Abstract

This dissertation is based on the studies of opportunities of pupils’ oral production in English learning classrooms in primary school and on the study harvest of lots of current motivation theory. It analyses the phenomena that our primary school students are not willing to speak English in class and the reasons and effect of this problem from linguistics, physiology, psychics, sociology and pedagogy. It unmasks the deficiency and shortage of teaching oral English in our primary school. Oral English teaching is the keystone of primary school English teaching and is the difficulty that teachers should work hard on. Our students are often afraid of speaking English in some degrees and are shy to speak. Therefore, during the teaching procedure, English teachers need to stimulate the interests and initiative of speaking English by various vivid and funny teaching means.

Key words : primary school; speaking English teaching; students; interests and initiative

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

1.Introduction1

2.Literature Review 1

3.The Present Situations of Oral English in Class Teaching 2

3.1 Students’ lack of opportunities to speak.2

3.2 Teachers’ neglect in the process of teaching3

4. Research Design.4

4.1 The analysis on the English lessons .4

4.1.1 The background of the teachers.4

4.1.2 The methods used by teachers 5

4.1.3 The time students speak.5

4.1.4 The comparison of different lessons by different teachers.5

4.2 The analysis on students in normal classes.6

4.2.1 Students with appropriate opportunities to speak6

4.2.2 Students with no opportunities to speak.6

4.2.3 Students with abundant opportunities to speak.7

4.3 The analysis on students in the experimental class7

4.3.1 The interest and attitude of students.7

4.3.2 The gap between students with different interests and attitudes9

5. The Methods Teachers Use to Foster Students’ Oral English.9

6. Conclusion.10

References.12