Analysis on the Current Situation of Students’ English Learning in Rural Junior High School 農(nóng)村初中學(xué)生英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)現(xiàn)狀分析

1、玉林師范學(xué)院本科生畢業(yè)論文analysis on the current situation of students english learning in rural junior high school 農(nóng)村初中學(xué)生英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)現(xiàn)狀分析院 系外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院專(zhuān) 業(yè)英語(yǔ)學(xué) 生 班 級(jí) 姓 名學(xué) 號(hào)指導(dǎo)教師單位外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院指導(dǎo)教師姓名指導(dǎo)教師職稱(chēng) analysis on the current situation of students english learning in rural junior high schoolauthor: class: 2007- 4 englishsupervisor:

2、 abstract since the reform and opening, the foreign language education in rural areas has been expanding a lot and it has made some distinct achievements. however, because of the vast land, there exits a big difference of education between different regions. in recent years, the english education in

3、 rural area grabs more and more peoples eyeballs; so many scholars have been discussing the current situation that the english teaching in rural areas faces from different aspects and it has made some achievements. however, it is still important to constantly research the rural english education.thi

4、s paper mainly surveys students of shanwei junior high school of beiliu city and analyses, summarizes the survey result and explores some strategies for the problems it reflects. this paper mainly consists of five parts. the first part comes to the introduction, which includes researching background

5、, researching significance, researching methods and the organization of this thesis. the second part is the literature review, it shows some researches about english education in rural areas in china and researches about interest abroad. the third part analyses and summarizes the survey. the fourth

6、part explores some strategies for the problems that the survey reflects. the last part concludes the thesis and points out some limitations of this paper and the future effort.this paper aims at better understanding the current situation of students english learning in rural junior middle school and

7、 tries to make a contribution to the development of english teaching in the vast rural areas in china. key words: rural junior high school students, english learning, current situation, causes, strategies 農(nóng)村初中學(xué)生英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)現(xiàn)狀分析 摘要改革開(kāi)放以來(lái)，我國(guó)農(nóng)村外語(yǔ)教育教學(xué)規(guī)模不斷擴(kuò)大，并取得了一定的成就。然而，由于我國(guó)幅員遼闊，各地區(qū)教育之間存在著較大差別。近年來(lái)，農(nóng)村初中英語(yǔ)教學(xué)受到越來(lái)越

8、多人的關(guān)注，很多學(xué)者都從不同角度對(duì)農(nóng)村初中英語(yǔ)教學(xué)所面臨的現(xiàn)狀進(jìn)行論述，并取得了一定的成果，但對(duì)農(nóng)村初中英語(yǔ)教學(xué)開(kāi)展持續(xù)性的研究，仍然有著非常重要的意義。全文主要在前人有關(guān)研究的基礎(chǔ)上通過(guò)對(duì)北流市山圍鎮(zhèn)初中學(xué)生進(jìn)行問(wèn)卷調(diào)查，再對(duì)調(diào)查結(jié)果進(jìn)行分析總結(jié)，并對(duì)存在的問(wèn)題提出相應(yīng)的解決方法。文章主要由五部分組成：第一部分為緒論，分別從研究的背景、意義、研究?jī)?nèi)容、研究方法以及文章結(jié)構(gòu)五方面進(jìn)行闡述。第二部分為文獻(xiàn)綜述，介紹了國(guó)內(nèi)外有關(guān)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)的研究，特別是國(guó)內(nèi)有關(guān)農(nóng)村初中英語(yǔ)教學(xué)的研究情況。第三部分對(duì)調(diào)查問(wèn)卷進(jìn)行分析總結(jié)。第四部分針對(duì)調(diào)查問(wèn)卷所反映的情況提出相應(yīng)的對(duì)策。最后部分對(duì)整個(gè)文章進(jìn)行了總結(jié)，并指

9、出該研究存在的不足，以及今后努力的方向。文章旨在更好的了解現(xiàn)農(nóng)村初中學(xué)生英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)現(xiàn)狀，也為廣大農(nóng)村英語(yǔ)教學(xué)的提高做出一點(diǎn)貢獻(xiàn)。 關(guān)鍵詞：農(nóng)村初中生, 英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)，現(xiàn)狀，原因，策略contents1. introduction.1 1.1 background of the study.1 1.2 aims and significance of the study.1 1.3 researching methods.2 1.4 organization of the thesis.32. literature review.3 2.1 researches in china.3 2.2 rese

10、arches abroad.5 3. a survey on rural junior high school students english learning.6 3.1 purposes of the survey.6 3.2 objects of the survey.6 3.3 design of the survey.7 3.4 analysis on the survey result.7 3.5 main findings and corresponding reasons.13 3.5.1 incompatible english teaching materials in

