TITLE:
Conceptions about Teaching and Learning Held by EFL Teachers and Learners in China
AUTHORS:
Hongbo Qi
KEYWORDS:
Epistemological Beliefs and Conceptions, Teaching and Learning, Constructivist Conception, Traditional Conception
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.2,
February
25,
2022
ABSTRACT: Different from traditional research in related topic which focuses on the
relation between teacher’s epistemological beliefs and conceptions about
teaching and learning, and teaching motivation, self-efficacy and so on, this
article aims at finding out whether Chinese EFL teachers and learners share
similar beliefs or conceptions about language teaching and learning. The same
questionnaire made by Chan and Elliott (2004) is applied and Excel and SPSS are
employed in statistics. The results of the survey show that teachers and learners in
Chinese foreign language class share similar conceptions about language
teaching and learning, but the degree they agree with constructivist
conceptions is very significantly different with the student being more convinced of
constructivist perspectives. The results are discussed and the implications of
the survey are suggested.