English practice teaching has outstanding superiority over the extension and supplementation of English classroom teaching, and practice teaching is an indispensably important part of college English teaching. To stud...English practice teaching has outstanding superiority over the extension and supplementation of English classroom teaching, and practice teaching is an indispensably important part of college English teaching. To students, cultivation of the ability of practice is vital, affecting students＇ employment and future. To universities, teaching quality has a direct impact on the development prospect of schools and decides the future of schools. Moreover, local normal universities also undertake a more important task to cultivate local high-quality talents teaching primary and junior high schools. These teaching talents undertake the great task of English teaching over primary and junior high school students, and thus the construction and implementation of practice teaching system of English major in normal universities are urgent.展开更多
There has been an English fever throughout China for over twenty years. However, there are a lot ofproblems in English Instruction to be solved. English teachers play a very important part in EnglishInstruction, so it...There has been an English fever throughout China for over twenty years. However, there are a lot ofproblems in English Instruction to be solved. English teachers play a very important part in EnglishInstruction, so it is necessary to touch upon English teacher training institutions — English specialty in teacherscolleges. Many English teachers and learners want to know what has happened in the development of Englishspecialty in teachers colleges, what problems have been preventing English specialty from developing in asound and sustainable way. This paper tries to analyze the problems in the development of English specialty inteachers colleges in the hope that more attention will be paid to and solutions to the problems will be found sothat we can work together and make contributions to the development of English specialty in teachers colleges.The chief problems lie in that: impertinent and implicit objective of cultivation, financial difficulties,challenges from international studies universities and schools of foreign languages of comprehensiveuniversities, qualities of teachers of English teaching methodologies, ignorance of teaching skill drills,students' tiredness of study, excessively large class size, shortage of faculties and so on.展开更多
Language teacher professional development has recently shifted away from transmissionist approaches based on cascading or transfer of external knowledge toward social constructivist paradigm with a focus on the situat...Language teacher professional development has recently shifted away from transmissionist approaches based on cascading or transfer of external knowledge toward social constructivist paradigm with a focus on the situationality of learning and teaching as social processes of sharing and （re）constructing personal meanings, understandings, and skills. The social constructivist view of teacher education values teachers＇ agency in constructing and shaping personalized knowledge as a socially constructed experiential process in context. So, the researcher as an EFL educator in an Iranian teacher education university investi- gates the professional development of an EFL teacher during a three-year-time span both as a student and then as a teacher. Teacher journals, observation, and interview as three appropriate data gathering tools were used to obtain triangulated data. Student teacher professional change during the time span, multidimensionality of professional development, and discursively shaped personal beliefs and knowledge and their influence on teaching actions and practices were the emerged themes of data analysis based on Strauss （Qualitative analysis for social scientists. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998） constant comparative method, including three steps of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The findings of this research challenge the transmission nature of teacher education which assumes student teachers as the conduits, requiring to be filled with skills, input, and knowledge lectured by educators as authority figures.展开更多
文摘English practice teaching has outstanding superiority over the extension and supplementation of English classroom teaching, and practice teaching is an indispensably important part of college English teaching. To students, cultivation of the ability of practice is vital, affecting students＇ employment and future. To universities, teaching quality has a direct impact on the development prospect of schools and decides the future of schools. Moreover, local normal universities also undertake a more important task to cultivate local high-quality talents teaching primary and junior high schools. These teaching talents undertake the great task of English teaching over primary and junior high school students, and thus the construction and implementation of practice teaching system of English major in normal universities are urgent.
文摘There has been an English fever throughout China for over twenty years. However, there are a lot ofproblems in English Instruction to be solved. English teachers play a very important part in EnglishInstruction, so it is necessary to touch upon English teacher training institutions — English specialty in teacherscolleges. Many English teachers and learners want to know what has happened in the development of Englishspecialty in teachers colleges, what problems have been preventing English specialty from developing in asound and sustainable way. This paper tries to analyze the problems in the development of English specialty inteachers colleges in the hope that more attention will be paid to and solutions to the problems will be found sothat we can work together and make contributions to the development of English specialty in teachers colleges.The chief problems lie in that: impertinent and implicit objective of cultivation, financial difficulties,challenges from international studies universities and schools of foreign languages of comprehensiveuniversities, qualities of teachers of English teaching methodologies, ignorance of teaching skill drills,students' tiredness of study, excessively large class size, shortage of faculties and so on.
文摘Language teacher professional development has recently shifted away from transmissionist approaches based on cascading or transfer of external knowledge toward social constructivist paradigm with a focus on the situationality of learning and teaching as social processes of sharing and （re）constructing personal meanings, understandings, and skills. The social constructivist view of teacher education values teachers＇ agency in constructing and shaping personalized knowledge as a socially constructed experiential process in context. So, the researcher as an EFL educator in an Iranian teacher education university investi- gates the professional development of an EFL teacher during a three-year-time span both as a student and then as a teacher. Teacher journals, observation, and interview as three appropriate data gathering tools were used to obtain triangulated data. Student teacher professional change during the time span, multidimensionality of professional development, and discursively shaped personal beliefs and knowledge and their influence on teaching actions and practices were the emerged themes of data analysis based on Strauss （Qualitative analysis for social scientists. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998） constant comparative method, including three steps of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The findings of this research challenge the transmission nature of teacher education which assumes student teachers as the conduits, requiring to be filled with skills, input, and knowledge lectured by educators as authority figures.
