The Study On Worked Examples Study In English Passive Voice Based On Thematic Theory In Junior High School

To distinguish Subject,Predicate and Object in Passive Voice has been a learning difficulty for some middle school students.To apply thematic role to the analysis of passive voice sentences could be helpful for them to solve the problem.Worked Examples Study is a learning method to solve the kindred questions by its learning acquisition.This study is not only create a new English grammar teaching method but also a reference for other language grammar teaching.Worked Examples Study is of four great benefit to English grammar teaching:(1)To easy the learning acquisition.(2)To reduce learner's cognitive load.(3)To summarize the point accurately and solve the kindred question.(4)To stimulate the learners' initiative.Based on thematic theory,this paper has researched the learning effect of the three worked examples in passive sentences.This research focus on the learning behavior of the 120 subjects who are in Junior three and Senior One of Zhang Zhou Experimental Middle School to see how the three worked examples study work in their acquisition.The present experiment data comes from their accomplishment of a questionnaire concerning the worked examples in passive voice which was delivered by the author in the classroom.The experimental statistics analysis which is provided by ANOVA,two-way ANOVA and simple effect test of software SPSS19.0 shows as the following:1.Subjects from Senior One have better understand passive voice sentences with thematic role than those from Junior Three.2.The acquisition of Passive Voice sentences is not parallel with the ascension of subjects' grades.3.Significance exists between Senior One and Junior Three in three worked examples study within thematic roles.And marked worked example study is the most efficient example study to assist students to acquire passive voice.According to statistical result,here are some teaching suggestions: firstly,to speed theprogress in teaching and learning passive voice;secondly,to improve the presentation of grammar teaching material;Finally,to make the learners understand or discover grammar rules by themselves.