文章基本信息
- 标题：PAC Feature: FEELTA
- 本地全文：下载
- 作者：Galina Lotsevitch ; Stephen M. Ryan
- 期刊名称：The Language Teacher
- 印刷版ISSN：0289-7938
- 出版年度：2001
- 卷号：25
- 期号：4
- 出版社：Japanese Association for Language teaching
- 摘要：
The Russian Far Eastern English Language Teachers' Association (FEELTA) is a relatively young organization. It was founded in 1995 under the initiative of a group of university EFL teachers. By that time there was a great need for a regional professional association for a number of reasons:
After 70 years of living behind the Iron Curtain the Russian Far East became open to the world. There was a strong demand for the English language as a means of communication and cultural understanding in the Russian Far East as it strives to take its place as an active member of the Pacific Rim community. We teachers of English working in the Russian Far East had become increasingly aware that our teaching concerns were different in our Asian context from those of the European part of Russia. To mention just a few of them: the demand for American English, the need to focus on East Asian accents and varieties of English (for trading relations with Asian nations), and the emphasis on multiculturalism. Never before had we thought about the peculiarities of teaching English in the Far East as the educational system was centralized and uniform all over Russia. There was a need to integrate English language teachers working at different educational levels: primary, secondary and tertiary to create more coherence in language teaching. Moscow and Saint Petersburg had always been educational centers in Russia, with the richest libraries and the best universities. Immense distance and economic difficulties made it impossible for us Far Eastern teachers to go to Moscow or Saint Petersburg to attend professional development courses or work in the national libraries
