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The purpose of this study is to explore the teaching beliefs of an elementary school English teacher in New Taipei City, and how the teacher transforms his teaching beliefs into practical practice to promote students’ English abilities. By adopting qualitative case study method, using purposive sampling to choose the participants, then investigates them by means of interview method and data analysis. The findings obtained in this study are as follows:
1. Teaching Beliefs and Practice of the Teacher (1)Curriculum planning: Teachers should bring their professional abilities into full play to motivate students to learn. Teachers need to view the curriculum as hypotheses to test. (2)Teaching Practice: Teachers should pay attention to student’s individual differences in learning. Teachers can apply peer tutoring to promote the effects of teaching. (3) Instructional evaluation: Teachers must consider the purposes of evaluation and clarify the incorrect concepts of students after evaluation and keep the complete record. Besides, teachers should incorporate multiple evaluation and award system timely. (4)Role of teacher: Enthusiasm and profession are essential characteristics of teachers. (5)Views toward knowledge: Teachers must assist students to build up abilities to learn, think and estimate. In addition, teachers also need to pay attention to character education of students.
2. Remedial Teaching Beliefs and Practice of the Teacher (1)Curriculum planning: Teachers must consider student’s individual differences while planning the curriculum. And teachers should be the main instructor of the curriculum. Do not give students over-practicing. (2)Teaching Practice: Teachers should give students learning tasks in phases for them to learn the basic and important concepts. Teachers should offer the remedial teaching resources to students. (3) Instructional evaluation: Teachers should diagnose the learning problems of students by assessment and give them assistance individually to reinforce the effects of remedial teaching. (4)Role of teacher: Teachers should give more care and company to students, and appreciate the progress of students. (5)Views toward knowledge: Teachers should integrate English into daily life and convey the necessity and importance of learning English.
3. Dilemma and Solutions of Teaching (1) Teachers should make good use of teaching methods and strategies. And take both in-class and extracurricular courses into account to make up for the lack of time for teaching. (2) Teachers should supplement the content of textbooks whenever necessary. For Elementary School Student Proficiency Test, teachers can integrate the concepts and the types of test questions into daily teaching and evaluation. (3) For those students who are extremely disadvantaged, teachers should try their best and never give up assisting students to solve their difficulties.
4. Dilemma and Solutions of Remedial Teaching (1) Teachers should set up the remedial class on his/her own to compensate the strict criteria for students on entering the remedial class set up by the government. (2) Teachers should select students who actually need the remedial teaching resources. And teachers with professional background are encouraged to join the remedial teaching to solve the shortage of remedial teaching teachers and the uneven qualities of remedial teaching teachers.
Keywords: English teacher, teaching beliefs, teaching practice
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