The opening report of the study on how to improve the quality of English homework of primary school students

I. The background of the proposed topic

The English Curriculum Standard emphasizes that "the English curriculum at the elementary school level should aim at stimulating interest, face all students and focus on quality education." Basic education curriculum reform is promoting the deepening of teaching reform, monotonous, mechanical, repetitive homework does not meet the requirements of the new curriculum, it is necessary to carry out a profound and significant reform. In teaching, we find that the traditional elementary school English homework has the following drawbacks: in terms of teaching objectives, it focuses on the training of basic knowledge and basic skills, but ignores the process and method, emotions, attitudes and values; in terms of the form, the homework is provided by the teacher or the textbook, which can't reflect the autonomy of the student's learning, and the form is relatively single and lacks diversity and interest; in terms of the content, it's mainly a repetitive and mechanical copying of the vocabulary, words, sentences, texts, etc., or a repeated and mechanical copying of the vocabulary. In terms of content, it is mainly repeated mechanical copying of words, sentences, texts, etc., or a sea of problems, English activity books, English synchronous training, English supporting exercises, etc., which reduces students' enthusiasm for learning; in terms of method, there is the exclusion of homework outside the discipline, artificially creating a gap between disciplines, and practicing non-differentiated homework design in the face of different students; in terms of the answer, the answer to the homework is absolutist, which stifles the creativity of the students; in terms of evaluation, the evaluation of the homework is partial and monotonous, and the comments are stereotyped and not consistent. , monotonous, rubrics stereotypical dogmatization.

The current situation of students' completion of homework is:

1. Students spend too much time doing English homework every day and are overburdened.

2. Students lack interest in repetitive writing assignments, have perfunctory phenomenon, scribble handwriting and irregular writing.

3. The assignments are not hierarchical and students with different abilities are not trained and improved accordingly.

4. Students want to try to do assignments that are novel in form, exploratory, open-ended and closely related to real life. Our research group conducted a survey on the middle and upper grades students, and found that most of the students think that doing homework is not a pleasant thing, and that the single form of homework and the lack of freedom of choice have become a tool to suppress the growth of students. They long for the diversity of homework forms and the openness of homework contents, and are eager to let their ideals fly in homework. In addition, the lack of self-consciousness of students in the process of completing homework coupled with the lack of necessary guidance for teachers on homework, makes the effective design of homework to a large extent in a form.

Aiming at the problems of English homework in elementary school and the current situation of students' homework, we decided to carry out a research on the effectiveness of homework design, which is conducive to improving the theoretical quality and teaching experience of teachers, and enabling them to have a brand-new understanding of the design of English homework under the new vision of the curriculum reform. At the same time for students, good homework design is a useful supplement to the gains of classroom teaching, can mobilize students' enthusiasm for learning, enrich students' extracurricular learning life, and help to better achieve the reduction of the burden of students' schoolwork. Effective homework design can reflect the main position of students' learning, can more comprehensively improve students' ability to comprehensively use English, cultivate students' ability to use what they have learned to find problems, solve problems, and promote the development of students' observation, thinking, creativity, imagination, and learn to learn creatively, and through the effective and diversified design of homework, it can also be realized that the disciplines of the integration of each other.

Two, the main supporting theories linked to this topic

The English Curriculum Standards emphasize that "the English curriculum at the elementary school level should aim to stimulate interest, for all students, and focus on quality education."

Optimizing the design of homework and realizing the effectiveness of homework design can consolidate knowledge as well as develop students' abilities and cultivate their innovative spirit and consciousness.

The English Curriculum Standard clearly states, "Teachers should carefully design homework, which should be inspiring and have appropriate weight, and should not allow students to mechanically copy and write, so as to help reduce the burden on students.

The Outline of Basic Education Curriculum Reform also stipulates the goals of curriculum reform: to change the status quo of mechanical training, to advocate the learning style of students' active participation and willingness to explore, and to cultivate students' ability to acquire new knowledge, analyze and solve problems, as well as their ability to communicate and cooperate. These are for the majority of English teachers in the design of homework assignments to point out the direction.

