Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the disse...Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the dissemination of Chinese culture in English teaching in colleges and universities is lacking,which affects the improvement of students’intercultural communication skills.In order to effectively solve such problems,we need to take effective measures to disseminate Chinese culture by combining teaching content and students’characteristics.This paper summarizes the problems of Chinese culture dissemination in English teaching in colleges and universities,and explores effective countermeasures and teaching considerations,hoping to provide teachers with valuable guidelines.展开更多
In the 21st century,the rapid development of artificial intelligence(AI)and educational technology has revolutionized the global education landscape.As the United States and China engage in strategic competition in th...In the 21st century,the rapid development of artificial intelligence(AI)and educational technology has revolutionized the global education landscape.As the United States and China engage in strategic competition in the AI field,the impact of this rivalry extends beyond technology and economics,permeating education and international relations.This paper explores how educational technology can be leveraged to enhance the teaching and practical abilities of college English teachers in China within the context of the US-China AI competition.The intersection of AI development,educational strategies,and international diplomacy provides a unique backdrop for examining the potential and challenges of integrating advanced technology in English language teaching(ELT).This paper aims to provide insights for policymakers,educators,and researchers on how to effectively utilize educational technology to enhance the teaching and practical abilities of college English teachers,emphasizing the importance of strategic planning and international cooperation in this rapidly evolving field.展开更多
There is an urgent need for high-quality talents with ideological and moral character for the development of higher education and the cultivation of English majors who meet the requirements of the times.The course ref...There is an urgent need for high-quality talents with ideological and moral character for the development of higher education and the cultivation of English majors who meet the requirements of the times.The course reform in English majors from the ideological and political perspective is an important way to improve the comprehensive quality and moral values of students,which helps to cultivate English talents with social responsibility and innovative abilities.This paper analyzes the problems in the current courses through literature review and field research,such as the lack of ideological and political perspective and low interest of students in ideological and political content.Based on these issues,taking the course“Comprehensive English”as an example,various teaching stages were practiced from the aspects of learning objectives,learning content,learning situation,implementation ideas,implementation effects,and teaching evaluation.Additionally,some suggestions are proposed,such as integrating ideological and political content into the entire process of teaching.The teaching staff needs to possess high-level English teaching ability and ideological and political perspective,standardize the evaluation system,and integrate epistemology into the evaluation process of ideological and political education,in order to promote in-depth research and exploration of ideological and political education of English majors.展开更多
With the increasingly integrated international communication and cooperation,cross-cultural communication can enable talents to understand the cultural concepts and backgrounds of different countries,and thus form pos...With the increasingly integrated international communication and cooperation,cross-cultural communication can enable talents to understand the cultural concepts and backgrounds of different countries,and thus form positive values.Language is the key carrier of communication and its role is also evident.Colleges are gathering places for cultural collisions,and in the context of cross-cultural communication,colleges need to play their role in optimizing English teaching and improving teachers’teaching levels,in order to cultivate more high-quality talents.This article mainly analyzes the strategies for innovative English teaching in colleges from the perspective of cross-cultural communication,hoping to provide references and inspiration for the research of cultivating cross-cultural communication talents.展开更多
The paper firstly describes the present woeful actuality that more and more college graduates who can speak English fluently are lack of some good characters of traditional Chinese virtue.This is mainly due to too muc...The paper firstly describes the present woeful actuality that more and more college graduates who can speak English fluently are lack of some good characters of traditional Chinese virtue.This is mainly due to too much highlighting the skills of language and western customs but ignoring or rejecting the essence of Confucian culture in the college English teaching.Then the author continues to state that it's our college English teaching that influences the students' value most,basing the argument on analyzing the goals of college English teaching,the content of English teaching materials and the proportion of the English classes in the period of four years of university.In the last part,the paper gives some advice in inheriting Confucian culture in college English teaching procedures.展开更多
Culture teaching is an important part of college English teaching. But the current culture teaching emphasized on the culture of target language and overlooked the Chinese culture. This thesis analyses this phenomenon...Culture teaching is an important part of college English teaching. But the current culture teaching emphasized on the culture of target language and overlooked the Chinese culture. This thesis analyses this phenomenon and put forward several suggestions concerning the syllabus, course setting, textbooks edit and teaching method to change this phenomenon.展开更多
At present,in English teaching in many colleges and universities,teachers attach great importance to the introduction of western culture,but ignore the introduction and application of Chinese traditional culture.In or...At present,in English teaching in many colleges and universities,teachers attach great importance to the introduction of western culture,but ignore the introduction and application of Chinese traditional culture.In order to effectively solve this phenomenon,it is necessary to increase the teaching application of Chinese elements in college English teaching,increase the teaching content of the contrast between Chinese and western cultures,and at the same time improve the English teachers’Chinese traditional cultural literacy.In this paper,the author makes a study on how to better introduce Chinese culture into college English teaching,and puts forward some practical and feasible viewpoints and suggestions.展开更多
