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Examination is important for almost all the learners involved in the education process. It is also a means to measure teaching effect. The learners want to know how well they are doing, and the teachers want to know how the teachers are succeeding in their job. But in some countryside primary schools, a complete operating system has not been worked out. The examination requirement there is lower than in city primary schools. And its examination only includes words and sentences reading or a simple dialogue making between teacher and learner or among all the learners. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com In some countryside primary schools, the English examination is so simple that the learners can pass it easily. To a certain extent, English teaching becomes a mere formality. Under this condition, the teachers do not take a correct attitude towards their teaching. They neglect English alphabet teaching, which is the basis of English teaching. Because they think the English alphabet will be taught again in junior middle school. But the learners will be influenced by this kind of negative attitude, and so does their English learning in the future. According to Keith Johnson (2002) examination controls over what goes in classroom. So in countryside primary schools, the suitable examination system should be worked out by education department to avoid this kind of wrong attitudes. 内容来自www.paper51.com 4. Measures for improvement 内容来自www.paper51.com 4.1 Pronunciation teaching copyright paper51.com 4.1.1 Classification of pronunciation 内容来自www.paper51.com
We can divide the English alphabet into four groups in natural order: 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com The first group: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg paper51.com The second group: Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn 内容来自www.paper51.com The third group: Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt paper51.com The forth group: Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz copyright paper51.com The Chinese alphabet also contains these groups, so it will help the learners remember the order of the alphabet. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com In another way, we can divide the English alphabet into seven groups according to their pronunciations: 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
The first group: Aa, Hh, Jj, Kk copyright paper51.com
The second group: Bb, Ee, Cc, Dd, Pp, Tt, Vv 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
The third group: Uu, Qq, Ww 内容来自www.paper51.com The forth group: Ff, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ss, Xx, Zz 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com The fifth group: Ii, Yy copyright paper51.com The sixth group: Oo http://www.paper51.com The seventh group: Rr copyright paper51.com We can find a same phoneme through these seven groups group. The same phoneme in first group is [ei], in the second group is [i:], in the third group is [ju:], in the forth group is [e], in the fifth group is [ai], in the sixth group is [әu], in the seventh group is [a:]. These groups will help the learners memorize English alphabet pronunciation. Certainly, this method is just one of the good methods, there are still some better methods for teachers. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com |