Primary school is the initial stage of students-a special group to entering a new learning world. Usually, this group of students usually aged 6 to 12 years old. The age of the students have their own psychological characteristics. This is a age that full of curiosity. For them, every thing around is fresh and interesting. It also makes the children’ s nature- love playing. Active, lively are exclusive adjectives to described children at that age. The students at this stage, lack self-control, but trust teachers, in their eyes, teacher is the authority. what the teacher said is their belief, and they would like to do what the teacher asked to do. Therefore, teachers play an important role in their study and life.
Education is simply described by a famous educator Ye Shengtao,“It is to develop habits.” As for teachers, helping students to develop good study habits is a challenge but a useful teaching method to achieve teaching goals. English learning is a long process. Forming good habits of learning is an effective way to succeed in study. Especially in this special group - students in primary school. For their physical and mental development is still in the primary stage, many of them have few awareness of study habits. Good study habits of learning benefit students’ life-long learning. It will guide students to achieve good grades and lay a solid foundation for the future.
This paper studies on the cultivation of pupils’ English learning habits. The paper includes five sections. The first section is an introduction on the topic of the study, the requirements of English course and significance of the paper. The second section presents literature review on the cultivation on students’ English learning. The third section gives a overall situation of pupils' English learning. The fourth section provides some practical strategies for teachers to develop pupils’ good English learning habits. Finally, the paper make a conclusion of the topic.
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English is a special language teaching, which contains listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Many scholars and teachers found that in the process of English Teaching, good study habits is one of important factors that influence the effects in English learning. Based on the characteristics of English, Some researchers pided English learning habits into three categories: preview before class, performance during class, review after class. Lin Yang stressed the importance of previewing and reviewing, in his article Develop Good Study Habits and Improve English, he pointed out that teachers should put forward specific content and method to students for both the preview or review lesson(Liu Yang, 2010: 159). In The Cultivation on Pupils’ English Learning Habits, Guan Min pointed out the need habit of previewing and reviewing in time, teachers have to assign students to preview work, let the students' autonomous learning, taking classes with their problems, in order to avoid forgetting, after-school, they need regular review lessons(Guan Min, 2009: 102-103). In Guo Haixin’s article Promote Pupils Develop Good English Study Habits in Primary Stage of Enlightenment, he proposed to urge the students to develop a habit of finishing homework in time, assign homework in the class(Guo Haixin, 2014: 48). At present, educators and experts focus on habits of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In listening, many teachers think that students should be trained to listen carefully. Wang Xuelian also proposed that students should not only listen carefully to the teacher, but also listen to their classmates, let the students have more opportunities to listen to English, design some questions in teaching content to force pupils listen carefully(Wang Xuelian, 2015: 354). Avoiding boring practice, to adopt vivid, lively, perse teaching methods, inpidual questions and collective practice frequently used interchangeably, in her article How to Cultivate the Habit of Pupils' English Learning in Teaching. In speaking, teachers generally emphasize on the communicative function of English, creating all kinds of real situations, encourage pupils speak English. Cao Qinqin in her article Primary School Students English Learning Habits thinks that teachers should set a good example to speak English for the students, encourage and praise more.In reading, adhere to the morning reading, repeat and imitate, read aloud(Cao Qinqin, 2014: 12). In writing, In the article Talking about the Cultivation on Pupils’ English Learning Habits, Song Yunzhen pointed out that teachers should left some time in class to guide pupils’ writing,correct pupils’ wrong writing posture(Song Yunzhen, 2013: 54). This thesis the author will talk about some English teachers’ knowledge and skills in English teaching to help pupils develop good English learning habits.