发言题目：Responding to what is read: Vision and mission of the EFL reading
classroom
发言专家：Ge Bingfang (葛炳芳), Teaching Research Section, Department of Education, Zhejiang
Language is mainly taught through reading
lessons, so reading instruction is a clear focus in China’s EFL classrooms. The
latest national English high school curriculum advocates four competencies: 1)
language ability; 2) cultural awareness; 3) thinking quality; and 4) learning
capacity. Therefore, in reading class, not only do students need to learn the
language, but the teachers also need to learn how to use strategies, train
thinking and develop cultural experience.
As Nuttall (1982) puts it, “interpretation
and response are the core of a text-based lesson”. Responding to what is read
will have an impact on students’ learning achievements, thus it should be
implemented in all classroom reading activities. The vision of the EFL reading classroom
is to create possibilities to help students become smart readers, promote their
responsive learning, and make real-life connections. In light of this, the
mission of a reading lesson is to use the text as a medium to train students
and create learning opportunities for students to reassemble what they read, to
question and evaluate the information they collect and express their own views.
简介：Ge Bingfang （葛炳芳）is an EFL teaching researcher at the Teaching & Research
Section, Zhejiang Education Department. He is a director of the Foreign
Language Teaching Association, Zhejiang Education Society, a training expert
for the national teacher-training program, and an author of the PEP senior high
school textbooks.
发言题目：Integrating
Speaking into the Curriculum
发言专家：Liu Sen （刘森）, East China Normal
Universit
Language ability is the ability to interpret
and express intended meanings that learners and users of English exhibit when
they perform language use tasks in a certain context or situation by applying
their linguistic and nonlinguistic knowledge and communicative strategies. This presentation attempts to redress the teaching of ‘speaking-as-skill’. By
analyzing learners’ needs and addressing their problems, priorities for the
teaching of speaking are mapped out. Approaches to deal with speaking skill-development
are discussed and ways of integrating speaking into language curriculum are
suggested.
简介：LIU Sen （刘森）, an associate professor of East China
Normal University, Shanghai. Director of Oral English Teaching and Research
Centre. Vice Chairman of National English Pronunciation Teaching and Research Committee
attached to the Association of Comparative studies of Chinese and English. Her
major interests are English Phonetics, Spoken English and Public Speaking
teaching and research.
工作坊：A case study of the cultivation of students’ higher-order thinking:
A perspective of deep learning
发言专家：
Li Liujian (李留建) (Chair), English
Department for Teaching and Research in Tianjin
Li Peng (李鹏), Tianjin Nankai
High School Binhai Eco-city School, Tianjin
Yao Weisheng (姚卫盛), Tianjin
Nankai High School, Tianjin
Shao Qin (邵琴), Tianjin
Experimental Binhai High School, Tianjin
This workshop presents the stage
achievements of the research. The teaching and research team has found a new
method for the cultivation of students’ higher-order thinking, which
effectively enhances their quality of thought after searching and studying
national and international literature. At the beginning of the workshop, the
host will give a brief introduction to the stage achievements. The second part
is a case study of three partners, who will introduce topics of the approaches
and methods for structuring, internalizing, and migrating language knowledge in
class. It will also cover the teaching pattern of double exploration and an assessment
on classroom teaching for the improvement of students’ higher-order thinking
based on deep learning.
发言人简介：
Li Liujian （李留建）is a member of
the Foreign Language Teaching Professional Commission of CSE, an executive
director of the National Research and Training Center for Basic Foreign
Language Education, and an executive director of the National Research Center
for Foreign Language Education at the National Test Center for Basic Education.
He is also secretary-general of the Professional Committee for Foreign Language
Teaching in Middle School affiliated to the education society in Tianjin, and
director of the English department for teaching and research in Tianjin.
Li Peng （李鹏）is the head of
the English Teaching Group at Tianjin Nankai High School Binhai Eco-city
School. Majoring in English linguistics, he is devoted to the pedagogy of
second language acquisition. He is active in teaching and research activities
at the highest level in Tianjin. In 2019, his open class Click for a Friend
achieved success in the city.
Yao Weisheng （姚卫盛） is a senior
teacher of Tianjin Nankai High School, where he also works as assistant
director of the Teaching Affairs Office. Since 2008, he has been invited to
give open classes or lectures in 22 provinces in China.
Shao Qin （邵琴）is the head of
the English teaching group of Tianjin Experimental Binhai High School. She has
been teaching English in Tianjin Experimental Binhai High School and contrives
effective approaches to English teaching. Meanwhile, she actively participates
in teaching and research activities at all levels in Tianjin.
