The traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of grammar and vocabulary, which causes students' disability in applying English, especially in listening. Self-efficacy is one of ...The traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of grammar and vocabulary, which causes students' disability in applying English, especially in listening. Self-efficacy is one of the basic elements which influence the students' learning motivation. It has close relationship with learning efficiency.展开更多
The ability to evaluate teaching materials effectively is a very important professional activity for all EFL teachers,CFL teachers as well.It is essential to fully understand a book's content and style,as well as ...The ability to evaluate teaching materials effectively is a very important professional activity for all EFL teachers,CFL teachers as well.It is essential to fully understand a book's content and style,as well as its strengths and weaknesses,so that the book can be adapted to suit factors such as course aims,student needs and teacher beliefs.This paper deals with the evaluation of a TCFT(Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) textbook,New Practical Chinese Reader(NPCR) based on McDonough and Shaw Model and Evaluation Criteria for NPCR.展开更多
In our country,traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of vocabulary and grammar,causing students' disability in language practice.This paper provides some strategies to impro...In our country,traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of vocabulary and grammar,causing students' disability in language practice.This paper provides some strategies to improve students' learning efficiency.展开更多
Teaching legal English for law students in China is difficult.For one thing,many Chinese law students have trouble moreor less in learning English,because the English language is not their mother tongue.For another,le...Teaching legal English for law students in China is difficult.For one thing,many Chinese law students have trouble moreor less in learning English,because the English language is not their mother tongue.For another,legal English differs a great dealfrom everyday English in many respects,including terminology,phrasing,linguistic structure,and linguistic conventions,whichmakes legal English teaching for law students in China by far harder.To solve difficulties undermining teaching legal English forlaw students in China,the author of this paper holds that in his or her actual legal English teaching,the teacher should boost lawstudents basic English teaching,expose them to cases study of specialized legal English terminology and linguistic structures andconventions.展开更多
Teacher and learner beliefs have been found to play an important role in EFL teaching and learning.The present em pirical study explores a group of college teachers'and students'beliefs about English teaching ...Teacher and learner beliefs have been found to play an important role in EFL teaching and learning.The present em pirical study explores a group of college teachers'and students'beliefs about English teaching by using questionnaire.The statisti cal result shows that teachers and students have divergent views about many issues in English teaching.展开更多
As an international language, English is now spoken by more and more people as a first, second or foreign language. The Chinese students tends to ignore the American culture when they are learning the language of Engl...As an international language, English is now spoken by more and more people as a first, second or foreign language. The Chinese students tends to ignore the American culture when they are learning the language of English. This paper puts forward the view that teaching American culture plays a significant role in helping the Chinese students learn English and the English teachers have the responsibility to teach American culture to Chinese students.展开更多
Teaching materials are quite important for teachers and students.Students only pay attention to interesting materials which can be counted good.Teachers should adapt the materials if they want to make the learning rea...Teaching materials are quite important for teachers and students.Students only pay attention to interesting materials which can be counted good.Teachers should adapt the materials if they want to make the learning really take place and make their teaching more effective.The teaching materials in Unit 7 Weather in 21st Century Practical College English Viewing,Listening&Speaking I can be counted good.But it is not good enough and needs adapting to make it better.展开更多
This paper compares the teaching evaluation in different cultures.By doing so,the author thinks that cultural differences may in fluence our ways of thinking and shape our own reactions.Learning these cross cultural d...This paper compares the teaching evaluation in different cultures.By doing so,the author thinks that cultural differences may in fluence our ways of thinking and shape our own reactions.Learning these cross cultural differences helps us to see the world from others' points of view,to understand other cultures better and to improve ourselves at the same time.展开更多
This study investigates the relationship between the teaching materials and motivation in second language acquisition.An evaluation of teaching materials based on Dornyei's motivation construct has been employed.T...This study investigates the relationship between the teaching materials and motivation in second language acquisition.An evaluation of teaching materials based on Dornyei's motivation construct has been employed.The results indicate students and teacher are basically satisfied with the textbook.Many factors,which affect student' s motivation towards teaching materials,are perceived.展开更多
