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【Case Reflection】

Mr L has been teaching English in the affiliated school of a normal university for more than 30 years. He is conscientious and responsible in his teaching，and especially has a good memory of all kinds of examination questions. Having great patience，he never tires of explaining every possible test point that appears in textbooks—prescribed or otherwise. He also summarizes test points and arranges them into dozens of pages for students to recite. As a result，most of his students perform very well in examinations，but few of them like either his English classes，or indeed anything to do with learning English. What is worse，few students value his devotion to teaching.

Based on your current understanding of language teaching and learning，what do you think are the main educational factors that cause teacher L's whole hearted enthusiasm to meet with cold indifference from his students？

参考答案：

In the first place, teaching is an interactive activity in which both teachers and students become more developed. Teacher L conducts a completely exam-oriented teaching, which is boring and mundane. He is ignorant of students’ learning needs and there is no interaction between them. Secondly, in language teaching, the more important factor is students’ positive and active approach to learning. Teacher L obviously doesn’t care about students’ motivation and incentive; he crams learning materials and exam content in the students, regardless of students’ emotional response. Lastly, teaching should be teacher-led but students-centered activity. Here teacher L takes teaching as teacher-led and exam-centered. He is putting the cart before the horse. Only by focusing on students’ learning needs and motivation can they perform well in exams and achieve learning goals.