The Application of Production-oriented Approach in Oral English Teaching for Senior High School Students: Taking the Class of "Make a Speech on Adversity" as an Example

Abstract

The Chinese education system has traditionally been textbook oriented and focuses on rote learning. Distinct drawbacks and issues from rote learning have affected Chinese students' oral English learning. Thus, there is a pedagogical shift to task-based or project-centered learning approaches in recent years, focusing on applied learning. Wen created a distinctive foreign language pedagogy known as the Production-Oriented Approach (POA). The past five years have seen research carried out on the effectiveness and applicability of POA on productive skills in university contexts. However, few applications were carried out on the on high school students. This study thus elaborates a sample oral teaching design of POA, attempting to apply POA in oral English classes at a senior high school to fully mobilizing students’ subjective initiative in learning the English language by transforming the traditional input-driven teaching into output-driven teaching.