Development Of English Teachers Research Articles

Research on “Internet+” Secondary School English Teachers’ Professional Development Strategy Based on SWOT Analysis

In the era of “Internet +”, the rapid development of information technology has also promoted the continuous innovation in the field of education. In recent years, scholars have begun to pay attention to the use of the Internet to promote teacher professional development, which provides a new path for teacher professional development, but at the same time, secondary school English teachers also face new challenges. Therefore, through SWOT analysis, this paper accurately grasps the strengths and weaknesses then provides relevant strategies for the professional development of English teachers based on opportunities and challenges of “Internet+” secondary school English teachers’ professional development.

영어교사의 전문성 발전: 교사연수 프로그램 설계 및 교사연수에 관한 인식

This study aims to explore elementary English teachers’ experiences in and perceptions of teacher training programs. The participants were seven teachers enrolled in a graduate seminar that the researcher taught for a semester. The graduate seminar was on second language teacher education, which included designing a teacher training program. The data consisted of each participant’s teacher training program design, pre- and post-surveys, final portfolio, final paper as well as the researcher’s field notes. The data were analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. The major findings are as follows: First, the teachers had different experiences and attitudes towards the teacher training programs primarily based on their ELT experiences. Second, the teachers designed teacher training programs to improve teachers’ English abilities, ELT competence, co-teaching capabilities with English native speaking teachers, and to share ELT practical knowledge with other teachers. Third. the teachers recognized the need for English teacher training for their professional development, demanded changes in English teacher training programs to meet learners and teachers’ needs, and expressed their intention to participate or teach other teachers in English teacher training programs. It was suggested that teacher education programs should support teachers for their continuous professional development more effectively. Further important implications regarding the development for English teachers and English teacher training programs were discussed.

Adapting English Teacher Professional Development to Shifting Educational Situations in Higher Education: Trends and Prospects

This study explores the need for transforming professional development for English teachers. Similarly, it focuses on the overview of traditional professional development methods and proposes alternative approaches, such as personalized learning and collaborative communities of practice. In addition, the article highlights the importance of aligning professional development with the evolving demands of the English language curriculum and the challenges posed by digital technologies. The study explores the necessity of adapting English teacher professional development programs to changing educational conditions through thematic-based content analysis of the research found in Google Scholar and Eric databases. Furthermore, related papers and litmaps were used to analyze the authorship and coverage of the study. Recent research from the ERIC and Google Scholar databases strengthens the need for ongoing, workplace-based, and personalized professional development programs that are connected with the evolving demands of the English language curriculum and digital technology. The findings of this study, thus, reinforce the need for transformative professional development programs that are aligned with the changing demands of the English curriculum and digital technology and prioritize the individualized learning needs of instructors. The research underlines the necessity for English teachers to adjust their professional development practices to meet the ever-evolving requirements imposed by the English curriculum. The results suggest that professional development strategies should be adapted to meet the changing educational circumstances. Overall, the study offers guidelines for the design and implementation of transformative professional development programs that improve teacher learning and student outcomes.

Status and Countermeasures of English Normal Students’ Teaching Practice Ability Based on Core Competence: A University Level Case Study

Teaching practice ability is the external manifestation of the professional development of English teachers and it is the essential element of improving the quality of teachers. English normal students are an important source of basic English education in China, so it is of great importance to cultivating English normal students' teaching practice ability. In this study, the literature research method and questionnaire survey method were used to study the current situation of the teaching practice ability of English normal students at Yangtze University. It can be found that students with a more thorough understanding of the core competence have stronger teaching practice ability, which shows that core competence is an important theoretical support to improve the teaching practice ability of students. Finally, 3 strategies are proposed to promote students’ teaching practice ability, (1) Imperceptibly affecting, and strengthening teachers’ emotions and beliefs, (2) Improving the level of teachers and building a team of university teachers with core competence, and (3) Optimizing the structure of practical courses.

Construction of High Quality Middle School English Classroom with "Double Reduction" Background

The problem of excessive course load in middle school has seriously affected the growth of students and education ecology. "Double reduction" is an important policy measure adopted by the country to solve this problem. This huge reform of compulsory education has aroused a warm response in the whole society since it was released. In this context, improving and guaranteeing the quality of classroom teaching in schools has become a hot issue of concern of the whole society. As a major subject in middle school, English is one of the three compulsory subjects in college entrance examination, and its importance is self-evident. Improving the quality of English classroom teaching is an inevitable trend in the development of English education in current middle school. In this regard, this paper attempts to explore the construction method of high quality English classroom in middle school from the perspectives of deep learning, stratified activities and in-class testing, starting from the focus on students' dominant position.

