Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the application of nursery rhymes in primary school English teaching. And tries to present an appropriate teaching approch in order to get a better teaching effect. This study expounds the physiological and mental characteristics of primary school students, in according to which some teaching approaches and some types of nursery rhymes are summarized.

Key words: nursery rhymes; primary school students; teaching approaches

摘要：本文主要研究儿歌在小学英语教学中的应用。本文旨在用合适的教学法进行儿歌教学，取得更好的教学效果。本文首先阐述了小学生生理和心理的特征，并针对这些特征总结了适合小学生英语教学的教学法。

关键词：儿歌; 小学生; 教学法

1. Introduction
In primary school English teaching, teachers mostly focus on English word teaching instead of the real practice in daily life. Students know the meanings of words, but they can not use the word to conduct a conversation, to speak or to write a composition. What does this phenomenon result from? After inquiring some primary school teachers and observing the performance of primary school students in a primary school, it is found that is because the students do not have interests in English studying and they feel boring in English lessons.
“Essentials of Primary School English Teaching and Textbook Writing”says that interest is the essential element in language learning. It is an important task for the teachers to arouse the students’ interests in primary school English teaching. So in primary school English teaching, teachers should consider the physiological and mental characteristics of primary school students in order to arouse their interests.
Therefore, the teachers should keep working in introducing and developing new teaching methods and offering various teaching resources to the students, such as songs, nursery rhymes, stories and so on. Nursery rhymes are vivid, plain and rhymed, which can be loved by the students. It is a good resource for the students to study English.
“Shanghai English School Teaching Curriculum” comes up with a requirement that the students must recite simple Nursery thymes. Besides, English Textbook from Oxford Press also adds Nursery thymes teaching module.