Hello, everyone！
My name is Aiying Wen.
I’m from China. I have been an English teaching researcher of Teaching and
Teaching Material Research Institute of Jiangxi Provincial Education Department
since 2005. I’m in charge of guiding English teaching and assessment in junior
high schools. Before 2005, I had been an English teacher in a junior high
school for more than ten years. So I have some teaching experiences. Which is
very useful for me as a researcher. I know which kind of problems or
difficulties the teachers would face, what they are thinking about and what
they need. What’s more, I go to classes twice a week. I observe teachers’
classes and sometimes record videos of their classes. After class, I have
discussions on the classes with the teachers and students. Teachers love to
share their ideas, worries and wishes with me. Which helps me to be familiar
with their teaching and students’ learning. To know the teaching and learning
situation is the first step to do teaching research, which helps me focus on
teachers’s problems or difficulties.
Since 2005, I have
studied three subjects on Writing Good Test Papers for Junior High School
Students, Task-based Language Teaching and Developing Students’ Listening
Skills. I have written 15 articles and investigation reports which were all published on
the very important magazines in China. Sometimes I am invited by schools or
publishing houses to make reports to teachers on English teaching and
assessment.
I love my job. I love
teachers. I have been trying my best to help teachers teach and students learn
English happily and effectively. I hope I can do it. In order to do better, I
am participating the Global English e-Learning course. I believe I can learn a lot from my dear
teachers and colleagues.
Thanks a lot!
Dicussions:
Your learners and teaching context
My name is Aiying Wen from China. I'm an English teaching
researcher. What I do is to guide teachers in Junior high schools to teach
English happily and effectively. I also write testing papers for Junior high
school students. There are three grades,Grades 7, 8 and 9 in junior high
schools. The students in junior high schools is about 13 to 15 years old. In my
province most of them started to learn English in Grade 4 in primary schools, but
nearly half of them did badly in English in primary schools because of big-size
class and unprofessional teachers. The situation in rural areas is more
serious.
When students go to a junior high school, some of them are still
interested in learning English, but some are not. The students in one class are
in different English levels. This is a big challenge for teachers to teach. In
junior high schools in my province, English is one of the most important
subjects. Schools, teachers and parents pay much attention to students' and
children's English learning. But the class is big. Generally there are about 50
to 60 students in one class. In some schools there are even 70 or more students
in one class. It's really hard for teachers to care about every student. The
students from the schools in the city have rich English learning resourses,
such as newspapers, magazines, vedios and so on. In their classroom,
teachers can use computers to teach. But in the schools in the countryside,
students have only textbooks. Their teachers usually use blackboards and chalks
to teach.
In my opinion, how to make students interested and
confident in English learning in Grade 7 is the first important.
Hi Molly,
Thanks a lot for your reply! In junior and senior high schools,
generally girls study English better than boys. Because girls like listening,
speaking and reading English more. They are also better at memorizing words,
sentences and passages than boys.
I asked many teachers what is the biggest challenge for students
to learn English. 'Words,' most of them said. They said because there are so
many English words to be memorized, they don't like learning English.
In my opinion, because teachers don't have proper ways to teach
words, which makes students be bored with English. So teaching in happy and
effective ways is the most important.
Warm regards,
Aiying
Hi Molly,
Thank you so much for your reply! I agree with you that we need
to change the way of teaching. You say students are sometimes too lazy to
recite those new words and passages. As teachers, we should ask why students
hate reciting new words and passages? In my opinion, because students think
memorizing new words is boring.
So how to teach new words is a subject we should study. We
should teach new words in context. Students need to do more reading, reading
conversations, passages. In this way, students know how to use the words.
Not all the new words must be recited, such as people's names,
adress names, the words which are not used often. Students only need to
memorize the words which are used often in the daily life, especially for
junior high school students. They can be familiar with the new words by
listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Warm regards,
Aiying Wen
Hot topics of interest
b. civic engagement. In my country, more and more people have
interest in engaging in social activies. First, because people's lives are
getting better and better, they have time and energy to care about social
activities. Second, people are getting higher and higher education. They have
conciousness of sharing social activities. Third, our government hope all the
people can engage in social activies. Because our country is like a big family.
Eveyone have rights and responsibilities to share rights and responsibilities.
In my opinion, the more civic engagement, the better. But civic
engagement should be in order. People do what they can do and what they like to
do. But people must know what they should do and what they musn't do. We need a
strong country and a harmonious environment.
c. women empowerment. In the cities in my region, women have
equal rights in their families as men. In the rural areas, in the families or
on the business, Genarally men make important decisions. Men have more rights
than women. For example, my father died last month. According to the old rules
in my region, only my brothers' and my brothers' sons' names can be
printed on my father's tomb stone, but my mother's, my sisters' and my
name can't be printed on his tomb stone. But my father was a open-minded man.
When he was alive, he said daughters have the same rights as sons. My father
was hard-working, warm-hearted and kind man. I love him forever.
Now adays, some companies only take in men. They think wemen
will spend more time and energy on their families. Men can pay full attention
to their jobs or work. In fact, in my region, wemen do more housework in
families. But I think wemen have some advantages on some jobs. S o I think the
one who is the most suitable for the job can get the job. Companies can't
decide by sex.
Aiying Wen
Hi Tomo,
From your statement, we know many men still think women have to
do all the housework even though they both work. In China, things are
different. If husband and wife both work, they will share the housework. In my
region, most English teachers are women. They work very hard. They pay much
attention to their students. Luckily, most of their husbands would like to cook
meals at home after work. If wife doesn't work, she may does all the housework.
In China, if a woman who works gets pregnant, she will have
about 4 month leaves. After the leaves, she will continue the job. Her baby
will be looked after at her home by her mother or mother-in law.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Aiying Wen
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