A Case Study On The Interactive Approach In Classroom Instruction In No.9 Junior Middle School

In traditional foreign language teaching in China, there are some serious problems impeding the development of the learner's productive proficiency. Students receive information passively and have almost no opportunities for output. This is unfavorable to the improvement and development in students' competence of using language. Therefore, it is necessary for us to explore a proper and effective model of junior high school English classroom teaching. Classroom teaching and learning should be a two-way, dynamic interaction. There should be constant interaction between students and teachers and among students as well. In the classroom , students should be provided with sufficient comprehensible input and opportunities to produce comprehensible output. Based on the researches of Krashen's Input Hypothesis, Swain's Output Hypothesis and Longs Interaction Hypothesis, as well as the relevant theories of second language acquisition, I adopted the interactive teaching approach in the study. This thesis analyzes the relationship between linguistic input and output, and their relations to interaction and advances an interactive model of English classroom teaching which attaches importance to reinforcing the language input and strengthening the practice of language production in interactive activities. This model can make a better use of classroom time to provide students with more opportunities to practice language. The thesis aims to facilitate languagelearning by implementing a student-centered teaching principle: balancing students' input and output and realizing the object of cultivating student abilities to use language. In the study, I conduct a pre-test, a post-test and a questionnaire. All the data are analyzed by SPSS 12.0. A Z-test was carried on in the analysis of the pre-test and the post-test. Based on the data analysis, I drew the following conclusion: The interactive teaching approach can arouse the students' interest in learning English and can greatly improve students' language competence.