1. The current situation of English Teaching in Middle School.
There is a stable development in English Teaching in middle school during these two decades. However, owing to the aim of teaching in middle school, it reveals some defects. Although most of English teachers claim that they use the Task-based Language Teaching, as a matter of fact, they are using the traditional teaching method---the whole classes concern on teacher’s explanation rather than students’ 本英语毕业论文由英语论文网/exercises. According to a report, about fifty percent of English teachers spend 30% to 50% of class time in explaining the texts. What’s more, 30% of English teachers spend 70% of time on explanation( 周流溪、王笃勤，2017) . In addition, all English teachers focus on skills, vocabulary and grammar. In the same report, 61.2% of interviewees said that they emphasized the cultivation of English skills. But cultures, strategies and emotions were neglected(周流溪、王笃勤，英语论文题目，英语论文范文，2017). A large number of English teachers only emphasize speaking skill and reading skill among the five skills ---listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. And because middle school English is a comprehensive course, there is a lack of special writing and translation training. Thus the bottleneck in E-teaching limits students’ learning activities, and calls for the appliance of the interest-arousing strategies.
2. The roles and functions of the interest-arousing strategies in improving the current E-teaching situation.
2.1. Introduction of the interest-arousing strategies.
Interest-arousing refers to the act of inspiring students’ intention and intrinsic energy so as to improve their learning effect (2017). In essence, Interest-arousing is a progress that fires the masses with enthusiasm for doing something (2017).
The interest-arousing strategies are one of the best teaching strategies, which inspire and mobilize students for the Inner drive in a lively state. Вachjihh Аjiekcahapobhy Сyxomjihhckh① maintains that promoting self-education is the real education(2017). It means that incentive education is to excite intrinsic motivation for students, tap their own potential, form the psychological proactive, and promote the comprehensive development of education. Interest-arousing can inspire people to maximize the potential of classroom teaching in the disciplines and incentives education can achieve the optimal learning process and the maximization of benefits. Incentives can promote the positive and sustainable development, people's physical and mental health, life more dynamic.
The application of the interest-arousing strategies in middle school is very prevalent days. All teachers know the significance of interest-arousing in their teaching. And also, there are so many researches about the importance role of interest-arousing plays in classroom.
2.2. The combination of the interest-arousing strategies with the character of middle school students.
In the course of teaching, English teachers have recognized the significance of interest-arousing, especially in middle school. Middle school students are at the stage of puberty. During this stage, they have some characters as follows:
In the first place, they are full of curiosity and want to get to the heart of a matter, whatever it may be. They always respect their teachers much more than their parents, thus, they usually respond to each question from teachers.
In the second place, middle school students |
