The reform of education curriculum demands for the better professional development of English teachers.The ability of teachers’ reflection is of great significance to their professional development.In recent years,a great deal of research on teaching reflection has been carried out by many scholars,which has achieved great success.However,in poor and remote rural area,as for the reflection of English teachers in junior middle school,there is still a long way to go.Developing the reflective ability of English teachers is an urgent problem to be solved.On the basis of summarizing the previous research,the author explores the situation on the ability of reflection of junior high school English teachers in Guangning through questionnaire,interview and the analysis of teaching reflection.Besides,this paper analyzes the differences of teachers’ reflective ability in terms of genders,education background,majors,the year of teaching and professional titles,and the influence factors of the ability of teaching reflection,attempting to provide some suggestions for English teachers to improve their reflective ability.The result shows that the reflective ability of rural junior high school English teachers is at a medium level.There are significant differences in the ability of teaching reflection of English teachers with different education background.There are no significant differences in teachers’ teaching reflection in terms of genders,majors,years of teaching and professional titles.At present,there are still some disadvantages on the reflective ability of rural junior high school English teachers,including teachers’ insufficient awareness,incomplete content,inadequate consideration and the single method of teaching reflection.The teachers’ reflective ability is influenced by the teachers themselves and working environment.The joint efforts of English teachers and school are required to improve the ability of teaching reflection. |