An Encounter of English Learners’ Self- identity and the Learner-centered Curriculum 英语专业毕业论文.doc

An Encounter of English Learners’ Self- identity and the Learner-centered Curriculum Abstract This paper focus on English learners’ Self- identity and learner-centeredness of the learner-centered curriculum, considering the content, influences, types and confidence of English learners’ Self- identity and locating them in a learner-centered curriculum context. In English teaching with the learner-centered approach, English learners’ Self- identity is a extraordinary important element to the teachers. English teachers should pay more attention on it. Key words: self-identity; confidence; learner-centered; curriculum 1. Introduction Identity is an important concept of western culture research. Its basic meaning is the identification between an individual and specific social culture. Identity covers the following meanings: who am I? Where I come from and where I am going? Identity is associated with a series of theoretical issues, such as subject, language, psychology, ideology, power, class, sex and race (Tao, 2004). People establish self-identity to understand individual characteristics, potential, character, interest, hobby and social requirements and seek for binding points between an individual and the society, so as to identify their own status (Gao, Li Li, 2003). In traditional English teaching, teachers play an important role. They design and control the whole teaching process and play a decisive role in planning, object selection, teaching methods, specific teaching implementation and evaluation. David Nunan (1988) once said: “in traditional teaching, the responsibility of the teacher in such systems was often little more than to implement the curriculum and to act as ‘classroom manager’”. Since 1990s, along with the incessant combination of psycholog and linguistics, constructivism advocates that learning is not teachers delivering knowledge to students, but students establishing their own knowledge. Learning is a process that based on their o