A Brief Analysis of english teaching in senior high school Abstract: Classroom teaching is the main way for students to learn E But in senior high school， a lots of probelms still exsit in the English teaching especially in the teaching of reading and In this paper， the importance and methods of reading and writing will be further Key words: reading writing techniques Introduction: Classes should be learner-centered， with meaningful， functional activities， often， classes begin by finding out what the students don’t These classes operate on the assumption that there is a great deal of information that students lack and that the teacher and textbooks will impact that information to the Teachers who hold this assumption view students as plants waiting passively to be fed and But I think the students should be regarded as explorers， active learners who bring a great deal to the learning process and at the same time， draw from their environment as they develop new The basic principle will be used in the teaching of reading and Section One------ How to teach reading I Why teach readingThere are many reasons why getting students to read English texts is an important part of the teacher’s In the first place， many of them want to be able to read texts in English either for their careers， for study purposes or simply for Anything we can do to make reading easier for them must be a good Reading texts provide good models for English writing， provide opportunities to study language vocabulary， grammar， punctuation， and the way to construct sentences， paragraphs and Lastly， good reading texts can introduce interesting topics， stimulate discussion， excite imaginative responses and be the springboard for well-rounded， fascinating The last but not the least， students must read widely because only a fraction of knowledge about the world can come from other experiences in their short II What kind of reading should students do? When the teachers give reading class to students， they should notice a balance----a balance to be struck between real English on the one hand and the students’ capabilities and interests on the There is some authentic written material which beginner students can understand to some degree: menus， timetables， signs and basic instructions， for example， and， where appropriate， teachers can use But for longer prose， teachers can offer their students texts， which， while being like English， are nevertheless written or adapted especially for their Anyway， the materials to be read should be interesting and Teachers should become better acquainted with books written specially for teenagers and dealing with their III What are the principles behind the teaching of reading? i) Permit Students To Read No one has learned to swim by practicing the skills of backstrokes， flutter kicks or treading water while staying on the edge of the swimming Yet， in the teaching of reading teachers often do just Rather than let the students into “the water”， teachers keep them in skills books learning rules about letters， syllables or definitions of words rather than letting them into the book itself， permitting them to be immersed in the language which comes from the authors as the readers try to reconstruct the written ii) Encourage students to respond to the content of a reading text， not just to the languageOf course， it is important to study reading texts for the way they use language， how many paragraphs they contain and how many times they use relative But the meaning， the message of the text， is much more Teachers should help students understand that the main reason to read is for They have to have their own purpose to read and reading must make sense， they have to find ways of doing something about They should be encouraged either to reread or to continue reading to gain But they must realize that the meaning is not in the teacher， but in the interaction between the reader and Students should be encouraged to ask themselves repeatedly， “Does this make sense to me?” Students should be encouraged to reject and to be intolerant of reading materials that do not make iii) Encourage students to guess or predict Readers’ guesses or predictions are based on the cumulative information and syntactic structure they have been learning as they have been Therefore， their guesses are more often than not appropriate to the Students have to realize that risk taking in reading is appropriate; that using context to decide what words mean is a proficient reading strategy and that they have the language sense to make appropriate guesses which can fit both the grammatical and semantic sense of what they are iv) Match the task to the topic Once a decision has been taken about what kind of reading text the students are going to read， teachers need to choose good reading tasks—the right kind of questions and useful puzzles， Asking boring and inappropriate questions can undermine the most interesting text; the most commonplace passage can be made really exciting with imaginative and challenging Working in groups， the English teacher and students take turns asking each other questions following the The teacher may ask， “ What is the significance of the character’s age?” These questions require inferences based on details from the reading Section Two------How to teach writing (Developing correctness in students’ writing) “Students learn to write by writing， and they learn to write correctly by writing， revising， and proofreading their own work”---with some help or direction from the teacher when it is They do not learn to write correctly by studying about writing or doing isolated workbook exercises unrelated to their own So， the most important technique a teacher can use to guide students toward grammatically correct writing is to let them write， let them write things related to their own There is no limit to the kinds of text the teacher can ask students to Teachers’ decisions， though， should based on how much language the students know， what their interests “Do I read a paper and ignore all punctuation， what good is that for students? We spend hours at night with papers---I’m not sure the students get as much from it as the time I spend on ” These comments by senior high school English teachers discussing the process of marking student papers reflect the dissatisfaction and frustration of many teachers over the problem of dealing with the errors in student writing-----the obvious mistakes in spelling， punctuation----Traditionally， teachers have worked to correct errors in two ways: by teaching grammatically correctness through exercise in grammar texts; by pointing out all errors when making student Most students find it very dispiriting if they get a piece of written work back and it is covered in red ink， underlings and crossing- It is a powerful visual statement of the fact that their written English is Of course， some pieces of written work are completely full of mistakes， but even in these cases， the teacher has to achieve a balance between being accurate and truthful on the one hand and treating students sensitively and sympathetically on the Some techniques can be used in dealing with the errors in student papers: i) Selectivity Rather than engage in intensive error-correction when responding to student writing， teachers are encouraged to adopt a more moderate approach to If the teacher over-corrects the students’ mistakes， the students would be likely to focus on errors instead of Students are more likely to grow as writers when the teacher’s primary purpose in reading student papers is to respond to However， if attention to content and correctness are combined when making papers， it is more helpful to select one or two kinds of errors the individual student is making than to point out every error in the The teacher can identify a selected error， show an example or two on the student paper， and either explain the correct form or direct the student to a handbook for further It is always worth writing a comment at the end of a piece of written work -----anything from “Well done” to “This is a good story， but you must look again at your use of past tenses---see X grammar book page ” ii) Error-analysis Another method for working with student error， one that can be especially fruitful for teachers， is to approach it from an analytic Teachers， as error-analyst， look for patterns in the errors of an individual student， tries to discover how the mistake arrived at the mistakes by analyzing the error (Lack of knowledge about a certain grammatical point; A careless one or a mis-learned rule?)， and plans strategies iii) Publish Student Writing The final basic strategy is Students need a reason for laboring over a draft until it is perfect; the urge to see oneself in print can be a powerful drive toward revision and Conclusion: As teachers to the students who are in senior high school， they should learn to turn students’ hard work toward supporting the language strengths students already have， proving students with a feeling of success， finding materials and planning classroom experiences will turn students on to reading and writing， the reading and writing will develop with much greater ease than it does at the present Reference:Gu Xueliang， The Basic Technical Training in English Teaching， Hangzhou University Press， Wilga MRivers & Mary S Temperley， A practical guide to the teaching of English as a second or foreign Language， New York: Oxford University Press， 1978Smith F Understanding Reading (2d ed)， New York: Holt， Rinehart and Winston， 1978David Freeman&Yvome S Freeman， A Road to Success for Language， New York: Oxford University Press
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