Abstract:

This article aims at improving middle school students’ oral English by Situational Approach. Considering the existing problems, the author elaborates the theoretic basis of Situational Approach and applies this method to the presentation, practice and production stages of oral English teaching in middle school. The study shows that Situational Approach improves not only students’ oral English, but also their pragmatic competence greatly. The author hopes this article can make teachers gain certain enlightenment in their English teaching, thus improving students’ oral English competence and constructing a harmonious and efficient English learning classroom.

Key words: Situational Approach; oral English teaching; middle school

摘要:

本文旨在研究以情景教学法来帮助初中生提高英语口语能力的有效途径。鉴于当今英语口语教学中存在的问题，作者详细阐述了情景教学法的理论基础，并且将情景教学法分别运用于初中英语口语教学的呈现、操练和巩固阶段中。研究表明情景教学法不仅能提高初中生口语能力，还能大大提高学生的语用能力。作者期望该研究能对外语教学中的教师有所启发，从而提高学生的口语能力，构建和谐、高效的英语学习课堂。

关键词：情景教学法；英语口语教学；中学

1. Introduction
With the further depth of China’s reform and opening up and more and more frequent international contact, English and English teaching have become increasingly prominent. After the implementing of new English textbooks and Standard Curriculum, learning and using English to carry out oral communication gradually become the practical need of society. It’s high time that we take oral English seriously and put more effort into enhancing the teaching of spoken English and improving students’ English communicative competence. It’s not only a demand of quality-oriented education, but also the tendency of English teaching reform. However, Chinese students’ English learning conditions are not positive. Teachers and students are still haunted by “Dumb English”. Some students have very great written test grades, but their oral English sounds awful; some students don’t even want to speak English and they avoid communication at all hours. It’s an important task for teachers to help students quell fears and love to speak English. To achieve this purpose, the paper tries to apply Situational Approach to middle school oral English teaching. It consists of five parts: theoretic basis of situational approach, status quo of oral English teaching in middle school, application of situational approach to middle school oral English teaching, introspection of applying situational approach to middle school oral English teaching and conclusion.