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1.2 The purpose of the research 
According  to  the  Collins  COBUILD  Learner’s  Dictionary,  the  function  of something or someone is the useful thing that they do or are intended to do (451). And the  dictionary  explains  the  meaning  of  “underachieving”  is  that  if  someone underachieves in something such as school work or a job, they do not perform as well as they could (1197). In this thesis, the term “function” means the foreign teachers do their teaching to fulfill the purpose of improving students’ English language ability. The term “positive  function”  means  the  factors  enhancing  language  ability.  The  term  “negative function”  means  the  factors  causing  the  failure  of  language  learning.  The underachieving positive functions mean the positive functions that haven’t been played on  improving  students’  English  language  ability.  This  study  is  intended  to  research  in terms  of  functions  of  foreign  teachers  on  cultivating  student’s  English  listening  and speaking ability in primary schools. The study involves two primary schools (the same teaching level, same number of English  class  each  week  and  mature  local  English  teachers)  in  Jinjiang  District, Chengdu,  school  A  (Chengdu  Jinjiang  Foreign  Language  Primary  School,  one  foreign language school with foreign teachers) and school B (De Sheng Branch of Yan Daojie Primary  School,  one  school  without  foreign  teachers).  The  questionnaires  are  used among 12 foreign teachers in primary schools to collect the data on the characteristics of foreign  teachers.  The  classroom  observations  on  3  foreign  teachers  and  one  local English  teacher’s  classes  in  school  A,  questionnaires  among  30  students  at  random  in school A, questionnaires among 4 local English teachers, and standard tests (Grade one, Cambridge  Young  Learners'  English  Tests  and  SEAS  PROFICENCY  TEST)  in  92 students are aimed at realizing foreign teachers’ classroom teaching, students’ needs of foreign language classes, students’ evaluation of their teaching, local English teachers’ evaluation  of  their  teaching  and  foreign  teachers’  functions  on  cultivating  students’ English  listening  and  speaking  ability.  Furthermore,  the  interviews  with  three  foreign teachers  and  one  school  leader  in  charge  of  foreign  teachers  in  school  A  are  used  to collect  the  data  on  the  management  of  foreign  teachers.  These  data  will  be  used  to explain the findings and discussion results.  
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