INTERPRETING CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION IN SINGAPORE

• 作者: LawrenceJunZhang
• 来源期刊: 中国英语教学：英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: 中学 英语教学 新加坡 师范教育 教育改革 语言技能训练 教学理论 教学方法
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（4）
• 页码范围: 9-17
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

This paper explains how at the institutional level a teacher preparation agency responds to the changes as mandated by the Ministry of Education in Singapore. In particular, it focuses on how the English Language Postgraduate Diploma in Education(PGDE) Programme has been responding to the changes to more effectively prepare pre-service trainee-teachers to teach English Language in secondary schools to meet the requirements of the new English Language Syllabus (MOE, 2001a ). It briefly describes the requirements for entry into the PGDE (Secondary) English Language Programme and the core courses on the programme. Then it reports on how pre-service training is being carried out on various programmes designed to train secondary school teachers, especially, how the "'Pupil Experience (PE)" programme is operationalised as an important initiative to induct pre-service trainee-teachers into the English Language teaching profession in Singapore. Implications of such initiatives are also discussed.