Employability Analysis and Improving Strategy of Art Majors in College

Scarce resources of Higher Education is the fundamental factor affecting arts college students＇ employability training and promotion. Human Capital acquired by Art Majors in higher education is professional knowledge and skills with the core of employability. Characterized by a high degree of operability art expertise determines the students and enhances their professional knowledge and skills for the high dependence of educational resources. These educational resources include not only the hardware facilities, teachers, but also include the school＇ s philosophy, cultural traditions, social practices of professional opportunities, social influence and other hidden educational resources, for example, as for the traditional fine arts students, in addition to enough learning creative space, schools and cultural traditions have a very profound impact on the ability for professional and career development. In case of shortage of educational resources, art students＇ the opportunity to study and practice professional knowledge and skills must be affected, but the large number of students makes many teachers tied of teaching school recessive educational resources which even cannot be effectively communicated.

Study on the Ideological Education and Management Model for the Art Majors in Institutions of Higher Learning in the New Period

The ideological situation of the art majors in institutions, of higher learning has its own characteristics and needs educators to adopt the targeted ideological education and management measures, so as to promote the healthy growth and comprehensive development of the art majors. In this paper, the ideological education and managemenl model for the art majors in institutions of higher learning in the new oeriod are studied, hooing to attract more scholars to focus on this tooic.

A Study of the Rain Classroom-Based Teaching Mode of College English for Art or Physical Education Majors

The study delves into the online teaching practice that uses "Rain Classroom" for the school-based curriculum of college English and explored whether such a teaching mode can arouse students’ interests in learning,and enhance their learning effect and satisfaction by means of a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews to collect feedback from students of art or physical education majors on the effectiveness of Rain Classroom-based teaching for quantitative and qualitative analysis.The collected data indicates that this teaching mode was greatly accepted by these students,who showed strong interests in learning,but as they were not disciplined much in their studies,their learning effect was not significant.Therefore,this paper concluded therefore that we should integrate such smart teaching modes as Rain Classroom with traditional classroom teaching styles to tap the benefits of blended learning which features the combination of information technology(IT) with foreign language teaching.

The Role of Societal and Contextual Factors in Second Language Learning Motivation:A Perspective from Tertiary Students in Pakistan

In recent years, SLA and L2 learning motivation have received extensive attention of researchers and teachers across the globe but the issue remains underdeveloped and there are only some small-scale studies on this subject in Pakistan. Among different factors that affect L2 learning motivation, the current study focuses on exploring differences in L2 learning motivation by college type （private vs. public） and major subject of study （Arts vs. Sciences）. Analyzing the questionnaire data from 547 first year college students, the study singles out different situation-specific factors that account for variation in ESL learning motivation. Results indicate that private college students have a higher motivation level and better achievements in ESL learning as compared to public college students. Public college students have strong instrumental motivation while private college students show preferences for an ideal L2 self. L2 motivation does not differ a great deal between students with different subjects of study but there is a big gap in the achievement of both groups. Arts majors＇ motivation depends heavily on their attitude towards English while science majors are instrumentally motivated to learn English. We also discuss some possible reasons for the differences in motivation and implications of the study for ESL teachers and learners.