ABSTRACT
This paper first confirms that the teaching games has had a wide range of use in primary English teaching in china and play an important role in stimulating students’ interest in learning English and raising primary students’ language application ability. It then provides game teaching research at home and abroad and its related theories: the theory of constructivism, the theory of multiple intelligence, the theory of second language acquisition and the theory of learning by doing. Then a questionnaire survey, interviews, classroom observing, case studies and other research methods are used to observe and research the status of primary school English teaching games. And though the analysis to the typical cases from a narrow selection of classroom cases, the author finds several major problems existing in the primary school English teaching games and give some suggestions mainly for the teachers, so game teaching can help the primary students learn English better !
Keywords: the primary school English; games in teaching; case study
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Game teaching research at home and abroad 3
2.1 Game teaching research abroad 3
2.2 Game teaching research in China 5
3. The theoretical basis of English teaching games 7
3.1 Constructivism 7
3.2 Multiple intelligence 8
3.3 Second language acquisition 9
3.4 Learning by doing 10
4. The survey on English teaching games in primary school 12
4.1 Objectives and subjects 12
4.2 Procedure 12
4.3 Findings of the research 15
5. Case studies and suggestions 16
5.1 Case studies 16
5.2 Suggestions 19
6. Conclusion 21
Acknowledgements 22
References 23
Appendix I 24