从减轻学生学习负担的出发点分析,新课改“减负”目的是使现行的教育教学活动更符合学生的身心发展规律,更接近素质教育的要求等。由这个根本点出发,本文拟结合英语学科的教学实际谈谈英语教学发展须正视的教师的角色认识。“减负”的关键是教师,对于“减负”给教学实践带来的变动及冲击,如课程安排的规范化,作业布置的适量化,以及学生这一教育主体对“减负”可能产生的某种模糊甚至偏见的认识等,教师都要有一定的适应过程,因而对自身角色要有一个 From the starting point to reduce the burden on students’ learning analysis, the new curriculum reform “burden reduction” is to make the current education and teaching activities more in line with the laws of physical and mental development of students, and more close to the requirements of quality education. Starting from this fundamental point, this paper intends to talk about the teacher ’s role cognition in the development of English teaching in light of the teaching practice of English subject. The key to reducing the burden on teachers is to change the teaching practice brought by teachers such as the standardization of the curriculum, the proper quantification of homework assignments, and the “burden reduction” of students, May have some kind of vague or even prejudice awareness, teachers must have a certain degree of adaptation process, and therefore have a role in their own