TheApplicationoftheSituationalLanguageTeaching

毕业论文〔设计)The Situational Language Teaching was initiated by a group of British languageteaching specialists,such as Harold Palmer and A.S Hornby,in the 1930s and 1960s.It was called Oral Approach in early days,but Situational Language Teaching after the1950s.The main characteristics of the Situational Language Teaching are as follows:a.Language teaching begins with the spoken language.Material is taught orallybefore it is presented in written form;b.The target language is the language of the classroom;c.New language points are introduced and practiced situationally;d.Vocabulary selection procedures are followed to ensure that an essential generalservice vocabulary is covered;e.Items of grammar are graded following the principle that simple forms shouldbe taught before complex ones;f.Reading and writing are introduced once a sufficient lexical and grammaticalbasis is established.The key feature of the Situational Language Teaching is that new language pointsare introduced and practiced situationally.The term "situation",therefore,is used toreplaced the term "Oral Approach".This thesis tried to discuss the application of theSituational Language Teaching in junior middle school English teaching.2