A Study on the Lack of Junior Middle School English Teachers’Language Awareness

This paper aims to take 20 Haikou XX Middle School English teachers as research subjects to investigate their language awareness by a questionnaire.According to the data,it can be seen that they seldom apply linguistic knowledge in classroom teaching.Their phonetic appearances are poor and pay too much attention to grammar teaching.Also,they rarely teach social cultural knowledge during teaching.And they still have a teacher-centered teaching concept.In case of enhancing their language awareness,teachers should change the tendency of paying too much attention to grammar and vocabulary knowledge,prevent the tendency of excessive emphasis on imitation,and advocate the learning model which combines language knowledge teaching and skills training.What’s more,teachers should cultivate students’cultural awareness and combine language and culture in teaching English.Finally,teachers should establish a student-centered teaching concept,and help students develop positive emotions to learn English.

Critically Evaluate Foreign Language Teachers Training in Culture and Intercultural Communication

The aim of foreign language teaching in the contemporary is to develop foreign language talents who own intercultural competence.Thus,it is necessary to improve teachers’cultural quality and intercultural awareness.The paper explores some relevant training courses on culture and intercultural awareness,and discusses the deficiency of these courses.

Reflectivity/Impulsivity as an Important Individual Factor and Effectiveness of Awareness Raising Activities

This paper is a summary of the studies done on the importance of the cognitive styles especially reflectivity/impulsivity on the process of language acquisition. It discusses the importance of this cognitive style as an important factor on the effectiveness of awareness raising activities. In the previous studies, the importance of awareness raising has been found as an effective and facilitating factor in the process of the L2 （second language） acquisition, but the effect of different individual factors on its being usefulness has not been focused on; therefore, this study is an attempt to review and explore the importance of one of the individual factors, i.e., being reflective/impulsive cognitive style on the effectiveness of awareness raising activities. It is gathered that learners with different cognitive styles （being reflective/impulsive） react differently to the awareness giving activities, and the study tries to emphasize the importance of this factor on the usefulness of awareness raising and emphasizes the fact that in the field of awareness giving this factor should be attached impotence and accounted for as an effective factor.

Interaction in Language Classrooms

All classroom pedagogy proceeds,necessarily,through the process of interaction,and can proceed only in this way.Interaction,therefore,is conceived of the fundamental fact of classroom pedagogy inherent in the very notion of classroom pedagogy itself,not just an aspect of modern language teaching methods that teachers may or may not wish to adopt in classes.It is self-evident that interaction is inescapably inherent features of successful pedagogy in L2 classrooms.The most effective way of developing successful second language competence in classrooms is to ensure that students have sufficient opportunities to participate in interaction.

Teacher's Role in Students'Group Work in College English Classroom

The implementation of group work in China is aroused by the teaching reform and proposal of the New Curriculum Standard, in order to improve the language teaching and learning. However, in many cases group work is far less effective and desirable than it should have been. The effectiveness of group work depends on many factors in real language classroom setting. This paper mainly focuses on the factor of teacher's role. The main implication of this paper is to suggest the appropriate teacher role in students'group work and put forward some skills in organizing group work in order to make group work more effective and significant.

Focus on Form教学中的教师角色

在交际型教学中如何融入语言形式的教学这一问题已经得到了不少学者和研究者的注意。探讨Focus on Form(FonF)教学中的教师角色,首先介绍FonF的内涵,简要分析教师的语言意识对FonF的影响,并讨论与FonF相关的教学策略,最后指出FonF研究中尚待解决的问题。

旅游院校英语教师发展SWOT分析及对策研究

旅游业大发展时代来临,具备旅游专业知识和英语实践应用能力的人才紧缺,然而目前旅游院校英语教学形势不容乐观,旅游院校英语教师职业发展受制于各种因素。2018年最新发布的《中国英语能力等级量表》给旅游院校英语教师发展带来重大启示。本研究以《中国英语能力等级量表》为指导,对旅游院校英语教师发展进行SWOT分析,探讨旅游院校英语教师发展的对策。

Exploring EFL Learners Reading Comprehension Problems in Reading ESP Texts

By considering the fact that in EFL （English as foreign language） contexts learners need reading comprehension skill more than other skills in their academic studies, reading comprehension should be attached more importance especialy in ESP （English for specific purposes） classes in which reading ability plays a crucial role in the students＇ academic success. But in order to help learners in the best possible way, teachers need to identify their learners＇ problems in reading ESP texts. Detecting the problematic areas for the students will assist teachers better design and apply appropriate methods and strategies to solve their students＇ reading comprehension problems. Therefore, the following research was an attempt to explore the EFL learners＇ reading comprehension problmes in reading ESP texts in ESP classes. For the purpose of the study, five passages from their coursebook were selected and they were asked to underline the syntactically problematic parts in the passages. The subjects of the study were composed of 185 homogenous engineering students who were learning english as a foregin langauge. Chi-square analysis showed that 15 major syntactic categories are serious hurdle to reading comprehension of ESP texts. The results and implications are discussed in the light of TLA （teachers＇ language awareness）.

Reflections on English Classroom Teaching Management

This thesis makes a preliminary probe into the present English classroom teaching in China.The problem of classroom management,accompanied by classroom teaching,has long existed in the teaching field,and has become increasingly complicated with the social development.This paper studies the problem from the aspects of theoretical foundations,the management in language classroom,suitable English teaching for Chinese students and so on.

