Expectations Of The College Students Towards Native English Speaker Teachers And Non-native English Speaker Teachers

The impact of globalization makes English'a common language'or'lingua franca', which is taught and learnt all over the world, including China. English language teaching and learning as a major in Chinese higher education plays an important role to train personnel for fundamental education and even for the whole society. Another impact of globalization is that more and more foreigners come into Chinese EFLT, which makes the native and non-native English speaker teachers two camps. It is obvious that either of the two camps of English teachers has its unique features in terms of language proficiency, and teaching practice as well. The fundamental goal of our research is to study how to make full use of the resource and how to improve learning from each other between the two camps of English teachers, so as to enhance English language teaching and learning in China.Numbers of studies have issued abroad. The native teachers are common to be considered the ideal due to their advantages in language and cultural knowledge. However, more and more researchers have realized that both of native and non-native English teachers have their own advantages and can be the ideal teacher.There are few domestic researches in the field at present. Most researches accord instructional perspective, focusing on the process of teaching and learning. The major researches base on teaching diathesis and features of the two camps of teachers including their students' evaluation and attitude. On the other hand, we know little about students'expectations, let alone their expectations towards the two camps of English teachers, though there are so many researches on expectancy. Differing from the previous ones, the present paper focuses on the expectations of the Chinese college students, majoring in English, towards the two camps of English teachers in the process of teaching and learning, trying to find out their evaluation towards their teachers and teaching. It is hoped that the data and information from this study can be of some use for the teachers and educators in the EFLT in China.Based on the previous researches, the present study has been done from the student factor, differing from those from the teacher or educator factor. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this thesis, and questionnaire and interviews were conducted in two universities in a city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to explore the students'expectations towards their English teachers of the native and non-native speakers in terms of teaching practice, language proficiency, cultural facility and course assignment. 300 college students participated in the survey.There are the several results of research. First, the students would like to have more opportunities to practice the language skills of speaking, especially, to communicate with the teachers, as speaking is regarded as the most important skill; otherwise, they expect more useful...