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Vietnam universities have experienced remarkable changes brought about by their internationalization policies. The switch to English as a medium of instruction (EMI) for some academic programs was one of these critical changes. Literature has reported numerous issues related to EMI, including inadequate language proficiency of teaching staff. This paper looks at a qualitative research study on how a government university from Vietnam employs different strategies to enhance teachers’ English proficiency. The study reveals that the introduction of new supporting systems, assessment bodies, recruitment criteria and institutional strategies on training, monitoring and motivation have created cultural change within the teacher community. This cultural change, which includes elements such as self-directed learning, peer learning, professionalism, and ‘open-to-change’ attitudes, has been perceived by both leaders and teachers to be conducive to teachers’ language learning. The findings presented in this paper seek to contribute to the formulation or adjustment of policies related to educational reforms, such as curriculum reform, teacher recruitment and teacher professional development in non-English-speaking countries. 相似文献
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Recent accounts of college-level English language teaching in China describe environments that, although constrained by the College English Test (CET), are undergoing changes in a number of curriculum areas, including recognition of the need to incorporate communicative approaches and the assessment of practical language abilities. In such times, tensions between the needs and desires of society, teaching institutions, teachers and students are inevitable. In this article, we report on a study involving a group of university English teachers from across China who attended a professional development programme in Beijing in the summer of 2006. We explored the experiences of 83 teachers in their working environments, using four one-page reflective frames, which we distributed at regular intervals during the 2-week programme. Teachers described tensions between the need to achieve socially-oriented and subject-centred goals, such as passing examinations and developing communicative competence (“teaching the book”), and their desire to bring about enduring personal changes in students' awareness of themselves as learners and their approaches to learning (“educating the person”). Like colleagues in other countries and contexts, they faced ongoing challenges in trying to harmonize students' needs, curriculum obligations, and their own theories of best practice. 相似文献
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Learning from curriculum materials: Scaffolds for new teachers? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This article explores how beginning teachers use and learn from curriculum materials. As part of a longitudinal study of beginning English teachers who teach in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, the researchers tracked teachers’ responses to and use of materials over time, and how these materials shaped their classroom practice. The authors found that the teachers spent an enormous amount of time searching out curriculum materials for their classes and that the curriculum materials they encountered did, indeed, powerfully shape their ideas about teaching language arts as well as their classroom practice. Based on their findings, the authors propose a trajectory for the teachers’ use of the curriculum materials. New teachers begin by sticking close to the materials they have at hand. Then, over time, as they learn more about both students and curriculum, they adapt and adjust their use of the materials. The authors argue that new and aspiring teachers need opportunities to analyze and critique curriculum materials, beginning during teacher education and continuing in the company of their more experienced colleagues. 相似文献
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This article reports a study on the China-Canada-United States English Immersion (CCUEI) Moral Education and Social Studies
(MESS) curriculum materials for elementary classes (Grades 3–6) with the aim of learning how the curriculum addressed the
dual goals of MESS content and English language learning. An analysis comparing the CCUEI third grade MESS textbook with an
equivalent level Chinese textbook demonstrates how China’s national standards in MESS and English education can be met, and
drawbacks encountered in the process. The CCUEI textbook was found to embrace grade level MESS content standards, but showed
a varied degree of depth of content across standards. The textbook addressed all of the general goals of Level One English
language learning (Grades 3–4) and most of the language skills indicators (16 out of 20). An additional in-depth teacher survey
provided a user’s perspective on MESS materials. The teachers rated the textbook highly for its activity-centered format and
knowledge-rich content. They emphasized the importance of teaching English language as preparation for the MESS content teaching,
and asked for more systematic support in language teaching from curriculum materials. 相似文献
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英文词典是学生学习英语不可缺少的工具书，词典运用策略是语言学习认知策略的一个重要方面。文章通过调查问卷，对中南大学部分非英语专业大学生英语学习中词典运用的频率、策略以及任课教师在学生词典使用策略方面的指导进行了调查。期待调查结果有助于大学英语教师了解目前学生词典使用的现状，从而指导学生更好、更充分地利用词典，搞好大学英语学习。 相似文献