This paper aims to demonstrate whether students'self-evaluations influence their class performance.A questionnaire is designed and data is collected from 30 sophomore students in English class.The data analysis sh...This paper aims to demonstrate whether students'self-evaluations influence their class performance.A questionnaire is designed and data is collected from 30 sophomore students in English class.The data analysis shows that students who have positive self-evaluation perform better and get higher class performance scores than students who have negative self-evaluation.展开更多
English,the widest used language in the world,has been required to learn in almost every school and university in China.Some students cannot do well in English study,because they lack of interest in English.As an Engl...English,the widest used language in the world,has been required to learn in almost every school and university in China.Some students cannot do well in English study,because they lack of interest in English.As an English teacher,it is urgent to improve teaching method to arouse students' interest.This thesis stated the reason why students don't have interest in English study,the relationship between knowledge learning and interest,and also the improvement of teaching method.展开更多
How does one teach composition to Chinese college students of English? How does one teach thera to discover ideas for themselves and to put these into English patterns of thought and organization? Can the discovery of...How does one teach composition to Chinese college students of English? How does one teach thera to discover ideas for themselves and to put these into English patterns of thought and organization? Can the discovery of ideas really be taught? Is there a method of teaching whereby the scientific process of writing can be cornbined with the creative art of composition?展开更多
The term"student learning outcomes"refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilitiesthat students achieve during a course, and is typically assessed based on student evaluations conducted at the end of the seme...The term"student learning outcomes"refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilitiesthat students achieve during a course, and is typically assessed based on student evaluations conducted at the end of the semester. Previous studies in this area have investigated the effects of instructional quality and academic demands separately and have been limited primarily to examining findings using student samples fromthe United States. With Japanese college students' perceptions of self-improvementin English language courses as the dependent variable, the present study directly tests the hypothesis that students who perceive instructional quality to be higher, andcourse demands to be greater, also estimate higher levels of self-improvement in English language skills. The analysis provides strong support for this hypothesis.Higher ratings of instruction and academic demands have already beenshown to increase levels of student learning(Greimel-Fuhrmann and Geyer 2003;Nois and Hudson 2006; Mc Fadden and Dart 1992). The present study is the first toprovide direct evidence of the relative importance of student evaluations ofinstructional quality and academic demands as predictors of student learning and thefirst ever to do so with a sample of Japanese college students enrolled in a required English as a foreign language course. Our hypothesis is that Japanese students whoperceive instructional quality to be higher, and course demands to be greater,estimate higher levels of self-improvement in English language skills. Thus we test Japanese students' attitudes toward instructional quality and course demands asindependent variables predicting their perceptions of self-improvement in English language courses. The research focuses on Japanese students' improvement in English language skills because English education in Japan is an arena in which thedebate over limited English proficiency rages on, and because other research suggests reconsideration of English education in light of the demands of the rapidly expanding global era(Amaki 2008).展开更多
With the development of economic globalization,international communication and integration,English for Specific Purpose turned up and has enjoyed much popularity since recent years. In the contemporary society,ESP tea...With the development of economic globalization,international communication and integration,English for Specific Purpose turned up and has enjoyed much popularity since recent years. In the contemporary society,ESP teaching becomes an increasing prominent teaching course. This paper will focus on the ESP teaching and learning,especially the students' expectation of ESP course. At first,it will introduce the great importance and background of ESP teaching. Then,it will review the definition,categories and traits of ESP. In the end,it will mainly concern about students' expectation and perception of ESP course.The main purpose of this paper is to bring up some constructive suggestions for ESP teaching and learning. It suggests that to achieve the goal of facilitating ESP teaching and learning effectively can be realized by understanding the characteristics of ESP teaching and learners' learning style,choosing the suitable teaching materials,creating some specific fields of this study which is relevant practically,mapping out appropriate evaluation. As for students,they should set up clear goals for ESP learning,adopt such appropriate learning method as the self-construction way,and try the cooperative learning pattern. Besides,ESP teachers also play an important role in this process. They can achieve the success of ESP teaching through planning course design at advance including considering and understanding students' expectation of ESP course,their characteristics,learning goals and appropriate teaching materials,which all contribute to positive ESP learning experience.展开更多
