铜仁地区农村英语教师专业素质调查与研究

英语课程改革对英语教师提出了新的挑战,教师素质成为改革成功的关键,农村英语教师素质也开始受到人们的关注。为了解农村英语教师的教学现状,在此以问卷调查为工具,对铜仁地区60所农村中小学81位英语教师进行了调查,结果显示：农村英语教师的教学现状不容乐观,他们对自身发展的需求强烈,但是,他们在职业发展过程中所面临着急需解决的困难。调查结果对如何提高农村英语教师素质问题有积极作用。     

Teaching the book and educating the person: challenges for university English language teachers in China

Recent accounts of college-level English language teaching in China describe environments that, although constrained by the College English Test (CET), are undergoing changes in a number of curriculum areas, including recognition of the need to incorporate communicative approaches and the assessment of practical language abilities. In such times, tensions between the needs and desires of society, teaching institutions, teachers and students are inevitable. In this article, we report on a study involving a group of university English teachers from across China who attended a professional development programme in Beijing in the summer of 2006. We explored the experiences of 83 teachers in their working environments, using four one-page reflective frames, which we distributed at regular intervals during the 2-week programme. Teachers described tensions between the need to achieve socially-oriented and subject-centred goals, such as passing examinations and developing communicative competence (“teaching the book”), and their desire to bring about enduring personal changes in students' awareness of themselves as learners and their approaches to learning (“educating the person”). Like colleagues in other countries and contexts, they faced ongoing challenges in trying to harmonize students' needs, curriculum obligations, and their own theories of best practice.     

儿童英语教学中的语境创设

语境作为语言交际的基石,长期以来,引起语言学界的广泛关注。语用学家和社会语言学家分别从不同的层面和角度对语境进行了定义和分类,但是语境作为影响儿童英语教学效果的一个重要的、潜在的因素被忽略了。通过讨论在儿童英语教学中创设课堂语境的三个途径：运用教师话语创设语境、利用教具创设语境、组织课堂活动创设语境,来进一步说明语境在儿童英语教学中的作用。     

Contrasting Two Approaches to Distance Language Learning

In this article we contrast two distance foreign language programs developed at two European institutions of higher education (the Modern Languages Program at the Open University, UK; and the English Program at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) as instances of two pedagogical models used to address the many challenges posed by teaching languages at a distance. A detailed analysis of both approaches reveals that the pedagogical choices made by both universities are in great measure determined by the historical and cultural contexts in which both institutions are embedded. In addition, we discuss the similarities and differences between the two and draw several conclusions regarding the appropriateness of the two distance universities' general educational, administrative, and technological models for distance language learning.     

English Language Teaching in China: A Bridge to the Future

In this paper, the authors outline the development of ELT in the PRC in the last 10 years or so as seen in the wider context of educational reform in the country and the new direction towards quality education. Despite the influence of communicative language teaching and other language teaching approaches from outside the country, ELT in China has retained some of its essentially “Chinese characteristics”. As for the future of ELT in the PRC, the authors feel that, given the growing importance of English and the enormous energy and enthusiasm in the PRC for learning the language in both the formal and informal contexts, ELT will continue to flourish. After all, for many individuals and for the country itself, English is a bridge to the future.     

谈英语教学研究的几种方法

英语教学的研究是一个动态的过程，探讨得出的原则往往只适用于英语教学某一特定的环境或方面。而正确地选择和运用科学的研究方法则有利于我们把握变换了环境和条件的英语教学的客观规律，改进英语教学。本旨在介绍英语教学研究中常采用的实验法、观察法、历史法、勘查法、内省法等几种基本研究方法。     

Fostering the “Intercultural Reader”? An Empirical Study of Socio-Cultural Approaches to EFL Literature

The work presented here is a qualitative study of socio-cultural approaches to literary texts in a selection of upper secondary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Norway. The article explores opportunities and challenges related to the fostering of competent “intercultural readers” in foreign language (FL) educational contexts by examining how notions of interculturality are implicated in the teaching materials and classroom discourse. The analysis indicates that the examined text interpretation processes rely on a complex interplay between literary texts, tasks and classroom participants in such respect. Two particular strands of the analysis, pertaining to how issues of intertextuality and the emotional dimension of literary reading play a role in the data, are highlighted. The article concludes by discussing the didactic implications of findings.     

语境在高职英语教学中的应用

语言的表达离不开语境,而语境也是语言赖以生存和发展的环境。语境的作用为：使语意明确化;使省略句完整化;使语意单一化。语境在高职英语教学中的应用表现在几个方面：篇章教学;词汇教学;语法教学;听力教学;写作教学。     

Identifying English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities: Key Challenges and Possible Approaches

The need for effective approaches for identifying English language learners with learning disabilities is great and growing. Meeting this need is complicated by recent developments in the field of learning disabilities that are unrelated to the English language learning status, and by limitations in existing knowledge specific to the identification of English language learners with learning disabilities. We review recent developments in the field of learning disabilities concerning the need for earlier identification, the need for a more appropriate conceptualization of learning disability, and the need for more effective assessments and treatments. We discuss challenges to assessment and identification of English language learners with learning disabilities, provide examples of two approaches to meeting these challenges, and describe some remaining challenges.     

英美文学教学的现状与思考——浅议英美文学教学

我国英美文学教学面临困境.一方面因为英美文学历史跨度大,作品丰富多样,风格各异,流派众多,而且学生会受到不同的文化背景的影响; 另一方面,由于我国经济发展迅速,社会就业形势越来越严峻,多数学生更倾向于一些实用型课程的学习,不愿再把主要时间和精力集中在研读英美文学原著上.因此,教师应针对英美文学教学现状,革新教学理念,合理安排教学内容,改进教学方法和考核方式,提高教学效果;启发学生感受,欣赏,并创造文学美,提高学生的语言能力和人文素质.     

