Class performance of English education graduate students who ever majored in EE bachelor program

【Abstract】English education is a key major in many colleges not only on bachelor program but also on master program. How the English education graduates who ever majored in English education bachelor perform and how they view their new curriculum and teaching styles are studied in this paper. The results show that students like EE master program better but there are some disadvantages to improve.

【Key words】English education program； teaching style

Ⅰ. Introduction

On account of the important role of education， more and more colleges set education program not only in normal colleges. This paper is going to make a research on how English education graduates who ever majored in EE bachelor program perform on EE master program.

Ⅱ. Method and results

This study adopts a qualitative conversation analysis as the methodology. First， 4 EE graduates who had majored in EE bachelor program were interviewed by the author about their feelings for new teaching style and curriculum contents. Then two class hours of second language acquisition course were observed and the field notes were taken by the author. The interviews were conducted separately to all the four participants who were marked A， B， C and D.

（1）What courses about education were set in your EE bachelor program？

Interviewee B： Teaching Methodology. It was taught in English. And Pedagogy was in Chinese.

（2） Which course do you like best？ Could you please describe it？

Interviewee C： I prefer Teaching Methodology. Other courses like Pedagogy and Psychology were taught in Chinese and they were really boring. What’s more， high school teachers were invited to have speeches in the Teaching Practice course sharing their viewpoints and experience.

（3） Is there a course of EE master program you like very much？

Interviewee A： I like professor Cheng’s course. Much information is given during her class and she can instantly inspire you. The analysis of many issues is deeper. I can take advantages from her course.

Ⅲ. Discussion and implications

After presenting the results of the research， it is easy to tell that Participant A， B and C likes the master program better. The bachelor program has some weaknesses： 1. There usually are too many students in one class so the students can’t focus. 2. Lecturing is the main teaching method used by EE bachelor program instructors. The reason why three of all the four participants like the master program could be summarized as follows： 1. The information is elaborated in a broader and deeper way. 2. Because there are only 17 students in the participants’ class， they have more opportunities to communicate directly with the instructors.

Ⅳ. Conclusion

In general， EE graduates who majored in EE bachelor program are satisfied with their new curriculum and teachers. However， the imbalance between theory and practice makes the students a little confused because they are preparing to be a future teacher. Moreover， students prefer the teaching style which could teach them how to learn but not just let them learn. To sum up， EE master program is on a higher level than the bachelor program， what is taught is deeper and broader than it.