Strategies to Enhance the Teaching Competence of University Teachers in English Major

Authors

  • Yafang Xiang School of Foreign Languages, Shaoyang University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i10.22753

Abstract


This paper aims to find strategies to improve the teaching ability of college teachers in English major, which is affected by various factors. Firstly, the teaching ability deficiencies of college teachers in English major were analyzed, and the connotations of this ability were summarized. On this basis, a novel measurement system was established for the teaching ability of college teachers in English major. Then, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) was combined with Shannon’s information theory into an improved model to measure the said teaching ability. In addition, several strategies were presented to improve teaching ability of college teachers in English major. The research results provide a good guide for the teaching reform in English major.

Author Biography

Yafang Xiang, School of Foreign Languages, Shaoyang University

Yafang Xiang, was born on October 4, 1983 in Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, China. She is currently a lecturer in School of Foreign Languages, Shaoyang University. She graduated from Kunming University of Science and Technology, where she received a B. A degree in English Language and Literature in 2005. She received her M. A degree in Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Central South University in 2008. Her M. A thesis is titled “A Study of Relationship among Motivation Orientations, Metacognitive Awareness and Proficiency in Chinese High School Students’ English Listening”. She has specialized in second language acquisition, cognitive linguistics and began her professional career as an English teacher in 2009. With more than 11 years’ teaching experience she is mainly responsible for teaching “Basic English” course and “English Listening” course for English majors. She has hosted or mainly participated in two provincial-level research projects (including the Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project of Hunan Province in 2019 “A Cultural Cognitive Study of Conceptual Metaphors of English Verbs”) and 4 municipal-level projects. In recent years, more than 10 academic papers have been published by her as the first author.

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Published

2021-05-25

How to Cite

Xiang, Y. (2021). Strategies to Enhance the Teaching Competence of University Teachers in English Major. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 16(10), pp. 71–84. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i10.22753

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 10 (2021)

Section

Papers