How to Stimulate Students' Interest in Learning English

How to Stimulate Students' Interest in Learning English Introduction: English, as the most widely used language throughout the world, is becoming a more and more important tool to obtain information and link to the world in modern society. Since China entered WTO and hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese people show great interest in learning English. However, as an English teacher in rural middle school,I realize deeply that rural schools and city schools still have a big gap, especially in English . The ancients said: "the man who knows it is not as good as those who enjoy it" .Einstein once said “Interest is the best tutor”. Of the Middle School English Curriculum Standards states teaching English is to the stimulate and cultivate students ' interest . Junior middle school students ' physiological and psychological changes, mood instability, volatile energy and thirst for strong and rich in fantasy. So we English teachers should inspire and cultivate their interest in learning based on the specific characteristics of students. According to my experiences of English teaching in middle school, I found that many students do not want to learn English; all in all, lack of interest is their main obstacle. If the interest cultivation become a kind of psychological need to learn English, you can make learning become "want me to learn" into “I want to learn", and gradually develop a voluntary, active learning English habit. Therefore, for students of English, actively or passively, can learn English, interest is very important. Then, how the teacher stimulate students’ interest in learning is quite crucial, thus to improve the quality of teaching. This article is based on the background of new curriculum reform, proceeding from the actual teaching in English, English learning objectives from the strengthening education, training teacher-student emotion, to create a good learning environment to achieve diversification to deal with fires and classroom teaching to cultivate students ' interest in learning English. Ⅰ. Understanding the Purpose of Education Most students are the first time to learning English. They feel pretty fresh and curious about it, so the momentum is relatively large and the enthusiasm is high, and therefore they have a certain interest in learning English. However, as time goes on and they find English is not as easy as they used to think. They often get stressed out because of seas of new words and complicated English grammar rules, which, however, play a negative role in their English learning. Then parts of the students are getting afraid of difficulties in English, and treat them as a heavy burden, some even simply give up. So, Momentary curiosity and temporary interest cannot always be the helper. If the students lack of will and perseverance and interests, it is easy to transfer and interrupt. Thus, in order to smooth the English teaching, teachers need to be a caring people, imparting knowledge at the same time, they must let them to know the purpose of education, and correct students' attitude in order to stimulate their interest in learning. First, I would like to tell students the fact that with the development of modern science and technology and international trade, English has become the universal language of the world. Three-fourths of the world's books are written in English, English is the global official language, many international business letters are written in English. Obviously, English is an important tool for learning the cultural and scientific knowledge, accessing to information on all aspects of the world, international exchanges, and it is essential to master English of the new century and times. Second, the combination with their own personal future, and the needs of all sectors of society in English, these vivid examples make students sure that English occupies a very important position in real life and the future. It is very useful to learn English well. Mastering English is one of the basic good qualities of modern youth, so they must know how to master the English language of their own jobs in the future is great benefit to a successful career. It makes the students to have a desire to learn English without consciously psychological needs. Third, to some extent, education is a kind of responsibility for the students. Education mainly helps them master some skills and knowledge, by which he or she will live or support their families when they graduate from the school. Thus, to study means to live. And what he or she gains will decide the level of their lives in the future. So letting the students know the responsibility will help them to establish the idea of working hard. When they have difficulties in English studying, they will keep going for it, never give it up or escape. Ⅱ. Developing Students' Self-Confidence Everyone is eager to success and to be focused on. This phenomena reflected in the students demands the recognitions of teachers and classmates for their own slight progress. Especially now that the majority of children in the rural areas are left behind by their parents, they are more eager to be paid attention to. Once their own success is confirmed by others, they will be confident and strive to achieve greater progress. The first English sentence I taught students is "I believe I can". I help them to establish a firm confidence in themselves, in particular in learning English. Meanwhile, teachers should treat different student differently so that the students can do the correct answer. My teaching method is to find more merits of students, guide students to actively participate in the teaching and learning activities, and to encourage them to open mouth, not be afraid to make mistakes, not complain that they are "not smart" or delay the classroom time. I believe that understan of the difficulties of students in learning, care and trust them , help them build confidence in learning can improve their English learning . Sometimes, we teachers may not pay attention to what we say by accident, and