Підготовка майбутніх учителів англійської мови початкової школи у КНР

Abstract

The aim of the article is analysis of the features and content of teacher training in elementary school. There have been highlighted requirements, aims and objectives (creation of a solid foundation of professional competence, comprehensive development of the future teacher of elementary school, formation of a desire for professional self-improvement and self-development during the life, education inclination to the studied activity in the field of education), content, forms and methods. There have been described educational establishments (general universities and institutes, pedagogical universities and colleges, special colleges and institutes), who undertake training Training and Upgrading was given, a brief overview of the current educational system in the teaching institutes of China, Laws and Projects were worked out. (Continuing Education Project for Primary and Secondary School Teachers, 1999), on continuing education of English language elementary school students (advanced training courses), foreign teachers faced problems in teaching English. The tasks of professional training of the future teacher are: creation of a solid foundation of professional competence; comprehensive development of the future teacher of primary school; formation of a desire for professional self-improvement and self-development throughout the whole life; education of a predisposition to the studied activity in the field of education. There are many foreign teachers of English in China but these teachers don’t have the diploma paper that they are qualified teachers. Despite of this, these teachers teach only in private and missionary schools. In government and rural schools there is a lack of teachers. Sometimes in rural schools there are no English lessons at all. So the teachers who teach other subjects and a little bit knows English become teachers of English. These teachers don’t have any qualification and they have never pass courses of qualification. So these teachers faced with many problems. They can’t understand English speech, they don’t know how to make sentences correctly, and they don’t know English rules and structures. So pupils repeat mistakes of their teachers. Sometimes the teachers of senior schools become the teachers of English in primary school but they also faced with many problems: the main problem is that these teachers don’t know the children’s psychology and they don’t know how to motivate small children, so little children lose their interest to learn English. So, the question of English teachers in China is very acute, despite the fact that the government is working hard to overcome this problem, but for many years nothing changes. Keywords: teacher, elementary school, English language, teacher training, China.