Researches On Problems Of English Teaching In Secondary Schools Under Current National College Entrance English Exam Reforms

According to the National College Entrance Exam Reform,launched by the State Council on 3rd September 2014,some thorny issues,such as the-Only Score Policy adversely effecting the all-around development of students and one exam pressing students,have been open to debate among the public.It is high time that student’s normal and healthy development was advanced,scientific talent selection was chosen,social peace was maintained and education was satisfied by the nation.The basic principles of the Reforms are to be people-oriented and to follow pedagogic laws.Nation sets up pilot programs in Shanghai and Zhejiang and aims to expand the reforms towards the whole nation,followed by establishing a new education and exam system at the end of 2020.The new framework includes classified exams,comprehensive appraisals and multiple college entrance methods.Chinese Ministry of Education then released A Further Guidance on the National College Entrance Exam Reform in September 2016.Reforms on English are subject to be realized by the following actions:an alternative to attend the National College Entrance Exam of English twice a year;an improvement on question-setting by reducing memorization and drilling;more emphasize on the relations of the questions in the new exams to the students’ life and social reality;more focus on students’comprehensive competency to analyze and solve problems;expansion of the use of new exams to a wider national scale since 2015;an improvement on performance demonstration;and a gradual link to Chinese Foreign Language Testing System.This thesis analyzes,based on the questionnaires and the interviews,the status quo of secondary English teaching in Hubei province,and then illustrates the problems of secondary English teachers’bias against the new reforms,dissatisfaction from their teaching research and finally their increased teaching press under the current National College Entrance English Reforms.The roots of the problems mentioned above are concatenated with the society and its culture,and in details are the unchanged exam-oriented education,devalued secondary English teaching researches and their insufficient teaching capabilities.The follow-up recommendations include:to change the ideas of secondary practical teaching by switching drills to all-English teaching;to perfect the secondary teaching researches by fostering teaching and teaching researches teams with better qualities and higher competency,by imposing team leaders real power and by cultivating their managerial skills,and to offer timely and effective teaching training for secondary English teachers by offering necessary pre-teaching training and apt on-job training.