For thirteen years I worked as a male secondary English teacher. I had noted that in English departments men were consistently in the minority, usually one or two in a department. Over the years my colleagues " perception was that male English teachers were either exceptionally good or noticeably weak. Therefore, a male English teacher stood out. Moving from school to a University education dep...

Founded by eight secondary English teachers in Seoul in the summer of 1988, the Korean English Teachers’ Group (KETG) started as a professional book discussion group. Its first ‘office’ was a small coffee table in the living room of a female teacher’s home. The teachers gathered over the weekend and discussed professional books or sets of articles mainly focused on educational philosophy and so...

This paper explores interdisciplinary collaboration in English language teaching from a new perspective by analysing the reflections of three subject teachers. Their thoughts provide valuable insights for English language teachers when they pursue collaboration with subject teachers. The three subject teachers worked closely with the researcher on a web-based essay writing teaching project whic...

In order to explore high school students’ English learning anxiety in Chinese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms, this study surveyed and analyzed 105 students from a high school in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, China. The results indicated that students indeed had comparatively high anxiety in English learning. Males have higher anxiety of English classes than females. And it was...

The Chinese-English bilingual teaching in the circuit course is an important approach to foster innovational talents for the electronic industry in the new century. In this article, we analyze the background, applicability and feasibility of bilingual teaching in the course of circuit and the difficulties facing in the process of implementation. We explore various approaches and methods to over...

English and Chinese have stark differences in both segmental and suprasegmental features. In particular, for Chinese learners of English as a secondary language (L2), there are expected deviations in the production of English prosody as a result of transfer of linguistic characteristics from their mother tongue. We have designed, collected and annotated a corpus to elicit suprasegmental informa...