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Understanding Intrinsic Challenges to STEM Instructional Practices for Chinese Teachers Based on Their Beliefs and Knowledge Base
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Dong, Yan; Wang, Jing; Yang, Yunying; Kurup, Premnadh M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: China has great student participation in STEM education. Chinese society has a progressive and positive attitude towards STEM as it is considered to provide more opportunities in life. Teachers play a vital role in the success of any STEM program in K-12 schools. However, teachers are facing instructional challenges because of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Teacher Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Language Teachers' Attitudes, Beliefs, Professional Knowledge, and Views on Professional Development: An Exploratory Study at a Preschool TEFL Setting
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Lin, Zheng – TESOL Journal, 2013
This article reports on an exploratory study of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' attitudes, beliefs, and professional knowledge about teaching EFL (TEFL) in a preschool setting in China. The investigation is structured on a two-dimensional grid based on Calderhead's (1996) categorisation of teachers' attitudes and beliefs and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Teaching Oral English in Higher Education: Challenges to EFL Teachers
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Chen, Zan; Goh, Christine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This paper investigates difficulties that teachers encounter in teaching oral English in higher education in the English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Open-ended question surveys and semi-structured interviews were used to elicit data. There were 331 EFL teachers from 44 universities in 22 cities across China that responded to the survey…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge