Suggestions for Pre-service Primary Enlish Teacher Education Program 英语专业硕士毕业论文.docxVIP

AbstractAbstractEnglish has been attracting increasing attention in China since 1980s and it is a mainsubject in different stages of school education. Meanwhile, the researches concerning Englishteaching and learning have been developing vigorously. However, the researches on Englishteacher education, which is called the “mother machine” of English education, were startedand developed relatively late. The researches on foreign language teacher education were firstcarried out in 1990s abroad, while in China, the researches on English teacher education werestarted in 2000s. Up to now, a large number of scholars and teacher educators both at homeand abroad have contributed to English (foreign language) teacher education research fromvarious perspectives such as the current situation, the curriculum design, teachers’ qualitytraining, etc. In the research area of English teacher education, pre-service primary Englishteacher education is an important constituent part. Nevertheless, few researches on it havebeen conducted. How to educate qualified primary English teachers remains the problem thatresearchers and teacher educators must solve.In 2001, English Curriculum Standards was promulgated by Ministry of Education toadapt to the quality-oriented fundamental education reform. The section for primary school inthe Standards prescribes precisely the requirements for primary English teachers’ qualities,which provides a measurement for pre-service primary English education program and a newperspective for the researchers in this area. But concerning English Curriculum Standards,most researchers have paid more attention to the studies of improving in-service primaryEnglish teachers’ qualities, while few have combined their studies with pre-service primaryEnglish teacher education.Based on the achievements made by previous researchers both at home and abroad, thepresent study intends to connect the pre-service primary English teacher education programwith the requirements in En