Rethinking on Matching Teachers’ Teaching Styles with Students’ Learning Styles in ESL/EFL Classrooms

Teaching styles and learning styles play important parts in ESL/EFL classrooms. However, is it necessary for language teachers to match their teaching styles with their students’ learning styles?Is it feasible for the teachers to match their teaching styles to every individual student’s learning styles?Because of the incompatible learning and teaching styles, suggestions on how to deal with the difficulties in the matching of these two styles will be given.     

Teacher and Student Roles in Chinese Culture

Nowaday, going abroad to further education has gained the greatest popularity among chinese students. Majority of these oversea students may suffer from some problems in their cross-cultural classrooms, even though they are excellent in their own country. Chinese learners are frequently labeled as"passive learners", compared with other foreign learners. The teachers in foreign countries may also play a sharply different role in teaching. These problems have already attracted some education experts and researchers’attention and a few research programs and experiments have been conducted. This paper will adopt Tweed and Lehman (2002)’s Confucian-Socratic framework to systematically analyze student and teacher roles in Chinese culture and communicative norms of the students and teachers in Chinese contexts. A better cross-clutural classroom will be built on the basis of foreign teachers and chinese students’mutual efforts on understanding each other’s culture background.     

Comparison of the Perception of English Learning Between Ethnic Group Students and Han Students

This paper has analyzed the discrepancies of the perception of English learning between ethnic students and Han studens in a trilingual language context.The research results will be expected to broaden our understanding of the ethnic group students in the minority regions,and to provide some empirical references and implications for teachers.     

Conceptualising an Educational Research:An Understanding from a Philosophical View

In the paper’ Development and social competence after two years for students enrolled in inclusive and self-contained educational programs’, forty students in two groups are assessed across two years of inclusive and self-contained educational programming respectively in order to compare the outcomes on measures of child development and social competence. In this paper, the educational research mentioned above will be conceptualised from three aspects. Firstly, the foundations of the research will be identified from an epistemological and ontological perspective. Secondly, a critical appraisal will be given regarding the relationships between research,theory and practice in the paper. Finally, ethical challenges and issues in the paper will be pointed out and possible solutions proposed.     

On Ways of Arousing Professional-College Students' English Interest

Although so many methods have been put forward about arousing students’ English interest,college teachers still encounter various difficulties in practical teaching.Based on the practical professional-college English teaching experiences,five more concrete and practical means will be puts forward from a professional-college English teacher’s perspective,so as to get the conclusion that teachers should first get good acknowledgement of their students and then apply proper and effective ways to arouse students’ English interest.     

Evaluation of a Contemporary College English Listening Textbook for Second-year English Major Students at University Level

The role of textbooks,as one important channel between teachers and students,has always aroused scholars’interests,but what indeed are the roles of textbook for students and teachers? This paper aims to evaluate a listening textbook that is used by English major university students in China.Three research questions are proposed which are:(1) What are the students’per ceptions about the listening textbook? (2) What are the teachers’opinions about the listening textbook? (3) To what extent do students and teachers perceptions match? In order to answer these three research questions,questionnaires were designed for both students and teachers to obtain the data.This study is supported both qualitatively and quantitatively.The data of this research suggested that both students and teachers have found advantages of this listening textbook,which they may find helpful for their learning and teaching,but they are also not satisfied with some aspects of the textbook,which they think need further improvement.The students’and teachers’opinions to some extent have reached some agreement about the textbook,but students may not be so enthusiastic about the textbook,while the teachers may show much reliance on the text book.This study has its limitations,but it also provides some insights for teachers and textbook writers.     

The English Teachers' Correction Strategies toward Students' Oral Errors in College

Based on the requirements of college English curriculum,college students should have natural and fluent pronunciation and intonation in their oral English.Students’ability to communicate successfully has become an ultimate goal for schools.Therefore,to make some requirements on English teachers’correction strategies toward students’oral errors in the procedure of teaching becomes necessary.Through researching,analyzing the listed examples and making an investigation,the author finds out that there are some problems in English teachers’attitudes and treatment toward college students’oral errors.The author hopes that her analyses and findings could help the teachers to conduct a more appropriate correction strategies which may be helpful for the teachers to manage their classrooms effectively,thus to eliminate the frustrating feelings of the students and to facilitate an efficient interaction between the teachers and the students.     

A Study of the Cooperation in the Classroom

In the past, the teachers are traditionally regarded as information givers; Knowledge flows only one way from teachers to students, while the students are usually considered as information receivers and they are very passive and boring. New syllabus requires cooperation between teachers and students, So teachers may need to re-think their approaches when they teach students, Teachers not only need to build up a positive relationship with the students, but also need to establish a clear understanding of how they expect and want things to be.     

The Application of TBL Using Role Play to Introduce Vocabulary in China’s Private Language School

A specific application of task-based learning in teaching vocabulary to young learners and a complete task cycle using role play to present vocabulary in China’s private language school would be described in the study. The participants aged between 7 and 9 are thought to be starters according to their language competence in Common European Framework of Reference for language. The rationale for stages in the task cycle will be fully explored with reference to Piaget and Vygotsky’s theory in teaching young learners. The advantages of the adoption of TBL with young learners will be illustrated and some possible problems in implementing TBL in China, a representative country of Confucian-heritage culture would also be discussed in the paper. The study indicates that young learners in China are quite welcome this new approach in their English classes, but the targeted learners’ age and background information need to be taken into consideration when actually implement this approach.     

An Analysis on Teacher-student Role Changing in Interactive Teaching Mode

Teachers and students play important roles in teaching activity,and they are the most essential parts of the system.The relationship between teachers and students,the core schooling interpersonal relationship,directly determines whether the teach ing activities can go smoothly or not,and is an important index to measure the quality of teachers and students’school life,and also is an important factor that affects the social function of education.For a long time,relationship between teachers and students has been a hot topic in education and in different sectors of the society.This dissertation aims at discussing the teacher-student role changing in interactive teaching mode to provide reference for building a harmonious relationship between teachers and stu dents.     

