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Title: Survey of High School
English classroom communicative
activities——in Taiyuan Shanxi
Author: Zhai Jianhong
Tian Jinping
The aim of this study is to find out the
present states of CLT in high school English
classrooms:
1.Teachers’ knowledge & treatment of CLT
2.Teacher and students’ attitudes towards
CLT
3.Whether authentic communicative activities
exist in high school English classes
Research method:
1. Teachers’ Questionnaires
2. Students’ Questionnaires
3. Classroom observation
4. Interview
Procedure of the research
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1st stage: Design questionnaires
2nd stage: Hand out the teachers’ and the
students’ questionnaires , then collect them
3rd stage: Do classroom observation, after
class, interview the teachers.
4th stage: Analyze the data
Sample of the research
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The subjects of questionnaire for the
teachers are 86 English teachers, 46 of
them are from 3 senior schools --one
factory-subsidiary school, one city
common school and one city key school,
and the others are selected randomly from
other 10 high schools.
Sample of the research
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The subjects of questionnaires for the students
are from 7 high schools in Taiyuan, including
2 key city schools, 2 enterprise-subsidiary
schools and 3 common city schools. They
enrolled in high schools in the autumn of
2003 or 2004. The sampling techniques used
here is systematic random sampling. The
schools were chosen randomly in each group
(key, ordinary or factory-subsidiary) and the
student who has a single enrolled number in a
single numbered class was selected to fill in
the questionnaire.
Sample of the research
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The subjects of Class observation and
interview are the same. They are chosen
randomly from a city common school, a
city key school and a factory-subsidiary
school.
Findings
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Results in Ss’ questionnaires:
Results in teachers’ questionnaires:
Results in Ss’ questionnaires:
Activities occupies most of the class
100
80
60
40
20
0
act in
groups of
three
pros and
cons
answer Qs on
the book
act in groups of three
act in groups of two
group discussion
pair discussion
sequels
pros and cons
simulation
race to answer
grammar explanation
do exercises
answer Qs on the book
listening ex
Results in Ss’ questionnaires:
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90% of Ss expect their errors be corrected
by the time of occurrence
Teachers use both ways in explaining the
grammatical rules
teachers use every means to help them
understand
not all the questions put by the teachers
have got ready answers
Results in Ss’ questionnaires:
Possible cause of difficulty in speaking
inaccurate pronunciation
fear of being laughed at for
making mistskes
teachers' criticizes
lack of opportunities to
practice
small vocabulary
unable to arrange the
sentence in right order
unfamiliar with the text
lack of interest in English
Results in teachers’ questionnaires:
no further comment if s
can't answer
100
80
use of ways to enhance
Ss's understanding.
60
create authentic
situation for Ss to
communicate
Cc should be cultivated
outside classroom
40
20
0
no further
comment if s
can't answer
most of CA can't carry
out
no method can
get "dead
desire"Ss to
work
no method can get "dead
desire"Ss to work
Not practical to have
QE under present
testing system
Impossible to use CA in
Results in classroom observation
and interview
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Non-communicative activities are teachers’
favorite, in the lessons observed, teacher’s
beliefs and teaching techniques play a very
important role in this process.
Calls for change in teacher training to help
teachers promote their abilities in designing
a communicative task.
Suggestions:
1. Modify our present testing system
2. Amplify teachers’ ability of designing
tasks and their knowledge of CLT
3. Put emphasis on cultivating teachers’
beliefs and showing more practical
ways in applying communicative
theories in teaching.