A Study On The Effectiveness Of English Extracurricular Activities In Junior High School Against The New Curriculum Background

The three dimensional goals advocated by the English Curriculum Standard include knowledge and skills, process and method, and emotional attitude and values. They embody the basic concept of the New Curriculum and the basic way of the Quality education in the course of the subject, which reflect the objective rule of the students’ harmonious development, the development of personality and the development of life.However, since the implementation of the New Curriculum Standard, most English teachers have studied the efficient class, but the extracurricular activity, as a powerful supplement and extension of English classroom teaching, is not paid enough attention to. Some teachers lack the effective design and correcting consciousness of homework; they only use the old exercises and either outsource the correction task to other tutors, or choose not to make any correction. Some teachers only pursuit the entrance rate and the learning results, they ignore the learning process and methods of teaching and hardly consider the students’ emotional attitude to the English homework, and thus it makes the students lack the correct values of the English extracurricular activities. Therefore, it is doubtful whether the current junior high school students’ English homework is effective and it is necessary to study and explore the effectiveness of English extracurricular activities.In this thesis, we focus on the effective design and correction of English homework and the effect on the students’ emotional attitude. Combined with the theory of Quality Education, Constructivism Theory and Error Analysis Theory, English Curriculum Standard is used as the theoretical basis in this study; the author designs a set of suitable English homework for the Grade 8 students which forms a system, and sums up a set of effective method of correcting homework. In order to prove their effectiveness, the author took two classes of the Grade 8 students from Wuzhong District Guangfu Junior Middle School as the research objects. The research lasts for two terms. The research has yielded the following findings:(1) compared with the control group, the students in the experimental class have significantly improved their academic performance;(2) The students in the experimental class have a significant improvement in their emotional attitude towards learning.It shows that the effective design and correction of English homework is really beneficial to the improvement of students’ academic level, and the students’ emotional attitude towards English learning has been improved obviously. This study has some implications for improving the design and correction of homework in junior high school English teaching.