Chapter I Introduction
1.1 Research background
Before the coming of the International Children’s Day of 2017，the students ofShijiazhuang Dongfenglu Primary School received Premier Wen Jiabao’ reply. In the letter toPremier Wen, the students wrote, “We think that the times of exam are too many, and thecontents are just from our textbooks. To say honestly, we think it is very boring anduninteresting. We do the recitation practice over and over again, just like a repeater runningday and night. It makes us tired.”What they wrote in the letter revealed the status of most students in primary and middleschools:
● the outdoor activities become less and less;
● most children are grinded down by homework;
● most homework is boring and uninteresting;
● the contents and types of homework are simplified and vapid.
1.1探讨背景
在未来的2017年国际儿童节,石家庄东风路小学的学生收到了温家宝总理的回答。在信中,温家宝总理,学生写道:“我们认为考试的时候太多,内容只是从我们的教科书。说老实说,我们认为这是非常无聊和无趣的。我们做复习反复练习,就像一个中继器日夜的运行。这使得我们很很累。他们写道:“在信中显示状态的大部分学生在小学和中学:
●户外活动变得越来越少;
●大多数孩子都磨下来的作业;
●作业是无聊和乏味的大部分;
●内容和类型的作业是单一乏味。
Though the question of reduction of students’ study burden has been discussed byeducators and government for years, it has not been solved completely and still exists in manyprimary and middle schools.Early in 1994 and 2017, the former National Education Commission issued to reduce theoverweight schoolwork burden. It clearly stated the time for middle school students tocomplete their homework should not exceed 1.5 hours. But from some research results andthe author’ questionnaire, it can be shown that:
● students’ time for homework is far beyond 1.5 hours, some even till 3 hours per day;
● there is too much rote homework including recitation, words copying and paperswriting;
● the homework types are mostly in written form, less in oral and performing;
● the differences of students are seldom considered in homework design;
● there is more homework for consolidation than practice; more individual work thancooperative work; more unified layout than free choices;
● doing extra homework (especially coping many times of certain words) is often usedto punish less advanced student by some teachers.
The problems above are not consistent with the concept and essence of the new NationalEnglish Curriculum which emphasizes competence-oriented education, individual differencesand the multi-Assessments. It also does not agree with the relevant item which claims toreduce the overloaded burden of the students in the Outline of National Education Reform andDevelopment of Long-term Planning Programs.The author made a survey by using a questionnaire before the research. The result showsthat 58.6 percent of the students think their main homework types are word coping andrecitation which are considered as a waste of time or they think these kinds of work aren'treally of much use. As to the time to complete homework, 31.5 percent of the studentsneeded about half an hour and 49.7 percent of the students needed one hour, the rest 5.5percent need two hours. From the answers to the open questions of the questionnaire, thereare 38.4 percent of the students who think that doing too much of exercises are tiring becausethey also have a lot of homework of other subjects to complete at the same time. Under thiscircumstance, students are easily to be perfunctory and lose interest，英语论文网站，英语毕业论文
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