On the Prospect ofLearner-Centred Teaching of English in China

摘要

In this paper, the current situation of learner-centred pedagogy inrnChina’s tertiary institutes of higher education is reviewed, togetherrnwith the author’s informed comments on it（Wu, 2003）. What’srnmore, the good experience of colleagues in Hong Kong (Ho andrnCrookall, 1995; Scollon and Scollon, 1994) in this area of appliedrnlinguistics is scrutinized by the current author as the sociolinguisticrncondition in Hong Kong is similar but not entirely homogeneous tornthat in mainland China. In the end, it is concluded that official large-scalernempirical research projects sponsored by the Ministry of Education arernurgently needed if the authorities wish to improve the quality of Englishrnteaching in the expanding universities and colleges all over China.