A NEED OF ENGLISH TEACHER PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN 21ST CENTURY

Professional competence of an English teacher in this century has many problems, such as lack of English teacher development program and the English teacher problems in using technology. In literature, professional competence indicators review is very lack and research reported about a need analysis of teacher professional competence was not found. Moreover, it does not related to notion of 21st century. So, the objective of the research is to find out the need analysis of professional competence of English teachers in the 21st century. The method of the research is qualitative research. The interview was conducted to English teachers at a Vocational High School was collected to get the data. The interview data will be analyzed by three steps: reduction, display and conclusion. The need of English teacher in professional competence are (1) Being up to date towards English subject; (2) Empowering things related to develop curriculum; (3) Developing materials based on the students and school condition and situation; (4) Conducting a research; (5) Promoting ICT skills; and (6) Learning and implementing the educational foundation. Those need analysis can be useful to improve the quality of English teacher in the 21st century education in Indonesia.

A DIACHRONIC CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH TEACHERS' ONLINE EMOTION REGULATION

A DIACHRONIC CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH TEACHERS' ONLINE EMOTION REGULATION

Integration of Technology in the Era of Information Enhancement in Advancing English Classroom Education

The degree of internationalization and openness has continuously increased along with the ongoing growth of the global economy. Higher-level English language instruction must also keep up with technological advancements and global growth. To significantly respond to the inclination of an improved English education system in the future, it is currently essential to construct a multi-source knowledge base on English methodology for education and assessment index system. The development of English teaching has been better facilitated by actively absorbing significant education perceptions from foreign successful teaching models. In the present English education and learning procedure, it is essential to modify the conventional teaching strategy, change the past educational ideas, contribute greatly to forming a global and versatile training course, and significantly gather thoughts for outstanding education from international examples for excellent teaching. The post-test average for the experimental class is 81.50 points, compared to 78.60 points for the control class; the excellence rate for the teaching method is 39%, and the pass rate is 100%, whereas the post-test average for the controlled group has an outstanding rate of 33%. An 88.8% pass rate was achieved. Further investigation reveals that the post-test outcomes of the experimental class have improved in both the passing and excellent rates. After the exam, the experimental class's kids' test results significantly outperformed those of the control group. The pupils' general performance has considerably improved.

English Teaching Ability Evaluation Algorithm based on management, leadership and entrepreneurship including education, Data Fusion and Notch Filtering

All universities and colleges has been offering English as one of the important courses. The effectiveness of English teaching is inextricably related to the quality of talent acquisition and student growth. The term evaluation of teaching quality describes the type of content knowledge in which the focus is to analyze quality teaching. One of the significant aims of every school and university is to improve the English teaching quality and promote the development of English teaching and entrepreneurship. As the existing evaluation algorithms have been facing various problems of fuzzy core dimension characteristics, which result in poor data integrity. Therefore, we proposed an English teaching ability evaluation algorithm based on data fusion, entrepreneurship, and notch filtering. Moreover, for the purpose, to achieve the goal of education entrepreneurship and quality teaching, strengthen of the English teaching quality algorithm is necessary, as well as the leadership and management qualities of the teachers also have a lot of impact on the performance of teaching quality and students working performance and it is a topic worthy of in-depth and significant investigation. We select the explicit indicators that are easy to measure, establish the hierarchical structure system of evaluation indicators, construct the evaluation model by data fusion and notch filtering, obtain multi-source heterogeneous data, extract the core dimension characteristics of English teaching ability, make rational use of teaching resources, convert variables into standard units, and set up the evaluation mechanism by using random walk algorithm. Experimental results: the average data integrity of the designed English teaching ability evaluation algorithm is 4.33, and the average data integrity of the other two evaluation algorithms is 1.921 and 1.885, which proves that the English teaching ability evaluation algorithm integrating data fusion and notch filtering technology has a broader application prospect.

