A Study On The Application Of Cognitive Strategies Training In Junior Middle School English Teaching

With the rapid development of cognitive psychology, more and more experts andscholars realize that the students’ learning strategies have large influence on the benefits oflearning. Since mid-70s, the foreign language teaching research has changed from how toteach to how to learn. Study on language learning strategies abroad began.Cognitive strategies as an important part of a learning strategy have a direct relationshipwith learning a second language. In recent years, cognitive strategy has been used as a methodof learning English to junior middle school English teaching. In the compulsory educationEnglish curriculum standard (the Edition of2011), there are specific requirements ofcognitive strategy which the junior middle school graduates will achieve.This paper first introduces the background, significance and purpose of the research.Then it expounds the theoretical basis for the study, summarizes the research status of Englishcognitive strategy training in domestic and overseas, and the value of this study. On the basisof the above study this paper regards Class5and Class6of Grade2as the research object. Itmainly uses the experimental method and questionnaire investigation method to havecognitive strategy training of Class5for a semester in the day-to-day classroom teaching.First, it has to know the use of students’ cognitive strategy by investigating and confirm thetraining content of cognitive strategies on the basis of it. Then it introduces concretely thedesign and implementation of cognitive strategies training. Through experimental research,the paper draws the following conclusions:(1) After training in cognitive strategies, theawareness of strategies’ use in real practice class has more remarkable improvement than thatin comparative classes.(2) Within the experimental class, excellent students are better at usingcognitive strategies than student with learning difficulties in English learning. But poorstudent groups have been affected more by strategy training.(3) To a certain degree, cognitivestrategies training improve the academic performance of students in English. It is thus clearthat teachers should cultivate the awareness of students ’cognitive strategies use, teachersshould pay more attention to students with learning difficulties. This study aims to improve students’ ability of applying cognitive strategies, enabling them to be autonomous learners.