英語畢業(yè)論文 英語語法教學(xué)

1、.石河子大學(xué)畢業(yè)論文題目： 中學(xué)英語語法教學(xué) On the Teaching Methods of English Grammar in Middle School Abstract: The term paper is concerned with the debate at home and abroad, that is, whether the students should learn English grammar and what kinds of teaching methods teachers should adopt. By analyzing the English g

2、rammar viewpoints of foreign English teaching schools and present situations of English grammar teaching in China, and connecting the Understanding Second Language Acquisition to the format of final examination of English, the author draw a conclusion that learning English grammar is of importance.

3、By digging into the advantages and disadvantages of traditional English grammar teaching methods, the author presents her English grammar teaching methods.Key words: grammar; grammar teaching; English in middle school摘 要：這篇文章是關(guān)于國內(nèi)外都一直在討論的話題：學(xué)生是否應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí)英語語法以及教師應(yīng)該用什么方法來教授英語語法。通過分析國外英語教學(xué)流派的語法教學(xué)觀念和我國英語語法教學(xué)

4、的現(xiàn)狀，結(jié)合二語習(xí)得理論和高考題型來闡述英語語法學(xué)習(xí)的重要性以及傳統(tǒng)英語語法教學(xué)方法的利與弊,并提出自己的英語語法教學(xué)方法。關(guān) 鍵 字：語法； 語法教學(xué)；中學(xué)英語 ContentsI. Several Definitions of Grammar .1II. The Debate on English Grammar in Present Situation.1III. The Historical Development of English Grammar .2.The Theoretical and Practical Meaning for Us to Learn English Gr

5、ammar.3A. The theoretical meaning for us to learn English grammar.3B. The practical meaning for us to learn English grammar.3.The Methods We Should Apply to English Grammar Teaching .4A. The habit-formation theory.4B. The traditional methods of English grammar teaching.4C. Opinions about the methods

6、 of English grammar teaching .5 1. Role playing.5 2. Using pictures or information sheets.73. Using stories.84. Using conversations.95. Reciting passages.10. Conclusion.11Works Cited.11:2010年畢業(yè)論文 On the Teaching Methods of English Grammar in Middle SchoolI. Several Definitions of GrammarGrammar may

7、be roughly defined as the way language manipulates and combines words (or bits of words) in order to form longer units of meaning (David 2).Grammar is a description of the structure of a language and the way in which units such as words and phrases are combines to produce sentences in the language (

8、David 2).Grammar is the way in which words change themselves and group together to make sentences. The grammar of a language is what happens to words when they become plural or negative, or what order is used when we make questions or join two clauses to make one sentences (David 2).In my opinion, g

9、rammar is just a rule which attributes to combining different word or word phrases to a meaningful sentence. All these sentences joining together form a meaningful discourse.II. The Debate on English Grammar in Present SituationWith the development of China, more and more parents realize that master

10、ing foreign languages is of importance for people living in China. As is known to all, each language has its own rules which help people to combine different words into different phrases, and then into a sentence in order that we can communicate with each other. In English, we call these rules gramm

11、ar. Without grammar, words hang together without any real meaning or sense. In order to be able to speak a language to some degree of proficiency and to be able to express what we really what to say, we need to have some grammatical knowledge. By teaching grammar, we not only give our students the m

12、eans of expressing themselves, but we also fulfill their expectations of what learning a foreign language involves. From this point of view, we could make a conclusion that learning the grammar well is the way in which is related to convey ourselves. Even though we could interpret many evidences tha

13、t we should learn English grammar, we still need more examples to prove it. Whether the English grammar should be taught in middle school or not and what the teaching methods we should adopt are worth being talked here. Just like what has been written on the A Course In English Language Teaching, “t

14、he value of grammar in foreign language teaching has been a focus of debate for decades and the focus of the debate has been: 1) the role of grammar in language teaching; 2) the methods in which grammar should be presented and practiced” (Wang 102).III. The Historical Development of English GrammarT

15、he history of the debate can be found in a journal which can be paraphrased like this: issues on whether the teaching of English grammar should be taught and ever were debated intensely. In the history of English teaching in foreign countries, most foreign language teaching schools depended on their

16、 own system of theories and came up with different advocates to the foreign language teaching from different point of views which can be divided into three stages. The first stage, from traditional foreign language teaching theory ever laying predominately in Grammar-Translation Method, spoke highly

17、 of English grammar and looked upon grammar as the center of the teaching task, and then transferred into Audio-Lingual Method which preferred to the ability of listening and speaking. Although it did not work against English Grammar teaching, it mainly focused on teaching language rather than teach

