TeachersTheQualityStructureofEnglishTeachersinHigherVocationalCollegesundertheMo

Abstract. Implementing the Mode of Combining Learning with Working is one of the important approaches of embodying the characteristics of education in higher vocational colleges. The teacher’s quality is the key to the success of the education for all-around development. The researcher investigated fifty English teachers （including the deans of the Foreign Department） and 200 students from Nanchang Institute of Technology from October to December in 2011. The investigation aims at knowing about the quality structure of English teachers in higher vocational colleges under the Mode of Combining Learning with Working. Based on the results of the investigation， the research puts forward some strategies to improve their qualities.
Key words： The Mode of Combining Learning with Working； English teachers in higher vocational colleges； Quality structure； Strategies
Higher vocational education shifted its focus from scale expansion to improving teaching quality and promoting connotative construction. One of the important approaches to enhance the student’s all-around quality and its competitiveness in future employment is to implement the Mode of Combining Learning with Working. The teacher’s quality is the key to improving his student’ s quality and the rate of the future employment； therefore， it’s quite necessary and essential to investigate the quality structure of English teachers in higher vocational colleges under the Mode of Combining Learning with Working.

1. The Meaning of Teachers’ Quality

The Teacher’s quality， usually embodied in their teaching activities， is a decisive factor to educational effect， and the sum of psychological character which has the immediate and marked influence to the student’s somatopsychic development.（Lin Chongde，1996：16-22）. Teachers should possess the following qualities： self-identity of faith in professional value， gracious moral cultivation， perception of modern education， optimized knowledge structure， the development and improvement of teaching ability， the establishment and consolidation of the image of researcher， forable somatopsychic qualities， team orientation， co-operative， specifically with other divisions（Wang Bo，2001：37）.Teachers’ qualities include teachers’ belief， knowledge structure and ability structure（Du Hebing，Qin Xuhong，2002：23）.
2. Empirical Research on Teachers’ Quality Structure
The subjects of the research are 200 three-year-term students from Nanchang Institute of Technology who are randomly drawn and 50 English teachers （including the deans of the faculty） from five different higher vocational colleges. The que

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stionnaire to the students is divided into two stages. The first one consists of an open-ended question： “What qualities should your ideal college English teachers possess”. The purpose of the study is to investigate the key qualities of college English teachers expected by the students. After the students finished their questionnaire， the researcher sorted out， classified and analyzed their answers and then presented the results of the ideal higher vocational college English teachers’ qualities as following：

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3.The Conclusion of the Empirical Investigation
After the investigation， the researcher has a comprehensive understanding of the quality structure that higher vocational college English teachers should possess. The following are the quality structure that 50 higher vocational college English teachers（including the deans of the faculty） and 200 studentsexpect： （1）proficient in English，such as， hing standard pronunciation as well as clear and fluent oral expression；（2）loving students， and willing to communicate with them；（3）profound professional knowledge and interesting ways of teaching； （4）research ability；（5）patient and optimistic；（6）advancing with times and devoting themselves to development and innovation. But it also shows that some problems do exist， for example， the poor ability of oral expression as well as research ability， and lack of creative teaching methods and professional knowledge bother college English teachers a lot.
4. The Strategies to Promote the Qualities

4.1 Establishing a New Teaching Notion

The traditional teaching lays stress on explanation of knowledge and imparting of technical skills. The classroom is the only teaching environment， in which students passively and negatively accept the infusion of the knowledge. However， the teaching environment under the Mode of Combining Learning with Working is an open classroom， where enterprises and companies can also be regarded as teaching classroom， as a result， the studying enthusia of students is aroused and forable teaching effect is obtained. College English teachers should make the transition from the old conception to the new teaching methods， in which they attach importance both to the instruction of knowledge and to the improvement of the students’ practical use of the knowledge.
4.2 Developing the Double-professional Teachers
Double-professional teachers require English teachers own forable professional ethic and faith， reflect the characteristics of “skills” and “profession”， both thoroughly understand

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the relevant theory concerning the subject and master professional skills. The strategies to develop the double-professional teachers are as the following， first， the leaders in higher vocational colleges organize series of lectures， inviting translators and interpreters from different enterprises and institutions， and saleen from foreign trade companies to the lectures， in this way， English teachers can he face-to-face communication with the experts and obtain the opportunities to improve their technical skills； second， the colleges can co-operate with foreign trade companies and foreign affair organizations， providing English teachers with the chances to put their knowledge into practice. Double-professional teachers usually try more interesting ways of teaching， for example， they turn the traditional classroom into a more authentic teaching environment， such as， imitating activities that the translators or foreign trade saleen conduct everyday， in such way， students can improve their abilities of practical skills .

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