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This study investigated the degree to which TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) training in Inner-Circle English-speaking countries impacted on the autonomy in teaching practice of Vietnamese teachers of English. Using an online survey, semi-structured in-depth interviews, and classroom observations, the research explored tension faced by these teachers when attempting to exercise their autonomy after returning to their local institution, and revealed how they managed to operate within constraints. This paper has significant implications for a range of stakeholders involved in the professional development of non-Inner-Circle TESOL teachers trained in Inner Circle contexts. 相似文献
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ABSTRACT This paper draws from a multi‐site qualitative case‐study research project entitled From Policy to Practice funded by the University of Exeter. The research sought to identify the impact that the Key Stage 3 tests would have on the working practices of eight heads of English departments and their staff in mixed maintained comprehensive schools in different regions of England. The paper begins by presenting the way that the national assessment system has undergone change since its inception, highlighting that the function of assessment is to act as the most significant indicator of a school's performance through government policy that promotes and prioritizes the measurement of pupils’ achievements through each key stage. The English teachers’ responses to the revisions of the English National Curriculum Programmes of Study are described and the paper documents the thoughts and feelings of these teachers as they had to try to make sense of the changes in their classroom working practices. They are articulate in categorizing those aspects of their pedagogical practice that the assessment process has stifled and those that the assessment process has encouraged. The paper then offers an interpretative analysis of the impact that the externally imposed curriculum and assessment changes have had on the teachers’ sense of being professionals. 相似文献
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Patricia Broadfoot Marilyn Osborn Claire Panel Andrew Pollard 《Curriculum Journal》2013,24(2):227-246
ABSTRACT Despite its current high regard in parts of the English educational community, education in France has been as much the subject of public and political concern in recent years as it has in many other countries. One manifestation of this concern was the Loi Jospin of 1989, the aim of which was to continue to encourage the growth of diversity among schools as a response to local needs. Associated with this goal was that of making teachers more willing and able to respond to the increasingly diverse needs of their pupils. By so doing, it was hoped to raise the overall level of student success within the system. This paper looks at one aspect of teachers’ practice and the impact of current reforms on it–that of assessment. Having briefly described the provisions of the Jospin Law, it discusses how these are affecting teachers’ attitudes and practice, using data from the ESRC‐funded ‘Systems, Teachers and Educational Policy’ (STEP) project (ESRC Award No.: R 000 23 4673). Some tentative conclusions about the scale of change and the significance of French primary teachers’ attitudes to assessment are offered. 相似文献
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Hilary Cox 《Education 3-13》2013,41(4):313-323
This paper outlines the development process that took place for the production of assessment materials to be used by teachers in Wales now that statutory testing at the end of KS2 has been abolished. The aim was to provide teachers with a free, but rich, optional resource that would allow for assessment of pupils' abilities in a wide range of skills and competencies embedded in the English curriculum and demonstrate how teacher assessments could be used both summatively and formatively. 相似文献
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Sue Dymoke 《Changing English: An International Journal of English Teaching》2012,19(4):395-410
Undertaken during a period when changes in the assessment of English in public examinations at 16+ were becoming embedded in classroom practice, this comparative research explores where poetry is located within the newly aligned examination assessment frameworks of New Zealand and England. It comments on how these frameworks are locally interpreted by a sample group of English teachers in two culturally diverse cities. It identifies the challenges for assessment of poetry writing and retention of poetry study at examination level that are instantiated within these contexts. In investigating poetry’s location, key issues are highlighted about teachers’ perceptions of poetry, confidence and the support needed for examination level teaching of a genre that is in danger of becoming increasingly unfamiliar to many students. 相似文献
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Educational institutions in the Arab Gulf are requiring rapid changes to enhance English language learning to keep up with globalization and economic growth. This urges the need for investigating policy changes such as effectiveness in curriculum orientations and their impact on the actual process of teaching in order to gauge how educational institutions are performing. This paper reports the findings of a survey study on curriculum enactment in the English Language Foundation Program of a higher education institution in the Arab Gulf region. Data collection methods included a survey and interview with teachers investigating their opinions about the curriculum, how much support it offers teachers to reach the objectives of the course, and whether/to what extent as well as the reasons why they feel they need to modify the curriculum at the implementation level. Results showed that most teachers exercised discretion in using the prescribed curriculum materials due to individual contextual factors. Results also indicated that either when implementing the prescribed or modified materials, most participants highlighted the importance of using reliable quality resource materials that can help teachers as well as students to enhance the learning process. Findings have implications for English as a second language curriculum design in Arab higher educational contexts. 相似文献
