Design of English Course in Middle School Based on Multiple Teaching Methods

Since the establishment of the new curriculum standard, the quality of English teaching in public middle schools in China has improved. But the following problems also exist: the class is mainly teacher-centered, and focuses on vocabulary and grammar. Influenced by traditional beliefs, teachers aim to impart language knowledge through a single teaching method. It severely restricts the all-around development of students. Thus, it is proper to integrate the cognitive characteristics and learning motivation of students and the advantages of various teaching methods to design a more efficient English course. Therefore, this paper, which takes the English teaching of the sixth grade in a public middle school in Shanghai as a case, designs the English teaching course “Great Cities in Asia”, combining the theories of constructivism and behaviorism and the situational teaching method.