中外合作课程对英语专业高年级教学的启示

Implications of the UNC-China Joint Courses to the Teaching of Senior English Majors

以包头师范学院与美国费耶特维尔州立大学和东卡莱罗纳大学同步开设的网络对接课程为研究文本,探讨中外合作课程对英语专业教学的新启示及影响。通过解析美方教师的基于小组合作和任务的教学方式在培养学生的独立获取知识、思考问题、解决问题能力方面所发挥的积极作用,让我们再次审视英语专业高年级教学中重教师输入、轻学生参与的现状,提出以学习这种合作课程的先进教学理念为契机,探索有效的英语专业高年级阶段教学方式,真正提高人才培养的质量。

This paper,taking as the study subject the new internet joint courses between Baotou Teachers’ University and U.S.Fayetteville State University and East Carolina,probes the implications of UNC-China joint courses to the teaching of senior English majors.The group-based and task-based cooperative teaching and learning methods used by the American teachers and their positive roles in fostering students’ initiative in knowledge obtaining,independent thinking and problem solving have led us to re-examine the present teaching situation of the senior English majors,in which the teachers stress input,but neglect output,and to learn from this advanced rationale,probe effective teaching methods for senior English majors so as to improve the quality of the graduates in this field.