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Design and Practice of Project-Based Learning in Junior High School English Reading Teaching under the Guiding Principle of Subject-Based Education

Author(s)

Xi Wang*

Affiliation(s)

Shanghai Jiading New City Experimental Middle School, Shanghai, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Transforming the concept of subject education into actionable junior high school English reading teaching practice is an important direction of the current English curriculum reform. This paper takes project-based learning as the starting point, uses the case analysis method, and selects Unit 5 Natural disasters from the second volume of the eighth grade of the Shanghai Education Edition as a research case, and constructs the design path of project-based learning from the four dimensions of excavating the entry point of education, designing driving problems, planning project tasks, and building a learning scaffold, and presents the whole process of project implementation in combination with 6 hours of teaching practice. The evaluation scale of promotional pages and the self-evaluation form of students' educational literacy were designed, and the works of 6 groups were quantitatively evaluated from four dimensions: content completeness, language accuracy, design creativity, and educational value embodiment, and the changes in educational literacy of 32 students were statistically analyzed. The results show that project-based learning can effectively stimulate students' reading motivation, promote the transfer and application of language knowledge, and naturally achieve the goal of education in the process of completing real tasks. Project-based learning is an effective way to realize subject education, providing an actionable path reference for front-line teachers to transform the concept of education into teaching practice, and has positive practical significance for promoting the transformation of English reading teaching from "knowledge-based" to "education-oriented".

Keywords

Project-Based Learning; Subject Education; Junior High School English; Reading Teaching; Shanghai Edition Textbooks

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