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.

The Teacher's Role of Listening Comprehension

Throughout the history of the listening comprehension teaching at home and abroad, the research mainly focus on the correlation of the learner's English listening proficiency and their self-efficiency. Scholars like Alisa J.Bates, Penny Ur. and Widdowson, H. G. have claimed the significance of teacher's role in listening comprehension. For the purpose of proving the necessity of the teacher's role in listening comprehension, based on the analysis of the features of classroom listening comprehension,this paper presents the teacher's role before class, in class and after class. Meanwhile, during the teaching process, teachers and learners are revealed in two way interactive relations and the pedagogical process is the result of the bilateral interaction of the two sides.

On the Development of Chinese College Students'English Listening Autonomy

The article discusses issues related to listening autonomy including the definition of listening and autonomy.The foster of listening involve the collaborated effort of the listening teacher and student.Meanwhile three specific ways to improve listen ing autonomy are presented-keeping a listening diary,extensive listening and forming a listening online community.

Teaching Listening in an Effective Way

How to teaching and learning listening in an effective way, which perplexes not only teachers but also students. The paper introduces some practice in author's routine teaching in order to improve our listening and learning.

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.

HOW TO IMPROVE LISTENING COMPREHENSION AND SPEAKING IN TEFL

The English departments of many colleges have now beenequipped with what is called listening room where the teacher,by operating a machine,lets the students listen to taped English anddo exercises such as question-answering and retelling ideas orstories.Such teaching or teachers often find the students dull orslow in learning anything.And an analysis of the teaching methodwill show that this dullness of the students is unavoidable or,one might say,well-grounded.

On Helping Non-Major English Postgraduates Achieve More in English Listening

In this article,the writer aims at emphasizing the significance of English listening in postgraduates’English Language Teaching and English Language Learning.The writer tries to solve the problems related to postgraduates’English listening and improve their Listening ability by providing many practical issues,effective strategies and different managing approaches.

农村幼儿园教师消极倾听行为的表征及改进策略

随着学前教育的普及,幼儿园教师的倾听行为受到越来越多的关注。教师倾听行为分为积极倾听行为和消极倾听行为两种。积极倾听行为会让师幼互动更加顺利,让教学活动更加有效,更有利于幼儿的健康成长;消极倾听行为会影响幼儿的情感体验,破坏师幼关系,给幼儿成长带来不利影响。农村幼儿园教师受自身发展水平、师幼比、工作环境等因素的影响,消极倾听行为表现较多。采用访谈、实地观察等多种形式,深入了解农村幼儿园教师消极倾听行为的现状,并据此从幼儿教师自身和幼儿园两个方面提出改善建议,期望对农村幼儿园教师队伍建设提供帮助。

A Study of Teacher Feedback in Different English Class Types

This essay mainly focuses on the feedback move in IRF(initiate- response- feedback) to investigate the characters and functions of teacher feedback in different class types through classroom observation. The research finds that(1) teachers in different class types prefer to adopt evaluative feedback and use more positive feedback.(2) the proportion of each feedback is different in listening and speaking, reading and writing class. The implications are that English teachers in senior high school should adopt different feedback flexibly and consider what kind of feedback is more likely elicit the students' output in different class types.

The Independence of the Learner Is the Primary Aim of the Language Teacher

In recent years, in our country, a new upsurge of learning foreignlanguage has appeared along with the deepening of reform and theflourishing of construction of China’s socialist modernization. Englishis mostly learned here because it has now become a popular language inthe world, people in many countries often communicate with each otherin English. Many native English-speakers come to China as teachers,

A Teacher's Touch

I was standing in front of a fresh classof third graders on the first day of school.I saw the usual excited,expectant faces...except for one boy.He’d taken a desk inthe back of the room near the door,as if toprepare for a quick escape.His hair hungover his eyes.*Not that I could see hiseyes,because he was staring down at thedesktop.His clothes were too big for his*scrawny frame.*Other than what I saw,I didn’t know more than his name:Ryan.He struck me as the sort of student

“师生合作评价法”在大学英语听说教学中的使用效果研究

大学英语视听说教学中的“评价”环节在教学中发挥着监控、诊断、激励和调节重要作用。教学评价方法改革旨在保证教学评价的科学性、客观性和指导性,充分发挥其导向、反馈和强化作用,从而帮助教师形成有效教学反思和创新。本文以大学英语听说课程为例,对基于“共评—互评—反思—检验”的“师生合作评价法”在大学英语听说教学中的使用效果进行了探讨。

