The Status Quo and Prospect of the Study on Ideological-Political Construction in Middle School English Curriculum

Ideological-political construction in English curriculum is to integrate outlook on the world,outlook on life,outlook on values,etc.into English language teaching and learning.In recent years,studies on ideological-political construction in middle school English curriculum have made some progress,with an emphasis on its significance and the strategies for its realization.However,there is still room for expansion in the research methods,research contents,and research perspectives.

A Brief Study of the Development and Application of ＂Internet＋＂ in Middle School English Teaching

Internet education has appeared with the development of the lnternet. Since ＂lnternet＋＂ has come up with in the 2015 government work report, it has become a hot word. ＂Intemet＋＂ has been applied to traditional education, which has reformed the traditional English teaching in middle school. Nowadays, there are many applications in teaching, such as distance education, smart classroom, and so on. Moreover, with the popularizing of big data, it provides all kinds of information for teachers and students in time, helping teachers in middle school to master the process of study among students. Also, parents can know their children＇s performance in school through the big data. In education, the development of the Internet has gone through a few parts from the lowest applications to the complex applications. The applications in education are gradually accepted by every educator. There is no limit of time and space so that people can study anywhere, any time.

Analyzing the Application of Functional Linguistics in Junior Middle School English Teaching

Based on the application of functional linguistics in junior middle school English teaching,this paper first illustrates the concepts of systematic grammar and functional grammar.Secondly,according to the application of functional grammar in reading,in translation and in writing,it is concluded that applied linguistics has an important role in promoting junior middle school English teaching,which comprehensively illustrates the importance of functional linguistics in junior middle school English teaching.Functional linguistics is of great significance to instruct junior middle school teaching.This paper explores the definition of functional linguistics and the linguistic patterns of functional linguistics.

A Study on the Design of Task Activity in the Post- task Stage of Middle School English Classroom

The task activity in the post-task stage is mainly to enable the students clearly aware of their own language learning process in the existing problems and effectively solve them through the ＂do-it-again＂ , language focus and other activities, and at the same time the focus of this lesson, difficulties are more clear and clear. It can be said that post-task activities play a vital role in highlighting priorities, breaking through difficulties, and achieving effective goals for teaching goals. The design of the activities in the post-task stage is to complete the task and language focus together, reflecting the distinctive characteristics of task-based teaching. The design of the activities in the post-task stage can be achieved through evaluation, language focus, and extra-curricular activities.

The Practice of English Grammar Teaching under Communicative Approach in Junior Middle School

The analyzing of the definition and principles of communicative approach and the current situation of the grammatically teaching points that the combination of both construction and practical knowledge of English language teaching in junior high school is the most ideal mode.Taking comparative grammar teaching of adjectives and adverbs as an example,this article explores how to teach grammar teaching in junior middle school under communicative teaching method.

Design and Reflection on Genre Analysis in Junior Middle School English Reading Teaching

In order to better promote students’English learning ability and interest,this paper expounds the general process of junior middle school English reading teaching by using genre analysis,for the reference of relevant personnel.

Correlational Study between the Information on English Middle Construction and Chinese EFL Learners'Acquisition of English Middle Construction

Less is known about the role that the information input may play in the acquisition of EMC,as such,the influence of the information input remains to be scrutinized.The present study,via quantitative analysis,aims to make a distinctive contribution to exploring this process.Four kinds of information on the six target English middle verbs were adopted:constraints on NP,constraints on AP,examples and all information on EMC.The results show that under the same conditions,examples can meet the demand of user's productive ability in a better way and help improve the production of the EMC.These findings are very informative for second language teaching and provide certain enlightenment for bilingual dictionary compilation.

A Comparative Study on the Acquisition of English Middle Construction between Chinese English Majors and Non-English Majors

Since the Keyser and Roeper,English middle construction(EMC)has attracted the linguists successfully with its complex syntactic and semantic features.The essential feature of EMC is active in syntactic form and passive in semantic meaning.Semantically,EMC is characterized by non-eventivity,genericity,agentivity and modality.Syntactically,the argument of EMC sentence is the internal argument of the verb,and the verb usually takes the modifier of an adverb or modal verb.Due to the complexity of EMC,many English learners encounter some difficulties in learning the second language.Based on Construction Grammar,this paper mainly investigates the following questions:first,is the learners’acquisition on EMC related to their English proficiency?Second,for typical and untypical EMC,which one is more difficult for them to learn?According to the research objectives,the research finally selects 32 valid papers and divides the subjects into advanced and elementary groups according to their scores in CET-6 and TEM-8,and R Studio is adopted to analyze their acquisition of EMC.The research results show that:first,the learners’acquisition on EMC is related to their English proficiency.Second,for typical and untypical EMC,both of them acquire typical EMC better than the untypical one,so the typical EMC is more difficult for the them to learn.

