Teachers' Roles In Improving Minority Students' Self-concept In College English Teaching

It has been at least three decades since the research focus of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) has shifted from the teacher to the learner. More and more studies concentrating on FLL probe into many aspects of the divergence between achieving and underachieving students. Learners' affective factors, such as attitude, motivation, personality, anxiety, empathy and confidence, are given great importance in these studies. One aspect of motivation, academic self-achievement motivation, involves educational researchers in the study of self-concept. However, researches probe into the self-concept of students in foreign language learning are relatively few, not to say that of minority university students.In light of the existing studies on self-concept that provide the theoretical basis for my thesis, the present study constitutes an attempt to examine the factors that result in minority students' formation of negative self-concept. Then, the author set out to explore the roles teachers should play in improving minority university students' English self-concept. It is expected that a contribution can be made by cautious study carried out in this thesis.Ten minority students of different backgrounds from YNNU were involved in the...