Characterized Features of English Teachers' Curriculum Understanding in Senior High Schools

Abstract

The in-depth promotion of the new curriculum reform and the requirement of the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people have triggered more attention to the issue of "teachers' curriculum understanding" in curriculum field in China. Entering into the curriculum world of front-line English teachers in senior high schools, the researcher found that English teachers' curriculum understanding was often inconsistent at conceptual and practical levels, which aptly illustrated the complexity of English teachers' curriculum understanding in senior high schools. In this study, the practical behaviors of English teachers' curriculum understanding in senior high schools are sorted out and analyzed according to certain criteria, in an attempt to find a more reasonable curriculum understanding for English teachers.