A Study Of The Application Of The Learning-plan Guided Teaching And Learning Method In Junior Middle School English Teaching

New Curriculum Standard states that the task of English curriculum in elementary education is to cultivate students’learning interest, to help students build good learning habits, to form their effective learning strategies and to develop their ability of learning autonomy. With the further implementation of Curriculum Reform, teachers and educators have realized that the traditional teaching method could not cater for the demands of quality-oriented education. Thus they began to explore a new teaching method. After a long time of persuit by educators and teachers, the learning-plan guided teaching and learning method, which is on the basis of Constructivism Learning Theory and Humanistic Learning Theory, came into being in the late1990s. The learning-plan guided teaching and learning method is a teaching methodology that relies on the learning and teaching plan prepared by teachers as a medium to guide students’learning and teacher’ teaching.By far, this teaching method has been put into practice in more and more Chinese middle schools, and their students have been a lot benefited. This study investigates into the students’and teachers’comments on the learning-plan guided teaching and learning method in junior middle school English class, the effects of this teaching and learning method exerts on the junior middle school English teaching and learning, and some major problems existing in the process of the application of this method.The author has collected data by questionnaire, interview and classroom observation. The research subjects include185students from three classes of different levels and10English teachers in Grade Nine in Luohu Foreign language school in Shenzhen. The investigation went on for four months, and the results of which lead to a conclusion that this learning-plan guided teaching and learning method is very popular with teachers and students. The effects of the learning-plan guided teaching and learning method can fall into four aspects:(1) the students’English learning autonomy is authentically improved;(2) the students have develop a better English learning habit through the application of this method;(3) the implementation of the learning-plan guided teaching and learning method has enhanced the teachers’and students’ cooperative ability;(4) and a better teaching and learning efficiency has been achieved. However, some major problems are also spotted:(1) some teachers are used to traditional teaching methods, and they think that it is a waste of time to invite students to get involved in the process of teaching and learning;(2) there has been quite room for the improvement of this newly emerged method;(3) it is hard for teachers to reasonably regulate the time when carrying out this method.Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions for a better implementation of this new method. Firstly, the design and preparation of learning plan should be more scientific. Secondly, teachers need to take students’real situation into consideration when they design a learning plan. Thirdly, students had better be allowed to be partners in designing and preparation of learning plan where it is necessary.