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Teacher Development
An international journal of teachers' professional development
Volume 20, 2016 - Issue 1
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Exploring the expectation differences of teachers’ roles in English MA class presentation

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Pages 92-105 | Received 08 Dec 2012, Accepted 10 Jan 2014, Published online: 05 Feb 2016
 

Abstract

Students’ presentation is a research-based in-class activity to present views, supporting details or research results on a given topic. Undoubtedly, teachers play important roles in presentations and teachers’ roles are quite different from students’ roles in this activity due to the different role expectations between them. However, in most cases, neither teachers nor students are very clear about the differences between teachers’ role expectations and students’ role expectations, which results in problems such as misunderstandings, low efficiency, information asymmetry, etc. This article intends to explore these differences by conducting a questionnaire survey. The research was carried out among 60 postgraduates who major in English and 10 teachers from a normal university. Research results show great differences between teachers’ and students’ role expectations and suggestions for narrowing the gaps are also addressed in the paper.

Notes

1. Participants’ responses were originally made in Chinese and are translated into English for the sake of discussion. The same goes with other responses in the remaining part of this section and won’t be noted again.

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