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常静雯 《襄樊职业技术学院学报》2013,(6):134-136
随着我国新课程改革的进一步推进,基础英语教育的发展取得了令人欣喜的成绩.为适应发展需要,初等教育英语教师职业技能的提高显得日趋重要,人们对英语专业师范生职业技能的培养提出了更高的要求.应以《新课程标准》为指导,更新现代教育理念,改革教学内容,优化课程设置,课堂内外实践相结合,继续规范技能考核标准,建立多元化评价机制,从而提高英语专业师范生的职业技能. 相似文献
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Ann FRKOVICH 《Frontiers of Education in China》2015,10(2):175-200
This case study contributes to counterpoints made to world culture theory and underscores that at the micro, classroom-level, rural Chinese teachers in a reform-oriented professional development course, and reform-oriented U.S. teacher trainers, understand educational reform, and the realities of education in these two cultures, very differently. This study examines interviews conducted with U.S. teachers of English who taught the Oral English Training Course (OETC), a professional development course for rural Chinese teachers of English in Jiangxi province from 2007 to 2013. These teachers reveal how their own understandings and assumptions around teaching and learning shape what and how they teach, and how they evaluate the work of others. This study explains that included in the literal baggage of these foreign teachers teaching in China, is their figurative baggage, which includes their own cultural lens. The thrust of this study lies in uncovering the ideologies, assumptions, and educative constructs of foreign teachers, how these may be perceived by the Chinese teachers that they teach, and how all of this is steeped in the realities in education and the individual experiences of local actors. This study ends with recommendations for collaboration between foreign teachers of English in China, and their students, particularly Chinese teachers of English in China. 相似文献
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高艳玲 《海淀走读大学学报》2014,(4):31-35
随着经济全球化进程的加快,国际化人才需求日趋上升。双语教学是在经济全球化背景下,高校教育教学改革创新的重要尝试,因此推进双语教学显得尤为重要。文章阐述了双语教学的内涵及开设双语教学的意义,全面分析了双语教学目前存在的问题,并提出相应的对策和建议,即建设适合的教材、提升学生英语水平、加大双语师资培养、建立科学、积极的教学评价体系等,切实提高大学生的专业英语水平和直接使用英语从事科研的能力,以适应社会需求。 相似文献
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形成性评价在大学英语课堂的运用 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
大学英语教师在教学过程中要想提高教学效果,使学生取得进步,除了要具备一定的教学能力之外,还应具备对学生科学的评价能力。当前大学英语教师对学生的评价形式主要是终结性评价,即以考试成绩作为评判标准。但是,多年的教学实践表明,终结性评价存在很多弊端,如影响学生学习英语的积极性、教师教学的热情不高以及课堂教学的有效性较低。在新的形势下,有必要提倡一种新的评价学生的方式——形成性评价,以进一步推动我国大学英语的教学改革。 相似文献
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Bandar Alhamdan M. Obaidul Hamid 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2017,38(5):627-641
Discourses of the universality of English and its role in individual mobility and social development abound in the literature; these discourses have contributed to the global spread of English and to the development of English Language Teaching as a profession. Despite the ubiquity of the discourses of the value and universality of English, there has been limited research on how these discourses unfold in local contexts, how these discourses are reproduced or appropriated, and how these are translated into teaching and learning artefacts (e.g. policies and textbooks) and practices by teachers and students. This paper explores the construction of the discourse of the universality and value of English within education policies, curricular documents, and textbooks used in Saudi Arabian schools, and how these discourses then play out within teacher/student interactions in a rural Bedouin-dominated classroom. Our aim is to contribute to the understanding of global English and its discourses taking a local, situated perspective. 相似文献
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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(2):153-168
This paper reports on the results of a qualitative study that explored the experiences of one group of pre‐service English language teachers in Hong Kong as they undertook an action research project as part of their undergraduate teacher training programme. Grounded in a theory of teacher identity construction as both practice and discourse, the paper examines how participation in an action research project by one group of pre‐service English language teachers in Hong Kong shaped their experiences of becoming teachers. The study indicates that as teacher researchers, the trainee teachers contested previously held perceptions about their engagement in teaching, their images of teachers and teaching, as well as their alignment with some aspects of contemporary educational discourse. Implications for teacher education and future research are also discussed. 相似文献
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Ruth Marlow Brahm Norwich Obioha C. Ukoumunne Lorraine Hansford Siobhan Sharkey Tamsin Ford 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2014,21(4):412-426
Assessing Pupils’ Progress (APP) arose from a government drive to increase the amount of teacher-based assessment within school and to make this consistent across schools. We conducted semi-structured interviews with head teachers to gain insight into how their schools applied APP and we compared the APP levels for English and Maths, provided by teachers across 11 schools for 72 pupils, to a standardised assessment (Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-II; WIAT). There was a strong correlation between the APP and WIAT for literacy but not for numeracy. Head teacher interviews revealed that APP is used differently across schools and at times is used in a way inconsistent with government guidance, which raises the question of how teacher assessments are used and their purpose. Questions that should be considered are; how is moderation used in schools, what is the function(s) of teacher assessments and what is good practice in relation to these assessments? Clarity about the function of assessments is of vital importance as is ensuring that assessments are meaningful to teachers, pupils, families and schools, especially in light of the weight that can be placed on teacher assessments for all these groups. 相似文献