The Relationship Between Orthographic Awareness and Chinese Reading in Hong Kong’s Young CSL Learners

Purpose:This study investigates young Chinese as a second language(CSL)learners’Chinese character reading performance and its relationship with their orthographic awareness.There is a pressing need to gain a better understanding of Hong Kong’s ethnic minority students’CSL acquisition,so that more effective instruction can be provided.Design/Approach/Methods:A total of 157 Hong Kong ethnic minority CSL students in Grade 4 were evaluated using a range of assessments:orthographic awareness in identifying and utilizing character components,listening comprehension for vocabulary terms and short texts,and reading Chinese character lists with single-and two-character words.Findings:The students performed consistently across the two lists but made fewer errors when reading the two-character word list,most of which were orthographical.Multiple regression analysis showed that the students’orthographic awareness contributed significantly to their character reading.Originality/Value:The findings suggest that orthographic awareness can help ethnic minority CSL learners improve their Chinese character reading skills.Chinese classes provided for such students,and for CSL learners in general,should place greater focus on literacy training.

教师教材理解何以可能——哲学解释学视角

对教师教材理解何以可能的探究,是教师教材理解活动的关键。借鉴伽达默尔关于理解何以可能问题的研究,教师前见、完满性先把握、时间距离、语言、教师视域和解释学循环共同构成了教师教材理解的条件。

教师在大学英语听力形成性评价中的作用初探

通过大学英语听力形成性评价方式的实施来观察、研究受试教师在其中所起的作用及所扮演的角色,并检验听力形成性评价方式是否有助于提高学生的听力成绩和听力形成性评价意识。数据分析表明在大学英语教学中实施听力形成性评价不仅能使教师具有与以往不同的作用和角色,还能极大地提高学生的英语听力成绩,学生的听力形成性评价意识也明显增强。

英语教师的语言意识水平:调查与启示

以语言意识理论为背景,通过问卷调查、访谈及统计分析,发现英语教师的语言意识水平普遍偏低,这直接影响其教学观念和教学方法的创新;并认为提高教师的语言意识水平是提高教师素质的重要条件,也是推进中小学英语教育改革的重要保障。

托幼机构教师对儿童意外伤害认知与需求分析

目的 了解北京市西城区托幼机构教师对儿童意外伤害认知与需求的现状,寻求预防儿童意外伤害发生的有效干预措施.方法 在西城区38所幼儿园中,随机抽取400名教师进行儿童意外伤害认知与需求调查.结果 80.8%的教师知道儿童意外伤害的处理方法,43.1%的教师认为模拟现场培训形式效果最佳.平房园所环境的意外伤害发生率高于楼房园所,经比较差异有统计学意义（χ2=12.058,P〈0.001）.结论 加强对托幼机构教职员工的安全意识教育,提高对儿童意外伤害的预防和现场急救基本能力;加强对学龄前儿童的安全教育,提高儿童自我保护能力.

基于“互联网+”视域的外语教师学习共同体设计

在互联网+的视域下,构建外语教师学习共同体有利于建立教学问题的常态探讨机制,形成学习和教学的资源共享,使学习和教学更加便捷、科学和规范,从而实现外语教师专业建设与发展,为培养外语教师职业能力和职业素养搭建平台。

培养跨文化意识 提高外语教师素质

培养跨文化交际能力是现代外语教学的发展趋势之一。而这一趋势也反映到我国外语教学的主要阵地即中学外语教学之中。这就要求外语教师要有丰富的跨文化知识和较强的跨文化交际能力。但调查表明中学外语教师的跨文化交际水平还远远不能满足现代外语教学的要求。因此应从主客观等多方面着手来丰富外语教师的跨文化知识、培养他们的跨文化意识 。

西部少数民族地区大学生英语口语学习的焦虑心理分析及对策

语言焦虑心理影响着非外语专业大学生英语口语的学习和口语表达能力的提高。调查显示,焦虑心理对少数民族地区的大学生英语口语的学习有很大的影响。害羞和怕出错的心理、文化差异及语言环境是非外语专业少数民族地区大学生语言学习产生焦虑心理的主要原因。学生自信心的培养、教师角色的转换、教学模式的更新能帮助消除语言学习焦虑,提高英语口语教学效果。

高师中文专业语言类课程的整合与模式建构

高师中文专业课程主体是语言类课程和文学类课程,语言类课程是文学类课程的基础,文学类课程的目标是发展语言,所以,语言类课程在高师中文专业具有十分重要的地位。然而,由于学科课程体系及教师观念的影响,语言类课程在中文专业办学中并没有发挥与其地位相应的价值,为了改变这种状况,根据语言类课程的特点和规律,结合师范生从业需求,对课程进行整合,构建语言类课程模式,是必要的和有效的。

用言语行为理论分析教师语言的语用功能

文章先借助语料库研究教师语言的形式和特征,再以言语行为等理论为指导,分析教师语言的语言形式和语用功能,然后提出其对外语教学的启示,帮助教师调节和规范自己的语言,使教学事半功倍,收到更好的效果。

浅析外语教师语言意识的构成和作用

教师语言意识有助于教师更有效地进行教学。在课堂实践中,教师的语言意识通过对可理解性输入的组织、筛选、修正,以完成知识的传递过程。在反思过程中,教师的语言意识指导教学方式和教学内容,三者相互影响,促进教师自我发展、自我完善。