Abstract

The New English Curriculum Standards has made it clear that English teaching in primary school should proceed from the students' learning interests, experience of everyday life, and different degrees of cognition, fully utilize the way of activities. And in the meantime it should strongly promote learning through firsthand experience, constant practice, active participation, greater cooperation and effective communication, and ultimately realizing the aim of developing students' all-round ability to employ language. First, classroom activities, as one of the most significant components in classroom teaching, play an important role in students' learning, so it is of great significance to investigate what kind effective classroom activities are helpful to the English teaching. Secondly, through surveying the problems in English classroom activities both from teachers and students, it will guide teachers to design classroom activities from a new perspective and make classroom activities more efficient. Lastly, through having the classroom activities, it will improve the ability of communication in Enlish in the daily life. 

The classroom activities teaching, as a fundamental element of the bisic educaiton, is of high significance. A key question here is how to create various new and effective classroom avtivities. The teacher needs to use the classroom activities to inspire students’ automomous learning ability, and reflect whether the classroom activities are efffective or not by the feedback from the students. Through the analysis of classroom teaching of senior teachers in four provinces in this thesis, specific the results of effective classroom activities, help the teacher to find how to design a classroom activity to help the students accept the new knowledge and what kinds of classroom activities are invalid for the classroom teaching. Through the experiment, finding that the influence of effective classroom activities and invalid classroom activities on the degree of students’ knowledge acceptance and class performance.

Keywords: classroom activities; effective; primary school

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

1.-Introduction-6

1.1-Research Background-6

1.2-Objectives of the study-6

1.3-Significance of the Study-6

2.-Literature Review-7

2.1-Classroom Activities-7

2.1.1-Definitions of Effective Primary School Classroom Activities-7

2.1.2-Principles of Effective Classroom Activities-7

2.1.3-Classification of Primary Classroom Activities-8

2.2-Relevant Researches on Classroom Activities Abroad-9

2.3-Relevant Researches on Classroom Activities at Home-9

2.4-Theoretical Foundations-10

2.4.1-Constructivism-10

2.4.2-Monitor Theory-10

2.4.3-Comprehensible Output Hypothesis-10

3.-Research Methodology-11

3.1-Research participants-11

3.2-Research instruments-11

3.2.1-Observation-11

3.3-Procedure-11

4.-Results and Discussion-12

4.1-Data Collection and Analysis-12

4.2-Results of Classroom Observation-15

4.2.1-Teaching Behavior-15

4.2.2-Students Performance-15

4.2.3-Classroom Interaction-15

5.-Conclusions-16

5.1-Main Findings-16

5.1.1-Effective classroom activities-16

5.1.2-Invalid classroom activities-17

5.2-Implications of Classroom Activities in Primary School-17

5.2.1-Building a relaxed and interesting atmosphere for the students-17

5.2.2-To promote teachers to improve the ability of business, theoretical level and the application of modern educational technology.-17

5.2.3-Teaching through classroom activities making the students in a relaxed an pleasant activities on the enhancement of language feeling and understanding.-17

5.2.4-To explore the effective teaching method.-17

5.3-Limitations of Research-18

References-19