J4 ›› 2012, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (11): 75-79.

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Status and Prospect of the Professional Qualities of Rural Primary and Middle School

This essay, through survey and interview, re-assumes the professional qualities of English teachers who are receiving
correspondence courses to gain an undergraduate certification and are from rural elementary and middle schools in eight minority nationality areas in western Yunnan Province. It reveals that they have advantages and willingness to upgrade; however, they cannot develop sound knowledge of language teaching theories and fail to achieve the goals set in The New Curriculum. Hereby, this essay holds that the way out of the dilemma is to adjust vocational training regulations, improve the teaching models of correspondence courses and conduct school-based research by taking advantage of long-distance teaching and learning recourses.   

  1. 1. College of Foreign Languages, Dali University, Dali, Yunnan 671003, China;
    2. College of Foreign Languages, Yunnan Nationalities University, Kunming 650031, China
  • Received:2012-09-13 Online:2012-11-15 Published:2012-11-15

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Abstract:

This essay, through survey and interview, re-assumes the professional qualities of English teachers who are receiving
correspondence courses to gain an undergraduate certification and are from rural elementary and middle schools in eight minority nationality areas in western Yunnan Province. It reveals that they have advantages and willingness to upgrade; however, they cannot develop sound knowledge of language teaching theories and fail to achieve the goals set in The New Curriculum. Hereby, this essay holds that the way out of the dilemma is to adjust vocational training regulations, improve the teaching models of correspondence courses and conduct school-based research by taking advantage of long-distance teaching and learning recourses.

Key words: correspondence English teachers, minority nationality areas, professional qualities, professional development

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