The 2nd English Curriculum Cohesion and Academic English Teaching Forum in Junior and Senior Middle Schools of Lanzhou was Successfully Held
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On March 23, 2019, the 2nd English Curriculum Cohesion and Academic English Teaching Forum in Junior and Senior Middle Schools of Lanzhou was held in the Conference Center of the High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, which was sponsored by the High School Attached to Northwest Normal University and the SI-UK Education Council, the Office of the U.S. Embassy in China, the Office of the Regional English Project in the U.S. Embassy in China, and co-organized by the College of Foreign Language and Literature of Northwest Normal University, and the Alliance for Primary and High School English Course Linking. The 2nd Lanzhou Primary high school English course linking and academic English teaching seminar was held at the Northwest University Annex Conference Center. Experts from inside and outside of Gansu province, English discipline-team leaders of the junior high school, the backbone teacher representatives, some of the province’s teacher representatives, more than 150 people gathered here in-depth exchanged and discussed concerning the theme of primary and high school English course linking, academic English teaching seminar. The conference has a variety of forms of discussion, including two English teaching demo classes, five expert lectures, two seminars and three keynote speeches.
At the opening ceremony of the meeting, Principal Jia Jinyuan of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University made a passionate speech, and he extended a warm welcome to the guests and teachers who attended the meeting on behalf of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, made a brief introduction to the educational teaching situation in The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University in recent years, and expressed his fervent hope for the successful organization of this seminar. Cao Jin, dean of the College of Foreign Language and Literature of Northwestern Normal University, addressed that the meeting would play a positive role in the development of the theory and practice of primary and secondary school teaching, and ultimately benefit students. The opening ceremony was presided by Xiaofeng Zhong, vice-chancellor of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University.
Ma Haixuan and Che Yuhean, English teachers in the International Department of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, presented an English reading lesson and an English listening and hearing lesson. Ms. Zhang Xiaoling, a special teacher of English in Gansu Province, gave a lecture entitling Deep Learning: Towards Core Literacy and Boosting Classroom Teaching, and she explained the purpose, meaning, characteristics and significance of deep learning for the participating teachers through four aspects, and showed the teaching of English writing based on deep learning for the participating teachers with vivid examples. Ms. Lynn H. Mallory, senior trainer of Oxford University, gave a lecture entitling Reading Across The Curriculum, in which she explained three ways to the participating teachers of English reading purpose, reading feedback, non-fiction reading cycles, and highlighted the importance of developing the right English reading methods to acquire deep learning skills. Subsequently, well-known junior high school English education and research experts, and some of the participants carried out a seminar on the primary and high school English course linking. Wen Yaguang, a senior teacher from The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, presided the seminar in the morning.
The second half of the seminar was presided by director Zhang Zhixuan of the International Education Service Center attached to The High School of Northwest Normal University. Chris Redmond, consultant of East Asia Assessment Solutions Group of British Cultural Association, made a report about English Assessment in High School Education in China. The latest development in English proficiency test, the CEFR and the Aptis test are introduced in detail, which made participating teachers can master the latest English proficiency test standards, and then scientific evaluation and effective guidance and recommendations for students’ language proficiency in future teaching can be applied. Sun Liang, director of the International Department of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, made a report entitling Innovation features, improve quality and promotion the training of international talents, introduced achievements about international school running in recent years, explained the curriculum of international classes, the teaching model, and the multiple students development evaluation system. Ms. Shushan Richardson, an expert from the Office of the English Program in the U.S. Embassy Area, gave a lecture entitling Teaching Diversity on how to inspire students to think from multiple angles in the English classroom. Mr. Yang Guang, vice president of the iEnglish Institute of Education, gave a lecture entitling Practical Research on the Use of Large Reading to Improve English Teaching, introduced the iEnglish mother tongue learning system, demonstrated the effectiveness of students using the mother tongue learning system. Dong Xiaoxia, director of the Foreign Language School, gave a lecture entitling Multi-language Teaching Swaying, introduced the general situation of multilingual teaching, showed the results of multilingual teaching in her school, and discussed the direction of the training of multilingual talents in the new situation. A presentation by Zhao Wenbin, supervisor of overseas education, which introduced the Integration and Innovation of English Courses Based on Overseas University Application Planning and Guidance of International Classes. Neil, academic president of the Lanzhou Teaching Center of the NCUK (Northern University Alliance of the United Kingdom), presented the lecture of USA Class Expectations on how to help students build self-confidence in English classes and encourage them to speak out. The lectures and speeches of the distinguished guests had benefited the teachers at the meeting and had brought about many new academic thinking.
Jing Xiaomin, vice-principal of the High School Attached to Northwest Normal University, summarized and thanked the relevant units that provided services and support to the conference. He pointed out that this activity, another new exploration, was held in the background of primary and high school English teaching linking of “key competence”, which aims to help teachers have mutual understanding of English teaching situation in junior high school, and further promote better linking of English teaching in high school. The two demo classes of the teachers from the International Department of The High School Attached to Northwest Normal University showed a realistic situation of the basic stage of academic English in high school, and English teaching must be closely surround the cultivation of the core quality of English subjects, payed attention to two key links of “input” and “output”, so as to improve the effective increment of language interaction in the classroom and promote language learning for students. The course linking of primary and high school should focused on training the students cross-cultural ability, the deep learning, the differentiation and personalized training, and the development of subjects and students from an international perspective. English teaching should constantly enrich learning and its resources, change the way of teaching and learning, improve the means of evaluation, and use science and technology about English teaching to help students to learn foreign languages better in non-native language environment and to realize the essence of language teaching. Multi-lingual talents are new growth points based on the national development needs, train the future outstanding international talents. I hope we can attach importance to the second and third foreign language literacy training of students.
Through this activity, all the English teachers who attended the meeting had more new thinking and inspiration for better understanding of the linking about English teaching in junior high school. Understanding new ideas, interpreting new courses, studying new trends of exams, transforming new classrooms, English classroom teaching reform, bridging research, all have been on the road.