11、rural english teaching.133.5.2 adverse environment for english learning.143.5.3 loss of students interest in learning english.153.5.4 low quality and instable english teacher group.164. strategies for rural junior high school students english learning.17 4.1 improvement of english textbook.17 4.2 es

12、tablishment of english learning enviroment.18 4.3 improvement of english teachers quality.18 4.4 cultivation of students motivation in learning english.19 4.5 system reform.215. conclusion.22 references.23appendix.25acknowledgements.281. introduction 1. 1 background of the study since 2003, china ha

13、s launched a comprehensive new basic education curriculum reform, which emphasizes on the change of students learning methods, stresses the formation of a pro-active attitude toward learning and aims to achieve the teaching objectives and a students comprehensive development from three dimensionalit

14、ies: the knowledge and skills, the processes and methods, the mood attitudes and values. the new curriculum reform increased the contact between students and their social life, which made the course content more specific and full of flavor of life. the new basic education curriculum reform emphasize

15、s a people-oriented concept. the core idea is for all of students and for each students development. chinas rural population accounts for about 50.32% of all. junior high school students in rural areas account for almost 2 / 3 of the total number. its obvious that the development of basic english ed

16、ucation in rural areas in china plays a vital role in improving the overall population quality of china. because of the differences in the education development in different areas, there exists a serious imbalance between urban and rural areas and the english teaching quality of different rural regi

17、ons differs. establishing a harmonious society not only requires to narrow the difference between urban and rural but also requires to gradually eliminate the imbalance in education in different areas. however, affected by social environment, teaching conditions and many other factors, there exists

18、a big gap of english teaching quality in rural junior high school compared with cities. the english education in rural areas gets less attention compared with cities from society and people and chinas investment in english education in rural areas is far behind cities. as many people know, the equip

19、ment in rural areas is far behind cities, which leads into the poor teaching condition. 1.2 aims and significance of the study1) aims of this study first, it is for a better understanding of the situation of students english learning of rural junior high school. second, it analyses the main reasons

20、why students have a low interest in learning english and get inadequate attention on english. third, it explores some solutions to the problems that the survey reflects. the most important thing is that this research can provide english educationists and the regulation-makers some advice. 2) signifi

21、cance(1) theoretical significance it can provide a reference for a deep research about rural english learning. through this survey, the author obtains first-hand data and detailed information about rural english teaching and learning, which can reflect in some extent the real problems existing in ru

22、ral schools and provide a reference for further research in related fields. develop and rich the rural education theory. as the countryside building of china is going vigorously today, the theory forum has focused on the new socialist countryside issues and the rural education. research scholars are

23、 trying to find out a rural education theory that suits the development of rural education. this article will give some help in the development and richness of rural education theory.(2) practical significance first, it can enable the vast students in rural areas to face up to their existing problem

24、s and better learning methods to boot learning efficiency, and then make rural english teachers rightly eye the existing problems that students face in the process of english learning. the last but not least, it can provide references for the educationists to establish the solution to the english te

25、aching and it can give the author a lot of help in the coming teaching career with no doubt.1.3 researching methodsliterature method: the author looked for a lot of articles and monographs about rural education and summarized the previous research achievements and get a basic picture about it. it is

26、 also a pre-job for this paper. questionnaire: the author surveyed students english learning situation on questionnaire to have a better understanding of rural english teaching and students english learning. observation and interviews: i had my full-time teaching internship at shanwei junior high sc

27、hool for two months. during this period, i often talked about the english teaching with english teachers and leaders there, after that, i exchanged my experience of internship with senior teaching students of guangxi normal university and guangxi university. through my own teaching experience and co

28、mmunication with them, i have a better understanding of rural english teaching, at the same time, i also get a certain amount of research material for this study. 1.4 organization of the thesisthis paper consists of five parts. to be more specific, it spreads out as follows:chapter one is the introd

29、uction, mainly introduces the researching background, researching aims and significance, researching methods, and the organization of the thesis. chapter two is the literature review. these chapter overviews some main researches about the english teaching and students english learning in rural areas

30、 both home and abroad. chapter three is the survey. it introduces the purpose, objects, design and analysis of the survey. at last, it tells some main findings and corresponding reasons through the questionnaire. chapter four introduces some solutions to better students english learning.chapter five

31、 summarizes this study and introduces the limitations of this study and future efforts for the study.2. literature review 2.1 researches in china confucius said that who likes is better than one knows and who enjoys is better than who likes. zhang zai, song dynasty of china, thought interest is a ve

