On The Practice Of English Extracurricular Teaching And Learning In Chinese Senior Middle School

In this thesis, the author aims to elaborate on the purposes, principles and the practice of English extracurricular teaching on basis of others' researches. The paper also explores English extracurricular teaching contents, technigues and assessment with the purpose of meeting the requirement of education for all-around development in Chinese senior high schools which have limited teaching resources in the county and thus constitute the optimal new pattern of ELT in Chinese secondary schools in the twenty first century.English extracurricular teaching is an important part in the school English education. It's the continuity and supplement of classroom teaching. The accomplishment of classroom teaching must be strengthened and developed through extracurricular teaching. It can construct the natural environment of learning English, enable students also to have as many opportunities as possible to acquire and practise English after class. It's helpful to let different students know how to learn in different ways, enlarge students' knowledge, give students psychological guidance, build better teacher- student relationship, train learner's autonomous learning ability.Foreign language research shows that learners need not only language learning in class but also acqusition in natural language learning environment. If we combine the two properly, we'll get better results. New secondary school curriculum criterion agree with the idea in ELT. What's more, behaviorism, cognitivism, humanism and constructivism learning theories also support English extracurricular teaching.In September 2002 the author carried out an investigation which is composed of two parts: interviews of the teachers and qustionaires to students. The interviews aims at finding out the teachers' attitudes towards extracurricular teaching and the efficiency of the classroom teaching. The responses of the teachers show that most bf the teachers have incorrect concepts about the extracurricular teaching. They have not fully realized the role that it plays in ELT. Because of the pressure of theunivisity entrance examination, most teachers do not try to create English learning environment and neglect language practical activities .Qustioaires aim to examine students 'motivation for English learning, students' attitude towards after-class activities, their psychological state in learning Enlish and how to learn English after class .The data from questionaires show that students have intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for English learning. They have positive attitudes to after -class activities. However, they have few ideas about how to learn English. They spend most time to do multi-choice exercises and overlook to develop their hearing, speaking, reading and writing skills. The high affective filter inhibited their motivation to some extent. It was also found that Proper extracurricular learning might have a positive effect on teaching and learning. Therefore, we should raise teachers' awareness of the value of the extracurricular teaching, give students psychological guidance and effective Learning method , improve students' autonomous learning ability.In September 2002, the author began to practice English extracurricular teaching in Jiaxian No.l Senior Middle School, Henan Province. The teaching activities are as follows: (1) create English learning natural enviroment; (2) cultivate the students' autonomous learning ability; (3) discuss ways to comment assignments; (4) respect students, close teacher-student relationship; (5) try to use formatic assessment in the extracurricular teaching.After half a year's practice, through observation, intercviews, onferences and achievement assessment, we have found the students more active, motivative and effective in learning English. They are having better and better marks in English tests. Their spoken and written English are improving.In conclusion, the extracurricular teaching is a useful supplement to classroom teaching. It can facilitate ELT in Chinese senior high schools and help to...