講座人：Yuko Goto Butler
主持人：劉全國 教授
講座時間：2019年12月13日（星期五）下午2:30-4:30
地點：雁塔校區8407
主辦單位：外國語學院
Title: Early English Learning and Socio-economic Disparities
Lecturer: Professor Butler
Host: Professor Quanguo Liu
Time: 2:30-4:30pm, Dec 13, Friday, 2019
Venue: Yanta, 8407
Hosted by: School of International Studies
主講人簡介：
賓夕法尼亞大學TESOL專業系主任，博導，教授，ETS語言測試專業顧問，1999年博士畢業于斯坦福大學教育心理學專業。1999-2001在斯坦福教育研究中心進行博士后研究，2001年進入賓夕法尼亞大學工作至今。已發表SSCI論文50篇以上。研究方向：東亞英語教學，早期英語教育，學習動機研究，同伴互評，電子游戲與英語學習。
講座內容：
小學生剛開始學習英語時，普遍對英語充滿好奇。高年級后，有些孩子興趣開始越來越弱。到初中，學生之間英語水平和學習動機的差異就已經非常大了。這種差異是如何形成的，到底在幾年級開始形成？美國賓夕法尼亞大學教授Yuko Butler在江蘇常州對四年級，六年級，八年級，共572名學生進行綜合調查后，給出了她的答案。她認為學生父母的社會經濟背景對學生英語學習有深刻影響。在講座后期，她也給出相應的教育啟示。
About the Lecture:：
In East Asia, there has been growing concern regarding socio-economic disparities and widening gaps in access to English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) education within and outside of the formal schooling starting from a very early stage of the EFL learning. Despite such concern, the research in second/foreign language acquisition has not yet paid sufficient attention to socio-economic factors and their impact on learners’ language learning. Therefore, the present talk focuses on young learners’ socio-economic status (SES) and its influence on their motivation and English learning. This talk focuses on a case in an Eastern Costal city in mainland China. Presenting both quantitative and qualitative data from a cross-sectional component of a larger longitudinal project (198 fourth-, 191 sixth-, and 183 eighth-graders and their parents were participated in the study), the study addresses complex relationships among various factors associated with the young learners’ SES and their English learning across grade levels. Implications for practice will also be discussed.
