A Study on the Influence of Situational Teaching in Junior High School Physical Education on Students' Learning Motivation from the Perspective of Core Literacy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jnse.202517409

Author(s)

Li Wei

Affiliation(s)

Urumqi No. 41 Middle School, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China

Abstract

This study aims to explore the impact of situational teaching methods on stimulating junior high school students' motivation in physical education from the perspective of core literacy, and to provide theoretical and practical references for improving physical education teaching effectiveness. A mixed research method combining quantitative and qualitative approaches was adopted. Specifically, 600 junior high school students from 4 schools were selected as research subjects, and they were divided into an experimental group (applying situational teaching) and a control group (using traditional teaching) for a 16-week intervention experiment. During the experiment, data were collected through the Physical Education Learning Motivation Scale, classroom observation records, and semi-structured interviews. The collected data were analyzed using statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, t-tests, and analysis of variance, while qualitative data were analyzed by thematic coding. The results show that situational teaching in junior high school physical education, under the guidance of core literacy, can significantly improve students' intrinsic motivation, including interest in sports, sense of competence, and autonomous participation awareness; compared with traditional teaching methods, situational teaching has a more obvious promoting effect on students' learning motivation, especially in cultivating students' sports literacy, cooperative spirit, and problem-solving ability, which are closely related to core literacy. This study confirms that integrating situational teaching into junior high school physical education under the perspective of core literacy is an effective way to stimulate students' learning motivation and improve teaching quality.

Keywords

Core Literacy; Junior High School Physical Education; Situational Teaching; Learning Motivation; Teaching Effectiveness

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