The second group of participants in the study consists of two teachers: Teacher A is a female and Teacher B is a male, both of whom teach the IELTS academic reading course in the language school. Ten of the twenty candidates in the study are Teacher A’s students, the other ten are 2
Teacher B’s students. Both teachers are graduates of English and had received professional teacher training in New Oriental School, which is the most authoritative language training school in Beijing, China. Both of the teachers hold TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate, one of the official ELT (English Language Teaching) qualifications as well. They have a good knowledge and teaching experience of the IELTS reading comprehension task. And up to the time of the research, these two teachers have been teaching the course in this language school for six years and have had a great deal of successful experience of assisting candidates to improve their reading skills and gain high band scores in the test.