1. Taiwanese student’s expectations toward their foreign teacher’s teaching styles: a case study in Natou Commercial High school Student: 范明麗 Olivia I D: 9822613

2. Content  I. Introduction  Background of the study  Statement of the problems  Purpose of the study  Research Questions  II. Literature Review  III. Methodology

3. Background of the study Culture differences are obvious between Asian and West, for English language teaching/ learning should be modified so as to help each other. (Khuwaileh,2000)

4. Statement of the problems  Many studies focus on the Taiwanese high school students attitudes/expectations about leaning/teaching and their teacher’s; however, few studies focus on the comprehensive high school students.

5. Purpose of the study  To investigate Taiwanese Commercial High school student’s learning attitudes and expectations to their native speaker English teacher’s teaching beliefs.  To explore the culture shock between Taiwanese student’s and teacher’s learning/ teaching problems.

6. Research Questions  1. What are Taiwanese student’s ( Natou Commercial High school) expectations about English speaking courses and Foreign teacher ?  2. What are foreign teacher’s expectations about their Taiwanese students ( Natou Commercial High school) in English speaking courses?

7. Research Questions  3. What are the performance of Taiwanese student’s ( Natou Commercial High school) learning strategies in their English speaking courses?

8. Literature Review  “ Conflict of cultural identity is pivotal in the success or failure of language learning.”  (Norton-peirce, 1995; Luke,2000, 1996; Gunderson,2000; Mc Carthy et al, 2003; Pennycook, 1999; Harklau,2000)  “ Teacher’s performance in class may be affected by their cultures”  ( Nunan,1986)

9. Methodology  Participants  Instruments  Procedures of the study  Data analysis

10. Participants  Foreign teacher (1 or 2)  Students (2 classes)  Age-16

11.  Quantitative Data  SPSS 13.0  Reliability analysis ( cronabach α )  T test  Quantitative Data  Interview data

12. Pilot study Formal study Students Teachers Pre – questionnaire student interviews

13. One semester English Speaking Course Data analysis

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