Application Of Task-Based Language Teaching In English Grammar Teaching In High Schools Of Shangluo Area

As for the Chinese High School students, English grammar learning plays a very important role in their leaning of English. In this thesis the author tries to have a preliminary research on the application of task-based language approach in English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area. It is the author’s wish to study the current conditions of English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area and to testify the effects of task-based language approach into English grammar teaching so that suggestions and references can be provided for English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area.In this thesis firstly the author tries to make an overall introduction of the thesis. In this introduction part the author shows the research background, research questions, and research methods and so on. Then the author will have a literature review and will introduce some related information of task-based language teaching approach and English grammar teaching. Next the author will analyze the current situation of English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area, in which teaching mode as well as problems will be presented. And the author will next introduce the teaching experiment of task-based language teaching approach in English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area in details. The students in both the experimental and the control class are given a pre-test concerning English grammar before the experiment. After that the author will make an experiment in the two classes, in which the students are almost at the same level in their English proficiency, with task-based language teaching approach and traditional3ps (presentation-practice-production) approach respectively to teach grammar. Then the author will give a post-test to students in both classes. After making statistics analysis with SPSS software the author tries to get experiment results which go with her research hypotheses. That is to say, the experiment tries to testify that task-based grammar teaching approach is more effective to help the students to improve their grammar and overall language proficiency and it helps to activate the enthusiasm of students in English grammar learning so that they become more active in the English grammar class and their interest in learning English will also be enhanced. Finally the author will present the research conclusions, research limitations and will provide some suggestions for further research.The author provides suggestions and references for the English grammar teaching in High Schools of Shangluo area after making questionnaire investigations and teaching experiment and presenting problems existing in the English grammar teaching in High Schools of this area. It is the author’s contribution.Although the author has done this, there are still some problems existing in the English grammar teaching in High Schools of this area to be solved. It is the author’s wish to exchange with others and make further research.