introduction

The New Curriculum Standards for Moral Education have put forward new requirements for middle school English listening and speaking teaching. Currently, there are five major problems in teaching: teachers lack sufficient exploration of listening text themes, neglect the creation of real situations, students have insufficient listening input and single activities, lack effective strategy guidance, students have weak ability to express their thoughts and emotions in English, and teachers focus too much on language accuracy and neglect the appropriateness of pronunciation and expression.

Exploring the Approach to Conducting Middle School English Listening and Speaking Teaching Based on Theme Meaning

Explored how to design and implement teaching activities based on thematic meaning exploration in middle school English listening and speaking teaching. Firstly, teachers need to conduct in-depth analysis of the textbook, clarify the discourse theme and content, design listening and speaking activities from shallow to deep, and guide students to explore the meaning of the theme. Next, teachers should provide necessary teaching scaffolds based on students' developmental levels, such as situational scaffolds, language scaffolds, and strategic scaffolds, to help students understand and apply language. Situational scaffolding activates students' knowledge by creating relevant contexts, laying the foundation for language and cultural background knowledge. Language scaffolding helps students construct information structure maps and semantic vocabulary networks through continuous language input and imitation examples, promoting oral expression. The strategy framework guides students to use effective strategies in listening and speaking activities to improve listening and speaking effectiveness. The textbook provides students with opportunities to practice these scaffolds through multimodal discourse and rich learning activities, aiming to enhance their listening and speaking abilities and practical language application skills.

Exploring the Teaching Practice of Middle School English Listening and Speaking Based on Theme Meaning

Through the teaching case of Unit 5 Fantastic Friends in the first semester of Grade 7 of the Foreign Language Research Edition's English (New Standard), this paper demonstrates how to enhance students' listening and speaking abilities through multidimensional frameworks such as context, language, and strategy. The teaching revolves around the theme of "Animals are human's fantastic friends", guiding students to understand the diversity of animals and their relationship with humans through three sub themes: Amazing animals, Helpful animals, and Protect animals, and enhancing awareness of animal protection. The teaching activity path includes the construction of situational scaffolding, such as activating student experience, sharing textbook illustrations, and introducing working animals; The construction of language scaffolds, such as guiding students to describe animals through questions, providing dialogue turn demonstrations, and practicing phonetic imitation; The construction of strategic frameworks, such as pre listening prediction and oral communication strategy guidance. These brackets help students improve their listening and speaking abilities while understanding the topic.

Teaching Reflection

Students perceive and acquire language through listening and speaking teaching in real-life situations, and their cognition is enhanced through exploring thematic meanings; Listening and speaking strategy guidance enhances understanding and expression skills; The language framework of textbooks promotes students' communication, but it needs to enhance their confidence; Teachers should optimize language scaffolds, increase the frequency of reproducing language structures, and promote students' proficiency in language use.

conclusion

Teachers should delve into the discourse, design listening and speaking activities centered on the theme, create real-life situations, and promote students' language integration learning. At the same time, teachers need to guide students in listening and speaking strategies to enhance their understanding and expression abilities. The Foreign Language Research Press English textbook selects authentic materials around the theme, and teachers should utilize the advantages of the textbook to guide students in developing core competencies through theme exploration.