Mobile “English Speaking Practice + Micro-Teaching”: An Experiment on Developing English Teaching Skills of English Education Majors in China

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.133How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese universities, English education majors, spoken English and teaching skills, training mode, experimental research

Abstract

In order to change the current insufficient spoken English and teaching skills of English education majors in China, this study proposed a new mobile training mode of “English speaking practice + micro-teaching”, and conducted a 16-week experiment to 106 students in English education major. After practicing spoken English, watching teaching video of famous teacher, preparing teaching courseware, and carry out micro-teaching 30-60 hours respectively on average, the experimental group outperformed the control group in the scores of spoken English and teaching skills by 34.7% and 28.5%. In addition, the follow-up survey found 90.4% of students in the experimental group successfully applied for the teaching job vacancies in primary and secondary schools, which is 31.1% higher than that of the control group; the proportion of their satisfaction with their scores of teaching demonstration is 82.7%, which is 30.8% higher than that of the control group. The experimental results show that the training mode has a significant role in promoting spoken English, teaching skills and job application success rate for the English education majors in China, which can provide references for other normal colleges and universities.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yang Feng
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Mobile “English Speaking Practice + Micro-Teaching”: An Experiment on Developing English Teaching Skills of English Education Majors in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 698
EP  - 702
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.133
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.133
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