This paper mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) used in College English classes. The study utilized the descriptive research method and was conducted in Medical Unive...This paper mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) used in College English classes. The study utilized the descriptive research method and was conducted in Medical University for Nationalities that offers College English classes to non-English majors strategies Youjiang . Survey questionnaire was used to assess the CLT strategies. The experimental data shows that CLT strategies are very effective in improving the students' language proficiency. Therefore, it is recommended that CLT approach should be used intensively and extensively in the teaching of College English in China.展开更多
Reading English newspapers and magazines is an effective way to help the students get the latest information worldwide and improve English levels. The present article first analyzes the features of the English newspap...Reading English newspapers and magazines is an effective way to help the students get the latest information worldwide and improve English levels. The present article first analyzes the features of the English newspapers and magazines and then proposes making good use of them through such classroom activities as discussing the hot issue and role-playing to provide more authentic situations in which the students can have chances to practice four English skills, achieving the ideal teaching result.展开更多
With the deepening of the reform of College English, the universities in our country have achieved some success, but there are still a lot of problems. The introduction of the flipped classroom teaching model provides...With the deepening of the reform of College English, the universities in our country have achieved some success, but there are still a lot of problems. The introduction of the flipped classroom teaching model provides a reliable way to improve the English teaching. As the center of the teaching activity, the flipped classroom can change students’ learning attitude change, which can improve the students’ learning autonomy, and effectively improve the students’ learning efficiency. In this paper, we introduce the concept of flipped classroom and its application in College English teaching practice, and we focus on the analysis of the flipped classroom teaching model and the feasibility of College English teaching.展开更多
English is the current most widely used international language of communication, with the improvement of China' s comprehensive national strength, participation in the exchange, cooperation and increase trade opportu...English is the current most widely used international language of communication, with the improvement of China' s comprehensive national strength, participation in the exchange, cooperation and increase trade opportunities for the international community, particularly the WTO, Beijing 's successful Olympic bid, the Shanghai World Expo, several major events more and more people are realizing the importance of English practical applications. Now students acquire decent rules of successful communication in English, and this should be the starting point and final destination of English teaching. Therefore, in the process of teaching English, the penetration of the language and cultural knowledge, cross-cultural communication awareness training must cause concern and attention of English teachers to improve students ' intercultural communication content acumen, thus to improve students' English communication in practice capacity.展开更多
With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.T...With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.This paper discusses the significance of introducing western culture,and puts forward some countermeasures based on teaching experience,in order to provide some references for the application of the introduction of western culture in college English teaching.展开更多
A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language an...A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language and culture.In recent years,China sees a rising concern over the declining of Guoxue,or the study of traditional Chinese culture,and the absence of Chinese culture in College English pedagogy.A survey conducted in South China University of Technology shows that even for non-English majors with good English competency,their ability to express local cultures in English is weak.However,despite some experts’calling for reducing the proportion of English in education,this paper holds that English should be restored to its place as a lingua franca and that the reform of College English education is urgent and desirable.The integration of Chinese culture into College English can be achieved by such ways as re-editing the“Syllabus”,renewing textbooks,improving teachers’competency,and revising the assessment methodologies.展开更多
MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) is undoubtedly the most popular word in online education in China.It has the characteristics of openness, large-scale, self-organization and sociality. It is successfully used in Inter...MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) is undoubtedly the most popular word in online education in China.It has the characteristics of openness, large-scale, self-organization and sociality. It is successfully used in Internet technology education, open education concept has been recognized by society, social learning has become a main form of learning background, is conducive to building a social learning network, is conducive to the creation and sharing of knowledge, to provide real-time, interactive, on-demand services for users by the system. By discussing the application and practice of MOOC in College English teaching, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of MOOC in College English teaching.展开更多
With the rapid development of the education industry,higher requirements have been put forward for college English education and teaching,accelerating the pace of college English reform.Issues such as how to integrate...With the rapid development of the education industry,higher requirements have been put forward for college English education and teaching,accelerating the pace of college English reform.Issues such as how to integrate knowledge transmission,language expression skill improvement,cultural element extraction,and ideological and political education,and present the role of curriculum education function have attracted attention.In the era of informatization,college students’thinking has undergone certain changes and gradually developed towards diversification.Therefore,universities should start from the perspective of cultural confidence,extract valuable ideological and political elements,and explore effective tourism ideological and political teaching methods.While helping college students enhance their cultural confidence,it is also beneficial for them to better inherit traditional Chinese culture.This article conducts an in-depth exploration of ideological and political education in college English courses from the perspective of“cultural confidence”and uses scientific and effective measures to solve the problems encountered,aiming to provide valuable guidelines for relevant researchers.展开更多
