The Changing Of Teachers' Roles In The College English Teaching Reform In China

The college English teaching reform, aimed at developing students' ability to use English in an all-round way (especially in listening and speaking), changing the teaching model, and promoting students' individualized and autonomous learning, has been under way in Chinese colleges and universities for more than three years. The reform has aroused great interest among foreign language experts and researchers. The advantages and disadvantages of the reform are still under discussion.In order to get to know what kinds of roles are college English teachers undertaking in the teaching reform, evaluate college English teachers' performance in fulfilling their changing roles in the teaching reform, and find some ways to better teachers' adaptation to their new place in college English teaching reform so as to improve their teaching efficiency, a study is made on the changing of teachers' roles in the teaching reform, based on questionnaires and interviews with teachers and students. After analyzing the results of these questionnaires and interviews, it is found that college English teachers as a whole perform their roles rather well, but not as well as expected.Conclusions about teachers' performance in fulfilling their changing roles in the reform are made in this thesis as follows: 1) before the reform, teachers mainly perform such roles as organizer, designer, implanter of knowledge, resource, and manager, and teachers undertake the following roles after the reform: organizer, designer, constructor, evaluator, advisor, and facilitator; 2) teachers are still playing a critical part in college English teaching and college students' English learning and teachers' roles depend mainly on different situations; 3) many teachers are still restrained by traditional classroom teaching mode and method, and a large number of teachers are not fully aware of the active and constructive roles students play in foreign language learning process and their own roles in implementing the teaching reform; 4) teachers' roles are changing into a designer, an organizer, a manager, an evaluator, a participant, a cooperator, a facilitator, a guide, a teaching researcher, a model of successful learner, a constructor, and an implanter of knowledge.