Junior English Research Articles

Unit Assignment Design of Junior English Based on the Activity-based Approach to English Learning

Unit Assignment Design of Junior English Based on the Activity-based Approach to English Learning

The Application of Game in Junior English Vocabulary Teaching

With the form and implementation of the new curriculum, many teaching methods have gradually emerged in junior high school English teaching, and game teaching method has been widely used at this time. Game teaching method is often used in English teaching, which can be taught in games and stimulate students’ interest in learning. Traditional teaching methods cannot arouse students’ interest in learning, and the efficiency of students’ classroom learning is constantly decreasing. Game teaching method can help students to learn actively. Students need to develop their brains and think actively, so as to improve their learning and innovation ability and improve their comprehensive quality.

A Study on the Design Strategies about Unit Overall Assignment in Junior English from the Perspective of Core Competencies

A Study on the Design Strategies about Unit Overall Assignment in Junior English from the Perspective of Core Competencies

A Study on the Cultivation of Junior English Learners’ Autonomy by Using Guided-Learning Plan

A Study on the Cultivation of Junior English Learners’ Autonomy by Using Guided-Learning Plan

DESIGNING READING MATERIAL BASED ON LOCAL CULTURAL CONTENT FOR YEAR-8 STUDENTS OF PUBLIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

Communication occurs in contexts that cannot be separated from culture. Therefore, it can be claimed that culture needs to be included in language teaching and learning. The cultural content of the teaching materials then plays an important role in how culture is presented in EFL contexts, especially in textbooks. In the first of the study, we create a list of criteria from students how some class consists of several students who have different backgrounds where culture are included; religion, ethnicity, gender, and age for the analysis of cultural content in English textbooks based on student's perception and evaluation of the cultural content in textbooks. The researcher then selected a media used in junior high school to determine to what extent local cultural content is integrated into junior English textbooks and find the evaluation result of the media designed.

How to Teach Students in Junior English Writing based on Situational Teaching Method

In the process of teaching, teachers always unconsciously create a variety of situations for students. Most Chinese students lack English learning environment, so it is necessary for teachers to use situational teaching method. However, in the actual junior school English writing teaching process, most teachers use the traditional jug-and-mug teaching method, which leads teachers to ignore the dominant position of students’ learning, their learning interest and motivation to a certain extent. The paper tries to find the ways that teach students in junior English writing based on Situational Teaching Method. Despite there are some the shortcomings of this study, the author still hopes that this study will be helpful to the further study of situational teaching method.

A Discourse Analysis Based Applied Research on "Reading to Write" in Junior English Writing

Based on discourse analysis, combined with the current situation of junior high school English writing teaching, this study adopts the teaching model of "reading to write", and uses discourse analysis to assist in the structure, content, and syntax of writing, aiming to cultivate students to acquire the required discourse knowledge and use it to improve the quality of writing. Based on discourse, reading to write, combine reading and writing in English teaching, and strengthen the exercise of students' language expression ability and writing thinking.

The Current Situation and Strategies of Cultural Awareness Cultivation in Junior English Class

Language is the carrier of culture, and learning language is one of the important ways to cultivate cultural awareness. And the English class is the key to cultivate junior high school students’ cultural awareness. This paper analyzes the cultural content in the eighth grade textbook of English for junior high school published by the People’s Education Press, as well as the problems existing in the cultivation of cultural awareness in the English class, and puts forward some strategies for cultivating students’ cultural awareness in combination with the textbook, which provides an effective path for helping students to understand cultural connotation, internalize cultural content and finally practice cultural behavior.

Validating the Paraphrasing Task with the Framework of AUA

This paper aims to justify the Paraphrasing task in the Advanced English course’s final achievement test with the framework of Assessment Use Argument (AUA) and finds out the implications for classroom teaching and learning. By articulating the claims with warrants of collected evidence combining the syllabus, the students’ scores, and their answers in the questionnaire, the research shows that the Paraphrasing task is plausible for the Junior English Majors in their final test, paraphrasing practice could improve students’ reading comprehension and academic writing.

