Abstract:

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Competence of university English teacher educators has its unique constituent elements, hierarchical structure and characteristics. By means of the Literature Research Method, the Interviewing Method, the Delphi Method and the Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the paper makes an exploration and discovers that their SoTL Competence is composed of 4 first-level indicators, 12 second-level indicators and 27 third-level indicators. The 4 first-level indicators include the ability to establish SoTL concepts, the ability to apply SoTL knowledge, the ability to develop English SoTL and the influencing ability of English SoTL. Disciplinarity, demonstration, integration, interaction and practice are their main characteristics. These ability elements of different levels are different from each other, but they are interrelated and complement each other. As a whole, they develop from basic level to high level and show a pyramid structure, which possesses the features of hierarchy and discrimination.

Key words: university English teacher educator, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Competence, element, structure, characteristic