开设大学英语选修课的探索和实践

Practice of setting up selective courses of college English

随着高校课程改革的不断深入,大学英语选修课在教学中的地位和作用也越来越受到重视,而且课程建设发展迅速。浙江科技学院大学英语部从课程设置、课程教学管理、教材、教学团队建设4个方面对选修课程进行了探索,认为选修课将培养语言技能与学习相关领域的知识结合起来,可提高学生的语言水平;同时也提出了课程实践过程中存在的一些问题及解决的办法,以期达到选修课在大学英语教学中切实发挥作用的目的。

With the deepening reform of curriculums in higher education, selective courses play a more and more important role in college English teaching, much attention is being paid to them and the construction of curriculums develops very quickly. In teaching practice, College English Department in Zhejiang University of Science and Technology has made a research on the project from the following aspects： the setting up of curriculums, teaching management, teaching materials and team management. The teaching of selective courses integrates the cultivation of language skill into the acquisition of knowledge of related fields, thus enhancing language ability of students. Approaches to problems are suggested with the aim to improve the teaching of selective courses.