Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: The thesis, based on the Input hypothesis and needs analysis, analyzes the practical needs and differences among junior English learners, and the necessity of stratified English teaching with the data of a questionnaire survey, and then investigates the appropriate practice of it, which is instructive and meaningful in the following research of stratified English teaching in junior school. Furthermore, this paper concludes students’ mental problem and teachers’ problem of ability and workload possibly caused by the practice of stratified English teaching. This study also puts forward several effective strategies to deal with the problems and will be helpful in improving students’ English learning according to their different characteristics and developing teachers’ English teaching strategies effectively.

Key words: stratified English teaching; junior school; needs analysis

摘要：本文在克拉申的“i+1”语言习得理论以及众学者的需求分析理论指导下，通过对某中学的英语学习者进行问卷调查，剖析当今初中英语学习者的真实需求及差异，以得出的调查研究数据作为讨论前提和依据，浅析初中英语分层教学的必要性，并在此基础上，研究如何实施分层教学，对初中英语分层教学的课堂实践将具有一定的指导意义。本文总结实施英语分层教学可能导致的学生心理问题，及教师的能力和工作量问题，并提出几条有效解决问题的策略。本文将有助于根据学生不同的特点促进学生的英语学习，并有效发展教师的英语教学策略。

关键词：英语分层教学; 初中; 需求分析

1. Introduction
Stratified teaching, based on the requirement of guiding principles and teaching materials, means aiming at different abilities of all kinds of students, designing different levels of teaching objectives, putting forward different types of learning requests, giving different levels of coaching, and testing at different levels, in order to help different types of students acquire knowledge and information in terms of their own needs.
On the basis of Comprehensible Input Hypothesis proposed by Stephen D. Krashen, the unique method of acquirement is to receive the comprehensible input. People acquire, in other words, only when they understand the language that contains structure that is a little beyond their current level of competence ‘i + 1’, in which ‘i’ represents current competence and the ‘+1’ represents new knowledge or language structures that we should be ready to acquire.
According to the theory of Needs analysis in English for Special Purposes written by Tom Hutchinson and Alan Waters, it is of great significance to attach much importance to learning needs, i.e. the conditions of the learning situation, the learners’ knowledge, skills and strategies, and their motivation for learning.