Is a One-Way English Immersion Teaching Approach Equitable to Those Chinese Non-English Major Students from Rural Areas?

Autor/in	Yao, Chunlin
Titel	Is a One-Way English Immersion Teaching Approach Equitable to Those Chinese Non-English Major Students from Rural Areas?
Quelle	In: Education and Urban Society, 54 (2022) 4, S.470-486 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yao, Chunlin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1245
DOI	10.1177/00131245211027514
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Immersion Programs; Teaching Methods; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Foreign Countries; Hermeneutics; Educational Change; Required Courses; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Undergraduate Students; Universities; Nonmajors; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Immersionsprogramm; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ausland; Hermeneutik; Bildungsreform; Pflichtkurs; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität
Abstract	English is a compulsory course for students in China from primary education to postgraduate education. Recently more and more policymakers at Chinese universities have been forcing English education to be performed using a one-way English immersion approach. In their views, the more English practices in English classes, the better the learners' learning performance will be. This study adopts a hermeneutics research method, a questionnaire survey and some interviews to investigate the question whether a one-way English immersion teaching approach is equitable to those from rural areas. It finds that this teaching approach is inequitable to those from rural areas in at least three aspects, including increasing their economic burdens, decreasing their English acquisition confidences, and mismatching with their career requirements. The study calls for Chinese policymakers to alter their urban-centered viewpoints toward English education, and English teachers to enrich the English teaching approaches in the future and pay more attention to the future career requirements of those from rural areas. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01