But as we all know, according to the scientific theory, if we don’t use what we have learned, we will forget them quickly, especially language. Then learning will be interrupted, and the initiative will be weakened. So, as teachers, the most important thing to do is to solve the problem, by creating a language circumstance, stimulating their initiative in learning English.
I will discuss about how to create a language circumstance for the students.
As we all know, circumstance is very important in influencing people’s life and personality. And also, it is important in learning language. Many scholars, experts and teachers hold the same view. We learn our mother language mostly by feeling, imitating and using. First, we feel the existence of the mother language, and then imitate the pronunciation and intonation from our parents or other people. We imitate how to use different sentences in different situations. The ultimate goal of language teaching is to enable the students to use the foreign language in work or life when necessary. So after imitating we learned, then we begin to use it in real life. We communicate with others in our mother tongue; we use it to express ourselves, to understand others. Thus, we control the language. It is obvious that, language circumstance is very important. Learning second language is not exceptive. So some people think that to learn foreign language must go abroad. Stay at the foreign country for one or half-year, you can sure speak their language. Of course that’s right. But practically, we find it unfeasible, at least cannot become common. Because there is only a few people have the chance to go aboard. So the most important thing to do is to create a language circumstance for the learners at home.
In china, most of the foreign language learners are students in primary or middle school. Therefore，as teachers we should create a good English language circumstance for the students. It becomes the most important thing.
In light of many research works and a lot of books and documents, there are many scholars and teachers who have started to work over on the subject, among which some acquired achievements.
The creation of English language circumstance is very useful to the learners of second language. Though the second language is different with their mother tongues, they will certainly learn it easily if they can read, listen to or speak it more. And yet, the way to creating a language circumstance is various but not static.
2. The Creation of Class Circumstance
As we just said, the only time for the students to contact English is the 40 or 45 minutes in their English class. So the classroom management is very important. The efficiency of a class will decide the students’ English level someway or other. Consequently, a good teacher will try his /her best to improve the efficiency of his/her class. Then, how to create the circumstance in the class? Many people think the best way to learn English is to speak English as often as one can. But we don't have such English circumstance, what shall we do? Some listen to English radios every day to improve their listening ability. And sometimes they watch American films that they are interested in. In the class, we also try our best to give them a good circumstance to improve their speaking and listening to English, so that they can communicate fluently.