This article mainly deals with a group of Chinese tertiary students' ideas about what makes a good EFL teacher at the tertiary level. The participants' learning experience, reflections and expectations have cast lig...This article mainly deals with a group of Chinese tertiary students' ideas about what makes a good EFL teacher at the tertiary level. The participants' learning experience, reflections and expectations have cast light upon what a modern EFL teacher is supposed to perform in the Chinese EFL context.展开更多
Learner autonomy has recently been introduced as one of the efficacious, potential-developing teaching patterns. Based on its nature and its great effect on the promotion of language teaching, this paper chiefly focus...Learner autonomy has recently been introduced as one of the efficacious, potential-developing teaching patterns. Based on its nature and its great effect on the promotion of language teaching, this paper chiefly focuses on the important roles English teachers play in it and its significance to the development of language teaching in China.展开更多
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
Recent years has witnessed the great efforts made to investigate the relationship between language and affective factors. This essay serves both to focus awareness on the role of affective factors in the communicative...Recent years has witnessed the great efforts made to investigate the relationship between language and affective factors. This essay serves both to focus awareness on the role of affective factors in the communicative classroom and to show how affective factors influence many different aspects of communicative language teaching/learning. A survey is also conducted on the communicative language teaching to illustrate affective factors in the communicative classroom.展开更多
文摘This article mainly deals with a group of Chinese tertiary students' ideas about what makes a good EFL teacher at the tertiary level. The participants' learning experience, reflections and expectations have cast light upon what a modern EFL teacher is supposed to perform in the Chinese EFL context.
文摘Learner autonomy has recently been introduced as one of the efficacious, potential-developing teaching patterns. Based on its nature and its great effect on the promotion of language teaching, this paper chiefly focuses on the important roles English teachers play in it and its significance to the development of language teaching in China.
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.
文摘Recent years has witnessed the great efforts made to investigate the relationship between language and affective factors. This essay serves both to focus awareness on the role of affective factors in the communicative classroom and to show how affective factors influence many different aspects of communicative language teaching/learning. A survey is also conducted on the communicative language teaching to illustrate affective factors in the communicative classroom.