Study on Implementation Methods for Children's English Classroom Teaching in China

Abstract

Teaching children is quite different from teaching adults in that children are physically active, enthusiastic and mentally curious and inquisitive. Therefore, it is demanding to teach children English. Based on an observation of an English class for 6-10-year-old children given by a young teacher Miss Li, this paper attempts to explore the possible ways to conduct a successful English class for kids in terms of form, means, procedure and teaching methods. An open interview is carried out to find out what her teaching philosophy or belief is. In conducting a successful English class for children, the teacher needs to consider the question of form, means, procedure and course programming, which are the teaching model advocated by Ji Jianguo (2007). The result indicates that some teaching methods are proffered in children’s English class. They are Total Physical Response, the Grammar-Translation Method, Community Language Learning and the Direct Method.