Dr. Li Ruyun, who returned to China with the phonetic code in 2000, did not immediately put into large-scale commercial operation. In Li Ruyun's view, the best way to test the effect of a new thing is to keep trying and verifying. Therefore, in this case, Li Ruyun needs a suitable platform to verify the efficiency, practicability and reliability of phonographic cryptography through a lot of practice.
Ma, principal of Yongding Central Primary School in Mentougou, located in the urban-rural fringe, said. She was still crying when she looked back on the school a few years ago. Yongding Central School is located in the urban-rural fringe. Compared with other urban schools, Yongding Central School is a typical backward education area in terms of campus construction, teaching equipment and other hardware, as well as the quality of students and teachers and other software. "Among the students, 46.2% are children of floating population, and there are only 1 1 English teachers in 68 classes, including 6 non-English major teachers. The school's self-test English pass rate is only 13.2%, and the excellent rate is only 2.3%. " At that time, English courses in central schools were short, English teaching experience and teachers were relatively scarce, and students lacked English learning environment. These congenital defects are undoubtedly three mountains in front of Ma and his colleagues. However, the traditional English teaching mode can no longer meet the learning needs of students in knowledge, ability and emotion. They urgently need to find a new teaching mode to let students directly enter the foreign language situation and think and communicate in a foreign language.
By chance, Ma and his colleagues came into contact with active English. After listening to Dr. Li Ruyun's report, President Ma immediately made a decision, and both sides quickly reached an agreement that Mentougou Yongding Central School would carry out a comprehensive English curriculum reform and adopt active English teaching methods. On the other hand, take active English as the teaching experimental point, train English teachers and English volunteers in the whole school, and cooperate with the school to carry out all-round English teaching reform. For English teaching in primary schools, the most important goal is to stimulate students' interest in learning English through correct and effective methods, cultivate students' enthusiasm and self-confidence, and enable students to have a certain sense of language and a good foundation of pronunciation and intonation, and learn to communicate in English every day. This goal coincides with the teaching concept of active English. Through the pre-training of the activity English team, the teachers in the school gradually understand the connotation of activity English: activity English is an advanced English learning method based on "phonetic code" and teaching system. Specifically, patent phonetics is the core of active English, and teaching methods, teaching methods and teaching styles are all applications developed around phonetics. Under this guiding ideology, English teachers and active English teams have carefully designed a scientific and operable training platform, which breaks through the grammatical difficulties and provides students with the possibility to quickly master various English grammars, sentence patterns and tenses. The school also creates a learning environment for students to practice and use English. Starting with speaking and reading, guide students to complete the whole process of English skill training and master English expression skills in interesting and independent interactive situations. Active English has found a way for students to learn without relying on international phonetic symbols, foreign teachers and language environment, which is what schools like Mentougou Yongding Central Primary School are looking for.
During several years of English teaching reform, active English teams and school teachers are constantly undergoing tests and constantly adjusting their directions. How to stimulate the enthusiasm of underachievers? How to keep children excited about learning continuously? How to find a balance between exam-oriented education and skill training? ..... This series of problems followed, testing teachers, testing students and testing active English.
The data is boring, but the data is the most convincing. Comparing the data before Active English entered Yongding Central Primary School, it is hard to believe that the two sets of data came from the same school. Before the introduction of active English, the passing rate and excellent rate of English in Yongding Central Primary School were 10.2% and 2.3% respectively. After the introduction of active English, the pass rate and excellent rate have made a qualitative leap, reaching 56% and 35% in one fell swoop. By May 2004, the pass rate reached 80% and the excellent rate reached an unprecedented 55%. In the unified monitoring of English in the whole region, the average score, excellent rate and passing rate were the first. More importantly, students of Yongding Central Primary School still show strong competitiveness in English learning after entering middle school. Students who have entered Yuzhong branch and Xinzhong Hongzhi class with three excellent students have always been among the best in English learning. The school is still the same school, the teachers are still the same school, and the students are still from migrant workers and peasant families, but the miracle happened inadvertently in two years. Besides the changes in data, what makes action english team happy is the feedback from teachers and students. For students who once regarded English learning as an arduous task, phonetic codes let them experience the fun of learning English and gain a sense of accomplishment.
Because of active English, the fate of Mentougou Yongding Central Primary School has been changed, and students have changed from "want me to learn" to "I want to learn", and their English scores have been greatly improved; The school was also approved as the first batch of national experimental schools for English teaching because of its outstanding achievements in English teaching reform. In the process of teaching curriculum reform in Yongding Central Primary School in Mentougou, active English has encountered various problems, constantly improved and gradually enriched, and finally completed the transformation from technology to products and from theory to practice.
I have studied active English for seven years and practiced it for ten years. This seems incredible to the outside world, but active English is enjoyable. Learning English actively doesn't want to change his pace. He needs to stick to himself and walk firmly on the road of English training for children, which is full of temptation but easy to get lost.