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Inquiry in English Education

What object should learning be directed? And what should be the nature of classroom activities? Trying to get an answer, we have to start from Dewey's concept of inquiry. Dewey(1938) says, “Education begins with learners' passions and questions, growing from their current position in the world -- what they believe and what they value.” Inquiry-based classrooms is contrasted with those whose primary purpose is to transmit knowledge. While the delivery system is from expert to novice and the goal is uniformity, the inquiry promised to be far from uniformity. Learning is not an end in itself, but an integral aspect of participating in a community's activities and mastering the tools, knowledge, and practices that enable one to do so effectively. In the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language, we had better look into the inquiry-based classrooms to get an efficient and effective guideline for pedagogy. This paper will introduce inquiry-based classroom and suggest some guidelines of teaching paradigm for second or foreign language classes.