An application of the Situational Approach to English listening and speaking class--- A case study on Jialvyuan middle school students

Abstract Language plays a quite important role in our human communication, and as one of the main subjects at school, the learning of English in school is quite important to the students。 Listening and speaking are two basic skills in the English teaching, which should be paid more attention。 Nowadays, almost all the teachers adopt the Situational Approach to assist their teaching of English。 However, there exist some problems in the creation of real situation in English teaching such as some teachers ignore the teaching objectives when they try to create the English-learning environment, and some teachers’ creation of real situation cannot be fully understood by students。88313

In order to know more about teachers’ application of the Situational Approach to English listening and speaking class, and try to come up with some useful suggestions to help students have the better English learning, the author of this paper carries out the research through the class observation and questionnaire survey。

The paper includes five chapters。 Chapter one is an Introduction which includes research background, research significance, research questions and also general structure。 The research background mainly talks about the importance and necessity of English learning and the current situation of the application of the Situational Approach in English listening and speaking class。 Chapter two is the Literature Review including an introduction to the Situational Approach and the requirements for listening and speaking in the National English Curriculum。 The former contains both the origin and the current research of the Situational Approach。 Chapter three is the Research Procedure about the application of the Situational Approach to English listening and speaking class。 It contains research subjects and research methods。 And also the content of the questionnaire will be included。 Chapter four is Data Analysis and Academic Discussion。 Both the class situation and the data of the questionnaire will be analyzed。 Chapter five is Conclusion。 Some significance findings will be discovered and also the weakness of the research will be pointed out。

Key words： the Situational Approach, listening and speaking class, English teaching

情境教学法在初中英语听说课上的运用--- 以嘉绿苑中学为例

摘  要语言在我们交流中起着重要的作用，而学校教学往往是学习英语最普遍的形式。听说作为英语学习的两项基本技能，受到越来越多的重视。现如今，几乎所有老师都会采用情境教学法进行英语教学。但与此同时，在情境的创设过程中也存在着一些问题，比如说教师有时会忽略教学目标而进行情境创设，或者教师设计的某些活动不能被学生很好地理解。

为了更好地了解教师在英语听说教学时情境创设的情况，以及提出一些可行性意见促进学生进行更好的英语学习，本研究采用了课堂观察法以及问卷调查两种方法。

本文总共包括五部分。第一部分为引言，就研究背景、研究意义等做论述。第二部分主要讨论国内外外语教学中的情境创设的研究状况以及英语课程标准对英语听说课的要求。第三部分为实验部分，就调查对象、调查方法以及结果进行论述。第四部分为数据分析和学术讨论，同时对课堂观察以及问卷调查的结果进行分析。第六部分为总结，提出一些可行性意见，指出实验的不足之处以及对自己今后的英语教学所提的一些建议。

关键词: 情境教学法；听说课；英语教学

Contents

1。 Introduction