欠发达地区二本院校大学英语课程类型定位与学情问题研究——以甘肃省为例

An Investigation of the Influence of the Course Type of College English on Its Learning Problems: Taking Second-level Universities of Gansu Province as Examples

通过对甘肃省属七所二本院校4288名非英语专业在校本科学生的问卷调查,研究发现学生英语学习动机的构成过分依赖外在因素,英语学习兴趣和学习时间随年级的升高而下降,班额过大导致教学效果不佳,教学设施不够完善,英语课外活动不够丰富,以及大学英语四级考试成绩作为学生获得学位证或毕业资格的规定不合理等因素是困扰学生英语学习的主要问题。这些问题的产生均与大学英语课程的"必修性"有关。建议将西北欠发达地区二本院校大学英语改为选修课,以提高课程的针对性和教学效果。

This study takes 4288 non-English majors from seven second-level universities of Gansu Province as its subjects and investigates them with questionnaires. It finds that the major problems involved in college English learning are： learning motivation dominated by external factors, decreasing of interest to and learning time of the language with the ascending of grades, large-sized classes and unsatisfied teaching results, poor teaching facilities, inadequate English out-class activities, and unreasonable practice of indexing the students＇ marks of CET4 in line with qualifications to their certificate of bachelor＇ degree and graduation certificate. It concludes that these problems are caused by the ＂compulsoriness＂ of the course. It consequently suggests that the type of college English be changed from a compulsory course into an elective one so as to clarify the direction of the course and improve the teaching efficiency.