英语教师的教师信念 _ 淮南市26中的个案研究.pdfVIP

摘 要 20世纪80年代以后，越来越多的国内外学者将对教育的关注从传统的教学法 转移到对教师教育和教师专业发展的研究；对教师的研究视角也从对教师行为的 研究转向对教师思维的研究。在研究转向中，“教师信念”是一个颇受关注的主 题。教师信念作为一个完整的体系，包括教师的语言观、学习观、教学观、课程 观、学生观和教师观等。教师信念与教师教学行为有着密不可分的联系。教师能 否建立科学的信念体系，决定了自身职业发展的前景。 在研究方法上，国外研究者多采用课堂观察和访谈等方法，从不同的侧面， 针对不同的研究对象，探讨教师的教师信念与其教学行为之间的关系。国内也有 许多研究者开始通过实证研究证明教师信念对教学行为的影响。但目前国内外研 究者们更多关注的是高校英语教师的信念状况，而对中学英语教师信念的研究相 对较少。其实中学英语教师是学生学习英语的过程中至关重要的引导者，中学英 语教师的信念状况在很大程度上决定了学生英语学习的效果。 在理论研究的基础上，笔者通过对所在地区的部分英语教师进行的问卷调 查，并对所在学校三位英语教师进行的个人访谈和课堂观摩，探究了教师信念与 教学行为和教学效果之间的相互关系，分析了教师信念的差异性和存在的问题。 希望此项研究能促进对英语教师教育的研究，提高英语教师的综合素质。 关键词：教师信念，教师素质，教学行为，教师专业发展 iii ABSTRACT Since the 1980s, an increasing number of scholars home and abroad have turned their academic attention from traditional teaching methodology to teacher education and teachers’ professional development. Their focus has shifted from teachers’ behavior to teachers’ mentality. Teacher belief, as one important aspect of teachers’ mentality, involves teachers’ understanding of language, instruction, the teaching and learning process, and teachers’ attitudes towards students and themselves as well. Teacher belief is closely related to teacher behavior and determines teachers’ professional development in the future. Most researchers abroad have attempted to discover the relationship between teacher belief and teacher behavior through interviews and classroom observations. Meanwhile researchers at home have also conducted quite a few quantitative and qualitative studies in this aspect. But most of their research is focused on university or college teachers and almost no research has been conducted on the teacher belief of middle school English teachers. Actually middle s