Mismatched teaching and test
The New Goal is a primary and secondary school English textbook currently adopted by 28 provinces and cities in China. Its English editor David Nunnan, a professor of applied linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, trained many teachers in the country to use the textbook. After these teachers' courses, they are very worried. As a founder of the task-based pedagogy, he felt that Chinese teachers did not make effective use of this textbook to a great extent. Many of them even did not grasp the essence of task-based pedagogy at all and lacked the ability to control the classroom.
He found some misunderstandings about the task-pedagogy. For example, many teachers in class classrooms, students attend classes, participate in these activities are doing well, but the exams or test those grammar, so with the teaching is not matched. For example, you teach students to play basketball, you test the test is to play tennis, the test scores are clearly not good. Teaching and assessment tests do not match. Because the task-based pedagogy is to hope that students in the activities or use to learn to use this language. This is a big challenge for Chinese English teachers.
Measures
Introducing Authorized Credentials In the non-native English-speaking countries,
the TESOL Certificate of Completion is the most authoritative certificate of English language trainer certification in the world. This reporter has learned that the certificate training course has been introduced into the country.
Sun Chang, CEO of New Oriental Online, said that this course is an authoritative course that specializes in teaching English teachers in English as a second language. English teachers who study and pass the final exam will receive a certificate from the World Association of English Teachers (TESOL). The course is currently provided by Cengage Learning (former Thomson Learning Publishing Group),
a world-renowned publisher.
There are currently 12, divided into children's foreign languages, primary language, secondary language and other modules. Students can choose according to their own career development goals, a course of study for 12 weeks. It is reported that New Oriental is training its own teachers nationwide and requires that all teachers must undergo ELT Advantage course training within two years and must take the relevant exams after completing this course Certificate issued by the World Association of English Teachers certificate, the certificate will be the new Oriental future hiring teachers necessary conditions.
Glossary
ELT Advantage Courses: Cengage Learning, the world's leading developer of English teaching products, works with the World Association of English Teachers to develop and produce professional training tools for English teachers worldwide. Through the study of this course, English teachers can get a full range of teaching theory and teaching techniques of training. Anyone who has studied the ELT Advantage course will receive a training certificate of high quality TESOL. The certificate is currently one of the internationally renowned teacher qualifications.
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