论缄默知识视域下的教学倾听

课堂教学中的倾听是一种教师与学生的双向互动行为,既包括教师对学生思想的理解,又体现了教师与学生心灵世界的互相融合。缄默知识是显性知识的认识基础,学生内心所隐含的缄默知识往往透视着自己的真实诉求,同时也制约着课堂的教学效果。因此,基于缄默知识的视角来看,教师要给予学生尊重与关爱,在与学生共同交流中关注学生的心灵,增长彼此的认识与经验,从而促进学生的成长及教师自身的专业发展。

教师在大学英语听力形成性评价中的作用初探

通过大学英语听力形成性评价方式的实施来观察、研究受试教师在其中所起的作用及所扮演的角色,并检验听力形成性评价方式是否有助于提高学生的听力成绩和听力形成性评价意识。数据分析表明在大学英语教学中实施听力形成性评价不仅能使教师具有与以往不同的作用和角色,还能极大地提高学生的英语听力成绩,学生的听力形成性评价意识也明显增强。

大学教师在英语听力教学中的定位

本文根据《大学英语教学大纲》和对学生听力学习现状的调查,着重从听力教学的角度论述教师所充当的角色,确定英语教师在大学英语听力教学中的位置,更好地进行听力教学。

开放视野:让教师在教学评价中走向专业发展

随着信息化教学的深入发展,许多教师发现自己迷失了传统听课评课的原则和方向,而如何在这种开放式的教学交流过程中促进自身的专业发展,更是从无谈起。针对这种现象,本文论述了信息化教学情境下开展课堂教学评价的标准与意义、听课评课的过程与方法,并总结了运用信息化手段进行听课评课的几种主要形式,希望教师能够运用好这种常见的教研活动,将教师专业发展带入一个新阶段。

网络自主学习环境下英语学习者训练的行动研究

该研究以Adamson的行动研究模型为指导,针对网络学习环境下如何提高英语听力学习自主性这一实际教学问题,对103名大学生实施学习者训练的教学干预。结果发现:通过目标定位、学习进展监控、学习策略使用与自我评价等教师引导,学生的学习自主性和听力成绩得到提高;与此同时,通过需求分析、基线数据分析、业内资料查找、形成性与终结性数据收集、结果阐释与总结等一系列的行动,教师增强了反思能力和教师自主性。教师引导的学习者训练促进学习者自主,行动中的教学实践和反思促进教师自主,而两者的有机结合实现了师生自主的双赢,达到学习者自主性和教师自主性的共同发展。

幼儿园教学“倾听”的缺失与重建

倾听教育学是历史渊源古老但生命稚嫩的一个新兴体,当前处于快速发展之中。倾听着的教育具有重要价值,然而幼儿园教学中"失聪"现象突出。幼儿园教学中常见的倾听缺失有四种类型:拒绝式倾听、选择式倾听、虚假式倾听、不健全式倾听。倾听的缺失影响着教学品质的提升。幼儿园教学应努力建构"倾听着的教育":增强教师倾听意识,开展倾听式教学;构建学习共同体,提高教师倾听的能力和对话经验。

抛锚式教学模式与教师的多元化作用——建构主义理论在大学英语听说课教学中的应用

建构主义理论对当前大学英语听说教学改革有着重要的指导意义。该理论强调以学生为中心,教师是学生构建知识过程的组织者、指导者、帮助者和促进者。本文讨论了在建构主义理论指导下,教师在大学英语听说课教学中,运用抛锚式教学(Anchored Instruction)法,起到的多元化作用。

青年教师课堂教学“讲、听、评”实践探索——以常州大学为例

提高高校青年教师的教学能力和教学水平,是保障学校教学质量的基础工程。由于缺乏师范教育和专门训练,不少青年教师教学经验不足、能力不强。通过广泛、深入地开展课堂教学"讲、听、评"活动,让青年教师在角色互换、比较比照、交流学习中掌握教学技巧,提高教学能力;并通过与考核晋级挂钩,与教研室建设结合,夯实基础,逐步形成培养青年教师成长进步的长效机制。