Abstract: Situational approach is a teaching method that teacher creates a specific language environment which is full of mood and shapes intentionally with a lot of teaching aids in terms of arousing students’ feelings and helping them to understand the teaching materials better by teacher’s expression, movement, language and posture. It means that in teaching process teachers create or induct concrete and certain situations that are emotional and lively. It utilizes language presentation and concrete situations to form images in the brain. As the result of its combination of language and environment, situational approach can enhance students’ perceptual understanding of language. Through the analysis of the classroom observation of a teaching period, this article states the advantages of the situational approach and put forward some useful strategies of how to use it in junior middle school English teaching.

Key words: situational approach；junior middle school English teaching；learning environment

摘要：情境教学法是一种教师为了引起学生的共鸣以及通过教师的陈述、动作、语言、姿态使学生更好的理解教学内容的一种教学方法。教师在课堂上借助教具，有目的的创造一个具有丰富情感和形象的具体的语言环境给学生。这也就意味着，在教学过程中，教师需要创设或引导出具体而确切的情境，并且这些情境是生动而具有感染力的。它通过利用语言的呈现和具体的情境来帮助学生在大脑中形成具体的形象。情境教学法通过将语言和环境相结合，能加深学生对于语言感知层面的理解。本文通过对课堂实例的分析，阐述了情境教学法在初中英语课堂教学中的优势，并提出了使用情境教学法的有效策略。

关键词：情境教学法；中学英语教学；学习环境