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ERIC Number: EJ1214290
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 7
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1916-4742
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Less Classroom Hours of EFL Instruction to Non-English Majors in Chinese Universities: Is It a Reason-Based Policy that Provokes No Response?
Tao, Wei
English Language Teaching, v12 n5 p170-176 2019
This paper analyzes the phenomenon that reducing hours of EFL instruction to non-English majors in Chinese universities gets no response. It first depicts the phenomenon, pointing out that this phenomenon differs greatly from people's response to similar events that happened in the past. It then analyzes the complicated underlying factors from perspectives of main stakeholders including university authorities, school deans and teachers, and those from the perspective of students, revealing their diversified thoughts and feelings towards the reduction of EFL instruction hours. Based on the analysis, this paper thinks that it's not a thoroughly rational policy. In hope of minimizing the possible negative impact of the widely implemented policy, this paper proposes three suggestions for EFL instruction practice: Stratified instruction based on university-designed proficiency tests, communication oriented small-class instruction and teacher-guided autonomous learning.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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