This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers' professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers' professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a su...This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers' professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers' professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a survey to 20 rural English teachers from 10 primary schools in the surrounding areas of Linyi City. The survey mainly focuses on the following four aspects: basic situation of the teachers, knowledge of English language and teaching skills, teachers' motivation, and self-analysis of their development. With an analysis of the results of the investigation, the author wants to evoke teachers' and researchers' awareness for improving English language teachers' professional development in rural primary schools展开更多
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the precious ways in teachers' professional development, and its operation level includes different factors. With studies abroad and our preliminary investigation as base, th...Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the precious ways in teachers' professional development, and its operation level includes different factors. With studies abroad and our preliminary investigation as base, this study developed a scale to test the factors SRL includes. According to the result of 905 teachers working in elementary school by exploratory factor analysis, the SRL for elementary teachers is consisted of its sociality (it included selecting leads and seeking for instructing), its motivation(it included self-improvement and self-excelling), its methods(it included strategy use and habitual behavior), and its outcomes(it included extensive reading and teachers' professional development). All the result indicated Teachers' SRL Scale had clear factor structure, good reliability and validity. It can be used to test the current operating situation of SRL for teachers working in elementary school.展开更多
文摘This thesis tries to explore the problems of the rural English teachers' professional development and aims to give some hints on teachers' professional development and future teacher training. This thesis makes a survey to 20 rural English teachers from 10 primary schools in the surrounding areas of Linyi City. The survey mainly focuses on the following four aspects: basic situation of the teachers, knowledge of English language and teaching skills, teachers' motivation, and self-analysis of their development. With an analysis of the results of the investigation, the author wants to evoke teachers' and researchers' awareness for improving English language teachers' professional development in rural primary schools
文摘Self-regulated learning (SRL) is one of the precious ways in teachers' professional development, and its operation level includes different factors. With studies abroad and our preliminary investigation as base, this study developed a scale to test the factors SRL includes. According to the result of 905 teachers working in elementary school by exploratory factor analysis, the SRL for elementary teachers is consisted of its sociality (it included selecting leads and seeking for instructing), its motivation(it included self-improvement and self-excelling), its methods(it included strategy use and habitual behavior), and its outcomes(it included extensive reading and teachers' professional development). All the result indicated Teachers' SRL Scale had clear factor structure, good reliability and validity. It can be used to test the current operating situation of SRL for teachers working in elementary school.