18、ing knowledge of language. The second stage, also called Modern Grammar Translation, started from the Cognitive Approach to the Direct Method which did attribute to teaching grammar indirectly and mainly emphasized on making students deal with grammar rules by mastering the learning materials. It wa

19、s considered that language was a controlled or arranged system which mainly described how common people learn foreign language by learning the rules and then mastered the grammar rules. The third was from the National Approach posed by Kristen and Terrell who proposed that Language Teaching should n

20、ot involve in Grammar Teaching to the Communities Approach, which attributed to the concepts or functions being the centre of arranged teaching, however, it did not fight against Teaching Grammar completely in terms of theory. Grammar Teaching underwent ups and downs in the development and history o

21、f foreign language teaching. According to the analysis to perspectives of several foreign language teaching schools, we are able to draw a conclusion that the teaching of grammar should be done necessarily (Bai 28).IV. The Theoretical and Practical Meaning for Us to Learn English GrammarA. The theor

22、etical meaning for us to learn English grammarChomsky thought that human beings are born with a language acquisition device which consists of set general principles. The core of grammar of a natural language agrees with the inborn set of general principles while the peripheral grammar cannot be gove

23、rned by the language acquisition device. In researches into the second language process, people have found that second language learners usually acquire the core grammar of the teaching language and then the peripheral grammar. This is simply because the core grammar agrees with the inborn general p

24、rinciples and is much easier to learn. They also believe that the core grammar will facilitate the development of the learners Interlingua and will exert a positive influence on the acquisitions of the teaching language.B. The practical meaning for us to learn English grammarAs is known to all, Engl

25、ish has become one of the major subjects in the final examination which students should take in middle school if they want to further their education in colleges or universities. In analyses of a piece of final test paper, we can draw a conclusion that the test paper usually consists of multiple cho

26、ices, reading comprehension, correcting errors and writing which are closely related to grammar to some extent. For example, in multiple choices, we mainly focus on the structures of the sentences or the collocative forms between the verbs and prepositions or the conjunctions between the sentences.

27、All these belong to one of the categories of the grammar. In the part of reading comprehension, the students are required to have a better understanding the whole context. As we know, the sentences are made up of a group of words which are combined by some rules (we call them grammar). In correction

28、 part, we mainly focus on testing the learners abilities to correct the errors, which are in terms of collocative forms errors or conjunction errors, the part of which is the best manifestos of how well youve mastered English grammar. In reading part, we should organize different words in a sentence

29、, and then these sentences are jointed together to form a composition or an article. That is how we organize different words into a sentence with the help of the grammar rules. From this point of view, we can realize how important the grammar plays in our English learning on students part and Englis

30、h teaching on teachers part.V. The Methods We Should Apply to English Grammar TeachingA. The habit-formation theoryThe habit-formation theory comes from the behaviorist psychology and was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It was put forward by a group of behaviorists with B.S>Skinner as their

31、representative. According to behaviorists, language is regarded as a set of linguistics habits which are formed through identifying and strengthening the associations between stimuli and responses. Based on it, learning a second language means the formation of a new set of linguistic habits. Therefo

32、re, imitation and practice play important roles in the process of habit-formation because the behaviorists maintained that imitation will help learners identify the associations between stimuli and response while practice will reinforce associations and help learners to form the new linguistic habit

33、s (Rod 21). The behavioral theory holds that learning needs rehearsal and stimuli and is influenced by the frequency of reinforcement, while the habit-formation theory holds that accuracy is focused in language learning.B. The traditional methods of English grammar teachingIn the old times, when the

34、 English teacher taught the grammar, they would use two basic ways to introduce a new grammar item, either deductively or inductively. In a deductive approach, the teacher presented the grammar rules and then gave students exercises in which they apply the rules. In an inductive approach, the teache

35、r presented samples of language, and the students have to come to an intuitive understanding of the rules. These two approaches have been alternated through the years. The traditional grammar-translation approach was based on deduction. This approach was then challenged by audiolingualism. A basic t

36、enet of audiolingualism was that students should learn inductively. “Learning by analogy, not analysis” was a popular motto of audiolingulists. In fact, the deductive and inductive approaches are not mutually exclusive, and most teachers probably deploy both in their teaching. A major disadvantage o

37、f inductive learning is that it takes longer for students to arrive at an understanding of a rule that has been explained to them by their teacher. Another disadvantage is that the students may in fact come to the wrong conclusion about a particular grammatical principle. However, the disadvantages

38、of the deductive approach are that explanation is seldom as memorable as other forms of presentation, such as demonstration and that such an approach encourages the belief that learning a language is simply a case of knowing rules (David 15-17).C. Opinions about the methods of English grammar teachi

39、ngAs far as I am concerned, grammar is something that is not a dry and boring thing. Now that we can see that English grammar plays so important a role in learning English and teaching English, there is no doubt that we should learn English grammar. Hence, the next step students should care about is

40、 how to learn English grammar well, so English teachers should try their best to teach English grammar with the best methods. Ur points out that it is essential for the teachers to know how to present the form and meaning of a structure in a way that is clear, simple and helpful (Wang 115). With the

41、 development of English itself, the students text books have been changed differently and widely since we set up this kind of course. To all the teachers surprise, the contents in English textbooks become much easier, while the drills patterns become much harder. Some teachers give the lessons as ar

42、e edited one by one, but the students cant answer questions well as they are expected. The reason why this kind of phenomenon comes into being is that the English teachers cant catch the grammar hiding in the context (Wen 8). They only pay more attention to the grammar exposing clearly in the textbo

43、oks, although the purpose of teaching is to help students chew, digest and produce new knowledge. So what I am trying to emphasize is that when teachers are going to give an English lesson, whatever forms of lesson will be, such as reading, warming up and speaking etc., teachers should prepare the l

44、esson well, especially should have a clear mind on some language points which are difficult to be noticed. Only doing things like this, with the time going, will students have a better foundation on English grammar and apply it well. Since different students may have different ability of taking in k

45、nowledge. In order to solve this problem, teachers should adopt different teaching methods, and in this research paper, I will present five kinds of methods.1. Role playingFrom the study of the characteristics of students, we have known that they have more interest in showing themselves and being wi

46、nners than adolescents. Holding on to these advantages of students, teachers in middle schools should design the English class in the form of performing. When looking though the books applied to the students, we can easily find out many parts of textbooks related to our daily life, for example, the

47、contents of dialogue including the introductions, the colors of different objects, the traffic rules and so on. Most teachers think that the aims of students just need to read out and recite sentences, while the editors care more about the communicative aspects of English study, especially for begin

48、ners. So teachers will read the sentences aloud, and let the students read after them. For the students of relatively higher level, this method will probably help them remember the sentences by reading constantly, while the students of lower level may forget what they have read after a few minutes l

49、ater. Such result may be caused by students interest which will lead to losing their heart on learning English. Things doing like this can make two different results, good students will learn more and more, and the others become worse. This is why some students can recite a plenty of English article

50、s fluently and emotively, while others cant. It is teachers responsibility to improve the students interest in learning English. What we can do is to make the best use of the form of dialogue. So when students prepare for the lessons, we should set up enough time for students to perform the dialogue

51、 and make the students take part in the lessons more than just read after us. In order to encourage the students who have poorly spoken English to open their mouth and join in the performing activities, we can divide the whole class into several groups, each of which will contain different levels of

52、 students. Based on their advantages of showing off and being winners, everyone will try their best to practice the dialogue. The many more times they perform, the more fluent their spoken English will be. We can be sure that they will gain more confidence in their English study when they perform th

53、e roles of the dialogue. Sometimes they can even speak some simple sentences without thinking twice. For example, when meet the following questions; they will get the correct answer without doubt.-How_you?-Fine, thank you, and you?-I_ fine, too. Thank you.For most students, the first blank will be”

54、are”; the second blank will be “am”. Sometimes, students may not know why the blank should be filled in that way, they choose the words only because they listen more, or read more. Role-playing is a good way to help students, for they can become one of the actors in the dialogue, and they will feel

55、as if they were the one of the character in the dialogue. Whats more, we should know the atmosphere of the class will be better if the whole students join together in the speaking and performing in junior middle schools.2. Using pictures or information sheets When open any one of English books, what

56、ever grades they prepare for being applied to, we can find there are a plenty of pictures or lists or circles printed below those pictures which consist of information or some key words. Students should produce new knowledge by using information or key phrases given (Wang 112-113). Some of the pictu

57、res, lists or circles are the use of promoting the scene of stories; others are used to practice some sentences structures which can be commonly seen on the books belonging to junior schools. If we look over the books from Grade 7 to Grade 9, it will be easy for us to find a part called “Grammar Foc

58、us”. Before this part, there are several pictures which are the symbol of what the important sentences structure will be in every unit. Those pictures can be of great help for English teachers to teach different tenses or sentences structures. Under most cases, students are asked to produce tenses based on the pictures provided.