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A Study of Compulsory English Language Teaching at Junior High School in Inner Mongolia: Focusing on Teachers' Beliefs and Students' Beliefs about Language Learning and Teaching in Terms of their Ethnicity

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(1)AStuay ofCompu1sory Eng1ish Language Teaching atJmior High Schoo1in Inner Mongo1ia1 Focusing on Teachers’Be1iefs and Students’Be1iefs about Language Learning and Teaching                             in Terms oftheir Ethnicity. 教科・領域教育学専攻 言書吾系コース. M09132G 塔 娚β.    The Peop1e’s Repub1ic of China is an eth・. Eng1ish in which a11instructions and exp1ana・. nica11y diverse country with around55 d−if・. tions are written in Chinese and the Eng1ish. ferent ethnic minority groups.Regions home to. curricu1a are the same as those genera1Iy em・. 1arge bodies of ethnic minorities are designed. p1oyed in Chna.Therefore,Mongo1ian stu・. as autonomous areas,aivided into5autono・. dents in Inner Mongo1ia are in a difficu1t. mous regions,in which there are30autono.. situation for1earning Eng1ish.. mous prefectures consisting of120autono’ mous counties and banners,These autono・.     In order to consiaer the impact of this. mous areas are距anted freedom in thei■choice. education in Inner Mongo1ia and identify key. situation on the current Eng1ish 1anguage. of re1igious practice and the1anguage and its. prob1ems faced by EFL teachers and students. writing system used in dai1y1ife.Since the. Ieaming Eng1ish,two stuaies were conducted.. founding of the Peop1e’s Repub1ic of China in.     The goa1of Study1was to examine the. 1949,China has undergone various changes in. be1iefs of EFL teachers in Imer Mongo1ia.. its1anguage po1icy,both keeping the minori’. This study compared the resu1ts of a ques・. ties’ respective indigenous 1anguages and making the Chinese1anguage as the nationa1. tionnaire responded to by a Han・Chinese. Ianguage for common use for them.Therefore,. re1ation with their ethnicity and1ength of. gエ。up of teachers and a MongoIian group in. in Imer Mongo1ia,Mongo1ian chi1dren start. teaching experience.. 1eaming Chinese at the first grade of e1emen・.     The purpose of Study2was to examine. tary schooI.. junior high schoo1stuaents’be1iefs on1eaI−ning.    From the time Eng1ish1anguage educa‘. Eng1ish as a foreign1anguage in Imer Mongo−. tion in China became compu1sory,Han・ Chinese students in Imer Mongo1ia began. 1ia.This study a1so compared the resu1ts of a. questionnaire responded to by a group of. 1earning Eng1ish in the first year of e1emen・. Mongo1ian students and−a Han−Chinese group.. tary schoo1.In contrast,Mongohan students.     This study intends to figure out the cur・. start the1r study of Eng11sh at the th1I・d year. rent situation of Eng1ish1anguage eaucation. because they have to begin studying Chinese. in junioI・high schoo1in Inner Mongo1ia and. at the first year in e1ementary schoo1.The. based on the resu1ts,to exp1ore the ways to. textbooks Mongo1ian chi1dren use for1eaming. improve EngIish Ianguage education in Imer. Eng1ish in e1ementary schoo1are the same as. Mongoha.. the textbooks Han−Chinese chi1dren use except.     Chapter1provides an introduction to the. that the instI・uctions and exp1anations in the. textbooks are trans1ated into Mongo1ian from. background information of Eng1ish1anguage education in Imer Mongo1ia,inc1uding its. Chinese.It shou1a be notea that Mongo1ian. 1anguage po1icy and current issues of Eng1ish. chi1dren have to1earn in four years what. 1anguage education.Chapter1a1so presents. Han’Chinese chi1dren Iearn in six years.. the organization of this thesis.. What’s more after entering jmior high schoo1,.     Chapter2shows a brief overview of the. MOngO1ian students use the same textbooks of. education system in China and in Imer Mon一. 一260一.

