【正文】 to the laggard students, the questions should be easier to answer. All in all, the teacher should make all of his or her students involved in the class, giving them more confidence7. ConclusionThe paper discussed some causes leading to English class boredom, for example, nonreactive, over analytic and spoonfeeding methods, and analyzed the bad results from them. The paper also explored the advantages of heuristic teaching and the mon models, and some suggestions on applying heuristic teaching.Heuristic teaching is being acquainted to more and more teaching staff. However, the instant positive effects by heuristic teaching method can hardly be seen. Of course, heuristic teaching also has some inadequate aspects teacher should pay attention to it. What’s m。2) Video, music, films, puters and other modern means should be introduced into the classroom in addition to selfmake teaching aid. Comparing methodComparing is one of the basic methods to learn foreign language. It requires teachers try their best to inspire students to discover the relation and connection between the pronunciation and pronunciation, between the word and word, sentence and sentence, therefore, to help students to associate, and to train students’ ability to observe, to analyze, to solve problem, even to foster students’ ability to study on their own. For instance, when “sometime” was mentioned, teacher may list “ sometimes”, ”some time”, ” some times”, then ask the students to tell the difference between them. Through the parison of these words or phrases, students are able to master the usage of them. 6. Suggestions on applying heuristic teaching methodsIndeed, heuristic teaching is ahead by a huge stride pared to the traditional teaching modes, but it is necessary to point out that it is still not perfect. That is to say, some disadvantages inevitably go along with its advantages. For example, some students find it’s beyond them to prehend what they are taught in class, while some students do not need instructions from the teacher at all. In addition, teacher’s direct munication is limited to some of the students, and teacher’s instructions and teaching take up too much time of the class, leaving little time to students to react. The heuristic teaching has been familiar with for the general teachers, but many teachers not truly prehend the essence of the heuristic teaching, as a result, students couldn’t be inspire in the teaching process. Therefore, the teacher should pay special attention to the following points. Teacher should prepare for lessons more fullyIt increases the amount of the work of the teachers, because the teacher has to make a neat plan before hand besides what’s in the teaching material. It requires the teacher to bee an encyclopedia or a learned scholar who can cope with every question from the students. Therefore, it is more demanding for teacher to prepare the lessons. Students should be the center in Heuristic teaching, with most of the work in class to be done by students rather than teacher. Therefore, teacher should spend much time in studying the teaching materials and objects to be taught to make a good arrangement of the teaching procedures. Never only to take heuristic teaching for askanswer teaching modeWe should also pay attention to the methods and skills in heuristic teaching. Ask and answer is not the only magic weapon of Heurism, although it seemingly livens up the atmosphere of the class. Actually too much askand answer often ignores the quality and the objects of the questions and leaves an impression of monotony to us, producing little or even the opposite effects we wish. What’s more, the questions should differ from each other in the degree of difficulty. For example, in a chain of questions, the first two questions should be superficial and easy to answer. But the last few questions should be more difficult。 to guide thinking。 to review and summarize previous lessons。 municative method should be the guidance in classroom teaching, not just only the teacher speaking。 teach him how to fish and you feed him for life.” To help students overe the negative feeling to English study, we must get rid of the three improper but monly used teaching modes and find a way out by applying the heuristic mode to English teaching. So we should try to use heuristic teaching methods.4. Heuristic Teaching Definition The word “heurism” originates from the Greek wordheuriskein that means seek and search. Archimedes, one of the most important Greek intellectual figures, first brought it up. Based on Archimedes’ parlance, a special science once developed Heuristics, which specializes in correct thinking to dig out new cognitions. In other words, the ultimate goal of heurism is that a teacher must teach his or her students to prehend the teaching materials by utilizing his or her teaching methods. Western heuristic teaching method was originated from Socrates who initiated the teaching mode of “teachers ask, students answer”. A distinctive feature of this mode was that teachers were the decisive factor in the process of teaching and learning, who raised the questions at the very beginning and gave conclusions in the end.The origin of Heuristic teaching can track back to Confucius, the most influential thinker and educationist in Chinese history, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Confucius said “I will not enlighten my students until they have really tried hard but failed to understand. I will not instruct them until they have something to say but fail to make themselves understood. If I give my students one instance and they cannot draw inferences from it, I will not teach them any more.”The scholar, Li Shiming (1992) stressed that “Heuristic teaching is the guiding ideology throughout the whole system of teaching methods.” Another saying of heuristic can be seen in Oxford advanced learner’s EnglishChinese Dictionary (e