The Optimization Of "Language Comprehensive Learning" Courses For Junior Middle Schools

"Language Comprehensive Learning" (LCL) is a brand new type of language course resulted from the new-round reform of basic education curriculum. It has included a new content and a training form into the new version textbooks, and thus represents a fundamental reform in the structure of language curriculum. From its implementation process, LCL has accumulated a lot of useful experience and been approved of great significance to broadening the learning space of students, cultivating their cooperative, explorative and innovate spirits and improving their practical capabilities. Nevertheless, it has also encountered many new problems and therefore brought brand new challenges to both the textbook writers and the front-line language teachers, requesting their further exploration and brave practice.This paper, based on a study and analysis of its theories, problems rising from implementation in Shanghai, as well as the new findings from the current research on it, intends to advice on its teaching strategies and propose suggestions on how to optimize the LCL courses.This paper consists of four Chapters.Chapterâ… explained what LCL is by referring to the concept, basic features, value and functions of the "Comprehensive Learning".Chapterâ…¡described the LCL's development process and current status by studying and analyzing its implementation in recent years, and further presented some theoretical thinking on the new challenges that this situation would have brought to students, teachers, schools and family and social education.Chapterâ…¢focused on the Shanghai version LCL, analyzing its objectives and characteristics by reviewing its general conditions, content features and layout features.Chapterâ…£, based on the gains and losses in the implementation process of the LCL, put forward some new suggestions on its implementation steps, design of lessons, development of curriculum resources, and evaluation of study and practice, which has constituted a teaching strategy for teaching the LCL in junior middle schools. The objective is to help language teachers clarify their understanding, avert twists and turns, and work out an effective set of teaching strategies, to enable all students to feel the fun and benefits of language learning.