Primary School English Teaching Essay [Primary School English "Humanity" Teaching Exploration]

Today's countries around the world generally attach importance to humanistic education, and constantly promote the cultivation of humanistic qualities. However, in China's foreign language teaching, has been too much emphasis on its instrumental, too much attention to the cultivation of students' language ability, thus ignoring the humanistic nature of foreign language teaching. Foreign language is a highly instrumental subject, but more importantly, foreign language also has a strong humanistic nature. The essence of foreign language is the unity of humanity and instrumentality. Elementary school students are in an age of high plasticity, it is easy to have a far-reaching impact on their humanistic education; while language is the carrier of culture, foreign language, as a humanities subject, has a more important role in the cultivation of primary school students' humanistic qualities. Humanities education through foreign language teaching has its own unique role, which is conducive to the correct understanding of the world, while strengthening the understanding of national culture and shaping a complete personality.

I. Definition of the concept of humanities

The concept of "humanities" in traditional Chinese culture mainly reflects the understanding of the essential difference between human beings and nature in ancient Chinese thought. Emphasizing that the essence of human beings is to have the qualities of propriety, loyalty and filial piety, it is more important to emphasize the spirit of "humanism" in the understanding of "humanism". In the West, "humanism" is mainly influenced by the Renaissance, advocating human rights, opposing theocracy, and demanding that people be freed from the bondage of religion, so humanism is more important to emphasize the freedom of human beings and the liberation of personality.

It can be seen that the emphasis embodied in traditional Chinese humanism and Western humanism is different. In modern society, politics, economy and culture are widely integrated in the world, so our understanding of "humanism" has become more comprehensive and profound. Nowadays, our understanding of "humanism" mainly refers to a culture that pursues health and progress, adheres to morality and responsibility, and aspires to truth, goodness and beauty; it refers to respect for human rights and individuality, the maintenance of freedom and equality, the importance of human beings, respect for people, care for them, love for them, as well as care for and love of human culture.

To y understand the connotation of "humanities", it is necessary to clarify the concepts of humanistic knowledge, humanistic thought, humanistic spirit and humanistic literacy. Humanistic knowledge refers to all kinds of excellent achievements in the field of humanities, which mainly includes literature, art, ethics, language, religion, etc. Humanistic knowledge is the carrier of humanistic education. Humanistic thought is the basic theory and its internal logic that supports humanistic knowledge; compared with scientific thought, humanistic thought has a strong national color and distinctive ideological characteristics. Humanistic spirit is a judgment standard for the above two aspects, something at the level of values. Humanistic literacy is to internalize the above three aspects into a quality and cultivation, and humanistic spirit is the highest embodiment of humanistic literacy.

Therefore, humanistic education in the process of teaching English in elementary school is to teach humanistic knowledge, pass on humanistic thoughts and spirit, use humanistic methods and reflect humanistic care while strengthening students' ability to use foreign languages, so that our educated people can really have humanistic literacy.

The embodiment of "humanism" in the English Curriculum Standards

The design of the English Curriculum Standards for the elementary school stage embodies rich "humanism" in the provisions of the teaching purpose, teaching content, teaching process, teaching methods and evaluation of teaching results. "

1 Humanity of Purpose

It is clearly stated in the standard that according to the psychological and physiological characteristics of elementary school students and their developmental needs, the purpose of the English language program at the elementary school level is to stimulate students' interest in learning English and to enable them to establish a preliminary understanding of English. From this, we can see that the standard no longer pays attention only to the instrumental purpose of foreign languages, but highlights the fact that the English curriculum is all based on students, focuses on the cultivation of students' emotions and positive personalities, and embodies the concern for the humanistic spirit as well as humanistic qualities. In the course objectives, in addition to language knowledge, skills, etc., the attention to emotional attitudes and cultural awareness, but also fully embodies the unity of the instrumental and humanistic nature of the foreign language.

2 Humanity of Teaching Content

The humanism of teaching content is more importantly reflected in the preparation and selection of teaching materials. It is pointed out in the standard that English teaching materials for elementary school should be in line with the cognitive characteristics of children and be conducive to the development of their interest and sense of language; it is also conducive to the students' understanding of the cultures and customs of English-speaking countries, and to the development of their correct attitude towards foreign cultures. This reflects the concern of the standard for humanistic knowledge.

3 Humanity of the teaching process

The standard specifies the subject position of students, in the teaching process, teachers should respect the differences of students, and focus on the harmonious development of students' listening, reading, writing and listening, and more importantly, to develop the students' intelligence, promote the development of non-intellectual factors, and to meet the needs of students. Invest in promoting students' creative thinking.

4 Humanistic teaching methods

In terms of teaching methods, the standard points out that we should use a variety of teaching modes and methods that are in line with the characteristics of elementary school students, and create a good atmosphere for students to actively participate in and boldly express themselves, which fully reflects the requirement that we should use humanistic teaching modes and methods for English teaching under the new standard.