Non-native English speaking pre-service teachers in an EFL context: examining experiences through borderland discourse

This study examined borderland discourse emergent from the practicum experiences of non-native English speaking pre-service teachers (PSTs) in a Thai primary school. Borderland discourse is defined as a space where personal and professional constructs intersect, which is often in a state of dissonance. Over a ten-week practicum period, the PSTs narrated their experiences through a dialogic reflective journal with their teacher-educator. A main issue was the dissonance between PSTs’ expectations with the reality of their teaching context. Some of which were the Thai students’ inability to communicate in English and the use of a syllabus that did not reflect the students’ language abilities. This led to a renegotiation of PSTs’ pedagogical approaches. This study also highlighted potential challenges that non-native English speaking PSTs may face if teaching in a context that is linguistically or culturally different from theirs, as well as a brief account of English language education in Thailand.     

英美文学教学刍议

英美文学课作为我国高校外语院系的一门专业 课，在各类高校外语院系的教学计划中占有举足轻重 的地位。该课程历史跨度大，作品纷繁多样、风格各 异，文学流派众多，且受文化背景的影响，因此，一直是 难教难学的课程。正是由于这些原因，这两门课程曾 一度受到冷落。在一些院     

整体语言教学理论探讨与实践——以高职综合英语课堂教学为例

整体语言教学作为一种新兴的语言教育哲学被运用于外语教学之中。在概述整体语言观的理念和原则的基础上,探讨了整体语言教学在高职综合英语课堂教学中的实施。研究证明,整体语言课堂以学生为中心,在丰富的意义活动中融合听、说、读、写各种技能训练,有助于培养学生的英语综合应用能力。     

论英语教学中的真实性原则

英语教学是一种交际性、任务型的教学过程,真实性原则为其首要原则。英语教学中的真实性包括创设真实的环境、使用真实的教学材料、执行真实的教学任务、习得真实的语言能力等方面。从不同角度分析真实性原则,进而在英语教学中贯彻真实性原则,将有助于我们更好地理解英语教学的实质。     

Language learning,teaching and educational reform in rural Thailand: an English teacher's perspective

This article discusses English language teaching in Thailand through a biographical case study of a teacher working in a government school in the rural north-east. It explores a particular context of teaching and learning, showing how an individual comes to be a teacher and deals with the day-to-day demands of teaching, as well as reflecting on the place of English in a society where it is a foreign language. The article contends that case studies of this type have the power to illuminate the context of teaching, to enable us to come to a fuller understanding of the demands of being a teacher of English in societies where it is a foreign language, and thus to provide essential data on the realities of teaching in various contexts. This data may then be used to inform centralized programmes to reform English language teaching which at present rarely consult the principal change agents – teachers – prior to their implementation. Curriculum reform programmes in Thailand have been criticized for their lack of impact at the classroom level and the article maintains that, if these programmes are to be effective, they should be based on an understanding of the local contexts of teachers' work.     

英语口语练习中师生应注意的几个问题

英语日益成为我国对外交往的重要语言工具。对英语学习者来说,能够在各种语境中进行口头表达是至关重要的,因此,口语运用能力在英语教学和学习中的重要性不言而喻。为了更有效的学习和教学,在英语口语练习中师生应注意哪些问题呢？笔者根据多年的教学经验谈了自己的看法。     

英语变体与多元文化语境中的英语听力教学

英语是在多元文化语境中发展和变化着的语言。探讨英语变体的分类模式,认识各种英语变体的必要性及其对听力教学的启示,帮助提高学生在多元文化语境中的听力理解能力。     

On the Importance of Cultural Input in English Teaching

English as a foreign language has been a subject in middle school of China for years. Teachers and educators generation by generation have been trying to find an optimal method of teaching foreign language to help students master it better. After unceasing exploring, traditional teaching pattern has been improved and new teaching approaches appear such as Task-based language teaching and communicative language teaching. However, whatever teaching methods English teachers use in the class, they should not ignore the cultural input in English teaching. The successful and efficient English teaching should transform the single language teaching into the combination of language teaching and cultural teaching. The thesis is concerned with the significance of culture in English teaching. More specifically, some consideration will be given to the reasons and ways of teaching culture.     

We have been living with this pain: enquiry-based language learning in Iranian higher education

This article explores an understanding of learning as authentic enquiry and language as a social practice of meaning construction as the theoretical perspectives underlying an educational initiation beyond mainstream tertiary language education. With a general ethnographic approach and relying on multiple data sources, we investigate critical practices of teaching medical English in an Iranian university and illustrate a contextualized instance of enquiry-based language learning that embodies enquiry and discovery in two senses: students’ research and learning about the content for oneself, and moving away from spoon-feeding views of academic language education to experience language in real social contexts. On this basis, we argue for stepping beyond predetermined content-based approaches to university language teaching and call for living the language that is being learned, which involves enquiring, experiencing, discovering, challenging, and owning it.     

语言学习策略及其在大学英语教学中的渗透

语言学习策略在大学英语教学中占有重要的地位,大学英语教师在教学过程中应该重视发现学生的学习策略、注重培养学生的学习策略,不仅要考虑“如何教”,更要思考帮助学生“如何学”的问题。本文综述了国内外学者对语言学习策略与外语教学的研究,并就如何在我国大学英语教学中渗透学习策略,从而提高大学英语学习效果和教学质量的问题提出了相应对策和建议。