This paper reports on a mixed method inquiry into the use of vocabulary learning strategies and their development as strategic vocabulary learners in a key middle school on the Chinese mainland. In the inquiry, 475 fi...
While the research agenda of classroom interaction has long been well established internationally, scholars in China have paid little empirical attention to these developments until recently. Furthermore, among the bo...
The New Curriculum Standards (NCS) for Middle Schools require students to complete certain amount of English reading as extra-curricular practice at Junior and Senior high levels respectively. Such standards encourage...
This article aims to structure an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom observation scheme (OS). The writer presents the basics and bases of the OS, followed by an analysis of the focuses of the OS. In conclus...
Task-based teaching is no longer a new term. However, its application in China, particularly in less developed areas, has not been heard. The writer has carried out a five-week experiment in a suburban junior middle s...
Since 1993, English education in middle schools has experienced a great change, that is, a total alteration of English textbooks. Such alteration has brought about the change of English teachings in schools. This pape...
The State Education Commission’s Senior English Syllabus(1993) (SETS) stipulates precisely that English teaching shouldplace a primary emphasis on cultivating students’ reading ability.However, it seems most middle ...
Recently,I was standing in the corridor of a middle school,and I heard the following ex-change between a student and a teacher who,like so many teachers these days,was hurrying,ina harassed sort of way,from one classr...
This paper examines the approach used by middle school teachers to teaching texts and argues against thetraditional practice of exploiting texts just to teach grammar and vocabulary.A more balanced approach ispresente...
IntroductionDuring the three years of Senior Middle School Teacher Training at Southwest China TeachersUniversity.experiments and experience have shown that it is crucial for middle school English teachers tohave more...