Abstract: Interactive teaching approach is widely used in foreign language teaching in Western    world, which aims at realizing the transformation from the traditional teacher-centered teaching method to the modern student-centered method. It advocates that students should be given more choices to take part in the classroom instruction. Through interactive teaching, the competence of students can be improved in an all-round way and the teacher’s teaching goals can be achieved efficiently. Through classroom observation, the author analyses the teacher-students interaction and students-students interaction in English teaching of junior middle school and puts forward some suggestions. In teacher-students interaction, teacher should make students prepare for class and courage students to be active. In students-students interaction, teacher should be careful for principle of partitioning a team, forms of team partion and steps of operation.

Key words:  interactive teaching; teacher-students interaction; students-students interaction 

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1.-Introduction-1

1.1.What is interactive English teaching-1

1.2.Purpose of this study-1

2.Literature review-2

2.1.Studies on interactive English teaching in foreign countries-2

2.2.Studies on interactive English teaching in our countries-2

2.3.The modes of interaction in English teaching-3

3.A case study on interactive English teaching in junior middle school-3

3.1.The interaction between teacher and students-4

3.2.The interaction between students and students-6

4. Evaluation of the interactive English teaching in junior middle school-9

4.1.Advantages of the interactive English teaching-9

4.2.Shortcomings of the interactive English teaching-10

5.Conclusion-11

Bibliography-11

Acknowledgements-12