New Teacher-student Relationship In The English Curriculum Standards

Mr. Liu Ji, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Social Science pointed out: "Globalization is an inevitable trend in the 21st century. The rest of the world is coming to China and China is merging itself in the whole world. This makes it conspicuous that if education in China should be incompatible with this developing trend, special stress must be laid on foreign language education." Looking back, in retrospect, foreign language learning in our country has undergone a fast development, which is manifested in the fact that a great number of foreign language talents have been successfully trained under the condition of unfavorable teaching facilities. The teaching syllabus has been successfully worked out, English learning courses have been practically designed and good textbooks for learners at different levels have been compiled, the modification of which keeps pace with the changes of society. As the reform and opening up to the outside world go further, economy, science and technology in our country have experienced a dramatic development, which results in a greater demand of foreign language talents of different kinds. This demand shows incompetence of the traditional teaching and calls for immediate reform on the current foreign language education system. New teaching concept must be introduced and courses must be designed with modern spirits to suit for developing students' language skills. Course-design should be able to provide choices and flexibility of goals for students. To meet the demand of reform, the Ministry of Education promulgated "The New Curriculum Criteria for English Courses for Fulltime Compulsory Nine Year Middle School Education" in February of 2003. The New Curriculum Criteria claims that students development is the key point under the consideration in English courses designing. With the goal of developing students comprehensive skills of using English, reform should be carried out in teaching concept, purpose, contents, strategy, scheme, medium and evaluation. The New Curriculum Criteria takes the humanity as dominant factor as modern education concept stresses and the key point is that teaching should be centered around thestudents as well as students development. Emphasis should be paid on the integration of comprehensive development of students and their individual development. In implementation of reform and the New Curriculum Criteria, education should take a new role in line with development of social changes. Teaching concept must be renewed. New teacher-student relationship under the New Curriculum Criteria must be set up so as to meet the demands for English education in the New Epoch.In this thesis, research is centered around change of roles of students and teachers before and after the implementation of New Curriculum Criteria. The thesis links theory with practice. The experiment that shows the contrast of the different students with different teaching methods probes into the new teacher-student relationship as is advocated in the New Curriculum Criteria and the positive aspects of this relationship on students' learning interest, motives, emotion, attitude, intrinsic motivation, class climate and the students' learning results.This thesis is composed of five parts:1. Background information and significance of this research2. Review the related researches both at home and abroad. Define the roles of students and teachers and the importance of the changes of these roles.3. Research on impact of new and old teacher-student relationships on students' learning motives, interest, intrinsic motivation, and attitude. The result of research and analysis.4. Elaboration on the significance of new teacher-student relationship.5. Conclusion.