Abstract: 

     The English Homework is an extension of knowledge understanding and a way to help students to develop their abilities. In 2011, the Ministry of Education published the New Curriculum Standard, which gives more guidance to English teaching and describes more things than before. Under the new curriculum, many positive changes have taken place in teaching in recent years. But it has little effect on English homework. Though some research topics related to English homework have been paid attention to, these researches are not so systemic, comprehensive and in-depth. It is known that homework is a good way to test teacher’s teaching and a good way to get feed-back, so the study about homework is of great importance. Based on the analysis of researches on homework at home and abroad, this thesis uses questionnaire, interview and literature review to study the current situation of junior middle school’s English homework. Questionnaire is designed for Longquanyi No.7 Middle School’s students while the interview is prepared for 12 teachers. This paper is mainly about the time needed for students to finish English homework, purpose, form, delights, correcting methods and so on. After analyzing the results of questionnaire and interviews, I will give some suggestions to English teachers, such as enriching the forms and content, assigning English homework at a appropriate quantity, assigning different English homework to different students, correcting homework in various ways and so on. These suggestions can improve the current situation of English homework; help students to meet the requirements of new curriculum standard;  make parents, teachers and students pay more attention to English homework; test teacher’s teaching much more better and to get better feedback.

Key words: Junior school students; English Homework; current situation; suggestions

Content

摘要：

Abstract:

Chapter One Introduction-1

1.1 Background of the Survey-1

1.2 Questions of the survey-1

1.3 Significance of the survey-2

1.3.1 Adapt to the requirements of the new standards-2

1.3.2 Alleviate burdens on students and increase efficiency-2

1.3.3 Change the current situation of English homework-2

Chapter Two Literature Review-3

2.1 Definition of the Key Terms-3

2.1.1 Homework-3

2.1.2 Junior High School English Homework-3

2.2 Previous Studies on Homework at Home and Abroad-4

2.2.1Studies on Homework Abroad-4

2.2.2 Studies on Homework at Home-5

Chapter Three Current Situation of English Homework—The Survey Based on Students-6

3.1 Research Questions-6

3.2 Participants-6

3.3 Questionnaire-7

3.4 Data Analysis-8

3.4.1 Views on forms and contents of junior middle school English homework-8

3.4.2 Views on the amount of junior middle school English homework-9

3.4.3 Views on the difficulty of middle school English homework-10

3.4.4 Views on the validity of junior middle school English homework-10

3.4.5 Views on evaluation of junior middle school English homework-11

3.4.6 Views on the purpose of junior middle school English homework-12

3.4.7 Views on English homework's consideration to the needs and differences of students-13

Chapter Four Interview-14

4.1. Outline of the Interview-14

4.2. Methods of the Interview-15

4.3 Interviewees of the Interview-15

4.4 Interview Results and Analysis-15

4.4.1 The main factors which are taken into account by teachers when they assign and design homework-15

4.4.2Main forms and main sources of English homework-16

4.4.3 Factors that have an impact on students ' completion of homework-16

4.4.4 Teachers' correcting means to English homework-17

Chapter Five Conclusions and Suggestions-17

5.1 Major Findings-17

5.2 Suggestions-18

5.2.1 Enrich contents and forms of English homework-18

5.2.2The amount of English homework should be appropriately-18

5.2.3 Difficulty of homework should be appropriate-19

5.2.4 Pay attention to students ' needs-19

5.2.5 Correcting means of English homework should be diversified-20

Appendix 1 -20

Appendix 2 -22

Bibliography-23