these words are free for our teachers, after that we don’t have any impression. But for the students, maybe it will affect them deeply, and even their life. For example, no matter how hard to understand a problem, a student may be still confused. At this time, the teacher might say angrily: "How stupid, it is so easy." Finally, the student will be perfunctory. What’s more, the student will gradually lose confidence in learning, so the basic knowledge will become more complicated for him. Because of lack of confidence, a student feels it a big burden to study. As time goes by, the student might make some strange, absurd, meaningless things to protest it, he will feel that the teachers' words are contempt for him, it is a bad hurt to his own destiny, and gradually he loses his heart in learning. No one wants to see it happens, every student desires to learn well when he initially come into the classroom. Teachers as educators should always cherish the students’ desire. We should believe that students will adhere to study. Teachers believe in students, the students would be a little more confident. In fact, it is a process that students confirm themselves. He will certainly get the honor. When a student comes across in trouble, as a teacher, we should have a little more appreciation, to give him a Yes and make him sure that he is unique. Ⅲ. Cultivating Love between Teachers and Students Teaching is a joint bilateral activity with the participation of teachers and students. Teachers' words and deeds even every movement will be a positive or negative impact on students' learning. It is one of the main reasons for teachers to ignore the emotional effects an important role in the classroom teaching that students are often not interested in learning English and teaching ineffective. Classroom activities are not just a transmission of information, and along with the emotional exchange. Positive emotional exchanges can promote harmonious classroom atmosphere, stimulate students' interest in learning and mobilize their initiative and enthusiasm. So teachers should dedicate wholeheartedly their enthusiasm to the classroom teaching. The kind attitude, fluent speaking and standardized handwriting are necessary. We should pay special attention to learning difficulties or introverted students, digging their "bright spot", create the opportunity of use of language as much as possible for them, and build a harmonious, democratic atmosphere in the classroom, discuss with the students about learning process and the learning effect, encourage and help each other both in teaching and learning. While says: “OK!Good!Perfect!Wonderful!Well done!Much better than before! You have done a good job”and so on. All of these words can make them enjoy the success in the English classes. The adolescent psychologists tell us students will be interested in the classes of the teachers who they have got a good impression on ,and they are willing to work hard on this course. Instead, if they do not like a teacher ,they won’t like his classes. We should take any chance as much as possible to give recognition and praise to the students . Meanwhile, Teachers must convert their role in order to establish an effective teacher-student interaction. We should build Student-Centered teaching and create a good teacher-student interaction atmosphere. We should play the role of an excellent organizer, an effective helper and a wonderful guide in English learning. If teachers can become the real friends of the students, they will see that teachers are their helpful and useful co- partners in learning. When students feel the love and trust from their teachers, they are bound to produce feeling of pleasure and become more willing to close to the teachers , and thus willing to accept the guidance of the teachers .Without doubt, they will try their best to learn English well. Ⅳ. Highlight the Principal Position of Students The new Curriculum Reform advocates "Student-Centered and Teacher-Led". What is the meaning of the Student-Centered? Most people may say that Student-Centered teaching just means that in the teaching students play the main role rather than teachers. However, Student-C entered teaching is more than that. It’s defined as “the process of creating the environment while maintaining the control, providing students with interactive activities of the communicative approach as well as conducting students to grasp the knowledge.” (Dewey, 1902) The Student-Centered teaching should include the contents as follows: The first thing is to set up student-centered teaching philosophy. The long-term "taking-an-exam teaching" makes students rely on teachers and the textbooks too much, which is aimed at the result of the exam and meantime imprisons the students' self-development. In that case, whether teachers can learn to manage the certain strategies and develop the all-live studying abilities or not now becomes a necessity for one's existence and development. Only if students perform during the activities, could they become the users in language studying initiatively from head to toe rather than the followers after teachers. Teachers must trust in the students, try to know their feelings and needs grope a series of good instructive method. The second thing is to stimulate students studying activities. Teachers should affirm the progress bit by bit and make students know clearly not only about studying aim but also the progress they have achieved. Besides, students should be encouraged if they make progress. In that case, they may be willing to participate in activities. The third thing is to set up on-time and reasonable evaluation regulations to build students' confidence. The sense of achievement usually comes from the evaluation of the teachers, so it is necessary to set up on-time and reasonable evaluation regulations. Evaluation is urged positively, which makes students set up confidence, develop themselves forward and work diligently. With the evaluation from teachers, they will make rapid progress. Teachers should evaluate the on-time studying response to the students, for