A FOLLOW-UP STUDY ON TRANSFERRED TEACHERS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION—A Case in Guangdong 英语专业本科毕业论文.doc

A FOLLOW-UP STUDY ON TRANSFERRED TEACHERS’ ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION —A Case in Guangdong A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS By JACKIE LAM Supervised by Prof. Noble Hofmann SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY, GUANGZHOU, P.R. CHINA JUNE, 2006ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The completion of this study could never have been possible without the assistance of many people related. First and foremost, I would like to show my heartfelt gratitude to my supervisor, Professor XXX. Knowledgeable and responsible, Prof. X provided me with valuable guidance and support in every stage of writing this thesis. He made well-informed and enlightening comments on the organization of the chapters, took pains to go through in great detail every draft of the thesis. Thanks are due to Associate Professor XX, Miss YY and Miss PP, who helped me a lot in collecting data. I would like to express my great gratitude to my classmate FFF, and my dear Australian teacher KK, who have been of great help in analyzing the data. They have been very patient and responsible throughout the whole work. Last but not least, I want to acknowledge my debt to the six transferred teachers, who spent time in providing the oral materials when having their hands full.ABSTRACT Quality of teachers has always been paid great attention to, especially that of primary school teachers, who play the most influential role in students’ elementary learning. In 2001, as the new National English Curriculum requires that English should be taught from Grade 3 in primary schools, a new type of primary school English teachers named “transferred teachers” came into being. Transferred teachers are those non-English-major primary school teachers who shift to teach English after graduation from a training program called “In-service Training for Transferred Teachers”. By far, these teachers have been teaching English for over four years, but there have been few follow-up researches on their