English is one of the main subjects in middle school education and it is also a subject for teaching language that requires high involvement both on teachers and students. However, the traditional teacher‐centered teaching model only emphasizes teacher's teaching while ignoring students' learning. In this kind of teaching situation, students accept knowledge passively, which is not helpful in stimulating students' interest in English learning, but also in improving students' comprehensive ability. As an effective teaching way, the situational language teaching method enables new language focus to be demonstrated and practiced through meaningful situational activities by creating vivid situations. It is not only meets the requirements of context in English teaching, but also conforms to the guidance of the English curriculum reform and standards. Using situational language teaching method in class can bring many benefits for both students and teachers but it also have some deficiencies in English teaching. Based on the concept and principles of situational language teaching method, this paper mainly discusses the effective values and disadvantages of it.