example "exactly", "perfectly", "well done", "that's an interesting answer", "so clearer" and so on in order to make students get the direct response, promote their studying activity. Teachers should pay more attention to students' development and changes in studying, help several students to analyze the studying process reasonably and let students feel teachers' love. Education is in itself an art of love, in my opinion, only when we grasp the students ' needs, then it will be easy to the teachers to stimulate the students’ interest. Ⅴ. Creating Language Atmosphere Junior secondary students start to learn English with a kind of curiosity, they often have a dual attitude in class: on the one hand, they envied teachers, desiring to say a few words by themselves; on the other hand, they are too ashamed to speak . The famous educator Л·В·Ванков said: "We strive to make learning free atmosphere, children breath freely in the classroom. If you cannot create such an atmosphere, any teaching methods are ineffective. ” The pleasant, harmonious and conducive atmosphere can help the students reduce anxiety, and not afraid of making errors, happy to participate in the activities of creative language communication. To create an atmosphere is not a fad, but through daily life and learning so that students feel that life, learning environment in English all day. The students take an English course every day, the feelings of class directly affects their learning enthusiasm. Lackluster, dull boring, dead-end teaching methods to suppress and kill students ' interest in learning. Conversely, pleasant atmosphere, fun language environment, a positive sense of self, will enable students to obtain the maximum amount of languages. In the classroom teaching, I used to ask each other questions, twinning (pair work), group activities (group work), role play (role play) storytelling, singing English songs and other forms of organization, these activities not only add to the English classroom the vitality, but also encourage more students to participate in the teaching of conversational, thereby activating the students' interest in language learning. At the same time, I try to use English in class teaching, although at the beginning, the students are confused, but I do not give up. From the simplest oral English started initially with appropriate action, emotion or explanation to help students understand, such as How are you?, Sit down, please! Follow me. Read after me. Are you clear? Continue to grow. About four or five weeks or so, they can communicate with me. After class I also encourage the students to say hello in English as much as possible, talk about the things around us in English, listen to English songs frequently, see English movies. In this way, what students can see, hear, and mention are in English, both output and input, prompting the students to form the motivation. Ⅵ. Creating Teaching Situations Л·В·Ванков said: "Teaching methods once address the student's field of emotion and will, address the psychological needs of students, this teaching will become highly effective." Psychologists believe that things students are interested in are the easiest to keep in mind. Middle school students are curious, thirst for knowledge, liking imitation, performances, competitions, as well as all new things, unwilling to accept the old traditional method of injection, but hope to learn the knowledge in a happy and relaxed atmosphere, So we teachers must create the situations for students . Situational teaching makes full use of the physical, wall charts, pictures, and environment to create teaching situations, Teachers set a purpose and a specially equipped with the introduction of certain specific emotional color, vivid scenes. If your objects, pictures, slide show, video, the recording of images, storytelling and other forms of material depicting enlightenment, environment rendering, imagination, let students to go to art, to get some experience, stimulate students ' emotions in a relatively short time. When students exposure to vivid teaching situation, it helps to stimulate learning emotion, can greatly facilitate the work of the brain, prompting a variety of intellectual factors to play. First of all, I try to use English in the classroom, gradually exposed to effects can be achieved. In addition, The use of teaching aids, movements, facial expressions, body language, and tips to create a habit. Furthermore,according to the teaching content, asking the students to the front of the stage to performance, respectively, play different roles to create a locale, reproduce the texts scene, so that students have an immersive experience, This classroom teaching, the entire section of the mood of the classroom students are particularly high, tend to have a multiplier effect. What’s more, vivid, humorous language has infinite charm ,it can stimulate students' interest in learning; Teaching according to the advocacy section makes the students feel dull. Therefore, we teachers should take full advantage of language charms to mobilize the enthusiasm of the students. Ⅶ. Diversification of Teaching Nowadays, as teachers, we should change concept of education, pay attention to the development and character of students instead, so as to take the right methods and strategies, fundamentally improve students ' learning motivation and initiative, truly promoting healthy, active development of each student, so as to really stimulate students ' interest in learning English. A、In the teaching of English, apply something appropriately around us creating visual teaching, creating situations and let students unconsciously accept new knowledge. Take People education press for Grade seven, Unit 3 Is this your pencil? For example, I collected some school things from students at first, such as a pencil, a pen, a book, a eraser and so on. Then using the structure “Is this your pencil?” to ask, If something happens to be the students, Guiding him to say Yes, it is. If is not ,saying, No, it isn’t. And find out who belongs to, for example, it is Ma Ning’s. After that, asking the students