Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education

Study on the Role Change of English Teacher  in the Context of Reforms in English Teaching

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Xingying He
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Xingying He
Available Online December 2015.
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10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.43How to use a DOI?
Keywords
college English, College Entrance Examination, teaching reform, change of teacher’s role
Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the possible effects of reforms in College Entrance Examination and college-level English education on teachers’ position and development. We examine the history of English teaching reforms in recent 36 years in major cities and regions, its driving forces and traditional role of English teachers. The results we obtain prove that reforms in English is closely related to the economic demand of the society and political concerns. While English is still regarded as a critical skill, its position as a key subject in the whole education system has been weakening. The result suggests that English teachers should regard specialty English teacher and communicator of advanced foreign culture and brilliant traditional culture as a better direction of career transformation. However, the necessity and reasonableness of such reforms is still to be further studied.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
December 2015
ISBN
978-94-6252-126-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.43How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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