The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critica...The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.展开更多
There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways t...There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.展开更多
With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English tea...With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English teaching is an important task. Therefore, it is very important to study the teaching strategies of college English teaching. Culture and language are complementary and inseparable, which requires us to carry out cultural teaching during English teaching process. In this paper, we focus on the strategy of integrating enterprise cultures into college English teaching, and discuss several cultural teaching problems in college English class. As a language required course, English not only strengthen the learners’ language skills, but also enhance humanistic quality of students. However, current college English teaching takes the examination as the goal, which cannot meet the needs of the learner’s professional stuff. We propose the strategy of integrating the professional background into English teaching, in order to improve the students’ ability of comprehensive application of English and the professional quality.展开更多
In recent years,with the reform of the educational system and the introduction of new curriculum standards,the teaching quality of physical education in middle schools has greatly improved.The education industry in Ch...In recent years,with the reform of the educational system and the introduction of new curriculum standards,the teaching quality of physical education in middle schools has greatly improved.The education industry in China is now in a phase of high-quality development.In order to further enhance the effect of middle school physical education,it is necessary to strengthen the discussion on teaching strategies.Taking this as the starting point,this paper summarizes the importance of middle school physical education under the background of the new curriculum,analyzes the current teaching situation,and on this basis,proposes several strategies to enhance the teaching effect from three aspects:core literacy,student subject,and information technology.展开更多
As a traditional musical instrument,the guzheng holds a very important status in the Chinese traditional culture.In recent years,with the increase of opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between the West and Ch...As a traditional musical instrument,the guzheng holds a very important status in the Chinese traditional culture.In recent years,with the increase of opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between the West and China,guzheng is rapidly favored in the foreign music circle.As the main institute for cultivating high-level talents in the society,the academic discipline of music in various universities should actively promote the education reform of gxizheng based on the new curriculum reform combined with innovations and modifications of the national instrumental music teaching model to efficiently teach guzheng.展开更多
The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum stand...The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum standards" and pay attention to the importance of English writing instruction,guide and organize students to do English writing to train and improve students' writing skills and to improve their writing instruction effectiveness.展开更多
This paper is mainly discussing about the significance of the Living Educational Theory Action Research raised by Dr. Jack Whitehead, also it gives a clear distinction between traditional AR Theory and that in the LET...This paper is mainly discussing about the significance of the Living Educational Theory Action Research raised by Dr. Jack Whitehead, also it gives a clear distinction between traditional AR Theory and that in the LETAR. Because of the distinctive features like "individual", "living" and "practical" characteristics been embodied in the Living Educational Theory, it can be very well applied in the character education of improvement in the individual and group practice, therefore, implementation of the "New Curriculum" as a case to prove what has been discussed.展开更多
The paper ,with a theory of Action Research and especially dialecti cal knowledge,gives a brief analysis and discussion of the New English Standard Syllabus(also called the New Curriculum) and also points out the diff...The paper ,with a theory of Action Research and especially dialecti cal knowledge,gives a brief analysis and discussion of the New English Standard Syllabus(also called the New Curriculum) and also points out the difference bet ween the New Curriculum and the traditional syllabus of the basic English cours e. It is also theoretically and practically designed with some excellent suggest ions on how to study the New Curriculum and make good use of English teaching.展开更多
Taking the new course into the background, this paper sums up the effective English classroom construction mode which can adapt to the new curriculum reform,and helps students lay a good foundation for English.With th...Taking the new course into the background, this paper sums up the effective English classroom construction mode which can adapt to the new curriculum reform,and helps students lay a good foundation for English.With the deepening of the new curriculum reform,junior middle school English class has high efficiency to improve students' English skills.展开更多
The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage...The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage independent and collaborative learning but may pose a challenge to the test-oriented English teaching in China. Pressed by the graduation and enrollment rates, do teachers still care for organizing extra-curricular reading If yes, are the methods they use effective and scientific To answer these questions, our research team conducted a two-year research in Beijing middle schools. The results show that extra-curricular reading has been implemented differently at different levels to different degrees. Some teachers have worked out feasible, successful methods in accord with international practices, some schools are just starting their experiments, and some have not made plans yet. By analyzing the favored organizing and monitoring methods, and evaluating their benefits and limits, this paper hopes to offer some implications to the researchers with the same endeavor.展开更多
Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teachin...Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teaching, it emphasizes on taking students as the mainbody, paying attention to every student, focusing on equal exchange, communication and cooperation between teachers and students, exchangingstudents’ emotional experience in the study, giving guidance to the students’ learning, and giving credit for the student’s learning. It is animportant part of the higher education system reform to train knowledgeable talents with modern knowledge structure and rich innovation whocan adapt to the modern economic development. It emphasizes on fully giving students space to learn autonomously and develop freely, andfocusing them on practice and the diversity of knowledge structure.展开更多
Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, includ...Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, including the proposal of learning strategies and emotions, and attitudes to learning English. However, few actual measures are carried out in implementation. Lack of support from school, parents and students proves to be a headache for teachers. The problems that hinder Chinese secondary ELT are hence pointed out: the traditional teaching methods, examination means, constraints, teacher quality and lack of support. Compromises should be made between the decision makers, teachers to bring satisfactory results to ELT in China. especially the course planners and the middle school展开更多
Lexical Pragmatics, established at the late 20 thcentury in the west, is a new branch of linguistics. Based on the theoretical framework of Lexical Pragmatics, this paper will analyze the new requirements for English ...Lexical Pragmatics, established at the late 20 thcentury in the west, is a new branch of linguistics. Based on the theoretical framework of Lexical Pragmatics, this paper will analyze the new requirements for English vocabulary teaching under the instructions of The New National English Curriculum and the current situation of English vocabulary teaching so as to clarify the necessity to cultivate students' lexical pragmatic awareness. As a result, learners can get some implications from it: English vocabulary teaching should emphasize on multiple pragmatics dimensions such as the pragmatic knowledge of lexical meaning,pragmatic competence and contextual constraints, etc. but not just on its form or semantic combination.展开更多
Here are some good suggestions on how to improve English teaching efficiency to Xinjiang ethnic high school students according to the basic ideas of the new English Curriculum in high school, eg: setting down reasonab...Here are some good suggestions on how to improve English teaching efficiency to Xinjiang ethnic high school students according to the basic ideas of the new English Curriculum in high school, eg: setting down reasonable teaching projects according to the status of Xinjiang ethnic groups; training the students' strong desire to study English; improving teachers' special quality; Make full use of modern teaching methods and so on.展开更多
基金funded by 2021 Hunan Educational Science 14th-Five-Year Plan Project:Research on the Critical Thinking Ability Assessment Reform of English Subject under the New College Entrance Examination(Approval No.:XJK21BKS001)2022 General Funded Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Review Committee:Research on the Development and Diagnostic Assessment of Critical Thinking Competence Rating Scale for English Learners based CSE(Project Approval No.:XSP22YBZ086)。
文摘The Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China has issued three guideline documents to encourage inquiry teaching to help students develop their ability to question,which is a defining feature of critical thinking.Two of the documents have clearly stated that English subject teaching should focus on building students’thinking capacity.Critical thinking is an essential feature of building thinking capacity and a key element of the core competencies the English subject seeks to cultivate.This research measures the performance of students of two high school classes in the exams conducted at the beginning,in the middle,and at the end of the experiment period during which inquiry teaching was applied to enhance students’critical thinking ability.The experiment results show that inquiry teaching can improve students’academic performance in English study and help them better develop their language skills.The implementation of the inquiry design in teaching listening,reading,and writing conforms to the law that governs the development of critical thinking,and the adoption of inquiry teaching can promote the development of critical thinking.
文摘There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.
文摘With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English teaching is an important task. Therefore, it is very important to study the teaching strategies of college English teaching. Culture and language are complementary and inseparable, which requires us to carry out cultural teaching during English teaching process. In this paper, we focus on the strategy of integrating enterprise cultures into college English teaching, and discuss several cultural teaching problems in college English class. As a language required course, English not only strengthen the learners’ language skills, but also enhance humanistic quality of students. However, current college English teaching takes the examination as the goal, which cannot meet the needs of the learner’s professional stuff. We propose the strategy of integrating the professional background into English teaching, in order to improve the students’ ability of comprehensive application of English and the professional quality.
文摘In recent years,with the reform of the educational system and the introduction of new curriculum standards,the teaching quality of physical education in middle schools has greatly improved.The education industry in China is now in a phase of high-quality development.In order to further enhance the effect of middle school physical education,it is necessary to strengthen the discussion on teaching strategies.Taking this as the starting point,this paper summarizes the importance of middle school physical education under the background of the new curriculum,analyzes the current teaching situation,and on this basis,proposes several strategies to enhance the teaching effect from three aspects:core literacy,student subject,and information technology.
