On Effectiveness of Phonics in Vocabulary Building for Primary School English Classroom Abstract According to Full-time Compulsory General English Curriculum Standards (trial version,2011),one of the secondary objectives of English education courses in primary school is that students are able to spell simple words according to the spelling rules. Phonics is a method of teaching people to read in which they are taught to recognize the sounds that letters represent. It helps students to develop their abilities of vocabulary building so as to improve reading ability and strengthen reading understanding. Thus it is applied in most of primary schools. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of phonics teaching, especially for vocabulary building in primary school EFL classroom in China. And major findings of this study suggested that phonics is helpful for students in vocabulary building at primary school level, but there are also some difficulties when implementing it. Therefore, this paper, based on the domestic and foreign theories of phonics teaching, investigation of the current situation, previous studies, discusses how to improve phonics teaching more effectively for teachers.47187
Keywords: phonics teaching; vocabulary building; primary school EFL classroom; teaching strategies
摘要2011年《义务教育英语课程标准》关于小学英语二级目标要求中指出:“能根据拼读规律读出简单的单词”。自然拼读法是一种教会人们阅读的方法,其要教授字母所代表的发音。它帮助学生更好地发展词汇学习的能力,进而提高阅读能力,加强阅读理解力,因此自然拼读法被广泛运用于小学英语课堂教学当中。本文旨在调查小学英语课堂中自然拼读法的影响,尤其是在词汇学习方面,发现其中存在的问题,从而针对存在的问题提出合理化的教学建议。通过研究发现自然拼读法在小学阶段的词汇学习方面是一种有效的教学手段,可在实践过程中还是存在很多问题,因此教师要不断完善自然拼读法,促进学生的英语学习。
本文共分为六部分:第一部分引言,主要阐述本文研究的问题和研究的意义。第二部分为文献综述,主要阐述自然的理论依据以及国内外研究现状。第三部分介绍相关理论基础。第四部分介绍本文的调查方法,以及结果分析。第五部分是建议,主要探讨小学英语自然拼读教学能够改进的方面以及解决策略。第六部分为结语,主要归纳本文的研究结果。最后是文献资料。
关键词:自然拼读法;词汇学习;小学英语课堂;教学策略
Contents
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background & Significance 1
1.2 Research Questions 1
2. Literature Review 2
2.1 Methods of Teaching Vocabulary in Primary School 2
2.1.1 The International Phonetic Alphabet 2
2.1.2 The Phonics Method 2
2.1.3 Summary 3
2.2 Comparative Studies of Phonics Method at Home and Abroad 3
2.2.1 The studies of Phonics Method at Home 3
2.2.2 The studies of Phonics Method Abroad 3
2.2.3 Summary 4
3.Theoretical Basis:Language Transfer 5
4. Application of Phonics Method in Primary School 5
4.1 Research Methods