Status quo of English Teaching and Learning in a Local County Senior High School in China

The past two decades witnessed great changes in therealm of English teaching. Language teaching theorists haveshifted their focus of attention from teaching to learning,tryingto give a central position to the learners,rather than the teacherby advocating ideas like humanistic language teaching andlearner autonomy etcetera. And developments in languageteaching theory itself have already demonstrated their influenceupon policy makers,having led to formulation and nationwideadoption of more human…

Status quo of English Teaching and Learning in a Local County Senior High School in China

Despite theoretical advances in the realm of TEFL and rounds of nationwide education reform in China in the past two decades,the status quo of TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) in some senior high schools remains helpless.This article,by examining how utilitarianism in education shapes (spoils,to be more exact) English teaching and learning in a county senior high school in Anhui,an eastern province in China,and how it hinders implementation of quality education,appeals to teachers as individuals for personal efforts to help change the status quo in such schools,or at least to prevent it from worsening.