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Study on the Status Quo and Cultivation Strategies of English Teachers' Classroom Discourse Competence of English Normal Students

Author(s)

Xuejing Diao*, Na Zhao

Affiliation(s)

Kunming University, Kunming, Yunnan, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

The English education reform in primary and middle schools poses a great challenge for English teacher trainees as future front-line teachers. They not only need to master subject-specific knowledge and educational expertise , but also need to have a concept that English subject has played an important role in cultivating students’ holistic development. In this context, English teachers with accurate and expressive pronunciation can serve as role models for students, but also lay a solid foundation for beginners' pronunciation. The standardized and appropriate teachers' classroom discourse in achieving teaching objectives and developing various teaching activities should be emphasized, and the research on the strategies on the cultivation of English teachers' classroom discourse competence among English majors in normal universities, also known as English normal students, need to be carried out. In view of this, this paper first clarify the overall objectives of the English curriculum in primary and middle schools, which is the main theoretical basis of this paper, and then explores the effective strategies for cultivating English normal students' classroom discourse competence, based on the observation and analysis of English teachers' classroom discourse proficiency.

Keywords

English Normal Students; English Teachers' Classroom Discourse Competence; Status Quo; Cultivation Strategies

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