32、ry important psychological condition of learning. if you have a little or no interest to do something, then you will loss your mind and you will learn nothing. zhu xi also stressed the importance of interest in learning. he thought you can learn well in a condition that you are interested in it. the

33、refor, we are aware that china holds the tradition of working hard and the idea of learning by interest. cai yuanpei, the first president of pecking university, advocated heuristic education, which make students interested in what they are learning. he thought that what matters more in teaching is t

34、o arouse students interest to read rather than irrigateing. zheng wen and ye zaitian (1995) and the other experts all discussed and researched the rural junior high school english teaching. the main findings can be classified into the following aspects: number one is the faculty aspect, including th

35、e inferior academic degree and little usage of classroom english and far-behind teaching concept; number two is the aspect of english learning environment, including rural social environment and family environment.liu jian (2002) thought the main factors that influence the reform of rural junior hig

36、h school english teaching are obsolete ideas, crude teaching facilities, english teachers inadequate understanding, test reforms inconformity with teaching reform, inappropriately teaching methods, etc. and he also gave some strategies. pan hong (2002) revealed the factors that make students hard to

37、 learn english in empirical method, i.e. difficult to remember english words, difficult to do oral expressions for them, poor learning environment, lack of qualified teachers. hu jiancheng (2003) analysed the difficulties that the rural english teaching is facing as follows: on the aspect of teachin

38、g material, the new material is not suitable for the reality of rural areas, it is drew up basically according to the urban students learning level; on the aspect of english teacher, the number of teachers graduated from the regular english school is rather low and some english teachers teaching met

39、hods and minds are quite obsolete. wang wei (2004) discussed the difficulties that rural english teaching is facing. he considered that the english teaching in rural areas has a few deficiencies. it focuses on reading and writing exercises, it ignores listening and oral expression; it focuses on the

40、 knowledge storage, it ignores the knowledge understanding and innovation; it focuses on teaching materials and ignores useing textbooks; it focuses on the good students and ignores the “underachiever”. zhu yuanfang(2004), lu guifang(2009) concerned about the polarization phenomenon of english perfo

41、rmance and those rural students with difficulties in learning. hou hongbin(2008), yang yuhong(2009) and other scholars discussed the formation of interest in learning english and pointed out that the learning environment and motivation play a vital role in it and learning interest is the root factor

42、 affecting a student to learn english well. they had given some detailed and good advice on the cultivation of students interest in learning english. 2.2 researches abroad the ancient philosopher socrates had proposed “the socratic method”, this kind of method helps to stimulate learners interest an

43、d it is in accordance with the teaching rule. plato proposed the teaching method: learning in the games. he also advocated that teaching through game, which respects every kids natural interest. aristotle also thought that learning interest is the most important, because all the behaviour of people,

44、 happiness is mans purpose. it is obvious that ancient philosophers education idea has a great influence on the later interest study. many subsequent educators lay more brains on the interest study. the representative of naturalism education j.a.comenius and rousseau thought interest is mans natural

45、 attribute and education should lay stress on childrens interest.johann amos comenius pointed out in didactica magna newcastle that a school itself should be a delightful place, where students find happiness. education must adapt to the nature and make students be guided to study by a irresistible a

46、ttraction. rousseau considered raising learning interest as a natural education target, he also advocates education to be natural. in west, interest research is an old topic. j.f.herbart is the first one to research systematically interest and pointed out in his book general principles of the scienc

47、e of education that cultivate various interest is the direct education purpose. dewey also concerned interest a lot and he stressed the importance of interest in the education aim, curriculum materials and teaching methods. he advocates that education is life, growth and transformation. education ex

48、perience should meet the requirements of kids interest. william heard kilpatrick further developed and innovated deweys theory of interest. he emphasized the role of interest and emphasized that interest is good for learning, growth and the cultivation of students favorable character. therefore, the

49、 research of learning interest sparks a continuous development and deepening process. from the ancient philosophers education of greece to naturalism education and to the movement of education psychology and to the late progressivism education movement, researches of learning interest have been catc

50、hing so many educationists eyeballs. in the oxford advanced learners english-chinese dictionary (6thedition), the explanation of “interest” is：the feeling that you have when you want to know or learn more about sb/sth.in west, so many scholars study interest, so we can learn something from the west

51、interest study and from the researches in china, we can arouse students interest to learn english. to sum up, even though, there are so many studies about english teaching in rural areas, which either focuses on english teaching problems, teaching situation, or students english learning, only a few

52、studies survey on students learning of rural junior high school. so, constantly analysing and studying the english teaching and students english learning in rural areas is still of great importance for the rural english teaching.3. a survey on rural junior high school students english learning 3.1 purposes of the survey to have a better understanding