A Study on Motivational Regulation Strategies in English Acquisition of Junior English Majors

A number of previous studies in second language acquisition research motivational strategies in China, but there are scant experimental studies focusing on the group of English majors. The present study investigates motivational regulation strategies and the connections between English performance and the strategies. Participants were 107 junior English majors in Guangdong province in China. In this study, a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview are used to collect data. The main findings of this research include seven strategies: interest enhancement, performance self-talk, mastery self-talk, self-rewards, negative-based incentive, volitional control, and self-efficacy. From the codes of interview contexts, activation of digital media and multimedia needs to be seen as a useful strategy. What’s more, the results show that only negative-based incentives and self-efficacy enhancement have a significant difference in English performance. The findings can provide teachers and students with a deeper understanding of the new use of strategies in learning English as a second language acquisition.

Study on the Hierarchical Design Strategy of Junior English Homework from the Perspective of Double Reduction

Study on the Hierarchical Design Strategy of Junior English Homework from the Perspective of Double Reduction

多模态模式在初中英语阅读教学中的设计研究——以第十三届全国初中英语观摩课大赛作品为例

多模态模式在初中英语阅读教学中的设计研究——以第十三届全国初中英语观摩课大赛作品为例

A Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of English Writing Teaching for Junior English Majors

At present, the effectiveness of English writing teaching for junior English majors is not satisfactory, with a lack of interactivity in the classroom, inflexible teaching methods, a deficiency of targeted teaching for students’ problems, and insufficient emphasis on writing training. The main reasons for these problems are that teachers have failed to conduct the student-centered English writing teaching model, emphasizing one-way output, ignoring students’ writing problems, and resulting in the shortage of writing training. In this regard, teachers need to transform the teacher-centered English writing teaching model, consider students’ actual problems, establish common writing goals, construct online teaching resources for English writing course, and apply multi-modal writing teaching methods to boost the effectiveness of English writing teaching.

On the Current Situation of the Selection of PEP Junior English Textbook Illustrations

On the Current Situation of the Selection of PEP Junior English Textbook Illustrations

A Hybrid Collaborative Project- Based Course for Developing 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement and Attitude towards PBL among Gen Z Junior English Major Student Teachers

A Hybrid Collaborative Project- Based Course for Developing 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement and Attitude towards PBL among Gen Z Junior English Major Student Teachers

A Study on the Current Situation and Optimization Path of Junior English Majors' English Writing

A Study on the Current Situation and Optimization Path of Junior English Majors' English Writing

Case Study of Narrative Text Transitivity System in Junior English Teaching Materials

Case Study of Narrative Text Transitivity System in Junior English Teaching Materials

Reading Strategies for Junior English Teaching

Reading is a dynamic process in which the reader and the text interact and construct meaning together. More and more junior high school English teachers and students have begun to pay attention to the importance of English reading and put forward higher requirements for students' English reading ability. Studying the reading habits and reading strategies of junior high school students and cultivating students to master reading strategies is a very important issue in the current junior high school English teaching, which has very important practical significance. This paper discusses reading strategies for junior English teaching, designs reading training methods for different teaching stages, and discusses the functions and characteristics of three learning modes to improve students' English reading ability and self-learning ability. Through the use of different learning modes, according to the students' personal abilities and personality characteristics, we can mobilize their enthusiasm and initiative, stimulate their interest in English reading, and achieve practical quality-oriented teaching.

Capability of non-English-speaking countries for securing a foothold in international journal publishing

• Most growth journals in eight countries were positioned at lower levels. • No significant differences in the average age of growth journals were identified between countries. • Journal rank percentage is a more useful indicator for measuring a journal's performance than JIF. • The findings of this study challenge the stereotype regarding the low position and competitiveness of JCR journals owned by non-English-speaking countries. This study examined the development of English-language journals indexed by the database of Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and owned by six non-English-speaking countries (China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy, and Spain) and four countries where English is an official national language (Australia, Canada, India, and Singapore) over a 21-year period. Four types of journals were identified based on changes in journal impact factor (JIF) and rank percentage per year. The results suggest that “growth” journals with trends of increasing JIF and rank percentage outnumbered other types of journals for each country and were not concentrated in particular subject categories. Over half of the growth journals in eight countries were positioned at Q3 and Q4 levels. No significant differences in the average age of growth journals were identified between countries. Although China possessed the highest percentage of growth journals, its journals with the highest growth were at the Q4 level. This study concluded that China and South Korea should monitor their development of JCR journals due to their faster improvement in the average annual rank percentage per growth journal. One limitation is that a considerable proportion of junior English journals were not analyzed in this study.

Orthographic and Phonological Features of Japanese Junior English Textbooks

Orthographic and Phonological Features of Japanese Junior English Textbooks