摘  要

随着素质教育不断地发展，英语教学越来越注重培养学生运用语言进行交际的能力。英语要达到交际的目的，就必须依靠一定的语言环境。正如布鲁姆所说：“成功的外语课堂教学应当在课内创设更多的情境，让学生有机会运用已学到的语言材料，能调动学生的非智力因素，提高教学质量。”简单地说，情境创设是指教师通过对学习主体和学习内容的分析，为学生提供一个完整的问题背景，以激发学生自主地学习，主动完成知识意义的构建，从而提高课堂教学的有效性。本文从情景创设的背景知识入手，再联系相关的二语习得，建构主义等教学理论，为了保证本文的有效性，先指出创设有效情景时所要遵循的原则，然后讨论了创设有效情景的可行性措施，列举了一些方法及实例。本文以初中英语课堂教学情景创设为研究对象，并在实例的分析的基础上提出反思，这对中学英语教学起到一定的促进作用。

关键词：英语教学；情景创设；教学理论

Abstract

With the rapidly development of quality-oriented education, English teaching is paying more and more attention to the cultivation of students’ communicative competence. As Bloom said: “the success of foreign language teaching should create more situation in the class so that students will have the opportunity to use the language materials they have already learned. It can arouse students’ non-intelligent elements, improve the quality of teaching.” Simply, situational creation refers to the analysis of learners and learning content by teachers, providing a complete background, stimulating students’ self-learning and establishing the construction of significant knowledge so that it can improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching. The thesis starts expounding background knowledge of situational creation，analysis the development of situation teaching in foreign countries and China, the difference between new curriculum standards and situation creation. Also some related supportive theories have been mentioned, such as the second language acquisition theory, constructive theory and cognitive psychology theory. What follows is to illustrate the principles to be observed in establishing effective situation. To guarantee the efficiency of this thesis, we have discussed the measure of validity in feasible situational creation by exploring some strategies and cases. The thesis is about the research of applying situational creation to English teaching in middle school. Also, an afterthought (create effective situations) has been followed after the analysis of some cases, which can be beneficial for English classroom teaching in middle school.

Key words: English teaching; situational creation; teaching principles

1 Introduction
With the informational and economic globalization of social life, English has played a more important role in our work and daily life increasingly. English teaching has a long history of many years. This thesis discusses about how to promote the quality of input and output by designing context properly to achieve the goal of obtaining language even more efficiently and applying language even better in daily life.