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.

On Evaluating University Teachers’ Morality and Ethics in the New Era

University teachers play an important role in promoting moral and political education among university students.Regular and long-term construction of teachers’morality and ethics will contribute to the success of the fundamental task of cultivating talents.The present study proposes that due to the multiple identities of university teachers,it is necessary to evaluate the construction of teachers’morality and ethics in terms of what to evaluate and how to evaluate?It is expected that the attempt will provide useful guidance for the construction of university teachers’morality and ethics.

How can TESOL Teachers be Mediators of Culture?

Language and culture are closely related to each other. Language teachers, who introduce culture through the language teaching activities, are the most important cultural mediators for students in their language learning process. This essay is to help TESOL teachers to think about their importance of being the cultural mediators and how to be good mediators.

Rebuilding School Culture and Promoting Teachers'Professional Development Rebuilding School Culture and Promoting Teachers'Professional Development

School culture is an important carrier for teachers' professional development.It is also a double-edged sword that can either promote or hinder the professional development of teachers.The improvement of teachers' professional development fundamentally lies in the reconstruction of school culture.School culture is derived from the school system because the system creates the environment that determines professional development.The improvement of school culture is achieved through learning because learning can create a solid platform for teachers'professional development.Principals should rebuild their relationships with their schools and teachers,while teachers should rebuild their relationships with other teachers and their students as well as between their own practices and educational theories.

On Cultural Identity of Teachers in Teaching English

English teaching is a big project in China,whenever we teach English,we transmit western cultures,when taking in the essence of western culture,students also receive the bad things of western culture.Besides,because of learning English,many students know less and less about their own culture and are not interested in learning it.So there is a clash between Chinese cul ture and western culture.So English teachers face a problem:what is their cultural identity in English teaching?Based on the anal ysis of the necessity,demerits and clash of English language and culture teaching,this paper attempts to discuss about teachers’cultural identity in teaching English.

A Study of Intercultural Adaptation of Foreign Teachers in Pingdingshan Colleges and Universities

Along with the advance of cross-culture communication, intercultural adaption arouses a heated discussion in the branch of social science, which is mainly dealing with maladjustment within a host culture. As the matter of fact, in the process of education internationalization, increasing amount of foreign experts and teachers come to China and play an important role in Chinese higher education. While bringing in advanced teaching ideas to local colleges and enjoying exotic Chinese culture, they are also suffering culture shock of different degrees. The thesis is trying to find out: 1) What are the intercultural adaptation levels of foreign teachers in Pingdingshan colleges and universities? 2) What factors may affect their adaptation? 3) What should we do to improve their adaptation levels? In order to solve those problems, a practical study is conducted based on Taylor's transformative learning model theory.

Reflections on Teachers’Professional Ethics in Colleges and Universities

Teachers in colleges and universities are the nurturers of the core talents of the country.Teachers’comprehensive quality levels in colleges and universities fundamentally determine the quality of talent cultivation in colleges and universities,the level of scientific research,and the contribution to society.Based on moral cultivation and teachers’professional moral cultivation,this paper discusses the problems in the professional moral cultivation of college teachers and the measures to improve the professional moral cultivation of college teachers.

Teacher and Culture Mediator:A Reflection on Teaching English Listening through American Materials

This essay is to help TESOL teachers to think about their importance of being the cultural mediators and how to be good mediators as well.Firstly,in this article,some concepts about language,culture and the connections between them are intro duced.Then it explores why it is important for English teachers to view themselves as cultural mediators and in what way they are cultural mediators.Finally,the study reflects on the situation in a tertiary teaching context.

Culture shock： Indirect communication A foreign teacher＇s teaching experience in a Chinese university located in a Hakka region

Culture shock is unavoidable for foreign teachers in China. Using qualitative method, this paper reports a case study of culture shock--a foreign teacher＇s teaching experience in a Chinese university located in an area with a unique local population. The city involved in this study is Meizhou, located in Guangdong Province, which is considered ＂the capital of Hakka＂. The study found that indirect communication is a big shock for foreign teachers who teach in this area. The paper explores the reasons from the perspectives of Hakka culture and points out that culture shock can be an important aspect of foreign teachers＇ professional development, cultural learning and personal growth. Finally, the study provides implications for language teaching and learning in a similar area, such as Meizhou.

Cultural Other-Orientation in Foreign Teachers＇ Constructing Professional Identity A Case Study in Tertiary Education in China

Teachers＇ professional identity has developed into a separate research field for the past two decades, which has attracted studies on the construction, traits, and methodology. That of foreign teachers in cross-cultural working conditions has aroused new research interests. A case study of foreign teachers in tertiary education in China has been done. An analysis is made in terms of the situation and characteristics of their constructing professional identiy on the basis of the case study

A Study on the Dilemma of Contemporary Teachers'Moral Life

The essence of teachers is to live a moral life with students and create a possible moral life together.At present,the alienation of teachers'moral life has reached an amazing degree.Based on this,at the conceptual level,rediscover the emotional dimension of teachers'moral life in a humanistic way and turn to the inner power of teachers'emotional life.At the practical level,it emphasizes the cultivation of emotional quality of moral life.

An Annotation of Language Teacher Beliefs in View of Educational Culture

The research on foreign language （FL） teachers＇ cognition and its development has been attracting attention in the field of applied linguistics. However, the gap between teaching theories and truths, teacher beliefs and behaviors can only be annotated by an in-depth investigation of belief determinants （BD） that are shaped by specific educational culture. Based on an investigation of language teacher beliefs, this paper is an annotation of language teacher beliefs in view of educational culture. By using both qualitative and quantitative methods of interviewing forefront teachers and making a literature review, it intends to reveal the dynamic nature of teacher beliefs as the teaching reality in view of the impact and significance of educational culture. It hammers home with the conclusion that the teachers-role-fulfillment in China is based on their real beliefs and loaded with cultural, social, and subject pressure; it is not a lincal impartment from theory to practice, from advocating to implementing, but a selective practice with teachers＇ active cognition and adaptation towards the local educational culture.

Research on the Influence of Network Culture on the Moral Sense of College Students

With the rapid development of information technology,the network,as"the fourth media"that college students contact most,has significant impact on the view of life,values and view of the world of college students. Various functions of the network culture also play an important role in the process of moral socialization of college students and in the change of moral cognition,moral emotion and moral will of college students. Thus,we should take full advantage of the multi-function of the network culture,spreading social mainstream values,holding various network moral education activities so as to improve the level of moral sense of college students. This paper attempts to research the influence of network culture from the perspective of moral mentality,starting from the functions of network culture and analyzing the influence of network upon the moral sense of college students,based on which this paper puts forward new concepts and methods of improving the moral education of college students.

Cultural Orientations of ELT: The Perspectives of Chinese EFL Students and Teachers

This paper reports on part of the findings of a study that explores the perceptions of Chinese ELT stakeholders on native speakerist practices in ELT.Data related to this paper were collected through questionnaire surveys of 817 Chinese EFL students and 26 Chinese EFL teachers,of whom 26 students and 14 teachers attended follow-up interviews.Data analysis via a critical lens suggests that the majority of the participants uphold Inner Circle culture as the bedrock of English and the reference model of ELT.These suggest the continuity of native speakerist ideology in China’s EFL education.Future studies are expected in view of the finding that an unneglectable proportion of the participants maintain a neutral stance on these issues.

Research on Developing Traditional Chinese Martial Arts Culture and Effectively Penetrating Moral Education

In order to implement the requirement of Minislry of Education, ＂further deepen the reform of moral education courses, and play a role in the classroom main channel＂, with literature analysis, case studies and other methods, we make an objective analysis of the real issues of ＂sports disciplines teaching moral education ＂. The results show that physical teachers should effectively improve the penetration ideology and moral education wisdom and teaching skills; they should grasp the connection between moral and discipline and integrate ＂moral goals＂ organically into a three-dimensional target subjects, and implemented it in accordance with the corresponding dimension specific content; in the implementation process, we should focus on using a variety of learning styles, making clever use of resources and make the best use; we need to persevere, to strengthen the sports discipline of moral norms infiltration operations, and better protect the effective penetration of Physical Education in Moral Education.

Teaching in Different Cultures:Comparison of Teacher Education Programs between China and the U.S.

In recent years,teacher education,as an important part of educational issues,has attracted governments'attention in the world and made some achievements.Chinese people often say that education is the hope for the revitalization of the nation,and teacher education is the hope for the revitalization of education.Thus,teacher education plays an important role in the devel opment of the whole nation.This essay aims to find out the respective advantages and disadvantages of the teacher education pro grams in China and the America,through the comparison of their specific characteristics.It will also explore what the Chinese teacher education system can benefit from the successful experiences of that in the U.S.

Teacher and Student Roles in Chinese Culture

Nowaday, going abroad to further education has gained the greatest popularity among chinese students. Majority of these oversea students may suffer from some problems in their cross-cultural classrooms, even though they are excellent in their own country. Chinese learners are frequently labeled as"passive learners", compared with other foreign learners. The teachers in foreign countries may also play a sharply different role in teaching. These problems have already attracted some education experts and researchers'attention and a few research programs and experiments have been conducted. This paper will adopt Tweed and Lehman (2002)'s Confucian-Socratic framework to systematically analyze student and teacher roles in Chinese culture and communicative norms of the students and teachers in Chinese contexts. A better cross-clutural classroom will be built on the basis of foreign teachers and chinese students'mutual efforts on understanding each other's culture background.

Moral Education-The Wind Vane for College Teachers to Carry out Curriculum Ideology and Politics

Moral education is the fundamental task of education.It does not only include the inheritance of the fine traditional thoughts of the Chinese nation,but also the deepening of the new era of education concept with the new development in this changing world.Moral education has been widely implemented in the practical education process of colleges and universities and has achieved some outstanding results,but there are still some areas to be improved.Teachers in colleges and universities are the key to implement the concept of moral education,and classroom teaching is the main channel for the implementation of moral education.Therefore,teachers in colleges and universities need to deeply understand the essence and connotation of moral education,accurately grasp the practical problems existing in moral education,focus on the curriculum construction and the main channel of the classroom,and make every effort to exercise curriculum ideology and politics.

Integration of Ethnic Minority Cultural Moral Education in Ethnic Minority Areas-Taking the Mongolian Culture as an Example

The traditional culture of ethnic minorities embodies the spiritual pursuit of unique national value.It can be used as a valuable moral education resource and is of great significance to improve the effectiveness of moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas.At present,China has not paid enough attention to the development and utilization of moral education resources of the ethnic minority traditional culture,nor has it established and improved the relevant development and utilization mechanism.Taking the moral education spirit of the traditional Mongolian culture as an example,this paper analyzes its moral education value,points out the existing problems of moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas,as well as suggests strategies for the integration of moral education resources of ethnic minority traditional culture with the moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas.