Zehang Chen

Zehang Chen
Beijing Normal University | bnu · School of Foreign Languages and Literature

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In poor and remote areas, teachers frequently encounter serious ongoing challenges and experience teacher exhaustion due to the uneven distribution of resource supply, and a shortage of professional support. Maintaining teachers’ professional wellbeing in an unfavorable teaching environment has become a major challenge. The current study explores t...
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A reciprocal relation has been identified between teacher emotion and teacher professional identity. However, the underlying mechanism explaining this complex interaction remains underexamined. Moreover, limited attention has been paid to the emotional dimension of student-teachers' development of professional identity during university coursework....
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The issue of ability to persuade readers of the validity of writers’ arguments has received considerable attention from L2 writing researchers. The current study explores practical ways to support high school EFL students’ development of argumentative writing skills in China through an eleven-week action research project. The results suggest that s...
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本文从思辨能力的视角出发,以阅读活动和问题设计为切入点,分析和对比了 中德两套初中英语教材。研究发现,两套教材都关注学生思辨能力的培养,并循序渐进地 将思辨能力融入阅读任务中,但它们对各分项技能的关注程度和发展方式略有不同。因此, 本研究建议教材编写者依据国家课程标准和学生的认知水平,进一步关注阅读活动中分析 类、推理类和评价类任务的分布和类型,促进学生对文本的深入理解和适度质询,提升中 学生的思辨能力。
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Primary English in China has been in practice since 2001. Despite the success of widespread provision, there have been concerns regarding the quality of students’ learning. To enhance English literacy in schools, a national English reading project chaired by university teacher educators using graded readers was introduced to accompany mandated cour...
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In the past 40 years, the promotion of communicative classroom methodologies has come to be seen as a priority by those involved in teaching English as a foreign language, both with adults and older school learners and, more recently, reflecting the growth of primary EFL, with younger learners as well. These are methodologies that are underpinned b...
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China initiated its eighth round of curriculum reform in basic education in 2001. The senior high school English curriculum, along with all other subjects, was redesigned as part of that reform. The new national curriculum advocated a learner-centered approach to language teaching with an emphasis on providing a common foundation for all students a...
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This paper presents an overview of the Beijing government's policy and implementation on primary English curriculum reform. TEYL in Beijing is undergoing an important phase of innovation along with challenges featured by differences in quality of teaching and learning between urban and rural areas due to shortage of qualified teachers and high qual...
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Currently, some 470,000 teachers are involved in the teaching of English at junior middle school level (students aged 12-15) in China, many of whom possess only a two- or threeyear diploma in teaching, rather than a specialist qualification (e.g. a first degree, BA) in English. The Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently stated that by 201...
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This paper explores Chinese learners' online behaviours in a teacher training course which was developed as part of a Chinese and UK government funded collaborative project from 2003 to 2005 by the University of Nottingham, UK and Beijing Normal University, China. The aim of the project is to develop innovative eLearning materials for Chinese teach...
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The role of the tutor in online learning can be complex due to the wide range of media and pedagogies that can potentially be used. As a result there is a need for effective training materials that recognise this and the Sino-UK eEducator project aims to meet this need. This paper reports research into the participatory design approach adopted with...

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