Third, the current situation of this topic in the same research field at home and abroad

In recent years, research in the area of homework design has been paid great attention across the country. Traditional homework design has certain advantages for students in terms of basic knowledge and basic skills. However, it is extremely unfavorable to the future growth of students, if not changed will certainly make the work into the mechanical repetition of the misunderstanding. Students are trapped in the "sea of questions" all day long, suffering, physical and mental development will also be inhibited. According to the Ministry of Education's Ten Regulations on Reducing the Excessive Burden of Schoolwork on Students, students in the lower grades of elementary school should have no more than 45 minutes to complete their homework, and students in the upper grades should have no more than 60 minutes to complete their homework. Many homework questions are too simple or too difficult, with a single answer that lacks flexibility, making some homework daunting for students and some making people feel like chewing on wax. Some parents have to help their children to complete their homework in order to allow their children to have a normal rest, which will encourage students to make false falsehoods. On the other hand, a large amount of homework makes teachers have no time to correct it carefully, and also loses the significance of checking and consolidating what students have learned.

So this topic in the current design of homework after a full investigation, absorb the essence of the theory of optimizing the design of homework at home and abroad, put forward the corresponding countermeasures to form a reasonable mechanism of homework, hierarchical, scientific and effective design of homework is really suitable for the students, so that the students in the process of completing the homework to have some gains, consolidate and expand their knowledge, cultivate and improve their ability to enjoy the joy of success, reduce the burden of learning. The burden of learning.

Four, the practical significance of the subject of research and theoretical value

(a) Practical significance

English curriculum standards advocate that students be the masters of learning, the new curriculum reform from more concerned about the results of learning to pay more attention to the process of learning, so that students are willing to learn, take the initiative to participate in learning activities, diligently use their hands and brains to actively explore, and be good at collecting and processing information, the new standard was introduced, the content of the textbook, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard, the new standard. After the introduction of the new standards, the content of the textbooks, classroom teaching, extracurricular activities, research-based learning have been made more novel elaboration and provisions, but for the homework activities that occupy nearly one-third of the time of the students' learning activities, there is no explanation, in order to realize the many goals put forward by the standards of the English curriculum not only rely on the reform of classroom teaching, but also on the reform of the homework, because the homework is designed for students to complete exercises for the purpose of consolidating the effect of classroom teaching, which is a very important task for students to accomplish. Because homework is designed to consolidate the effect of classroom teaching and practice for students to complete, it is like a ruler for teachers, which can reflect the problems and deficiencies of students, but also can measure the teaching effect of the use of a certain teaching method, for students, the right amount of homework at the right time to consolidate the knowledge gained to expand the knowledge base, the development of students' intellect and creative talent, so the new curriculum is more concerned about the reform of homework.

(II) Theoretical Value

This topic is based on the spirit of the "New Curriculum Standards", to cultivate the teachers' sense of innovation, to enhance the new teaching concepts, and to comprehensively study how to improve the effectiveness of classroom homework design. The study of this topic has the following significance:

1. It is conducive to improving students' interest and ability in English learning.

Primary school students' homework is an extension of the classroom, consolidation, innovation, but for a long time, teachers always like to assign homework in the form of "one size fits all", that is, to let the students mechanically copy the homework, copying words, phrases, texts in the first place, so that the students are in a passive learning position. This not only makes students form an aversion to English, unable to grasp the intrinsic connection between knowledge, but also is not conducive to the development of students' thinking ability. The new teaching materials of elementary school English emphasize the training of listening and speaking skills, while also strengthening the cultivation of reading and writing skills. Part of the teacher in accordance with the traditional method of assignments, that "quantitative changes will be able to achieve qualitative changes", set up a large number of mechanical copying assignments, students with a coping mood to do their homework, so that struggling students are tired to cope with the result is that more and more scribbling, more and more sloppy writing, but is not conducive to the improvement of the ability to write. Under the concept of the new curriculum, teachers should be based on the students' good, medium and poor situation, they set up different degrees of difficulty of the homework, so that each student has a choice, through different degrees, different amounts of homework in the original basis of each have gained, not only to experience the joy of success, cultivate self-confidence and interest, but also to comprehensively improve their English proficiency.

