【正文】 try to design some oral activities to improve the students’ ability on the “grammar exam” . Socratic dialogues I can’t let my students express in English. Q: What do I mean by express? What sort of expressing do I expect of them? A: I want them to express freely. Q: Express what? A: Usually the key sentences in their textbook. Q: What purpose do they have in the expressing training? A: Purpose ? To practice speaking English. 10 Q: Isn’t it like me surfing on line sometimes? At the times, I surfing, but do not actually read anything, simply because I do not have a specific purpose. I regret wasting time and money afterwards. A: Oh, here is the point. When I ask my students to practice speaking English, the purpose is too general. I should give them some specific purposes, such as to practice the usage of a word, a sentence’s structure, or a tense, etc. Questionnaire survey: I designed one questionnaire and distributed to my students before conducting the research and required that they finish it within 20 minutes. All of them, 15 students, returned their questionnaires that were left anonymous. When all these data came in, I made some statistical evaluation. The result showed that 100% of the students thought the oral practice was important and that about % of the students thought oral practice was quite necessary for their future development, which indicated that the students have been fully awarded of the importance and necessity of oral practice. But they might encounter difficulties, such as the language level is higher than the students’, so they lost their confidence and interest. After making the above analysis, I’ve got the result that inadequate teaching design is mainly responsible for students’ lack of interest in oral practice. So in my future teaching, I will try to improve my oral work design through adding some items to improve the students’ pronunciation, giving them more encouragement and more detailed instructions for their speaking topic, etc. 3. Project objective The project objective is to enhance learners’ interest in oral practice. hypothesis It is hypothesized that learners’ interest in oral practice can be enhanced by welldesigned oral work, especially by good stimulating methods. rational Communicative approach in teaching speaking Since 1960’s, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has developed into a prehensive teaching and learning methodology. So in today’s teaching, the goal of CLT is to use language 11 for municative purposes. To our English teachers English teaching focuses no longer on the mastery of grammar structures and vocabulary, but on a more prehensive training of municative petence. PPP model “ The PPP procedure has e in for considerable criticism over the last few years, especially as a model for teacher trainees to follow.” (Harmer, 20xx) The procedure of an oral lesson aiming at teaching new language items can be idealized into three stages known as the PPP model. Follow the PPP model, the new language should first be presented to the students in meaningful contexts and make sure they understand what it means and how it used, that is the first stage Presentation。 on the other hand, if they are close to the exam, they would be too boring to capture the students. So I should consider the both sides of the materials. After that, I recognized that I should add some Pronunciation Training Activities to improve students’ pronunciation。 you are a person, who is working by using it and you are a person, who lives in it. Make English study a part of your daily routine, the same as eating or brushing your teeth. Mere exposure to English will not enable you to speak English. Speaking English will teach you English! The role of the teacher 12 I will let the students know that as a teacher in speaking classroom, I’m not just a teacher – the person who just gives you knowledge, I have many roles in one. Jeremy Harmer says, “Within the classroom teacher’s role may change from one activity to another, or from one stage of an activity to another. If we are fluent at making these changes our effectiveness as teachers is greatly enhanced.” (Harmer, 20xx) So teacher is playing different roles at different times. In the PPP model, I should have greater control at the presentation stage and often act as a demonstrator. At the practice stage, I am expected to be an anizer, a conductor and a monitor. At the production stage when the situation is more studentdirected, I should play the role of a stimulator and a helper. In learnercentered teaching, “that is teaching which makes the learners’ needs and experience central to the educational process.” (Harmer, 20xx) So “If (the teacher) is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.” (Gibran, 1991) The role of good lesson planning “Lesson planning is an art of bining a number of different elements into a coherent whole so that a lesson has an identity which students can recognize, work within, and react to …” (Harmer, 20xx) As for teachers, lesson planning is not optional, it is essential preparation for teaching. It is a matter for the teacher what to teach, and how. (Davies, 20xx) A good lesson plan follows the principles of variety, flexibility, learnability, and linkage. (Wang amp。這一假設(shè)驗證的四周與特別設(shè)計的口語課堂教學(xué)的實踐鍛煉活動。 S: (the students say)] T: We have just finished our final exam in Grade 8. Some of us did quite well in the exam.( Call a good student to stand up ) how do you study for a test? Week Unit Topic Activity Topic Objectives Functional items Time 1 How do you study for a test ? Talk about the ways to study for a test. To stimulate the studen