The Creation of English Language Circumstance.docx

1、The Creation of English Language CircumstanceThe Creation of English Language CircumstanceABSTRACTCircumstance is very important in influencing peoples life and personality. And also, it is important in learning language. As a compulsory course for junior and primary students in China, English is be

2、coming more and more important. But the problem is how to learn English efficiently. Learners at home usually have little time to listen to or speak English. Except that they can speak English in their English classes for 40 or 45 minutes only, they have no chance to speak English, no chance to list

3、en to English, even no chance to feel the existence of English. So, as teachers, the most impotent thing to do is to solve the problem, by creating a language circumstance, stimulating their initiative in learning English. The paper will try to describe about how to create a circumstance for English

4、 learners at home. There are many ways, for example, creating the classroom circumstance, which including setting the scene for the students, giving them more chance to speak and listen , in order to improve the ability of listening and speaking. And also we can use English corner, English broadcast

5、 or letting them listen to English songs, watching e movies and so on. Key words: English Language Circumstance create interest Class circumstance English corner English movie摘 要环境对影响人的个性和生活非常重要，同样对学习语言也很重要。在中国，作为中小学的一门必修课，英语已显得越来越重要。所以我们很关注怎样才能有效地学好英语。国内的学习者通常很少有机会听或者说英语。除了课堂上短短的 40 或 45 分钟之外，他们几乎没

6、有机会接触英语了。所以作为英语老师，我们的首要任务就是为学生创设一个英语语言环境，激发他们学习英语的兴趣。笔者将在本文中论述如何创设一个良好的英语语言环境。创设英语语言环境的方法很多，比如说创设课堂环境，其中包括创设对话情境，让学生多说多听，以提高他们的口语和听力能力。同样，我们还可以通过英语角、英语广播、听英文歌曲、看英语原声电影以及开展各类英语竞赛，如书法、手抄报、讲故事、演讲及英语小短剧表演比赛等等。我们以此来营造一个良好的语言环境，以供我们的学生学习，在一个轻松、愉快的环境下学习，效果远胜于死读书，远胜于没有这样的环境。关键词：英语语言环境 课堂环境 兴趣 英语原声电影 英语角 创设

7、1. IntroductionAs a compulsory course for junior and primary students in China, English is becoming more and more important. Some people say that English is one of the three keys of 21st century （with other two are computer and car）. But the problem is how to learn English efficiently. Learners at h

8、ome usually have little time to listen to or speak English. Except that they can speak English in their English classes for 40 or 45 minutes only, they have no chance to speak English, no chance to listen to English, even no chance to feel the existence of English.But as we all know, according to th

9、e scientific theory, if we dont use what we have learned, we will forget them quickly, especially language. Then learning will be interrupted, and the initiative will be weakened. So, as teachers, the most important thing to do is to solve the problem, by creating a language circumstance, stimulatin

10、g their initiative in learning English.I will discuss about how to create a language circumstance for the students.As we all know, circumstance is very important in influencing peoples life and personality. And also, it is important in learning language. Many scholars, experts and teachers hold the

11、same view. We learn our mother language mostly by feeling, imitating and using. First, we feel the existence of the mother language, and then imitate the pronunciation and intonation from our parents or other people. We imitate how to use different sentences in different situations. The ultimate goa

12、l of language teaching is to enable the students to use the foreign language in work or life when necessary. So after imitating we learned, then we begin to use it in real life. We communicate with others in our mother tongue; we use it to express ourselves, to understand others. Thus, we control th

13、e language. It is obvious that, language circumstance is very important. Learning second language is not exceptive. So some people think that to learn foreign language must go abroad. Stay at the foreign country for one or half-year, you can sure speak their language. Of course thats right. But prac

14、tically, we find it unfeasible, at least cannot become common. Because there is only a few people have the chance to go aboard. So the most important thing to do is to create a language circumstance for the learners at home.In china, most of the foreign language learners are students in primary or m

15、iddle school. Therefore，as teachers we should create a good English language circumstance for the students. It becomes the most important thing.In light of many research works and a lot of books and documents, there are many scholars and teachers who have started to work over on the subject, among w

