A Study on Transferred Teachers’ English Pronunciation 英语专业(毕业论文).docVIP

PAGE South SCHOOL OF FOREIGN STUDIES A STUDY ON TRANSFERRED TEACHERS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION A Case in Guangdong by Supervised by A senior thesis submitted to School of South of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts JUNE, 2014 Declaration of Authorship PAGE I ABSTRACT Quality of teachers has always been paid great attention to, especially that of primary school teachers, who play the most influential role in students’ elementary learning. In 2001, as the new National English Curriculum requires that English should be taught from Grade 3 in primary schools, a new type of primary school English teachers named “transferred teachers” came into being. Transferred teachers are those non-English-major primary school teachers who shift to teach English after graduation from a training program called “In-service Training for Transferred Teachers”. By far, these teachers have been teaching English for over four years, but there have been few follow-up researches on their pronunciation up till now. The present study investigates on the pronunciation of transferred teachers concerning consonants and vowels. The goal is to find out whether these teachers, who have received only 3-week compulsory residential training and a year long optional school-based training, are making progress and competent for elementary English teaching. As time was limited, six transferred teachers were chosen as our subjects. The study was carried out on the basis of the analysis of the errors on the recorded material of the English utterance borne out by these transferred teachers. 中文摘要 教师素质一直都备受关注，特别是小学教师的素质更是如此，因为小学教师在学生初级阶段的学习起着举足轻重的作用。于2001年，应新英语课程标准的要求，英语要从小学三年级教起，因此，一种被称为“转岗教师”的小学英语教师产生了。“转岗教师”是指从在职转岗培训毕业后从事小学英语教学的非英语专业教师。至今为止，这些老师已经从事小学英语教育有四年多了，但很少关于这些转岗老师语音的后续调查。本研究基于转岗教师的语音情况，求证这些只受过三周英语专业培训和一年的在职培训的转岗教师是否有所进步且能胜任于小学英语教学。 由于时间有限，在1102名转岗教师中，6名被选为本研究的受试。本研究是通过给六位老师的英语口头表达录音，并对录音进行其错误分析。 Table of Contents TOC \o 1-2 \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc ABSTRACT PAGEREF