TEACHERS’ ROLES IN THE EXTENSIVE READING CLASS

• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学：英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 1998,（2）
• 页码范围: 16-19
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: H319.3

摘要

Ⅰ. Introduction. Today, in most English teaching classes, owing to the popularity of the student-centered teaching approach, the traditional teacher-centered teaching approach has gradually lost its dominating place. As far as extensive reading classes are concerned, this is no exception. The more communicative student-centered approach has been popularly adopted. As a result, the teachers’ roles in the reading classes are changing accordingly. A qualified teacher should be prepared to take different roles at different stages of teaching. Jeremy Harmer has pointed out that a teacher can be expected to act, for example, as a controller, an assessor, an organizer, a prompter, a participant and as a resource (Harmer, 1983). In this