Huaying Chen

Department of English
School of Foreign Languages
Xinjiang Normal University

Email: chenhuaying@tom.com
Telephone:+86 991 4332098
 

I grew up in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China and took my undergraduate degree in English for Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1986. After graduating I went to Chengdu, Sichuan where I completed my postgraduate study in English Language and Literature at Chengdu University of Science and Technology. I started teaching English in Xinjiang Normal University in 1989.

Teaching Philosophy

I believe, L2 education is empowerment education for people; it is a means to the recognition, emancipation, environmental interfacing, reinforcement, and maintenance of some innate powers in the learners. As such, learning assumes both a series of actions and a lengthy process. Such a philosophy of L2 learning is deeply rooted in Chomsky’s (1965) Mentalist theory, Austin-Searle’s (1962; 1969) Speech Act theory, and Sperber-Wilson’s (1986) Relevance theory. With the explosive growth in communication and information technologies, teachers need mastery of, and access to, information technology in order to manage the education of their students. The teacher’s role should be fourfold: being a learner — knowledgeable about my field as well as ways of student learning; being a teacher — familiar with methods and good at using them properly; being a researcher — with a clearly defined research focus and active in publishing research findings and communicating; and being a community servant — committed to community development, expectations, and research issues.

My current research interest centres on language testing. After taking the Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) course and this course in Internet-Based Language Instruction, I plan to apply what I have learned to my teaching task and do research in this field.