Research On The Application Of Story Teaching Method To English Reading Teaching In Primary School

Reading is an important skill in foreign language learning as well as a major teaching activity in English class.Many teachers only focus on the teaching of English words,and lack the awareness of fostering interest,habit and ability in English reading,which leads to students’ weak English reading ability and fear of difficulties in English reading.Therefore,primary school English reading teaching is not optimistic.It is necessary to explore an effective teaching method to improve students’ reading interest and reading level.Story Teaching Method has been proved to be an effective new teaching method in the field of education.With the deepening of research,the advantages of Story Teaching Method have also been verified,but the research of this method in the field of primary school English reading is still insufficient.This study takes primary school reading teaching as the research direction,aiming to answer the following questions:Question 1: What are the effects of Story Teaching Method on students’ English reading interest?Question 2: What are the effects of Story Teaching Method on students’ English reading proficiency?In this experiment,93 students are taken as experimental objects from two parallel classes of Grade 6 in Nanlou Primary School in Yingkou City,Liaoning Province.There are 47 students of Class 1 served as the experimental class and 46 students of class 3 set as the control class.The two classes are taught by the same teacher,and the teaching material is published by People’s Education Press.The only difference is that Story Teaching Method is used in the experimental class,while the conventional teaching method is used in the control class.The study lasts for 18 weeks.All the data is collected through questionnaire,test and analyzed by SPSS 23.0 statistical software.At the end of the experiment,interview is used to obtain supplementary information about students’ attitude towards Story Teaching Method.The results show that after the application of Story Teaching Method,students in the experimental class are more willing to read in English,and their reading time and frequency are increased.At the same time,the reading speed and accuracy of students in the experimental class are also greatly improved,and their reading scores are higher than those in the control class.However,due to its inevitable limitations,it is hoped that this experiment should be further studied in English reading teaching to provide more creative and practical suggestions for the future Story Teaching Method.