Application of Situational Approach in Junior High School English Teaching1 IntroductionChapter one is a short introduction to the background and the significance of the research. At the same time, the structure of the thesis is also described in this chapter.1.1 Background of the Study With the rapid progress of information society and the increasing international communications, English teaching functions as a key role in education. However, in recent years, English teaching in junior high school is not satisfactory. First, some English teachers can not change their traditional teaching concepts. Most teachers always explain some knowledge points and then summarize some rules for students. Students just need to write these knowledge points down in their books and their notebooks. Students don’t need to think deeply, and just do some simple exercises according to the knowledge points on their book, which can not conducive to developing students’ independent thinking ability. That is to say, teachers are the controllers of the whole class. Besides, some teachers and parents are too fancy for scores, which will cause severe physical and psychological pressure on students. Under the circumstance of score-only theory, students are only required to pursue the improvement of their scores and even they are afraid of having the slightest retrogression. Therefore, students must do a lot of homework, having no opportunities to speak and use language to communicate with classmates. As a result, though students are learning English for many years, they still fail to use English properly in some certain situations or speak English in their daily life. Thus, in order to cultivate students’ ability to speak and u...