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学习风格显示了学习者如何感知学习环境及其与学习环境的相互作用。在建构主义教学所设置的学习环境中,语言学习是建议性的而不是规定性的,学生需要随时对学习活动和学习目标进行调整。仅仅设计课内语言教学是远远不够的,教师要充分利用网络技术和学习软件拓宽课堂空间,设计知识链接节点,为学生创建充分的语言实践环境。利用高校校园网络创建校园英语学习平台可以包括语言基础、语言功能、语言运用、语言文化等内容,将语言实践设计为有趣的游戏或有目的性的任务。学生根据各自不同的学习需求、不同的学习风格实践不同内容的语言。 相似文献
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在语言学和英语教学理论不断更新的今天,如何对中学英语教师进行继续教育,是当前师资继续教育亟需解决的新课题。中学英语教师均已受过正规的8评议训练,具有独立的分析能力,喜欢课堂交际,对继续教育有明确的个人目标。根据中学英语教师的这些特点,在继续教育的课程开发中,过程模式,任务型教学大纲和内容型教学大纲更加适合中学教师的需求,因为学习者在解决问题和学习各种理论知识的同时锻炼了评议的实际运用能力,提高了教学和科研能力,在教学大纲的实施中,须贯彻八项原则:1.教学现场相结合;2.理论与教学实践相结合;3.解决中学教学中的难点;4.课堂交流与讲解并重,鼓励学员在课堂上进行讲座;5.内容学习和言语学习并重;6.与现代化教学手段接轨;7.注重能力的培养;8.鼓励创造性的学习。 相似文献
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Sally Findlow 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2006,27(1):19-36
This paper examines the spread of English as a medium of higher education in the Arab world, addressing questions about the relationship between higher education, language shift and cultural (re)production through such post‐colonial educational bilingualism. Drawing on exploratory ethnographic research, it documents how both Arabic and English have been implicated in the re‐configuring of collective identities through mass higher education in one Arab Gulf country against a context of rapid modernisation with a regional undercurrent of recurrent pan‐Arab and Islamist‐tinged nationalism. It examines how far the resulting linguistic‐cultural dualism amounts to a loss of linguistic–cultural diversity, and how far there is a linguistically‐framed discourse of resistance to such a process. Theoretically, the paper engages with discourses relating to socio‐cultural reproduction, collective identity, educational standardisation, change and cultural chauvinism, and markets. It offers insights into the potential for both language and higher education to act as tools or fields for cultural transformation and for resistance identity construction. 相似文献
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英语新课程标准与高师英语教学 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
桂荷莲 《新乡师范高等专科学校学报》2004,18(2):92-95
英语教育专业应及时转变教育思想,更新教学理念,转换教师角色,制定新的培养标准,优化课程结构,培养高素质人才,以便更好地服务基础教育。 相似文献
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John Yandell’s The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading Literature in Urban Classrooms provides a powerful counterpoint to current policy discourse in education. By focusing on the social interactions that occur in the classrooms of two English teachers, Yandell shows how their pupils are able to explore dimensions of language and experience that far exceed the outcomes prescribed by official curriculum documents. This is because their teachers conceive of reading as a social activity in which everyone can participate. Yandell thereby affirms the value of a literary education as an integral part of an educational project that is genuinely democratic and inclusive. 相似文献
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Past research on new teacher induction has focused on changes in retention. Keeping people in the profession is important, but new teachers may need help in learning about curriculum and students in order to be effective instructional leaders. New teachers may also need assistance in learning how to interact with colleagues. We asked new teachers through an on‐line survey what they learned from mentors about curriculum, student diversity and collegiality. In addition, achievement gains of classes taught by new teachers and experienced teachers were compared. The results of the study are discussed in terms of implications for teacher training, organizational change, and data usage by districts. 相似文献
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《The Internet and Higher Education》2010,13(4):179-187
Facebook (FB) is currently considered as the most popular platform for online social networking among university students. The purpose of this study is to investigate if university students consider FB as a useful and meaningful learning environment that could support, enhance and/or strengthen their learning of the English language. A survey was carried out with 300 undergraduate students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang. It was found that the students believed FB could be utilized as an online environment to facilitate the learning of English. Nevertheless, teachers or language instructors have to integrate FB as an educational project with pre-determined learning objectives and outcomes for the learning experience to be meaningful. It is suggested that future research should focus on the meaningfulness of FB to students' language learning experiences. 相似文献
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邵秀琴 《南昌教育学院学报》2012,(4):110-111
随着高中新课程实验的不断深入,新式的高中英语教学模式也在不断的探索与改革当中。如何引领学生爱学英语,如何在课堂中培养学生的自主学习能力,如何在语言学习中扩展学生知识领域,陶冶他们的情操,成为了每位高中英语教师及教育研究工作者探究的方向。本文重点强调了教师自身魅力的重要性、教材处理的艺术性、CAI课件运用的灵活性及人文关怀的必要性。 相似文献
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Phillip A. Towndrow 《Asia Pacific Journal of Education》2004,24(1):105-116
