A Comparative Study on Perceptions of English Teachers' Mediation between Private University Teachers and Students

Autor/inn/en	Lei, Jiang; Lin, Yuewu
Titel	A Comparative Study on Perceptions of English Teachers' Mediation between Private University Teachers and Students
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 11 (2018) 8, S.1-13 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Comparative Analysis; Language Teachers; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Barriers; Learning Processes; Mediation Theory; Teacher Role; Cognitive Development; Metacognition; Learning Theories; Teacher Attitudes; Private Colleges; Teacher Student Relationship; College Faculty; College Students; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Goal Orientation; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Interviews; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Learning process; Lernprozess; Mediationsverfahren; Lehrerrolle; Kognitive Entwicklung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Lehrerverhalten; Privathochschule; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Mediation theory facilitates teachers and students to tackle the barriers in English teaching and learning process. It offers a sound systematic theoretical fort on which teachers could rely, redefines teachers' roles and functionings in the process of learners' cognitive development and growing self-regulations. The famous psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1978) raised notions in his ZPD theory, Feuerstein (1980) illuminates capable adults as mediators, and defined twelve main features of mediation, which has empirical study value for English teaching. Thus, through quantitative and qualitative research, this paper aims to investigate the perceptions of English teachers' mediation between private university teachers and students, analyze and compare the similarities and differences between them. The results reveal that both teachers and students coming from the two private universities have been aware of the importance of teachers' mediation, however, have different perceptions in the frequency of teachers' mediation. Teachers' actual employment on mediation is weaker than their beliefs on the importance of it. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01