面向市场需求的英语技术传播课程设计与实施——以同济大学为例

Market-oriented "Technical Communication in English" Course Design and Practice——A Case Study of Tongji University

技术传播课程旨在培养能讲好技术故事的应用型技术传播专业人才。本文探讨如何采用项目式教学法展开以市场为导向、由项目驱动的双线课程设计,展示如何与企业合作建设,并在详尽阐析课程具体实施方案的基础上,根据课程问卷调查数据从技术传播专业能力、技术写作能力和职业素质这三方面对本课程的教学效果进行评估,结果显示,通过该课程学习,学生在这三个方面得到了较大提高。本研究对课程设计思路与实施方案的具体展现将为我国其他高校开设同类课程提供有益的借鉴。

Technical Communication(TC) aims at cultivating technical communication talents who are skillful at telling technical stories. Based upon project-based approach, a double-line marketoriented and project-driven course design is explored and teaching practice by drawing expertise from the industry is demonstrated. The effectiveness of the course design and practice is illustrated by data from an end-of-course questionnaire survey in terms of TC professional capabilities, English technical writing abilities and professional qualities. The survey result shows that students have greatly improved these capabilities. This course design and its implementation practice can throw light upon how to run such courses in other Chinese institutions.