Recent educational reforms in China are placing increasing emphasis on the integration of new technologies in the English language curriculum. At the same time, a debate has begun concerning the effectiveness of Information Technology (IT) usage in transforming language pedagogy in the Chinese context. In response to points made in the discussions published to date, this paper describes an attempt to instill new ways of viewing the potential of IT with a group of practicing teachers studying for a Post‐graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching in Singapore. End‐of‐course survey data were used to identify what the trainees found surprising about the course. This method uncovered some of their hopes and fears about using IT in their future classes and provided clues as to how to bring about positive learning outcomes with IT. Discussion of the results shows that Chinese teachers share similar challenges as their counterparts in the West when it comes to using IT for the first time. The paper ends with a string of suggestions about how to begin the process of innovation with IT, both in and beyond China. 相似文献
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以需求分析为理论依据,以非英语专业本科大二学生为对象,调查了他们的英语学习需求情况以及对当前大学英语教学的满意度情况,发现学生英语学习中存在的问题以及大学英语教学与学生期望之间的差距,提出教师应通过优化课堂教学、加强学生的语言输出实践和学习策略的培养、优化课程设置来满足学生的英语学习需求,增强他们的学习兴趣和动机,提高他们的语言交际能力和应用能力。 相似文献
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Picture books, when used thoughtfully and artfully, can teach theories to graduate students in literacy and foreign language education. In this article, the authors described how a pair of picture books is used to teach Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development and Krashen's Input Hypothesis in the fields of literacy education and applied linguistics. The authors first introduced the theoretical foundation and rationale of using picture books as paired texts to teach educational theories. Then, from a macroperspective, they described the procedures of designing a class activity with paired picture books. Next, they provided language teachers and educators with a specific sample in which materials, objective, and specific instructional steps are clearly listed. In the end, the authors explained how the article contributes to the field from three perspectives: first, it offers a helpful strategy to language educators who make instruction of theories to graduate students easier; second, it provides insights to language and content area teachers on teaching across the curriculum by using picture books; third, it suggests how teachers can pair other learning mediators with picture books to improve student learning. 相似文献
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Sally Tweddle 《English in Education》1997,31(2):5-13
The initial observations of English teachers that computers have the potential to support collaboration, creativity, independent learning, subversion and reflection have been confirmed by fifteen years of work in the field, as have early concerns that computers could be used to direct inappropriate activities. Questions about the role of the teacher, the function of the computer, as well as the nature of pupils' learning when using IT, are now much better understood. Yet changes in the educational context within which English teachers are working, new understandings engendered by major curriculum projects and developments in the technologies themselves have brought about a shift in understanding of the significance of IT and its impact on the English curriculum. This paper shows how publications from the NATEMCET stable reflect the emergence of the field of English and IT. 相似文献
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在学前教育深化改革、提高质量、以游戏为基本活动的背景下,语言游戏应成为幼儿园语言教育的重要形式。本文通过问卷调查法和访谈法,采用分层随机抽样方法,对浙江省丽水、宁波、温州、杭州等不同城市不同等级的8所幼儿园的193位教师进行了深入调查。结果发现:幼儿园教师普遍认同语言游戏的重要教育价值,公办园和民办园之间认知差异不显著;语言游戏开展类型以口语类和语言动作类为主;存在的主要问题是语言游戏总体上开展频率不高,且以教师主导为主,幼儿自主开展频率低。其原因主要在于:教育行政部门以及幼儿园对语言游戏重视不够;现有相关研究、资料和教育培训不足;教师对语言游戏本质特征和指导要点存在严重误解。建议教育管理部门重视语言游戏的价值,并加强宣传和建立保障机制,引起幼儿园重视;加大对专家学者从事语言游戏理论和实证研究的支持力度;加快组织相关人员整理开发经典、丰富、新颖的语言游戏案例资源;加强对幼儿园教师语言游戏相关教育培训。 相似文献
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Susie Russak 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2016,20(11):1188-1203
The study of additional languages is mandatory for all pupils in most European countries. Usually, the first foreign language is English. This is due to the status of English as a global language. According to inclusion laws, pupils with special educational needs (SEN) should be taught in regular classes with support services by teachers with special education training. Often, however, foreign language teachers lack training and do not know how to adapt teaching methods for pupils with SEN in the regular language learning class. In this study, 109 elementary school teachers filled out questionnaires examining practices and attitudes about inclusion of pupils with SEN in the English as a foreign language (EFL) class in Israel. Findings indicated that pupils with SEN are included in regular EFL classes, taught with the same materials as the class, usually by teachers with no specialised training and no teaching assistants. Teachers are not always encouraged to take in-service courses on how to teach these pupils. No significant difference were found between teachers with and without special education training regarding inclusion practices, but slight differences were found with regards to attitudes towards inclusion of pupils with SEN. The majority of teachers felt that pupils with SEN should be taught in special education settings with specialised materials, and not in the regular education class. These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of inclusion laws and language learning policies. 相似文献