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nd learning. Then how to choose a method is quite important during different periods.
The educationists advocate a new theory that本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供 there are many teaching methods but no specific teaching method. The Situational Teaching Method is used in the elementary English teaching. To make it simple, the purpose of elementary English learning is “listening and speaking first, while reading and writing second”. In the English teaching, the educational model that is used by teachers in 40% elementary schools is the Situational Teaching Method, 80% teachers’ reply in the elementary schools is "the oral sentence pattern drill", while only 15.43% teachers’ answer in the elementary school is “the written test-like exercises"(Mei Deming, 2004.).
From this survey, the Situational Teaching Method is suitable for pupils. How to arouse students’ interests and develop their abilities is a problem needing more care. Teachers can instruct students through imitating the real scenes in order to make students use what they have learnt in their everyday lives. It can be found that pupils can benefit a lot from the Situational Teaching Method.

I. The Appearance of the Situational Teaching Method
Everything has the process of origin and development. Therefore, the Situational Teaching Method also develops step by step. Under the background of China’s reform, the Situational Teaching Method is adopted by teachers gradually.
A. The Origin of the Situational Teaching Method
The Situational Teaching Method just follows some rules of linguistics. Situational language teaching is originally called Oral Approach, which is developed by British applied linguists from the 1930’s to 1960’s(Shu Dingfang,1999.), and it has provided guidance to many well-known EFL/ESL textbooks and courses, including New Concept English written by Alexander, which is still used in China and known by almost every Chinese English learner. In fact, most books on business English are compiled according to this method too. The theory of learning underlying Situation Language Teaching Method is behaviorism, addressing more the processes, than the conditions of learning. Palmer and Hornby are the main advocator of the Situational Teaching Method(Shu Dingfang，1999.). A good scene will create a harmonious atmosphere between teachers and students, and thus achieves a satisfactory effect. The Situational Teaching Method also has solid theoretical grounds in physiology, psychology, and linguistics.
B. The Definition of the Situational Teaching Method
What is the Situational Teaching Method? It means creating and using many kinds of scenes to make students immerse themselves in the oral English environment which is abundant, natural or half-natural. Moreover, the method makes students have a direct contact with English-spoken countries’ culture. Therefore, they can本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供 receive massive language materials in the natural or artificial scenes to express the social, objective and subjective cognitions with the similar sentences so that their innermost feelings can be effectively expressed. And only under this kind of environment can the relation of the cognitions and the emotion be established. And only by this kind of means can the sentence structures be consolidated. It contains realistic scene, recollection scene, association scene, scene’s transformation and scene’s overlapping.
In overseas, the Situational Teaching Method has