文摘As a traditional musical instrument,the guzheng holds a very important status in the Chinese traditional culture.In recent years,with the increase of opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between the West and China,guzheng is rapidly favored in the foreign music circle.As the main institute for cultivating high-level talents in the society,the academic discipline of music in various universities should actively promote the education reform of gxizheng based on the new curriculum reform combined with innovations and modifications of the national instrumental music teaching model to efficiently teach guzheng.
文摘The requirements of "Curriculum standards" for high school students to write have greatly improved than ever. Thus,in high school,teachers should seriously study teaching materials and "curriculum standards" and pay attention to the importance of English writing instruction,guide and organize students to do English writing to train and improve students' writing skills and to improve their writing instruction effectiveness.
文摘This paper is mainly discussing about the significance of the Living Educational Theory Action Research raised by Dr. Jack Whitehead, also it gives a clear distinction between traditional AR Theory and that in the LETAR. Because of the distinctive features like "individual", "living" and "practical" characteristics been embodied in the Living Educational Theory, it can be very well applied in the character education of improvement in the individual and group practice, therefore, implementation of the "New Curriculum" as a case to prove what has been discussed.
文摘The paper ,with a theory of Action Research and especially dialecti cal knowledge,gives a brief analysis and discussion of the New English Standard Syllabus(also called the New Curriculum) and also points out the difference bet ween the New Curriculum and the traditional syllabus of the basic English cours e. It is also theoretically and practically designed with some excellent suggest ions on how to study the New Curriculum and make good use of English teaching.
文摘Taking the new course into the background, this paper sums up the effective English classroom construction mode which can adapt to the new curriculum reform,and helps students lay a good foundation for English.With the deepening of the new curriculum reform,junior middle school English class has high efficiency to improve students' English skills.
文摘The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage independent and collaborative learning but may pose a challenge to the test-oriented English teaching in China. Pressed by the graduation and enrollment rates, do teachers still care for organizing extra-curricular reading If yes, are the methods they use effective and scientific To answer these questions, our research team conducted a two-year research in Beijing middle schools. The results show that extra-curricular reading has been implemented differently at different levels to different degrees. Some teachers have worked out feasible, successful methods in accord with international practices, some schools are just starting their experiments, and some have not made plans yet. By analyzing the favored organizing and monitoring methods, and evaluating their benefits and limits, this paper hopes to offer some implications to the researchers with the same endeavor.
文摘Promulgation of the music curriculum standard has broken through the traditional teaching mode, highlighted the core ofaesthetic and deeply refl ected the music education idea of “human-oriented”. During the teaching, it emphasizes on taking students as the mainbody, paying attention to every student, focusing on equal exchange, communication and cooperation between teachers and students, exchangingstudents’ emotional experience in the study, giving guidance to the students’ learning, and giving credit for the student’s learning. It is animportant part of the higher education system reform to train knowledgeable talents with modern knowledge structure and rich innovation whocan adapt to the modern economic development. It emphasizes on fully giving students space to learn autonomously and develop freely, andfocusing them on practice and the diversity of knowledge structure.
文摘Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, including the proposal of learning strategies and emotions, and attitudes to learning English. However, few actual measures are carried out in implementation. Lack of support from school, parents and students proves to be a headache for teachers. The problems that hinder Chinese secondary ELT are hence pointed out: the traditional teaching methods, examination means, constraints, teacher quality and lack of support. Compromises should be made between the decision makers, teachers to bring satisfactory results to ELT in China. especially the course planners and the middle school
文摘Lexical Pragmatics, established at the late 20 thcentury in the west, is a new branch of linguistics. Based on the theoretical framework of Lexical Pragmatics, this paper will analyze the new requirements for English vocabulary teaching under the instructions of The New National English Curriculum and the current situation of English vocabulary teaching so as to clarify the necessity to cultivate students' lexical pragmatic awareness. As a result, learners can get some implications from it: English vocabulary teaching should emphasize on multiple pragmatics dimensions such as the pragmatic knowledge of lexical meaning,pragmatic competence and contextual constraints, etc. but not just on its form or semantic combination.
文摘Here are some good suggestions on how to improve English teaching efficiency to Xinjiang ethnic high school students according to the basic ideas of the new English Curriculum in high school, eg: setting down reasonable teaching projects according to the status of Xinjiang ethnic groups; training the students' strong desire to study English; improving teachers' special quality; Make full use of modern teaching methods and so on.