There has been an increasing awareness in China's English language teaching profession that curriculum development should take account of the participants within the curriculum development process: the planners, the...There has been an increasing awareness in China's English language teaching profession that curriculum development should take account of the participants within the curriculum development process: the planners, the administrators, the institutions, the teachers, and the learners. This paper attempts to identify the underlying principles of the New English Curriculum in China (2001), based on which the roles of the learner, teacher, and institution that underpin the development of the new English curriculum in a secondary school in South-west China are critieaUy examined.展开更多
文摘There has been an increasing awareness in China's English language teaching profession that curriculum development should take account of the participants within the curriculum development process: the planners, the administrators, the institutions, the teachers, and the learners. This paper attempts to identify the underlying principles of the New English Curriculum in China (2001), based on which the roles of the learner, teacher, and institution that underpin the development of the new English curriculum in a secondary school in South-west China are critieaUy examined.