Abstract:As is known to all, to cultivate communicative competence is the ultimate goal of language learning, so the Communicative Approach plays an important role in English teaching. Nowadays, the Communicative Approach gives a priority to English teaching, the traditional teaching method---out of the context --- English teaching already can not adapt itself to the need of the society in the talent cultivation. Therefore, at the middle school stage, English teaching should also follow the principle of Communicative Approach, which enables students to learn English in a certain understand the lexical meaning, master how to use the vocabulary to express correctly, prepare for the communication of the language. In this thesis, the application of communicative teaching approach to the English teaching in middle schools will be investigated, which targets at presenting the necessity of using this teaching method in more English teaching in middle schools in China. For the sake of the validity of this research, the case study method is employed to introduce how the communicative teaching approach should be applied to English teaching practice in middle schools. The result of this research could leads to the conclusion that it is highly necessary and important to apply the communicative teaching approach to English teaching in middle schools because its application raises students’ interest in English learning and allows for more chances to practice speaking English. This thesis is important because it provides teachers in middle schools with some enlightenment on how to improve the efficiency of English teaching. 

Key words: Middle Schools English；Communicative Approach；Communicative  competence

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

Introduction-1

1. The Introduction about Communicative Approach-4

1.1 Basic Theories-4

1.2 Teaching Principles-5

2. The Problem of Teaching English in Junior Middle School-7

2.1 Listening level-7

2.2 Speaking-7

2.3 Reading-7

2.4 Writing-8

3. The Practical Application of Communicative Teaching Method in Junior Middle School English Teaching-9

3.1 Borrow Material, Physical Action Entity Teaching-9

3.2 Create language environment teaching and interesting game teaching-10

3.3 Strengthen situational response training-10

4. The Prospect-12

Conclusion-14

Bibliography-16