5 Humanity of teaching results

The humanity of teaching results is mainly reflected in the diversification of evaluation methods. The standard stipulates the adoption of diversified evaluation standards, pointing out that formative evaluation should be the main focus in the teaching process, which is conducive to the establishment of students' motivation and self-confidence in learning. The summative evaluation is mainly used to ensure the acquisition of language skills and language knowledge. It can be seen that the evaluation method stipulated in the standard is more humane, and pays more attention to the development of students' healthy personality on the basis of promoting language learning, which is a reflection of humanism.

Three, to strengthen the elementary school English "humanities" teaching suggestions

With the development of foreign language education, in the process of foreign language teaching, the penetration of the cultural connotation of the foreign language has also been emphasized. In addition to the penetration of humanistic knowledge, elementary English humanistic education also needs to start from a broader aspect.

1 Teachers should change their concepts and pay attention to the improvement of their own humanistic qualities

In terms of teaching concepts, teachers should fully realize that students are the main body of learning, and teachers should have an in-depth understanding of the students, and do everything for the sake of the students' development. On the basis of attaching importance to learners' needs, cognition, character traits, etc., teachers should establish a new type of teacher-student relationship of democracy and equality, trust and understanding, cooperation and tacit understanding, teaching and learning, and hand in hand *** advancement, so that the students can feel the joy of self-confidence and growth in a harmonious teaching and learning situation. At the same time, in order to ensure that elementary school English teaching fully embodies the "humanities", teachers should also continue to strengthen their own quality improvement, to continuously improve professionalism and teaching skills, and strengthen their own humanistic cultivation. Only teachers themselves have a wealth of humanistic knowledge, humanistic ideas and noble humanistic spirit, in order to make humanistic teaching to lay a good foundation.

2 Strengthen the penetration of humanistic knowledge in the teaching process

Elementary school English textbooks, although concise and simple, are closely related to ancient Western myths and legends, fables, historical events, literary references, and customs, which reflect the cultural traditions, values, and religious beliefs of English-speaking countries. Therefore, as an elementary school English teachers should be able to understand the students on the basis of the development of a more detailed cultural teaching program, cultural knowledge teaching into language teaching, so that the students' understanding of the Western nations by the daily communication of the language to rise to the mastery of humanistic knowledge of the Western countries, and then inculcate the humanistic spirit of the students to cultivate good humanistic qualities.

3 Flexible teaching methods, creating multi-dimensional humanities education channels

Classroom teaching is an important part of the cultivation of humanistic qualities in primary school students, and teachers should give full play to the advantages of humanistic education in classroom teaching. Teachers should understand the history of the development of foreign language teaching methods, familiarize themselves with the various methods and modes of foreign language teaching as well as their respective characteristics and scope of application, and adopt the appropriate methods and modes according to the overall and individual conditions of primary school students, chapter characteristics and other specific situations; at the same time, they should make full use of advanced electronic technology and give full play to the advantages of multimedia. In teaching, on the one hand, according to the specific situation of the students to determine the focus of teaching, so that students do gain in knowledge and ability: on the other hand, we should also correctly guide the students, fully explore the humanistic educational factors in teaching, improve the students' humanistic literacy.

4 Respect for Individual Differences, Embodying Humanistic Care

In English teaching activities, we should always keep in mind that students are the main body of learning and development, is a person with a rich spiritual life, contains the potential for life; teachers are the guides and organizers of learning activities, and should respect the students' individual needs and feelings. Teaching to truly achieve "students as the main body", teachers should first realize that all students have the ability to learn, but not every student must be prescribed by the teacher's ideas and designated methods of learning, the success or failure of students to learn mainly depends on their internal quality. English teaching should be based on the premise of recognizing students' differences and cultivating their subjectivity. In short, the process of education should reflect the spirit of humanity, respect for students, give students humanistic care, so as to play the role of education, maximize the development of students' potential.

5 Teaching evaluation focuses on formative evaluation, evaluation of the diversity of subjects

The evaluation mechanism is also an important factor affecting humanities education. Evaluation should be based on the spirit of "people-oriented", taking full account of human characteristics and individual differences, changing the standardized test-based approach, and increasing the strength of subjective evaluation. In the emphasis on the evaluation of learning results at the same time, but also pay attention to the evaluation of the learning process, the summative evaluation and formative evaluation of the organic combination of the development of the eyes of the dynamic measurement of the students, so that students further recognize the correct relationship between test scores and the level of knowledge, correct the purpose of learning, attitude, motivation, which led to the development of non-intelligent factors, so that the academic performance and the affective attitude of the synchronization of the **** progress. At the same time, but also to strengthen the diversity of the main body of the evaluation, students, parents of students, social organizations and so on into the evaluation system, so as to make the evaluation results more objective and scientific, the students' self-confidence and motivation to learn in order to ensure that it is conducive to the physical and mental health of the students' development.

English, as a humanities subject, plays an important role in strengthening the humanistic education of primary school students. As an English teacher to implement the concept of humanistic education, in strengthening students' English skills and knowledge of English on the basis of full attention to the cultivation of humanistic qualities, so as to lay a good foundation for the healthy development of primary school students to become a comprehensive quality of society.