English in a lively way. The purpose is to make the primary school students through lively classroom teaching to stimulate students to learn English interest, cultivate their positive feelings to learn English, form a preliminary sense of English language, so that students have a good foundation of phonetics, intonation, with the learning of English for simple daily communication of the primary ability, and develop good habits of English learning, for further study to lay a good foundation. Therefore, elementary school English teaching should have the following characteristics:

(a), teaching content close to life, can stimulate the interest of primary school students to learn. When teaching language, it is important to focus on the sense of language, the basis of voice intonation, and communicative competence

1, when teaching in class, with the topic as the core, more to give students a variety of oral exercises and listening practice opportunities, so that they use their brain, mouth, ear, and the usual simple dialogues to move to the physical performance, so that they can further deepen their understanding of the knowledge they have learned, in order to achieve the goal of deepening the knowledge of the students through a large number of Through a lot of practice, the purpose of making students have good voice, intonation and the ability of simple conversation, so that students can perceive as much as possible the primary voice intonation.

2. Let the students become the main body of classroom teaching, encourage them to speak more English that they can speak, not afraid of making mistakes when they speak, and give them more opportunities to practice orally, and let the students get in touch with as much language material as possible through interesting activities such as seeing, listening, speaking, playing, singing, reading, and playing, etc. It is also possible to carry out various forms of activities such as two-person groups, multi-person groups, rows, and groups in teaching, so that the students can all fully participate in the activities. The students can be fully involved in the classroom practice, so that they can gradually develop a preliminary sense of language.

(2) Teaching methods should be diversified, and a lively teaching environment and a good language environment should be created

Rural elementary school students often lack a good atmosphere for learning English, which reduces the effectiveness of teaching. Therefore, schools should try to create an atmosphere for them to acquire English. For example, in our school, during non-English classes, teachers use some simple classroom language in English, and at the same time, our school offers English interest classes every Wednesday and encourages students to greet each other with simple English in the campus. The school has also created a great atmosphere for English learning.

(3), the use of incentives to encourage students to be active

To pay attention to students' motivation to learn, each student's achievements and the slightest progress are recognized. Can be used in a variety of ways to praise and reward, such as: I am in the classroom to listen carefully to the student's book on the five-pointed star, or in its forehead with a colorful five-pointed star, and will be a little better in English during each lesson, the students appointed as the day of the small teacher, and add two red five stars, these are to a certain extent to promote their learning motivation.

Four, the elementary school English program should follow a number of principles

(a), the teacher must be clear about the purpose of teaching English in elementary school and the basic requirements

Primary school English should be in line with the reality of the child's physiological and psychological development, through listening, speaking, recognizing, reading, singing, At the same time, in the teaching process, efforts to develop students' learning intelligence, develop their thinking ability, imagination and creativity, for students to lay a good foundation for further English learning.

(2) In teaching, we should emphasize the cultivation of interest, sense of achievement and self-confidence

Whether elementary school students can succeed in learning English depends largely on whether they have a strong interest in learning English. Therefore, elementary school English teaching should take all available methods to stimulate the students' strong desire to learn English, so that they love to learn, happy to learn, and learning interest in the maintenance of a large extent depends on the effect of learning, depends on whether they can get a sense of achievement, whether to establish self-confidence. Therefore, teachers need to motivate students to experience the joy of success and gradually build up their confidence in learning.

(3), change the traditional teaching mode and method, to experience, practice, participation and creation

To start from the psychological and physiological characteristics of children at this stage. To change the traditional indoctrination teaching methods, to allow students to acquire English through personal experience and practice, the traditional classroom teaching is mainly designed to allow students to learn the phonetic symbols in the primary stage, learn grammar, memorize a certain amount of vocabulary, this approach leads to the teacher-centeredness of classroom teaching, the students are always in a passive state, in fact, in the process of teaching, only through the students' initiative, active learning, experience, participation, practice, creation, can truly be the first step in the teaching and learning process, the students can learn and practice, the students can learn and practice. In fact, in the teaching process, only through students' active and positive learning, experiencing, participating, practicing, and creating, can they really obtain cognitive and linguistic development in the active process of education.

(4), in English teaching should pay attention to the communicative nature of the language

Bloom believes that "successful foreign language classroom teaching should be created in the classroom more situations, so that the students have the opportunity to use the language materials have been learned". This fully reflects the small children love novelty, the characteristics of good movement, highlighting the practical and communicative nature of the language, so that students can "learn to use", and at the same time conducive to the memorization and consolidation of the language.

In short, in this knowledge-based economic era, in front of the wave of educational reform, English teachers want to achieve good teaching results, we must grasp the characteristics of elementary school English teaching and strive to follow some of the principles.