to make their own dialogues. Another example is the difference between the two uses of the "orange", I prepared an orange: Today we will learn something about orange. And pointing oranges to ask: what's this in English? It's an orange. Then ask: What color is it?It's orange. Now know that "an orange", said an orange. "Orange" oranges, countable noun modified by“an ”or numeral. The "orange" orange, a kind of color, and the modification of the front can not add article or numeral. So that the students not only interesting feeling, and immediately remembered the usage of the "orange". B、In English class, stick is a simple and effective teaching method, it is wildly used in the explain of nouns, verbs, adverbs, pronouns and tenses. It is Likely to attract students’interest and attention, you can improve the efficiency .Taking “What’s this in English?” for example, First draw a stick figure (such as a ruler, pen, and so on),then practice freely using “What’s this in English?”and “It is …….” Therefore, use of stick in teaching, can create situations and increase density in the classroom, create vivid atmosphere, stimulate and cultivate students’ interest C、Games improve students ' learning interest. Middle school students are lively and full of energy, they are willing to participate in all kinds of interesting games. In teaching, Integrating knowledge into games, putting abstract grammar into interesting activities, enhancing memory unconsciously, developing abstract thinking so as to stimulate students ' interest in learning. D、.Modern multimedia English courseware illustrated, intuitive, flexible, interactive, and a variety of human-computer interaction, with the validity of the situation, increase the freshness and curiosity of students can fully mobilize the students to a variety of sensory participation learning, so that all levels of thinking, judgment to improve the students' interest in learning, to a large extent on the enhance students ' interest in learning. At the same time, it also sets the tone, line, defined as one of the students in a shorter period of time to obtain a clear, accurate and vivid understanding fully mobilize the students of the eyes, ears, mouth, hands, brain and other organs, mechanical, tensions the learning process easier and enjoyable. E、Combination of class and outsides, put what they have learned in practice. For example, when teaching numbers, I ask the students to collect all the numbers of their family. Students in addition to collecting the home telephone number, ID number, vehicle identification number, and also collect a parent's birthday, height, weight, clothing size, or even pocket money of their family. Some students to be unique, also investigated the father ate how many cigarettes a month. A dull digital teaching course becomes filled with laughter. This will not only increase the classroom fun, stimulating students’ interest, but also allow students to experience the life, learn to care about. Ⅷ. Effective evaluation Evaluation enable students to understand themselves and build self-confidence, help to reflect on their studying and adjust their own learning process. Therefore, when finish a unit of teaching, I will arrange a small test. Test can be used, or non-test forms in evaluation. Such as oral evaluation, rating evaluation, even mutual evaluation and so on are be taken. It encourages the students to reflect and improve themselves. Effective teaching evaluation also: Concerned about the students' individual differences. Implementation of the hierarchical evaluation; teacher evaluation and student self-assessment, student peer assessment combined; appropriate combination of summative and formative evaluation However, in the evaluation to avoid using too cumbersome evaluation program or take up too much teaching time. Conversly, it should seek evaluation and application of the teaching process and results. Be impartial and fair, harmonious integration. In my views, I think we need to stimulate the interest of students, classroom assessment is particularly important. The Pygmalion proves teachers’ affirmative evaluation of classroom teaching, can stimulate students 'self-esteem, self-confidence and self-motivated, so as to consolidate and develop students' motivation to learn. For example, to enable students to answer questions, and more with "Please", when the students could not answer the problem, should be cast to look forward to, a look of encouragement, or say "Do not be nervous." "Take it easy." Think it over, and you'll find the answer. "; When the students are in troubles ,getting the wrong answers, saying, "Never mind, you may try again." "It doesn't matter." When students’ answer is close to correct, saying "Something likes that." "Think it over." Answered correctly, saying "Good." Very good. "" Excellent." And expressed your thanks:" Thank you. " In short, do not exert any pressure to the students, making it easy and pleasant learning environment. Once students feel the love and encouragement of the teacher and their emotional resonance occurs. Ⅸ. Conclusion Classroom teaching is an art form, and the students ' interest in learning is the key to improve classroom teaching effectiveness and achievement, we as teachers should make full use of various effective methods to increase students' interest, then classroom teaching can be more effective, efficient and full of fun. However, there is still a long way to go. Learning English well combined with many complex reasons in different aspects. To stimulate the students’interest in learning is just one of the preconditions to start to learn. Self-awareness, families’cooperation with school, the difficulty level of the teaching material, how hard he or she words and some other aspects, all of which combined organically can pave the way for learning English well. As instructors, we are under heavy burden, and we have many things to do to change the current bad situation. We are expecting the government to pay more attention to the teaching and teachers as well in rural area. 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