Research on the Ethnic Minority English Teachers in Middle Schools’ Perplexity of Professional Development and Its Solution
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1301.18Keywords:
teacher professional development, the confusion of professional development, the solutionsAbstract
This study makes an empirical study on the professional development of ethnic minority English teachers in middle school. Four ethnic minority English teachers of different ages who volunteer to participate in qualitative interviews are selected to conduct the in-depth interviews to analyze their professional development. According to the analysis of research results, it is found that the main puzzles of ethnic minority English teachers’ professional development are how to balance the gap between the content of teaching materials and the actual teaching situation; how to avoid the emergence of teaching tendency in teaching; how to realize the positive transfer of professional development in mother tongue cultural environment. Finally, the solutions are put forward to solve the confusion from the social level and personal level.
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