(2) go1ia.As China’s education system is com−. the1ength of teaching experience.With the. prised of four components1Primary education,. teachers with1ess than six years ofexperience,. secondary education,higher eaucation and. it was found that more of the Han’Chinese. adu1t education,the Inner Mongo1ia Autono・. teachers were described as having an approach. mous Region a1so fo11ows this system,It is a1so. main1y focusing on function−based theoretica1. pointed out that a1though the basis of the. orientation than the MongoIian teachers.. education system in Inner Mongo1ia is the. Whi1e with teachers with more than six years. same as that of China,there are features. of experience,no such aifference was found. unique to the Autonomous Region.That is,the. and it was revea1ed that both the Han’Chinese. region of Inner Mongo1ia has two major types. and the Mongo1ian groups showed a high per・. of schoo1s:Chinese schoo1s for Han Chinese. centage for a dominant ru1e・oriented ap−. students and ethnic Mongo1ian schoo1s for. proach.. Mongo1ian stuaents..     Chapter5describes the I・esu1ts of Study2.     Chapter3describes the education of Eng−. which focused on comparing junior high schoo1. 1ish as a foreign Ianguage in China and Inner. students’beIiefs on their1earning Eng1ish as a. Mongo1ia.The goa1of Eng1ish education in. foreign1anguage in Inner Mongo1ia between the Han−Chinese group and the Mongohan. China is to give students a meaningfu1work−. ing know1edge of spoken and written Eng1ish. groupl A11the students were given a ques・. and to give insight into the cu1tura1,socia1. tionnaire ca11ed the BeIiefs About Language. background of Eng1ish speakers.The goa1of Eng1ish1anguage education in Inner Mongo1ia. oped by Horwitz(1985).The resu1ts of the. Leaming Inventory(BALLI)that was deve1・. is the same and a11Eng1ish curricu1a in Inner. questionnaire were examined through the use. Mongo1ia are set by the Ministry ofEducation. of a斤test to measure whether there were any. of China. It is a1so pointed out,however,that. significant dif竈erences between the Han.. the EngIish teacher training progra!n in Inner. Chinese group and Mongo1ian group in their. Mlongo1ia is dif缶erent from China,in that. average scores of each question item in the. Han・Chinese pre・service teachers have to pass. Questionnaire.There were severa1aif遣erences. Band8which is named the Test for Eng1ish Majors before graduation whi1e Mongo1ian. in the responses between the Han・Chinese. pre−service teachers in Inner Mongo1ia on1y. differed on a wide range of items having to do. have to pass Band 4of the same test foI・. with the difficu1ty of1anguage1eaming,1an・. graduation because of their proficiency1eve1.. guage 1earning aptitude,the nature of Ian−. group and the Mongo1ian group.These groups.     Chapter4reports the resu1ts of Study1. guage1earning and1ear㎡ng and COmmuniCa・. concerning Eng1ish teachers’be1iefs on teach−. tiOn St工ategieS.. ing Eng1ish as a foI・eign1anguage in Inner.    The finaI chapter,Chapter6,draws to−. Mongo1ia.A11the teachers were given a ques・. getheI・the threads from ear1ier chapters,de−. tionnaire ca11ed the Be1iefs Inventory which. scribing the differences in the be1iefs between. was aeve1oped by K.E.Johnson(1992).The. the two ethnic groups of1earners in re1ation to. resu1ts were ana1yzed in terms of their ethnic・. their teachers in an effort to deveIop the po・. ity and a major difference between the Han・. tentiaI re1ationships between teachers’and. Chinese teachers and the Mongo1ian teachers. students’be1iefs.Severa1imp1ications are pro・. was found indicating that more of the Han−. videdforthe improvementofEng1ishIanguage. Chinese teachers were identified as having an. eaucation in the Inner Mongo1ian context.. approach main1y focusing on function than the. Mongo1ian teachers.In oraer to examine the difference between the two ethnic groups of. 主任指導教員   山岡 俊比古. teachers more in detai1,the resuIts were ana.. 1yzed by comparing the two groups in tems of. 一261. 指導教員     山岡 俊比古.

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