Traditional listening teaching focuses mainly on "testing English levels "rather than on "teaching English skills".

传统的英语听力教学往往是“测试听力水平”，而不是“传授听力技能”。

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English language teaching focuses on the students' foundation and ability education, and vocabulary teaching holds an important position in it.

英语教学重在对学生语言基础和能力的培养，而词汇教学在其中的地位举足轻重。

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The current curriculum, its critics say, focuses too much on transmitting skills and not enough on teaching facts.

批评家称现今的课程过多聚焦于传道而疏于求实。

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As Ms Churchman explains, modern maths teaching focuses on the key concepts, and a renewed emphasis on mental methods and strategies as opposed to recall.

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"Strategies to improve test and examination performance, coupled with teaching that focuses heavily on preparation for the qualifications, does not equip pupils for their futures, " says the booklet destined for secondary schools.

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Professionalization of a teaching profession that merely focuses on getting better PISA test scores or more efficient teaching of a common core curriculum will do no better than what we have now, and probably worse.

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