【正文】 。 Provide students with ample opportunities to collaborate with others and to bee autonomous learners. l Give students plenty of space for selfdevelopment.l Encourage students to develop their language skills in an integrated way through experiential, practical, cooperative and inquirybased learning.l Create conditions that allow students to explore questions they are personally interested in and solve problems by themselves. Create a relaxed, democratic and harmonious learning environmentPositive attitudes are an essential condition for effective learning. Negative attitudes can not only reduce the effectiveness of study but also adversely affect students’ longterm development. In particular, teachers should heed the following: l Respect each individual student, actively encouraging everyone to try and safeguarding their selfesteem and enthusiasm.l Integrate students’ English education with their emotional education. Develop cooperative spirit by organizing learning activities that let students work together, help each other and experience group recognition and achievement.l Pay particular attention to introverted students or weak learners, trying to give them as many language practice opportunities as possible.l Establish a friendly and democratic channel of munication between students and teacher, frequently reflecting on the learning process and results together, and offering mutual help and support. Use taskbased learning methods to promote students prehensive language petenceTeachers should try to adopt taskbased learning methods as much as possible. Teachers should creatively design learning activities that are relevant to the students’ real lives, according to the overall curriculum objectives and content. Teachers should engage students’ interest in the activity and organize them effectively so that they participate actively and plete the tasks, learning and using English through thinking, carrying out surveys, discussing, municating and cooperating. Attention should be paid to the following points when designing tasks:l Activities must have clear and achievable aims and objectives.l Activities must be relevant to students’ life experiences and interests。 the content and style should be as true to life as possible. l Activities must benefit the development of students’ language knowledge, language skills and ability to use language for real munication.l Activities should be of a crosscurricular nature, promoting the integrated development of students’ thinking and imagination, aesthetic and artistic sense, cooperative and creative spirit.l Activities should make students gather, process and use information, using English to municate with others in order to develop their ability to use English to solve real problems.l Activities should not purely be limited to the classroom but also extend to out of school learning.. In July 2005 VSO’s curriculum advisor, Professor Zhang Lianzhong, mentioned that this section of the curriculum will be revised such that “we will take the TBL (TaskBased Learning) approach as one of the useful tools within the big box of Communicative Language Learning.”. Provide increased guidance about learning strategiesHelping students to adopt good study habits and effective learning strategies is one of the important tasks of the new curriculum. Teachers should consciously give students guidance about learning strategies so that, through learning and using English, they are learning how to learn. To this end the teacher should observe the following:l Give students chances to establish their own study targets and the means of fulfilling these.l Help students to use inference, research and inquiry style methods to carry out their learning.l Develop students’ practical abilities and creative thinking by designing inquiry based activities.l Encourage students to use observation, discovery and induction to acquire language knowledge and grasp language functions.l Help students to carry out selfassessment during the learning process and adjust their own learning objectives and strategies appropriately according to the results. Develop students’ awareness of and ability in crosscultural municationLanguage and culture are closely related, language being the main transmitter and carrier of culture. Teachers should work hard to help students achieve the following during the English learning process:l Understand foreign cultures, especially those of English speaking countriesl Use English appropriatelyl Constantly broaden their cultural horizonsl Deepen their understanding of their own culture l Develop an awareness of and ability in crosscultural munication Use modern teaching technology and expand learning opportunitiesIn order to increase the effectiveness of teaching and learning, teachers should make good use of modern technology, expand the range resources and opportunities through which students can learn, thereby modernizing learning ways. Conditions permitting, teachers should try to:l Use audiovisual material and the Internet to enrich the learning content and form and improve outes.l Use puter and multimedia software to explore new teaching and learning methods and promote more individualized study.l Create conditions for students to study more independently through sensible use of a variety of learning resources, such as broadcasts, print media, libraries and the Internet. Organize lively and active extracurricular activities to promote students’ English learningTeachers should arrange a variety of extracurricular activities according to the students’ age and interests to help them expand their knowledge, broaden their horizons, strengthen their intellect and individuality and use their talents. The content and form of these carefully planned activities should be rich and varied. Suggestions include:l Recitalsl Songsl Story tellingl Speechesl Performancesl English cornerl English wall displaysl Cclass discussionsl16