A Study Into The Changes Of Middle School English Teachers' Roles Guided By The New Curriculum

The original curriculum system and concepts have been changed utterly in the new curriculum reform of elementary education. Some new concepts of the new curriculum have not been familarized and adopted by the teachers who are used to the traditional education. These concepts are the challenge to the thoughts and the practice of the teachers. Many-sided roles should be taken on by the teachers, who are promoters of students'all-round development, organizers of learning activities, leaders, participants, owners of modern educational technology, and research workers of teaching and education because the main aims of the new curriculum are defined as students'development is the basic starting point, students'language abilities are mainly cultivated and the task-teaching is advocated. But in teaching practice, there are some inharmonious factors between the changing of teachers'roles and the social anticipation, and there are some psychological adaptive and conflicting problems while teachers identify and take on new roles through changing old roles. Middle school English teachers'role-change is surveyed and analyzed in the new curriculum background and some suggestions are put forward in the thesis.There are five chapters in the thesis,. Curriculum and teachers'roles are generalized in Chapter One. The concepts of curriculum and teachers'roles are expressed, and world-wide opinions on teachers'roles and developmental tendency are introduced in this part. The new concepts in new curriculum and new textbooks are expressed in Chapter Two. Teachers'roles are identified through analyzing new curriculum, in which teachers are reguarded as promoters, organizers, leaders, participants, research workers and evaluaters. In Chapter Three, one hundred middle school English teachers and some students in FAW were interviewed and surveyed to find out their opinions on teachers'roles, and the study results are expressed and the arising problems are analyzed. And the following results are obtained: (1) Middle school English teachers can pay attention to take on different roles. (2) Middle school students like the teachers who can be organizers, promoters, participants and members of classroom activities and this is what teachers hope. But in the survey although it was realized by teachers that students should be the center in classroom activities, it often appears that teachers teach and students listen to them mainly in classroom activities. Exam grades are reguarded as main evaluation, and teachers have weak research thouthts. In Chapter Four some advices are given as for the problems that appear in the survey. Different roles should be changed by teachers according to their teaching methods and classroom activities and students'self-access study abilities should be fully cultivated. In Chapter Five it is concluded that how teachers change their roles.