scholarly journals Interpreting Core Competencies of English as a Subject in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Juan Ma
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
The Core ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Reading Teaching ◽  
English Subject

The proposal of core competencies of English subject conforms to the goal for talent training, which puts forward higher requirements for English teaching. The core competencies of English subject include language ability, learning ability, thinking quality and cultural awareness. It emphasizes the development of students' core competencies, the cultivation of students' correct values and attitudes, and the realization of the educational value of English subject. Interpretation of the core competencies of English subject helps teachers to grasp teaching better and deeply, which will be useful for teachers to clearly apply the theories into teaching design, so as to achieve the purpose of educating people in English subject. This article interprets the core competencies of English subject in China and explains the meaning of related concepts: activity view on English learning and English subject ability. On this basis, this thesis will take a teaching design of a reading text in unit 5 in the 4<sup>th</sup> compulsory English book for senior high school students published by People’s Education Press as an example, to illustrate the realization of the core competencies of English as a subject in senior high school English reading teaching, which aims to provide enlightenment for teachers’ English reading teaching in senior high school in China.

scholarly journals The Teaching Design of English Reading Based on Cultivating Students' Critical Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 993
Author(s):  
Yu Jia ◽  
Lei Guo
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Design

The High School English Curriculum Standard (2017 edition) states that it's crucial to cultivate core competences for students, which includes language ability, learning ability, cultural awareness and thinking quality. There is no doubt that critical thinking, as one of the key components of thinking quality, should be emphasized.  However, due to the influence of examination-oriented education and other factors, most teachers tend to pay too much attention to the cultivation of students' language knowledge and language skills, neglecting the cultivation of students' critical thinking ability. The traditional mode of interpretation of language knowledge still dominates in most English reading teaching, teaching design tends to be modeled and text processing is so superficial that students can not understand the discourse deeply. Students in the classroom did not experience a deep thinking level of ability training. Therefore, teachers should think carefully about how to cultivate students’ critical thinking in high school English reading class and adjust their teaching methods accordingly. This paper will take the teaching design of a reading lesson as an example to explore how to cultivate students' critical thinking in high school reading class.

scholarly journals A Study of the Cultivation of English Cultural Awareness in High School ——Based on the Core Competencies and Values of English

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Songwang Deng
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Core

Cultural awareness is the basis of communication, and it includes our own cultural values, beliefs and the ability to perceive the world. When students learn English and communicate with people from English culture, cultural awareness becomes very important. Meanwhile, National English Curriculum Standards for General High School puts cultural awareness in the key position of the Core Competencies and Values of English subjects. At present, the academic research and analysis on the Core Competencies and Values of English mainly focus on the language ability, learning ability and students’ learning motivation.This paper intends to explore the cultivation of high school students’ English cultural awareness through qualitative research and literature collation and there are 5 parts totally in this paper. The first part is the introduction, introducing the background of cultural consciousness and the significance of research. The second part is a literature review, analyzing the previous opinions both domestically and internationally. The third part is a review of cultural consciousness, summarizing the theory, historical development and main genres of cultural consciousness. The fourth part is the exploration of the cultivation of cultural awareness, including the requirements, the problems and methods of the cultivation of cultural awareness in high school English teaching. The fifth part is the conclusion, which advocates the cultivation of cultural consciousness and the development of English subject through the summary and reflection.The significance of this paper lies in the majority of teachers to create a harmonious  teaching environment, facilitate the students’ cultural awareness, improve high school students’ cultural understanding and cultural awareness, as well as improve high school students’ English discipline Core Competencies and Values so that it could benefit the development of English in our country.

scholarly journals A Study of EFL Reading Teaching in Senior High Schools Based on Key Competencies of Subject

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting He
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Reading Teaching ◽  
English Subject

With the release of English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School, the cultivation of students’ key competencies of English subject has become the major concern of many English teachers in senior high schools. As an important part of English teaching, reading teaching is supposed to take the responsibility of helping students form key competencies. In this study, the current situation of English reading teaching in senior high schools is investigated to find out whether English teachers fully and efficiently carry out the cultivation of key competencies of English subject in practical teaching. Data from questionnaires and interviews of teachers indicate practical problems exist in cultivating students’ key competencies in English subject in senior high school, so teachers need to have a further understanding of them and take more innovative activities to help students develop their language competence, cultural disposition, thinking quality and learning ability.

scholarly journals The Application of Activity-based Method in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Xuejuan Duan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
High School English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Times ◽  
Reading Teaching

Activity-based method in English reading teaching in senior high school is put forward in the new National English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School (NECS). With the development of the times, the demand for hundreds of thousands of senior high school English teachers is changing, because educators stress a great attention to the application of the modern information technology and activity-based method. Therefore, around how to apply English activity-based method in the reading teaching in high school, this paper designs three learning activities to address the problems of the traditional teacher-centered teaching and the knowledge-orientated leaning. The result of this study can penetrate the consciousness of practical meaning into the frontline teachers by fully understanding the new conception and implementing it based on their own teaching needs.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Application of Multimodal Approach to Teaching Reading in EFL in Senior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Xuequan Pan ◽  
Zhixin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Teaching

English Reading skill is one of the most important skills for senior high school students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL). However, the present ELF teaching method is still teacher-centered which neglects students’ learning interest and their participation in the process of teaching. In 1990s, Western scholars proposed multi-modal theory which suggests that semiotic resources (sound, images, video, animation, motion, color, facial expressions, etc.) can be used to stimulate different senses of students so as to improve their learning efficiency. The present study is intended to apply the multi-modal approach to EFL reading teaching in senior high school and tries to find out whether the multimodal teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve their reading proficiency. In this study, with students of a high school in Anhui in China as the research subjects, an English reading teaching experiment was carried out. The analysis of data collected from reading tests and questionnaires indicates that the application of multi-modal teaching approach in high school EFL reading teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve students’ English reading proficiency, and that most students take a positive attitude towards multimodal teaching approach.

scholarly journals Teaching Design of "Properties of Sodium" based on the Core Literacy of Chemistry

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Chengqi Sun
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Chemical Compounds ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
High School Chemistry ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chemistry Learning ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Core Literacy

The learning of sodium and its chemical compounds are the beginning of systematic learning of elemental compounds in senior high school, and have a vital influence on senior high school chemistry learning. This paper is about the teaching design of the first class --the properties of sodium. Based on the five core qualities of chemistry, it adopts the method of situational teaching, gives prominence to the connection and transition among knowledge points, and sets up multiple experiments and group discussions to guide students to construct and form their thinking pattern in chemistry and scientific thinking methods.

scholarly journals The Cultivation of the Core Literacy of English Discipline in Senior High School based on “Post-method” Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Xingyuan Li
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
English Education ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
High School English ◽  
The Core ◽  
School Based ◽  
Core Literacy

The Curriculum Standards for General High School English (2017 edition) (hereinafter referred to as the Curriculum Standards) clearly states that the specific goal of general High school English curriculum is to cultivate and develop students’ core qualities such as language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality and learning ability after receiving high school English education. The cultivation of core literacy is a hotspot in the current research of basic English education. However, most researches are based on traditional English teaching methods and tend to apply traditional teaching methods to experimental studies in primary and secondary school classrooms, and few of them study how to cultivate students’ core literacy from a theoretical perspective. This article will discuss the cultivation of core literacy of English discipline based on the “post method” theory proposed by B. Kurumaravadivelu. Meanwhile, advice on cultivation of the core literacy of English discipline in high school based on post-method theory will be given.

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