The Interactive Teaching plays a significant role in enhancing the students' learning interest and practical ability. One of important tasks for College English teachers is to promote the development of Interactiv...The Interactive Teaching plays a significant role in enhancing the students' learning interest and practical ability. One of important tasks for College English teachers is to promote the development of Interactive Teaching. Therefore, this paper analyzes the problems that restrict the interaction between teaching and learning, combined with the current situation of Interactive Teaching in college English teaching, and puts forward the corresponding strategies in order to give some suggestions for English teachers to transform their teaching methods.展开更多
The traditional specialized English teaching mode and method for higher vocational art students are unitary, so students' learning enthusiasm is not high and their learning efficiency is low. According to the char...The traditional specialized English teaching mode and method for higher vocational art students are unitary, so students' learning enthusiasm is not high and their learning efficiency is low. According to the characteristics of art students in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the teaching difficulties in the traditional English classroom and studies the application of the flipped classroom teaching model in the teaching of specialized English.The teacher adopts the method of making students' learning guide before class to improve the self-study efficiency of the students. Teachers use rich classroom forms and multiple evaluation criteria to improve their interest in learning English. The application of the research results is important for improving the professional English ability and the ability of job adaptation for higher vocational art students.展开更多
The balance theory was supposed in 1950s,and it provides the theory basis for optimizing the classroom teaching.By applying this theory,we discuss how to keep balance among teacher,students and teaching material.This ...The balance theory was supposed in 1950s,and it provides the theory basis for optimizing the classroom teaching.By applying this theory,we discuss how to keep balance among teacher,students and teaching material.This paper aims to keep these three factors in an open,dynamic and balanced system so as to guarantee the successful classroom teaching.展开更多
Insights obtained from this study may be useful in improving college English teaching in the aim of better preparing teachers to assume teaching responsibilities.This study may also contribute to an understanding of h...Insights obtained from this study may be useful in improving college English teaching in the aim of better preparing teachers to assume teaching responsibilities.This study may also contribute to an understanding of how administrators can improve training programs to better meet the needs,experiences,and beliefs of college students.The information may be useful in improving programs designed to facilitate the development of college teachers' beliefs about teaching and teaching skills and specifically those target the development of inquiry teaching.展开更多
Two of the evaluation, Teaching Portfolio and Performance Management, have being introduced in this article, in order to lead to the construction of the Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System.The ...Two of the evaluation, Teaching Portfolio and Performance Management, have being introduced in this article, in order to lead to the construction of the Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System.The Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System has advantages of both Teaching Portfolio and Performance Management. The article also also has listed the elements and some examples of the Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System.展开更多
Teaching evaluation is an indispensable part in English teaching.For a long time,we have adopted the summative evaluation,which may lead to the fact that students lack initiative and enthusiasm in their learning.Forma...Teaching evaluation is an indispensable part in English teaching.For a long time,we have adopted the summative evaluation,which may lead to the fact that students lack initiative and enthusiasm in their learning.Formative evaluation is a more efficient evaluation method aiming at various disadvantages of traditional evaluation methods.In order to explore how to apply formative evaluation in junior English teaching,this paper firstly analyzed the problems in traditional evaluation and then analyzed the necessity of formative evaluation in junior English teaching.It mainly explored how to apply formative evaluation in junior English teaching.Finally,it reflected formative evaluation in junior English teaching and put forward some feasible suggestions to help teachers improve their teaching methods and help students improve their learning efficiency,so as to improve the quality of junior English teaching.展开更多
文摘The traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of grammar and vocabulary, which causes students' disability in applying English, especially in listening. Self-efficacy is one of the basic elements which influence the students' learning motivation. It has close relationship with learning efficiency.
文摘The ability to evaluate teaching materials effectively is a very important professional activity for all EFL teachers,CFL teachers as well.It is essential to fully understand a book's content and style,as well as its strengths and weaknesses,so that the book can be adapted to suit factors such as course aims,student needs and teacher beliefs.This paper deals with the evaluation of a TCFT(Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) textbook,New Practical Chinese Reader(NPCR) based on McDonough and Shaw Model and Evaluation Criteria for NPCR.
