How to Improve Students’ Participation and Concentration in English Class in Junior High School。

Abstract New curriculum reform is based on the development of students and put emphasis on the integration of "knowledge and skills, process and methods, emotion, attitude and values"。 However, traditional teaching method makes students accept knowledge passively and practice mechanically。 It is still a widespread issue that teachers play a dominant role in English class teaching。 75274

Promoting students’ participation in class is one aspect of the “student-centered” principles reflected in classroom teaching。 After observing certain amount of English classes in junior high school, I find that most excellent students are unwilling to take an active part in classroom activities and a lot of students whose English is poor cannot concentrate on English class。 Under such a circumstance, it is really necessary to do a research on students’ participation and concentration in English class in junior high school。 The purpose of this paper is to give some suggestions about how to improve students’ participation and concentration in English class in junior high school according to some factors which have an effect on students participation and concentration and try to do some experiment to test whether these suggestions are feasible or not。

Some questionnaires as well as classroom observation and interview are used in this study。 Students from two classes in Hangzhou Cuiyuan Junior High School are asked to be the subjects of investigation。

Then three aspects are investigated and analyzed about students’ concentration and participation in English class in junior high school: observe and analyze students’ personality, interests and learning habits; interview and observe the relationship between teacher and students; observe and analyze teacher’ teaching strategy(the lead-in and end up of the class, the processing of teaching contents, etc。)

The result of the investigation shows that those outgoing and enthusiastic students or those students with good interests or good learning habits take a more active part in class, otherwise, lower。 The relationship between teacher and students play a less important role in students’ participation and concentration in English class, but it is related to students’ after-class study。 The teaching strategy teacher adapts has a prominent influence on students’ participation and concentration。 

Based on the above-mentioned research result, this study took some experiment on teachers’ teaching strategy (situation teaching strategy, the strategy of lead-in and end-up of the class) and found out that students’ participation and concentration were improved when teacher created situation to let students have their personal experience。 By adopting various kinds of ways of lea-in and end-up, students can pay more attention on the beginning and the end of the class (especially the end) than before。

Keyword: new curriculum reform; students’ Participation and Concentration in English Class in Junior high school; teaching strategy

浅析如何提高初中英语课堂学生积极性和集中度

摘要新课程改革以学生的发展为本，，强调“知识与技能，过程与方法以及情感、态度和价值观的整合。然而，传统教学方法让学生被动的接受知识并且机械地操练。这种教师主导课堂教学的问题仍旧普遍存在。

促进学生的课堂参与是“以学生为中心”原则在课堂中体现的一个方面。我在观察一定数量的初中课堂后，发现一些英语优秀的学生并不是很乐意积极参与到课堂中去，并且那些英语比较落后的学生很难集中于英语课堂老师的讲授。在这样一种情况下，对初中英语课堂学生的参与情况与课堂集中度的研究就显得很有必要。本文旨在根据初中学生英语课堂参与度和集中度的影响因素提出些许可行建议以及论证建议的实效性。