16、hich some acquired achievements.The creation of English language circumstance is very useful to the learners of second language. Though the second language is different with their mother tongues, they will certainly learn it easily if they can read, listen to or speak it more. And yet, the way to cr

17、eating a language circumstance is various but not static.2. The Creation of Class CircumstanceAs we just said, the only time for the students to contact English is the 40 or 45 minutes in their English class. So the classroom management is very important. The efficiency of a class will decide the st

18、udents English level someway or other. Consequently, a good teacher will try his /her best to improve the efficiency of his/her class. Then, how to create the circumstance in the class? Many people think the best way to learn English is to speak English as often as one can. But we dont have such Eng

19、lish circumstance, what shall we do? Some listen to English radios every day to improve their listening ability. And sometimes they watch American films that they are interested in. In the class, we also try our best to give them a good circumstance to improve their speaking and listening to English

20、, so that they can communicate fluently.2.1 Communicative functions of language. “The ultimate goal of language teaching is to enable the students to use the foreign language in work or life when necessary.”1 The purpose of learning a language is to communicate with others. It is to say the main fun

21、ction of a language is to communicate. So we should always put this function in the important position. And in our teaching we should let our students know how to use the language to express their own feelings and to understand others. Thats important. “One possible solution to bridge the gap betwee

22、n classroom language teaching and real life language use is the adoption of communicative language teaching, which has in recent years become a fashionable term to cover a variety of developments in syllabus design and in the methodology of foreign language teaching.”2 The goal of teaching is to dev

23、elop students communicative competence, which includes both the knowledge about the language and the knowledge about how to use the language appropriately in communicative situations. “Communicative competence includes four aspects:1) Knowing whether or not something is formally possible (grammatica

24、lly acceptable)2) Knowing whether something is understandable to human beings3) Knowing whether something is in tine with social norms4) Knowing whether or not something is in fact done: Do people actually use language this way?”3 In other words, communicative competence entails knowing not only the

25、 language code or the form of language, but also what to say to whom and how to say it appropriately in any given situation. Communication competence includes knowledge of what to say, when, how, where, and to whom.2.2 “Setting the Scene”4 Make a real or similar situation for the students to help th

26、em to understand. We can use body language、pictures、real objects and so on.For example, listening to passages in the classroom can be more difficult than listening in real life, because of the lack of context. So the teacher can help provide the background information to activate learners schema, so

27、 they will be better prepared to understand what they hear.Also, while teaching new words, new phrases, new sentences or new texts, we can set the scene for them, so they can easy to understand and remember.Example:When I teach the new words: tomato, new sentences: How much is /are, please? And that

28、s cheap/expensive.Before the class I prepare some objects like tomatoes, apples, some bags of milk and so on. And I ask my students to take something, too.In the class, I first take out an apple, then ask:T: What this?S: Its an apple.Then I show them the tomato.T: What is this? Do you know?S: Sorry,

29、 I dont know. / I think its a tomato.T: Good! It is a tomato.Then I take out two or more tomatoes.T: How many tomatoes do I have? (Write down tomatoes on the blackboard and Red “es”)S: Two.T: Good. Please dont forget “es” when you use plural number.At last, I put all of my things on the teachers des

30、k and write down the prices on the objects. I tell them this is a shop; it sells many kinds of things. Then ask some students individually: T: Whats this?S: Its a tomato.T: How much are the tomatoes?S: They are one Yuan a kilo.T: Is it cheap or expensive?S: It is cheap.T: What are those?S: They are

31、apples.T: How much are they?S: They are ten dollars a kilo.T: Is it cheap, too?S: No, they are expensive.Finally, I ask them to make up a similar dialogue by using the things they take, suppose they are sellers or buyers. Because of the real objects, they can be easy to understand.While teaching som

32、e verbs we can use body language to help their understanding.For example, when we teach “run”, we can pretend to run, and ask the students: “What am I doing?” “You are running.”And also, when we teach “jump”, we can jump and ask: “What am I doing?” “You are jumping.” “Yes, you are right. Can you jump?” “Yes.”2.3 Give them more chance to speak and listen.The Greek philosopher Epictetus ever wittily said: “Nature has given man one tongue and two ears that he may hear twice as much as he speaks.” From the saying we can learn how important the