An Empirical Study of the Effect of Inquiry Teaching on the Development of High School Students'Critical Thinking Under the New Curriculum Standards

The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.

Analysis of New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1

This article will firstly discuss the context overview of English teaching and learning in China. Under thiscircumstance, a problematic element will be examined of the New Senior English for China Student’s Book 1 and critical appraisal ofhow this element relates to other elements of curriculum development will be analyzed. The recommended changes and demonstrationmechanisms for evaluating the changes are put forward in the last two parts.

The New Curriculum for the Teaching of English——With Which Dialectical Knowledge in Education Is Raised

The paper ,with a theory of Action Research and especially dialecti cal knowledge,gives a brief analysis and discussion of the New English Standard Syllabus(also called the New Curriculum) and also points out the difference bet ween the New Curriculum and the traditional syllabus of the basic English cours e. It is also theoretically and practically designed with some excellent suggest ions on how to study the New Curriculum and make good use of English teaching.

The Implications of Lexical Pragmatics for English Vocabulary Teaching under the Instructions of the New National English Curriculum

Lexical Pragmatics, established at the late 20 thcentury in the west, is a new branch of linguistics. Based on the theoretical framework of Lexical Pragmatics, this paper will analyze the new requirements for English vocabulary teaching under the instructions of The New National English Curriculum and the current situation of English vocabulary teaching so as to clarify the necessity to cultivate students' lexical pragmatic awareness. As a result, learners can get some implications from it: English vocabulary teaching should emphasize on multiple pragmatics dimensions such as the pragmatic knowledge of lexical meaning,pragmatic competence and contextual constraints, etc. but not just on its form or semantic combination.

On the Construction of effective English classroom in Junior Middle School under the situation of New Curriculum Reform

Taking the new course into the background, this paper sums up the effective English classroom construction mode which can adapt to the new curriculum reform,and helps students lay a good foundation for English.With the deepening of the new curriculum reform,junior middle school English class has high efficiency to improve students' English skills.

How to Improve English Teaching Efficiency to Xinjiang Ethnic High School Students according to the Basic Idea of the New English Curriculum in High School

Here are some good suggestions on how to improve English teaching efficiency to Xinjiang ethnic high school students according to the basic ideas of the new English Curriculum in high school, eg: setting down reasonable teaching projects according to the status of Xinjiang ethnic groups; training the students' strong desire to study English; improving teachers' special quality; Make full use of modern teaching methods and so on.

How to Improve the Effectiveness of Teaching Writing under the New Curriculum?

The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum standards" and pay attention to the importance of English writing instruction,guide and organize students to do English writing to train and improve students' writing skills and to improve their writing instruction effectiveness.

New Curriculum-Based English Vocabulary Teaching Approaches For Senior High School

There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.

A Study on the Instructional Design of Interdisciplinary Thematic Learning in Middle School Physical Education Based on the CASES-T Model

With the deepening of educational reform,interdisciplinary thematic learning,as an emerging educational model,has become a focus of attention in the field of educational research.Based on the STEM(science,technology,engineering,and mathematics)education concept and CASES-T(Content,Activity,Situation,Evaluation,Strategy-Target)model,this study provides a theoretical basis for the teaching design and implementation of interdisciplinary thematic learning in middle school physical education.Through the analysis of specific interdisciplinary thematic learning cases,it aims to provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the reform of middle school physical education through the CASES-T model-based interdisciplinary thematic teaching design research in middle school physical education,in order to enhance students’learning effects,cultivate core literacy in physical education,and promote students’all-round development.

Teaching Research on Ideology and Politics of "New Horizon College English" proceeding from multimodality

Based on the multimodal theory,this article designs a theme teaching in one unit of college English course ideology and politics which is about”Spend or save-The student’s dilemma”.The new instructional design incorporates Mao Zedong’s quotations,Xi Jinping’s speaking and habit of saving,and celebrity saving stories in regular college English teaching,and adds three specific multimodal designs of teachers’teaching,students’learning,and teaching evaluation.Multi-modal teaching mainly performs as various modal angles other than language and pictures,practical cases in teaching design.

Undergraduate Business English Course Goals and Teaching Principles in the New Period

With the continuous acceleration of the global informatization process, many universities in China have set up a businessEnglish course. However, because the positioning of this subject is not clear and accurate, and the corresponding teaching require-ments are also different, it has led to a variety of university courses for this subject, so the teaching strategies are also not the same.Due to the particularity and importance of university business English, this paper combines the actual conditions of contemporarystudent development and the development needs of the society to define the objectives of the business English curriculum, andgives teaching principles and curriculum objectives that some college business English education should be followed.

“新英语(New Englishes)”研究——词汇及语法特征

通过解释“新英语”的概念,并就新英语的语法特征、词汇特征及标准进行概述和研究,可提出“中国英语”成为“新英语”的可能性。

Curriculum Evaluation for English Majors and Its Adjustments in Reading Instruction

The mandate of education lies in its curriculum. Course construction not only has a direct effect on teaching quality,but also is an important mark of a university's overall teaching level. To cater to a university's individual needs, the university and the teacher should be able to effectively evaluate the New National English Curriculum, and then further work out their own school-based curriculum development. Therefore, this thesis evaluates the application of the New Curriculum for English Majors in Reading instruction. Finally some possible solutions are addressed to better suit its teaching context.

Process and Analysis the Junior High School Students' Teaching Material of Ren'ai Version

Since the application of the new curriculum,the English teaching material of the national junior high school is no longer unified.Thus,there come numerous junior high school English tesching materials,such as Renjiao,Beijing Normal University,Oxford,Cambridge,New Concept,Ren’ai and so on and so forth.These abundant teaching materials offer the majority of teachers and students a broad choice space and are different from the traditional teaching material.Among these materials,Ren’ai version is introduced to Zhangzhou City,Fujian Province.Compared with the traditional teaching materials,Ren’ai version has a new form both in language and content,which put forward to higher request on teachers and students.As is published recently,there is not much related research.This article,on one hand,makes a brief analysis on the characteristics of the material.On the other hand,it gives some suggestions on how to handle the material with the help of Constructivism,the Task-based Teaching theory and Cognitive Psychology,hoping to improve the efficiency of classroom teaching and the students’English comprehensive ability.