The Combination of the Downward Shift of the Teaching Focus and the Sublimation of the Teaching Objectives

Abstract

Current English class in China has gained great achievement, but there are still many problems in it such as the wrong emphasis of teaching focus and incomplete teaching objectives. In current English class, the teaching focus do not care about the personalized individuals’ development, which lead to negative results of English teaching. Shifting the teaching focus down to the actual learning condition of every students can guaranty the learning quality of students in English class and change students’ learning attitude for English to a positive direction. On the other hand, teaching objectives, now, are the language knowledge including vocabularies, grammar and so on, but they neglect the morality education which is significant to individuals and society. So the paper mainly focuses on the functions of the downward shift of the teaching focus, the sublimation of the teaching objectives and the combination of these two, and how to combine the downward shift of the teaching focus and the sublimation of the teaching objectives in English classes of senior high schools. First, the current problems of the teaching focuses and teaching objectives of English classes in senior high school are pointed out and proposed corresponding ways to solve these problems. Second, the view of the combination of the downward shift of the teaching focus and the sublimation of the teaching objectives is proposed including the benefits of implementing the view and the way to do it.