2. It is conducive to mobilizing teachers' motivation and an accurate and comprehensive understanding of students.

For teachers, a large number of single, boring homework is also a kind of torture, the teacher every day rigidly correct the class of 30 to 40 people a pattern of homework, day in and day out, will always be bored, is not conducive to mobilizing the teacher's enthusiasm. Similarly, it is not possible to have a comprehensive understanding of the students' mastery of English. A single form of homework, such as dictation, writing, etc. can not ensure that the homework has a strong relevance, because students' receptive ability is very different. Therefore, how to practically lay out English homework and avoid blindly laying out homework has unconsciously come before the reality. Take a hierarchical, multi-choice way, targeted, interesting layout of homework, not only to make the teacher to expand the imagination, to conceive a colorful form of homework, so as to improve the enthusiasm of teaching, but also to make the different levels of students can be very rewarding in the teaching of English, can enable teachers to comprehensively understand the situation of student learning, so as to regulate the process of teaching and learning and methodology, and to improve the quality of teachers' teaching.

V. Research Objectives and Content

(1) Functional Objectives

We hope that through our research on the design of homework, we can make students do their best, show their abilities, improve the quality of homework, and change the words "I want to do it" to "I want to do it", so that students can become the masters of homework.

The study of homework design allows students to develop their own ideas, improves the quality of homework, turns "I want to do it" into "I want to do it", and allows students to become the masters of their homework and of their learning, thus effectively promoting their academic performance, gradually improving their English learning styles, and effectively improving their ability to comprehensively use the language.

(2) Specific Objectives

1. By carrying out a survey on traditional homework, we will find the entry point of the problem, further change the teachers' concepts, and on the basis of the understanding of the new standard, improve the teachers' knowledge of effective homework design, and constantly improve their own theoretical level, teaching and researching ability, and practical ability.

2, homework assignments should be appropriate, effective, and truly realize for students to reduce the burden of learning and realize quality education.

3, the research goal is positioned so that the homework design reflects the diversity, hierarchical, effectiveness, autonomy, to stimulate students to complete the homework enthusiasm and motivation, create a good learning atmosphere in the school, so that students master the learning methods and learning strategies, and constantly improve the overall quality of students.

(3) Research content

In the spirit of the new curriculum reform-oriented, focusing on quality education, so that the design of English homework is hierarchical, autonomous and effective. Specifically:

1, hierarchical: the teacher assigned homework to the whole class of students, not "one size fits all", to take a multi-level, the homework is divided into three grades of ABC, of which the A-grade homework emphasizes the consolidation and accumulation of basic knowledge; C-grade homework is emphasized in the use of comprehensive skills; B-grade homework is between the two. Hierarchical design of homework to let each student feel "I can do I can do", so as to experience the joy of success. Gradually get rid of the passive situation of homework, establish interest in homework, improve the quality of learning.

2, autonomy: in the arrangement of homework, teachers do not make rigid regulations, which students do what kind of homework, by their own choice, otherwise it will hurt their self-esteem, frustration, but to let them choose their own, experience the joy of independent choice, which is not only effective in promoting the students' academic performance, but also to make the students' interest in learning English increased significantly.

3. Diversity: With the diversity of homework design to encourage students to question, express their own views, cooperative, discussion-based learning, cultivate students' imagination and ability to think differently.

4. Effectiveness: homework is a useful supplement to the knowledge gained, students if proficient in the key words and phrases and text content, we use the form of the issue of exemptions to reduce the burden of student learning, can be exempted from writing homework, so that you can satisfy the sense of achievement of the outstanding students, but also to motivate the other students to continue to work hard to ultimately master the knowledge of the target, improve the effectiveness of students to complete the homework.