Design of English Teaching Sharing System Combining Internet of Things and Memory Mechanism

In the era of Internet of Everything, English teaching has evolved continuously undergoing radical changes. Informatization and modern technologies are continuously promoting the reform of education, and the application of these technological tools makes information sharing a reality. Timely information sharing contributes to the development of English teaching as a part of curriculum requirements. As a consequence of this rapid progress, the theoretical and practical research on IoT-based English teaching sharing systems is also increasing. In this paper, we initiate an exhaustive research of the popular methodologies and then adopt LSTM network management platform data to address the shortcomings of the current teaching system has memory mechanism issues. At the outset, the standard English curriculum is discussed to establish the background, and then, data fusion among various types of information is considered. This is done by completely utilizing independent and scattered heterogeneous data in the information platform without changing or minimizing the information available in the shared system. Then, the information fusion is thoroughly analyzed resulting in the proposal of a multisource and multigranularity information fusion method based on a neural network. The method implements a study considering multisource heterogeneous data, which is followed by carrying out of functional design and process design. The paper also conducts a study on CNN-based multisource information association and designs information association algorithms to customize the dataset. Finally, the study of multigranularity feature fusion based on CNN and LSTM is implemented. The design relevant to granularity calculation algorithm helps in the customization of the dataset. The multigranularity feature fusion is conducted integrating CNN and LSTM. The experimental results show that the proposed method effectively integrates the scattered teaching information in the system, which is conducive to improving the utilization rate of teaching resources and simultaneously promoting the development of teaching information.

Automatic Scoring for Translations Based on Language Models.

With the development of English education, translation scoring has gradually become a time-consuming and energy-consuming task, and it is difficult to ensure objectivity because of the subjective factors in manual correcting. Due to the similarity between the quality evaluation of responses generated by the dialogue system and the translation results submitted by students, we selected two metrics of dialogue to automatically score the translations, which are applied in a case study. The experiments show that the hybrid scores of two metrics are close to human scores. In conclusion, the method is feasible to apply the evaluation metrics of dialogue systems to translation scoring, and it can provide an improvement idea for the automatic scoring of translations in the future.

Microsoft 365 Digital Classroom Tools and the Development of English Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in ICT

Present scholarship informs that teacher self-efficacy is in nexus with the quality of teaching. Thus, this study considers the issue of teacher self-efficacy in English teaching, particularly concerning ICT. It aimed at examining whether the English teachers’ self-efficacy in ICT can be developed by using effective strategies of Microsoft 365 digital classroom tools in teaching English. The study employed a mix-method analysis with a congruent mixed-method design. The participants were three female and one male English teachers teaching English in elementary schools. They all received educational intervention on the practical strategies of using Microsoft 365 digital classroom tools. Closed-ended questionnaire was used to get quantitative data and it was administered before and after the teachers received the intervention. The data from the questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively through mean comparison. Besides, an interview was used to get qualitative data which were analyzed thematically. The quantitative result showed the mean comparison between pre and post-test: the post-test mean score was higher (M = 3.18) than pre-test (M = 2.71). The qualitative data indicated that the participants’ efficacy for instructional strategies, classroom management, and student engagement were getting better. In short, both quantitative and qualitative showcase that the self-efficacy of the teachers in ICT was developed when they implemented the Microsoft 365 Digital Classroom Tools.
 Keywords: English language teaching, ICT, Microsoft 365, teacher self-efficacy

Analysis on the Sharing Method of English Mobile Education Resources Based on Wireless Broadband Connection

The sharing of English educational resources has always been a research hotspot in the English industry. The traditional English educational resource sharing system has low resource sharing efficiency and no real-time contribution capability. Therefore, this paper proposes a method to analyze the characteristics of online educational resources. By comparing the main features of the IEEE802 wireless standard series, the IEEE802.16 protocol stack model is constructed by using the IEEE802.16 protocol, the business layer design and CS layer of the English education resource system are realized through the MAC layer and the CPS layer, and the mobile English education resource sharing system is analyzed. Live voting service: in order to improve the sharing speed of mobile English education resources, an NRTPS uplink bandwidth allocation mechanism is proposed, and the design of a mobile English education resource sharing system based on wireless broadband connection is realized. The experimental results show that the resource sharing efficiency of the system is high, and it plays an important role in the development of English education.

The Professional Development of English Teachers in Training Institutions from the Perspective of “Double Reduction Policy”—A Case Study on S Institution

Recently, “double reduction policy” has been issued throughout China, which encourages English teachers in training institutions to accommodate their professional development. More researches are demanded to be done so as to cope with the challenge. This research mainly focuses on the professional development of English teachers in training institutions from the perspective of the “double reduction policy” taking S institution in Chengdu City as an example and 30 teachers in S institution as research participants in order to bolster the professional development of English teachers in training institutions. And this investigation can be fulfilled through qualitative and quantitative research methods including the literature analysis, questionnaire investigation and some related interviews so as to solve the following research questions: 1) What is the status quo on the professional development of English teachers in training institutions in the context of double reduction policy? 2) What factors may affect the professional development of English teachers in training institutions in the context of double reduction policy? 3) What valid and feasible strategies can be induced to enhance the professional development of English teachers in training institutions from the perspective of double reduction policy? Based on the results of research questions, this research project will give an advisable direction for those English teachers in training institutions to adjust themselves to the double reduction policy.

