Abstract: Although China’s present situation of English teaching in the middle school is appreciable, there are still some outstanding problems. It seems that Chinese students are weak in communicative competence. The communicative language teaching (CLT), which regards “the improvement of communicative competence” as the goal of language teaching, is becoming more and more popular in China. The writer of this paper investigates and analyzes some problems in the application of CLT in oral English teaching in the middle school, through questionnaires and classroom observations. And then the writer makes some suggestions and proposes some possible solutions to the existing problems, with a view to improving spoken English teaching, such as switching roles of teachers, making a proper communicative test, dealing with a large class, integrating CLT with traditional methods, etc.

Key words: communicative language teaching; oral English teaching; suggestions; activities

摘要：尽管目前国内中学的英语教学是可观的，但仍然存在一些明显的问题。口语对中国学生来说仍是个薄弱的环节。交际法以提高口语能力为目的，为中国的英语教学提供了新的出路。本课题在前人的研究基础上，通过文献综述法和调查问卷法，探讨交际法在中学英语口语教学的有效性，并根据调查结果提出教师如何更好地利用交际法来提高中学英语口语教学的效率，使得英语水平较低的学生也能参与到课堂中来。

关键词：交际法；口语教学；建议；课堂活动