A Survey Of English Teachers’ Educational Scientific Research Quality In Demonstrative Senior High Schools In Guangxi

The concepts of “scientific research strengthening teachers” and “scientific research revitalizing education” obviously require teachers to become researchers”.Teachers should organically combine teaching with scientific research,and at the same time should build a teaching team and form a teaching and research mechanism.Teachers’ participation in scientific research can significantly improve teachers’ quality,and the improvement of teachers’ scientific research quality plays a significant role in promoting their own professional development and English teaching.Therefore,this study investigates the current situation of high school English teachers’ scientific research quality and seeks out the deficiencies in order to provide English teachers’ professional development with scientific advice,thereby improving the effectiveness of English teaching.This research takes action research theory and social learning theory as the theoretical basis.Through questionnaire and interview,74 English teachers from 5demonstrative senior high schools in Guangxi are involved in this study.The questionnaire on the scientific research quality of senior high school English teachers is slightly revised on the basis of the questionnaires of Peng Li(2019)and Yu Xiaoyuan(2013),which consists of six dimensions: scientific research attitude,scientific research awareness,scientific research knowledge,scientific research ability,scientific research support and scientific research participation.This research aims to answer the following three questions:(1)What is the current status of demonstrative senior high school English teachers’ scientific research quality in Guangxi?(2)What are the differences in scientific research quality between novice teachers and experienced teachers?(3)What are the factors that affect demonstrative senior high school English teachers’ scientific research quality in Guangxi?The research results show that:(1)The scientific research quality of demonstrative high school English teachers in Guangxi is at a high level.Most English teachers have strong scientific research awareness and positive scientific research attitudes,but rarely producing scientific outcomes.Additionally,the teachers’ scientific research knowledge and scientific research ability need improving.(2)There are not any significant differences in scientific research quality between novice teachers and experienced teachers.However,experienced teachers do better in the scientific research achievements than those of novice teachers.(3)There are main factors that affect demonstrative high school English teachers’ scientific research quality.The five influencing factors at the external level are: scientific research guidance,training,the establishment of research teams,funding,and the attention and support of leaders;the four influencing factors at the internal level are: teachers’ time,professional title,the mastery of scientific research knowledge and scientific research ability.According to the results,several suggestions are put forward from the perspectives of English teachers and schools.For teachers,it is of great significance for teachers to set up a positive purpose for scientific research,output teaching achievements through research as well as participate in training to enrich their scientific research knowledge.As for schools,it is suggested that schools create positive scientific research environment,build research teams with experienced teachers as leaders and provide chances for English teachers to keep learning.