专题研讨：AI and foreign language teaching
发言专家：
Ma Yuenian (马岳年) (Chair), Wuxi
Institute of Educational Science, Jiangsu
Wu Huizhen (吴慧珍), Shanghai
Business School, Shanghai
Zhu Lili (祝丽丽), Beijing Foreign
Studies University, Beijing
A Study on personalized adaptive learning
of English vocabulary through AI technology
Ma Yuenian (马岳年) (Chair), Wuxi
Institute of Educational Science, Jiangsu
The current outbreak of the COVID-19 has an
enormous impact around the world, and school education in China is no
exception. However, like many industries, it requires the internet, Big Data,
and AI to play a key part in its future. This presentation is based on a
research project aimed at 1) catering to individual needs; 2) offering more
scope for student initiative; 3) encouraging exploratory learning.
English teaching and learning are facing
many challenges, including 1) how to take care of generality in large class
size teaching and individuality in individual counseling; 2) how to synchronize
and compromise collective learning in class and independent study after class,
and how to convert students’ passive learning to active exploring.
With the help of AI technology, this
research project attempts to meet the above challenges in order to lighten the
burden on teachers and students, while increasing the efficiency of English
vocabulary teaching and learning.
简介：Ma Yuenian （马岳年）has 25 years of foreign language teaching experience at Jiangsu Wuxi
No. 1 High School, and 12 years of senior high school English teaching research
experience at Wuxi Institute of Educational Science. He has won many titles,
including Nationally Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher of Middle and Primary
Schools, Backbone Teacher of the National Cross-Century “Gardener Project,” and
Super English Teacher of Jiangsu Province. He is also a part-time professor at
Jiangnan University, and a master supervisor of Suchow University.
Help or hurdle: video captioning effects
of listening comprehension and vocabulary learning
Wu Huizhen (吴慧珍), Shanghai Business School, Shanghai
This study investigated how video caption types affected listening
comprehension and vocabulary acquisition in terms of form recognition, meaning
recall, and meaning recognition. A total of 158 Chinese EFL students of the
intermediate level were recruited and randomly assigned to one of the five
conditions: English caption (EC), English caption with highlighted target words
and L1 gloss (ECL1), Chinese and English caption (CEC), Chinese and English
captions with highlighted target words (CECHW), and a control group without
captions (NC). It was found that caption types affected listening comprehension
and vocabulary learning to a different degree. CECHW significantly facilitated
listening comprehension while other captions helped a little, indicating that a
full Chinese subtitle and highlighted keywords were beneficial in listening
comprehension. Pedagogical implications are made for language teachers’
adoption of captioned videos, together with suggestions for the future research
of captioned viewing.
Wu Huizhen is a lecturer
working in the Department of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Business School. In
2018, she worked as a one-year visiting scholar at UC Irvine’s School of
Education, where she received several teaching awards at municipal and national
levels. Her works have been published in the Shanghai Journal of Translators
and International Education Journal.
Research on EGP+EAP blended
teaching/learning model
Zhu Lili (祝丽丽), Beijing Foreign
Studies University, Beijing
There is a gap between EGP and ESP in local colleges and universities.
English teaching faces problems such as uncoordinated teacher-student ratios,
inadequate supporting facilities, and a lack of qualified ESP teachers.
Therefore, learning from the relevant theories and achievements of blended
teaching/learning at home and abroad, the EGP+EAP model is proposed based on
current English teaching in local colleges and universities. This teaching
model helps to improve teaching philosophy and teaching levels, which
cultivates students’ independent learning ability, their skill in solving the
two imbalanced problems, and improves the overall quality of college education.
Zhu Lili is a Ph.D.
candidate at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. She works as an English
lecturer at Heze University, Shandong province, and her research interest
includes, contrastive and translation linguistics, lexical semantics, and second
language acquisition.
工作坊：Workshop on vocabulary teaching based on Backward Design
发言专家：Ji Xiaoting (冀小婷), Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin
Effective approaches to teaching vocabulary
seems to be a heated topic among teachers in primary schools, secondary schools
and even college. Teachers have tried various methods, but with less than
satisfactory results. This workshop aims to analyze and design vocabulary
instruction using the approach of Backward Design. The goal of the workshop is
to offer a new perspective in evaluating and designing lessons in this area of
instruction.
简介：Ji Xiaoting （冀小婷）is a Professor at Tianjin Normal University. She was a visiting
scholar at University of Michigan, US.
