在长期从事农村初中英语教学工作中,本人深切体会到英语口语教学仍然相当薄弱。农村初中学生虽然已经脱离了“哑巴英语”的时代,但是他们的英语口语学习依然存在诸多问题,导致英语口语水平仍处于不理想状况。那么,农村初中英语老师如何才能进行口语的有效教学?只有努力找出农村初中英语口语教学面临困难的症结所在,才能得出有效的口语教学策略。一、农村初中英语口语教学中存在的主要问题1.农村初中学生的口语基础薄弱 Engaged in rural junior middle school English teaching work for a long time, I deeply understand that Oral English teaching is still quite weak. Though the junior middle school students in rural areas have already departed from the era of “dumb English”, many problems still exist in their spoken English learning, which leads to the unsatisfactory oral English standard. So, how can junior middle school English teachers in rural areas carry out the effective teaching of spoken English? Only when trying hard to find out the crux of the difficulties faced in oral English teaching in rural junior high schools, can we come up with effective oral teaching strategies. First, the rural junior high school oral English teaching in the main problems 1 rural junior high school students speaking weak foundation