A Study On The Current Situation Of Oral English Output Of Rural Junior High School Students

Oral English output is a very important part in English learning.Many scholars have studied the oral English output of students,but there are not a lot of investigations or studies on the current situation of oral English output.Moreover,the research subjects of oral English output are mostly primary school students and college students and they rarely involve junior high school students in rural areas.Based on the output hypothesis,this research aims to provide suggestions for improving oral English output ability of rural junior high school students by investigating the current situation of oral English output of rural junior high school students.By studying 100 junior high school students from three rural junior high schools in Xinghua County of Jiangsu Province,this research is designed to address the following questions:What attitude do rural junior high school students hold towards oral English output?What’s the quality of oral English output of rural junior high school students?What obstacles do rural junior high school students have in oral English output?First of all,100 students are given an oral English test and then their recorded audio samples are converted into text for analysis on the oral English output quality.At the same time,100 questionnaires are delivered to these 100 students to find out students’ attitude towards oral English output and what obstacles they have in oral English output.In addition,9 teachers and 20 students are interviewed as a complement of the research.Results show that first of all,rural junior high school students hold the negative attitude towards oral English output.They lack understanding of the importance of oral English output.They are not interested in the oral English output and they don’t carry out oral English output actively.Secondly,the oral English output quality of rural junior high school students is at the medium level but there are obvious differences among students.Rural junior high school students perform best in the content in oral English output,followed by pronunciation and intonation,fluency,syntax and vocabulary.Thirdly,rural junior high school students have more linguistic obstacles than non-linguistic obstacles;among linguistic obstacles,vocabulary obstacles are the biggest obstacles,followed by syntactic obstacles,phonetic obstacles and intonation obstacles;among non-linguistic obstacles,thinking obstacles are the biggest obstacles,followed by psychological obstacles and cultural obstacles.Male students and female students in rural junior high schools both have more linguistic obstacles than non-linguistic obstacles;male students have more vocabulary obstacles,syntactic obstacles,phonetic obstacles,intonation obstacles and thinking obstacles than female students while female students have more psychological obstacles than male students;male students and female students have similar cultural obstacles.Excellent students,good students,qualified students and unqualified students in rural junior high schools also have more linguistic obstacles than non-linguistic obstacles in oral English output;excellent students have the least linguistic obstacles and non-linguistic obstacles,followed by good students,qualified students and unqualified students.Based on results of this research,some suggestions are proposed to help strengthen the oral English output ability of rural junior high school students from the part of teachers,schools and parents.This research on oral English output of rural junior high school students may have many limitations,nevertheless,it attracts attention to oral English output of rural junior high school students and the suggestions provided can help rural junior high school students have better oral English output ability.