文摘In our country,traditional English teaching attaches excessive importance to the explanation of vocabulary and grammar,causing students' disability in language practice.This paper provides some strategies to improve students' learning efficiency.
文摘Teaching legal English for law students in China is difficult.For one thing,many Chinese law students have trouble moreor less in learning English,because the English language is not their mother tongue.For another,legal English differs a great dealfrom everyday English in many respects,including terminology,phrasing,linguistic structure,and linguistic conventions,whichmakes legal English teaching for law students in China by far harder.To solve difficulties undermining teaching legal English forlaw students in China,the author of this paper holds that in his or her actual legal English teaching,the teacher should boost lawstudents basic English teaching,expose them to cases study of specialized legal English terminology and linguistic structures andconventions.
文摘Teacher and learner beliefs have been found to play an important role in EFL teaching and learning.The present em pirical study explores a group of college teachers'and students'beliefs about English teaching by using questionnaire.The statisti cal result shows that teachers and students have divergent views about many issues in English teaching.
文摘As an international language, English is now spoken by more and more people as a first, second or foreign language. The Chinese students tends to ignore the American culture when they are learning the language of English. This paper puts forward the view that teaching American culture plays a significant role in helping the Chinese students learn English and the English teachers have the responsibility to teach American culture to Chinese students.
文摘Teaching materials are quite important for teachers and students.Students only pay attention to interesting materials which can be counted good.Teachers should adapt the materials if they want to make the learning really take place and make their teaching more effective.The teaching materials in Unit 7 Weather in 21st Century Practical College English Viewing,Listening&Speaking I can be counted good.But it is not good enough and needs adapting to make it better.
文摘This paper compares the teaching evaluation in different cultures.By doing so,the author thinks that cultural differences may in fluence our ways of thinking and shape our own reactions.Learning these cross cultural differences helps us to see the world from others' points of view,to understand other cultures better and to improve ourselves at the same time.
文摘This study investigates the relationship between the teaching materials and motivation in second language acquisition.An evaluation of teaching materials based on Dornyei's motivation construct has been employed.The results indicate students and teacher are basically satisfied with the textbook.Many factors,which affect student' s motivation towards teaching materials,are perceived.
文摘This paper aims to demonstrate whether students'self-evaluations influence their class performance.A questionnaire is designed and data is collected from 30 sophomore students in English class.The data analysis shows that students who have positive self-evaluation perform better and get higher class performance scores than students who have negative self-evaluation.
文摘English,the widest used language in the world,has been required to learn in almost every school and university in China.Some students cannot do well in English study,because they lack of interest in English.As an English teacher,it is urgent to improve teaching method to arouse students' interest.This thesis stated the reason why students don't have interest in English study,the relationship between knowledge learning and interest,and also the improvement of teaching method.
文摘How does one teach composition to Chinese college students of English? How does one teach thera to discover ideas for themselves and to put these into English patterns of thought and organization? Can the discovery of ideas really be taught? Is there a method of teaching whereby the scientific process of writing can be cornbined with the creative art of composition?
文摘The term"student learning outcomes"refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilitiesthat students achieve during a course, and is typically assessed based on student evaluations conducted at the end of the semester. Previous studies in this area have investigated the effects of instructional quality and academic demands separately and have been limited primarily to examining findings using student samples fromthe United States. With Japanese college students' perceptions of self-improvementin English language courses as the dependent variable, the present study directly tests the hypothesis that students who perceive instructional quality to be higher, andcourse demands to be greater, also estimate higher levels of self-improvement in English language skills. The analysis provides strong support for this hypothesis.Higher ratings of instruction and academic demands have already beenshown to increase levels of student learning(Greimel-Fuhrmann and Geyer 2003;Nois and Hudson 2006; Mc Fadden and Dart 1992). The present study is the first toprovide direct evidence of the relative importance of student evaluations ofinstructional quality and academic demands as predictors of student learning and thefirst ever to do so with a sample of Japanese college students enrolled in a required English as a foreign language course. Our hypothesis is that Japanese students whoperceive instructional quality to be higher, and course demands to be greater,estimate higher levels of self-improvement in English language skills. Thus we test Japanese students' attitudes toward instructional quality and course demands asindependent variables predicting their perceptions of self-improvement in English language courses. The research focuses on Japanese students' improvement in English language skills because English education in Japan is an arena in which thedebate over limited English proficiency rages on, and because other research suggests reconsideration of English education in light of the demands of the rapidly expanding global era(Amaki 2008).