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大学英语课堂教学评估方式分析 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
杜爱红 《青海师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2007,(1):122-125
课堂教学评估的目的是监控学生的学习，利用评估信息指导学生的学习。本文分析了大学英语课堂评估在大学英语教学中的重要性，以及如何运用多种评价工具及评价方式开展大学英语课堂教学评估，目的是通过对学生英语课堂学习表现行为、学习过程进行评估，教师可以深入的反思自己的教学，以便有效地开展大学英语教学，提高教学质量。 相似文献
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This paper is to make a comparison on Chinese and English sounds under contrastive analysis with the consideration of that Chinese teachers of English would be better able to foresee their students’ difficulty and consequently be better able to do their teaching plan in practice. 相似文献
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Mary Hill 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2002,1(1-2):113-125
As a result of the changes to school administration and curriculum in New Zealand over the last ten years, primary teachers
have had to make significant changes to their assessment practices. This paper briefly reviews literature relating to the
competing discourses of assessment that underpin teachers' practices and describes how the changes to New Zealand education
have provoked a reconsideration of the balance between formative and summative assessment. It then reports findings from a
qualitative investigation into how some primary teachers have attempted to accommodate these competing discourses and the
effects these have had on their teaching practice. These results are discussed in light of the research literature and suggestions
for changing national and school policies and practices to prioritise assessment for better learning over accountability conclude
the paper.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Kay Livingston Carolyn Hutchinson 《Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice》2017,24(2):290-307
AbstractIn a context of increasing demand for quality and equity in education and a sharp focus on accountability, classroom teachers are also expected to support and improve learning outcomes for pupils in response to their individual needs. This paper explores three issues: how teachers understand assessment in relation to their students’ learning, the curriculum and their pedagogical choices; how teachers’ capacity to use assessment to improve students’ learning can be developed through career-long professional learning (CLPL); and how teachers’ learning can be implemented and sustained in schools, both locally and nationally. In considering these issues, recent thinking about learning and assessment and CLPL are considered alongside empirical evidence from the development and implementation of assessment processes and approaches to professional development in Scotland. The paper emphasises the importance of a dynamic framework of CLPL that recognises the individuality of teachers’ learning needs and the consequent need for tailored professional learning opportunities with different combinations of support and challenge at school, local and national levels. 相似文献
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Christine J. Lyon Leslie Nabors Oláh E. Caroline Wylie 《The Journal of educational research》2019,112(3):301-314
The purpose of this study was to directly observe and investigate the factors that support or hinder the implementation of an integrated approach to formative assessment and to understand how the implementation of formative assessment strategies interact. The authors present findings from a collective case study that included the observation of six teachers (three mathematics and three English language arts) who were purposefully sampled from a large, public, suburban high school in the northeast United States. The analysis of the case studies resulted in the identification of different patterns in teachers’ formative assessment practice. These patterns illustrate how the complex interaction between formative assessment practices can either support or hinder the implementation of an integrated approach to formative assessment and suggests classroom observations as a potential mechanism for identifying challenges and informing just-in-time professional development. 相似文献
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Ya‐Chen Su 《Educational studies》2006,32(3):265-283
Due in large part to the trends towards economic globalization, English has become the most widely disseminated and ubiquitous international language. The purpose of the study was to investigate what Taiwan’s EFL teachers at the elementary level believe about the policy of English as a compulsory subject and how they perceive the benefits and obstacles of the policy’s implementation. Ten elementary English teachers in Tainan City and its suburban areas participated in this study. Data were collected through teachers’ interviews, classroom observation and document analysis. Results found that all ten teachers agreed with the policy for English as a compulsory subject at the elementary level. They observed both positive and negative sides of this top‐down policy. Classroom observation and interview data revealed that EFL teachers had to plan their English classes with the constraints on a large class of students with mixed levels of proficiency, limited teaching hours and resources. Parents’ expectations of and attitudes towards English learning also became an obstacle. 相似文献
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在全球化的背景下,大学英语教学不应局限于外语语言本身,更应引导大学生去探求和理解语言背后相关的社会和文化含义,促进大学生跨文化交际能力的培养,满足现代社会对大学生外语能力的要求。论述了跨文化交际教学与英语教学的相互关系,阐析了跨文化交际教学在英语教学中的重要性,进而介绍了跨文化交际教学导入的基本内容和方法,如何培养大学生的跨文化交际能力。 相似文献