On the Application of Task-Based Approach to Junior Middle School English Reading Teaching

In order to alter the reality of reading teaching, arouse students' reading interest and to improve their reading competence, the author conducted an empirical research on the application of Task-Based Approach to junior middle school English reading teaching. The research aims to encourage students to take an active part in class, stimulate their reading interest, and to improve their reading competence by students' complement of reading tasks; furthermore, it probes into the difficulties about the application of Task-Based Approach to practical teaching so that it can provide reference for teachers' improvement of teaching methods.

An Elementary Talk on Teaching English In Middle School

Over the last ten years, English language teaching methodology has developed very rapidly and has been subject to changes and controversies. The methods and techniques share a common core and draw on what is of value both in traditional and in more recent

A Review of the Application of Process Evaluation in Junior High School English Teaching under “Double Reduction”

The “Double Reduction” policy is not only to reduce the excessive learning burden of students, but also to improve the quality of students’ learning and to promote their overall development. In order to achieve the goal of the “Double Reduction” policy, it is necessary to focus on the implementation of measures to strengthen process evaluation as proposed in the “General Plan for Deepening Education Evaluation Reform in a New Era”. Therefore, the article will analyze the current situation of the research from three aspects: the connotation of “Double Reduction” and process evaluation, process evaluation under “Double Reduction” and process evaluation in English teaching, and look forward to the future development trend, with the aim of implementing the “Double Reduction” policy and giving full play to process evaluation. The aim is to implement the policy of “Double Reduction” and give full play to the role of process evaluation, so as to effectively guide the practice of English teaching.

A Brief Description of Audio-Lingual Method and Discussion of its Advantages and Disadvantages vis-a-vis the English Language Teaching Situation in Chinese Middle Schools

With the development of reform and open policy, foreign languages become more and moreuseful. And how to teach a foreign language is an important matter. A lot of methods of teaching foreign languages have been developed. There’re grammar-trans-lation method, direct method, audio-lingual method, communicative method, etc. In this paper I in-

Analysis of Effective Strategies for Using Internet Resources to Optimize English Teaching

Affected by the nCOVID-19(New Corona Virus Disease 2019)pandemic,schools around the world are facing the dilemma of"class-suspended but still learning from offline to online".At present,online teaching has become the main form of teaching for teachers in this extraordinary period.This paper will analyze the effectiveness and effect of the online teaching strategies and optimized use of resources in English subject.

Coh-Metrix 3.0 English Text Comparison between South Korea and China

Sharing the environment of English as a foreign language （EFL） in South Korea and China, English text in the authorized English textbooks deserves a cross-country comparison in the same grade level. This research explored the English texts linguistic characteristics in the authorized English textbooks through Coh-Melrix 3.0 and intended to provide implications to EFL English textbook design in the future. The results suggest that there is a need to be aware of the weaknesses and strengths from each other： the South Korean English texts display a diversity in noun, verbs, adjectives, the mean number of words before the main verb of the main clause in sentence, TTR and lexical diversity; the Chinese English texts reveal an overlap in lexical level （content words, noun, and sentences） and semantic level （syntactic patterns）.

Practical Activities for Developing Speaking Skills of Chinese Middle School Students

In order to develop the speaking skills of Chinese middle school students, Chinese middle school English teachers must guide the students to speak through practical speaking activities that arouse the students＇ interest, encourage the use of real language and be used with large classes.

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I am an Australian living in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. I am employed as an English conversation teacher in a local middle school. I enjoy reading China Today and would be interested in writing an article on my impression of Quanzhou, or my experiences as a teacher in middle school or other topics that may be of interest to your readers.

MORE STRESS SHOULD BE LAID ON READING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHING IN CHINA

The State Education Commission’s Senior English Syllabus(1993) (SETS) stipulates precisely that English teaching shouldplace a primary emphasis on cultivating students’ reading ability.However, it seems most middle school English teachers cannotsee its value. This article will argue that it is essential to high-light reading in middle school English teaching and it also offerssome suggestions for doing so.

WHAT DO MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS BRING TO ENGLISH LEARNING?——A QUESTIONNAIRE INVESTIGATION REPORT

This paper reports on an investigation conducted in thePearl River Delta Region of Guangdong Province.Theinvestigation was intended to collect data about middle schoolstudents’motivation for English learning,their views on thedifficulty of learning the language,their learning methods andexpectations for teacher roles.In light of the investigationfindings,four points are summed up.First,there is a seriousloss of junior middle school students’interest in Englishlearning.In other words,the higher the grade,the fewer thestudents interested in learning the language.Second,Englishgrammar is a universal problem for most students.However,they tend to have different difficulties at different learningstages.Third,most junior middle school students are well awareof their own responsibilities for successful learning,but they donot necessarily know how to learn effectively.Finally,juniormiddle school students stress teacher roles not only as instructorbut as helper,and have made great demands on the teacher’steaching methods.