文摘With the development of economic globalization,international communication and integration,English for Specific Purpose turned up and has enjoyed much popularity since recent years. In the contemporary society,ESP teaching becomes an increasing prominent teaching course. This paper will focus on the ESP teaching and learning,especially the students' expectation of ESP course. At first,it will introduce the great importance and background of ESP teaching. Then,it will review the definition,categories and traits of ESP. In the end,it will mainly concern about students' expectation and perception of ESP course.The main purpose of this paper is to bring up some constructive suggestions for ESP teaching and learning. It suggests that to achieve the goal of facilitating ESP teaching and learning effectively can be realized by understanding the characteristics of ESP teaching and learners' learning style,choosing the suitable teaching materials,creating some specific fields of this study which is relevant practically,mapping out appropriate evaluation. As for students,they should set up clear goals for ESP learning,adopt such appropriate learning method as the self-construction way,and try the cooperative learning pattern. Besides,ESP teachers also play an important role in this process. They can achieve the success of ESP teaching through planning course design at advance including considering and understanding students' expectation of ESP course,their characteristics,learning goals and appropriate teaching materials,which all contribute to positive ESP learning experience.
文摘The Interactive Teaching plays a significant role in enhancing the students' learning interest and practical ability. One of important tasks for College English teachers is to promote the development of Interactive Teaching. Therefore, this paper analyzes the problems that restrict the interaction between teaching and learning, combined with the current situation of Interactive Teaching in college English teaching, and puts forward the corresponding strategies in order to give some suggestions for English teachers to transform their teaching methods.
文摘The traditional specialized English teaching mode and method for higher vocational art students are unitary, so students' learning enthusiasm is not high and their learning efficiency is low. According to the characteristics of art students in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes the teaching difficulties in the traditional English classroom and studies the application of the flipped classroom teaching model in the teaching of specialized English.The teacher adopts the method of making students' learning guide before class to improve the self-study efficiency of the students. Teachers use rich classroom forms and multiple evaluation criteria to improve their interest in learning English. The application of the research results is important for improving the professional English ability and the ability of job adaptation for higher vocational art students.
文摘The balance theory was supposed in 1950s,and it provides the theory basis for optimizing the classroom teaching.By applying this theory,we discuss how to keep balance among teacher,students and teaching material.This paper aims to keep these three factors in an open,dynamic and balanced system so as to guarantee the successful classroom teaching.
文摘Insights obtained from this study may be useful in improving college English teaching in the aim of better preparing teachers to assume teaching responsibilities.This study may also contribute to an understanding of how administrators can improve training programs to better meet the needs,experiences,and beliefs of college students.The information may be useful in improving programs designed to facilitate the development of college teachers' beliefs about teaching and teaching skills and specifically those target the development of inquiry teaching.
文摘Two of the evaluation, Teaching Portfolio and Performance Management, have being introduced in this article, in order to lead to the construction of the Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System.The Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System has advantages of both Teaching Portfolio and Performance Management. The article also also has listed the elements and some examples of the Performance Management Teaching Portfolio Evaluation System.
文摘Teaching evaluation is an indispensable part in English teaching.For a long time,we have adopted the summative evaluation,which may lead to the fact that students lack initiative and enthusiasm in their learning.Formative evaluation is a more efficient evaluation method aiming at various disadvantages of traditional evaluation methods.In order to explore how to apply formative evaluation in junior English teaching,this paper firstly analyzed the problems in traditional evaluation and then analyzed the necessity of formative evaluation in junior English teaching.It mainly explored how to apply formative evaluation in junior English teaching.Finally,it reflected formative evaluation in junior English teaching and put forward some feasible suggestions to help teachers improve their teaching methods and help students improve their learning efficiency,so as to improve the quality of junior English teaching.
