土木工程专业英语教学现状调查分析

Survey on current status of professional English teaching for civil engineering

随着土木工程领域经济全球化趋势加速,土木工程专业英语教学日益重要。对来自3所不同专业实力高校的120名学生和60名教师就土木工程专业英语认识和教学中存在的问题进行了问卷调查。并针对调查结果,对3所高校的60名毕业生就土木工程专业英语课程听说读写环节的需求进行了追加调查。调查结果显示:对土木工程专业英语课程重要性认识,专业实力强的高校要好于专业实力差的高校;大部分高校的土木工程专业英语师资建设,教学内容和教学方法等方面有待改进;不同层次的高校对专业英语需求不同,对听说读写各个环节的需求也不同,高校可以根据自身实际情况制定教学方案,形成各有的特色土木工程专业英语教学。

With the economic globalization in civil engineering field, the professional English for civil engineering becomes more and more important. This paper presents the current status of professional English teaching for civil engineering through the questionnaire survey. The data were collected from 120 students and 60 teachers of three universities with different specialty strengths. Besides, according to the question reflected by the previous survey, an append survey focused on the requirement of listening and speaking teaching, reading teaching and writing teaching also had been conducted. The append survey data were collected from 60 students of the universities mentioned above. The results show that, the school with good specialty strength is better than that with poor specialty strength at the understanding on the importance of professional English. The teaching staff construction, teaching contents and teaching methods of professional English course for civil engineering need to be improved in most universities. The requirement of professional English course and its teaching links are different for the universities with different specialty strengths. For different universities, the teaching plan can be designed based on its own actual situation with different characteristics.