| Under the pressure of NMET, more and more Senior High School students have to deal with a lot of assignments, which does harm to student's physical and mental health. Therefore, in the field of education, many experts and teachers pay much attention to the problem about assignment. In order to settle the problem, this thesis, through the research of English theories and practice, based on Individualized Teaching, Inquiry-based Learning Mode and New National English Curriculum Standards, explores the improvement of English communicative competence in Senior High School.Assignment can not only increase the knowledge of students, but improve their learning skills and abilities as well. And assignment is designed to review what students have learnt, prepare them for the coming lessons, and extend their horizons.Although the studies of assignment are various abroad and in China, there are a few related to designing scientific, efficient to ensure the improvement of capabilities through the English learning in practical process of English teaching and learning.In the New National English Curriculum Standards, there are five curriculum goals in all, some of which put up with new requirements, Individualized Teaching and Inquiry-based Learning Mode are just adapted to the new educational reform, so that they are admitted and applied widely. Meanwhile, with the performance of the new English educational reform, there are many new methods and theories for English teaching and learning, as well as problems. The traditional Senior High School English assignments still mainly focus on copying tests, memorizing new words and expressions, translation, filling in blanks and so on, which are so simple and low-efficient that they decrease students learning interests, and have bad effects on the developing English abilities and skills. It proves that the traditional English assignment is not fit for the high school English education reform. Communicative competence plays a more and more important role in the reform.It concludes four competence areas, linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic. They show the balance of language skills and meet the requirements of English educational reform. Thus, it is a good choice to use Communicative Competence as the standard of the effect on performing the optimizing designing English assignment.The author investigates the English assignment with the tools of questionnaire and interview in some of students and teachers in NO.1 Cangzhou High School. The author collects some data and information about the current problems and their attitudes and requirements. Based on the theories, the author analyses them and then make an experiment about optimizing designing English assignment. After comparing the result of two classes, the experimented class improves their communicative competence.The most important is the author's findings during the research. The first is the characteristics of the optimized-designed English assignment: being student-centered, being interesting, developing capabilities in practically using, including new and various patterns and keeping balance. The second is the suggestions for designing English assignment in senior high schools: variety of assignment for different students and abilities, proper quantity and high quality of English assignment, the teachers'action related to English assignment and integration with other subjectsThis thesis focuses on practical performing, aimed to make English teachers better adjust to English educational reform and students complete their English assignment more happily and efficiently and improve their abilities. |
