《英语新课程标准》指出,教学的过程是教师与学生交流互动的过程,教师要鼓励学生通过发言、实践、讨论等方式,发展听、说、读、写的综合语言技能。这就必然要求英语课堂是互动的课堂,学生积极发言是课堂互动的主要途径。本文笔者就学生在课堂上发言的状况以及如何使学生积极发言谈谈自己的浅见。笔者对初中学生在课堂上的表现做了一个问卷调查,发放问卷300份,收回300份。结果表明:70%的学生不愿意主动回答问题,怕回答错了受他人嘲笑;50% The New English Curriculum Standard states that the process of teaching is a process of interaction between teachers and students. Teachers should encourage students to develop integrated language skills for listening, speaking, reading and writing through speaking, practicing and discussing. This will inevitably require the English classroom is an interactive classroom, the students actively speaking is the main way of classroom interaction. The author of this article on the status of students speaking in the classroom and how to make students actively speak to talk about their own humble opinion. The author made a questionnaire survey on the performance of junior high school students in the classroom, distributed 300 questionnaires and retrieved 300 copies. The results show that: 70% of students are not willing to take the initiative to answer questions, afraid to answer the wrong ridicule by others; 50%