This article aims to verify whether contextual theories affect TESOL teachers in Chinese local classrooms via observing three different English teachers’classroom behaviors by using qualitative method.The findings indicate that three major aspects usually affect English teachers:(1)The teacher’s education context affects their TESOL classroom contexts;(2)The institution’s requirements affect the teacher’s classroom contexts;(3)The spirit of quality-oriented education from the New National Stan dards for English influences the classroom contexts,which have proved the context theories.
The differences between children' s L1 acquisition and adults' L2 acquisition based on a qualitative analysis are discussed and compared.Through systematic review of the relevant literature in light of the theories of L1 and L2 acquisition between children and adults,and analysis of the factors both influencing children s L1 and adults L2 acquisition.The findings show that two different acquisitions are distinguished in such aspects as in acquisition age,device,mode,environment and motivation,which conclude that children's L1 acquisition is effortless while adults' L2 acquisition is painful.