An Analysis of Three Dimensions in EFL Teaching

After analyzing the three dimensions(teachers,students and classroom activities) in EFL teaching,it can be found that rapport and delivery are of great importance to a teacher;a quality teacher should comprehensively understand his students and always keep individual differences in mind and modern teachers should also grasp many skills of managing classroom activi ties.In order to activate students’motivation and at the same time keep a high teaching efficiency level,classroom teaching should be carefully shifted from teacher-centered to student-centered when possible.In this process,class activities can greatly reinforce a student-centered class.     

The Importance of Grammar Consciousness in English Learning

Learning English is quite different from learning Chinese.Grammar consciousness is a very different type of knowledge from the ability to describe the sentence a speaker produces in terms of grammar.The passage explores the relationship between grammar consciousness and English learning and suggests that teachers attach great importance to the overall increase in students’ language sensitivity and grammar awareness.     

How to Create a Low-anxiety Environment for Chinese Learners of EFL to Enhance Oral Proficiency in Speaking Lessons

The goal of teaching English speaking is to improve students’ communicative efficiency, or make students speak the target language clearly, coherently, accurately and fluently (Xu, 2005). However, in China, a number of students in an English speaking class tend to be passive and reluctant to speak out or be singled out publicly mainly due to their high anxiety, which, of course, becomes a significant constraint on improving their English proficiency. Therefore, how to create a relaxed atmosphere with a sense of security in the English speaking class to alleviate Chinese learners’ anxiety and to provide them with as many opportunities as possible to practice speaking English and improve their English proficiency is one of the central tasks for language teachers.his paper will firstly outline my teaching context in China in physical, pedagogical, institutional and personal aspects. This will be followed by the definition and classification of language learning anxiety, and the analysis of various factors contributing to foreign language learners’ anxiety as well as some suggestions of how to reduce the learners’ anxiety in the oral class according to the current literature. Finally, some applications will be presented in my teaching context in the hope of decreasing Chinese students’ anxiety to enhance their English speaking proficiency.     

Setting Questions in Class Based on the ＂Wisdom Class＂ Theory

In the process of classroom education, setting questions in class is an important teaching method, which is used in the whole teaching activity and acts as the link between the thoughts of teachers and students. Hence, creating a wisdom class and using according questions to aid the class are of great significance to both students and teachers. In this paper, 40 elementary students from the 9th grade and 10 of their teachers were studied and the result showed that learning requirements facing to the whole class and students＇ learning beliefs are essential principles, and questions should be set by having an exhaustive understanding of the textbook, giving previous homework, creating a thinking atmosphere, and setting a proper difficulty for the students. The proper time to set questions is when the old knowledge and new knowledge of the student conflict in the awareness of the student, when the teacher wants to spread thought, and when the teacher wants to make a conclusion.     

Nonverbal Communication in College English Teaching

This thesis mainly focuses on the significance of nonverbal communication in college English teaching. On the one hand English teachers should emphasize to cultivate the students’ nonverbal communication competence while training their verbal communication ability, on the other teachers should pay attention to the use of nonverbal communication to teach effectively in college English classroom. The author illustrates the topic from four aspects: body language, paralanguage, object language and environmental language. If teachers use them actively, our students will become full-scale in communication competence and teachers can make classes more interesting thus stimulate the students’ motivation and affection in English study.     

Interactive Techniques Used in Teachers’ Oral Feedback and Its Impact on Students’ Participation

English language teaching is facing a reformation with the emphasis of students-centered learning approach and communicative language learning. Classroom interaction becomes popular especially during teachers’ oral feedback. In order to involve more students to participate, interactive techniques are applied in the classroom such as elicitation and recasts. This essay will focus on the adoption of interactive techniques in teachers’ oral feedback in terms of a specific grammar lesson and try to explore its impact on students’ participation.     

On the Application of Humor in College English Teaching

Humorous teaching helps liven up class, create a harmonious atmosphere, and promote interactions between teachers and students, thus relieving the anxiety of the learner and stimulating their motivation and creativity. This paper discusses the effects of the use of humor on College English teaching in practical scenarios as well as the principles to be followed, aiming to improve the teaching efficiency and students’ interest in English learning.     

How to Train Learning Strategies in Your Students

To learn a something well is a way of learning how to learn effectively,therefore,the term "learning strategies" is put to the frontier in order to draw learners’ attentions.Being distinct from learning method,learning strategies has much more significant and long-term process,which needs the mutual reaction between teachers and students.This essay is about the role of learning strategies and how teachers are supposed to train this skill in their students in terms of their different leaning styles so that students can form a good habit and enhance their learning efficiency.     

Why is Emma Interested in Matchmaking?

Love and marriage are the favorite themes in Jane Austin’ s novels.She describes Emma as a young,beautiful,well-educated,grow out of a rich and is passionate to be a match maker.However,Emma is far from a successful match maker.Match makers are the mid dle-aged women who are noisy and warm-hearted.However,Emma is single yet high on the matchmaking,which arouses our readers’ interest.This paper is going to analyze this problem from the solitude mind and the personality.     

The Application of Nonverbal Communication in Classroom Teaching

Nonverbal communication plays a vital role not only in intercultural communication,but also in classroom teaching.Using nonverbal communication exactly and compatibly in class can enrich information for the students and improve their learn ing interests.Also it will help to promote the communication between teachers and students,thus to creat good classroom teach ing atmosphere and optimize the teaching effects。There are practical benefits for teachers to apply the nonverbal communica tion in classroom teaching.