Assessing the Impact of the MOOC Learning Platform on the Comprehensive Development of English Teachers at College Level under “Double First-Rate” by Utilization of the SWOT Analysis in Hunan Province, China

This research is to investigate the impact of massive open online course (MOOC) learning platforms on teacher development, promote the development and innovation of online learning models under the “Double First-Rate,” and especially expand the application of the MOOC platforms combining language learning with professional development paths. The MOOC online learning platform has a problem of a high abandonment rate. This paper first proposes a MOOC learning recommendation algorithm based on the learning sequence and similarity distance analysis as well as evaluates its accuracy. Then, the reliability test and the MOOC learning recommendation algorithm are used to evaluate the quality evaluation system of English teaching in the MOOC utilizing the structural equation model. Finally, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) are determined to analyze the impact of the MOOC regarding the English teaching platform on teachers' comprehensive development. The results show that the MOOC platform-based learning recommendation algorithm has higher recommendation accuracy and efficiency, improving the learning effect with the utilization of the MOOC. Also, it can effectively reduce the abandonment rate and has a positive effect of resolving the interaction problem pertinent to characteristic differences and sequences in the learning recommendation. The quality evaluation system of online English teaching in the MOOC has higher reliability and convergent validity, which shows better stability and consistency in all dimensions. If teachers can actively learn from the resources of the MOOC platform, then they continuously update teaching concepts, improve online teaching, give full play to their language advantages, accurately locate student needs, and develop unique courses. Therefore, it will promote the overall development of their careers and improve innovation.

Effective English Teacher Professional Development from a Professional Perspective: Saudi Arabia Context

This study investigates the concept of effective teacher professional development based on professionalism perspective. It aims at explaining the concept of professionalism, focusing on the significance of professionalism in maintaining the quality of English teacher development, teaching English, and instructional processes. It demonstrates the fundamental requirements for an effective English teacher and effective teaching. The study is based on the hypothesis which proposes that teacher professional development leads to grand achievement in education. The study pinpoints that to be an English teacher; one must gain particular pedagogical, psycho-socio, and linguistics training; in addition, an English teacher is responsible for his/her ongoing professional development, which leads to teacher's confidentiality and highly students’ achievement.

English Education Development Effort With A Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach Method

The implementation of foreign language learning in Indonesia is an effort to develop the education of the Indonesian nation to be able to absorb and follow the development of science and technology in the world, as well as a way to enter the global society. The use of English as a foreign language in Indonesian education aims to improve the quality of students so that they can compete in the international realm. In learning English, speaking ability is a very important aspect, especially for teachers. Implementation in the classroom, the teacher is expected to be a good facilitator and motivator so that students have an increasing enthusiasm for learning. One of the teaching methods that can be applied is Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The development of English education can be done using the Communicative Learning Teaching (CLT) method where the concept used is through Communicative Competence. The method of writing this article uses qualitative research methods with a literature review approach. The result of this research is the author's presentation of the developmental efforts that can be made by teachers and students in developing English education.

Development of English Teaching in Primary Schools under the Double Reduction Policy

Development of English Teaching in Primary Schools under the Double Reduction Policy

Promoting Continuous Professional Development of English Teachers Through Action Research

The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors’ attitude toward professional development, self-efficacy beliefs, and reflective thinking. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory constituted the base and the professional development program was designed accordingly. The participants of the study were nine English Language instructors working at three different universities. Throughout the 16-week program, it was aimed to equip the participants with action research skills to conduct their own study in their own context according to their needs and/or interests. All the participants completed the Plan, Act, Observe, and Reflect stages of the Action Research Cycle.

Research on Multi-modal Teaching of Graduate Students Academic English Writing Based on Information Technology

In the process of innovating the English teaching system, multi-modal teaching is very representative and promotes the digital and three-dimensional development of English teaching. The teaching of academic English writing is of great practical significance for graduate students to carry out academic research and express their academic views independently. In the traditional teaching of graduate students' Academic English writing, the content of the teaching is relatively single, and the teaching process lacks interaction, which affects the continuous improvement of graduate students' Academic English writing. Taking the application of information technology as the research background, this paper puts forward the teaching strategy of multi-modal academic English writing for graduate students.