The English college entrance examination reform is a sign that communicative competence will be more concerned rather than scores. Based on the theory of communicative approach,this paper discusses the use of communic...The English college entrance examination reform is a sign that communicative competence will be more concerned rather than scores. Based on the theory of communicative approach,this paper discusses the use of communicative approach in college English teaching.展开更多
As college life is a turning point in one’s life, receiving higher education is of great importance. A nation wide heat of learning English arises in these decades, college students’ English competence becomes the m...As college life is a turning point in one’s life, receiving higher education is of great importance. A nation wide heat of learning English arises in these decades, college students’ English competence becomes the most concern. This essay mainly discusses this concern from a communicative way by studying the theoretical base, the current situation of college English teaching and learning, thus to evoke the need for a new approach to language teaching, to show our students how the language system is used in normal communications and to enable them to cope with a varied range of situations in the target language.展开更多
In pace with the constant increase of exchange with other countries, the traditional teaching approach cannot meet the demand of modem education. But the communicative approach conforms to historical trends, focusing ...In pace with the constant increase of exchange with other countries, the traditional teaching approach cannot meet the demand of modem education. But the communicative approach conforms to historical trends, focusing on students and developing their overall language ability to handle changes and solve problems. Proceeding from the tortuous course of teaching reform on English, analyzing theories of foreign language approaches and characteristics of communicative approach and researching into its strategies, the author aims to study how to spur teaching reform on college English towards great success.展开更多
In this dissertation, questionnaire is the main way to accomplish the research. Some basic information of culture teaching in today's English listening class has been drawn from those questionnaires carried out by...In this dissertation, questionnaire is the main way to accomplish the research. Some basic information of culture teaching in today's English listening class has been drawn from those questionnaires carried out by the students from Hechi University. Though the analysis on the statue of cultural teachings, the factors that confine the cultural teaching and the importance of cultural teaching in college English listening class, we intend to help university students have a better understanding of the significance of cultural teaching. By doing so, cultural teaching will be paid more attention to.展开更多
文摘Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the dissemination of Chinese culture in English teaching in colleges and universities is lacking,which affects the improvement of students’intercultural communication skills.In order to effectively solve such problems,we need to take effective measures to disseminate Chinese culture by combining teaching content and students’characteristics.This paper summarizes the problems of Chinese culture dissemination in English teaching in colleges and universities,and explores effective countermeasures and teaching considerations,hoping to provide teachers with valuable guidelines.
基金Nanjing University of Finance&Economics,2023 University-Level Teaching Reform,Project Number:D-QXW23005Project of MBA Education Center,Nanjing University of Finance and Economics,Project Number:D-QXW19001.
文摘In the 21st century,the rapid development of artificial intelligence(AI)and educational technology has revolutionized the global education landscape.As the United States and China engage in strategic competition in the AI field,the impact of this rivalry extends beyond technology and economics,permeating education and international relations.This paper explores how educational technology can be leveraged to enhance the teaching and practical abilities of college English teachers in China within the context of the US-China AI competition.The intersection of AI development,educational strategies,and international diplomacy provides a unique backdrop for examining the potential and challenges of integrating advanced technology in English language teaching(ELT).This paper aims to provide insights for policymakers,educators,and researchers on how to effectively utilize educational technology to enhance the teaching and practical abilities of college English teachers,emphasizing the importance of strategic planning and international cooperation in this rapidly evolving field.
文摘There is an urgent need for high-quality talents with ideological and moral character for the development of higher education and the cultivation of English majors who meet the requirements of the times.The course reform in English majors from the ideological and political perspective is an important way to improve the comprehensive quality and moral values of students,which helps to cultivate English talents with social responsibility and innovative abilities.This paper analyzes the problems in the current courses through literature review and field research,such as the lack of ideological and political perspective and low interest of students in ideological and political content.Based on these issues,taking the course“Comprehensive English”as an example,various teaching stages were practiced from the aspects of learning objectives,learning content,learning situation,implementation ideas,implementation effects,and teaching evaluation.Additionally,some suggestions are proposed,such as integrating ideological and political content into the entire process of teaching.The teaching staff needs to possess high-level English teaching ability and ideological and political perspective,standardize the evaluation system,and integrate epistemology into the evaluation process of ideological and political education,in order to promote in-depth research and exploration of ideological and political education of English majors.
文摘With the increasingly integrated international communication and cooperation,cross-cultural communication can enable talents to understand the cultural concepts and backgrounds of different countries,and thus form positive values.Language is the key carrier of communication and its role is also evident.Colleges are gathering places for cultural collisions,and in the context of cross-cultural communication,colleges need to play their role in optimizing English teaching and improving teachers’teaching levels,in order to cultivate more high-quality talents.This article mainly analyzes the strategies for innovative English teaching in colleges from the perspective of cross-cultural communication,hoping to provide references and inspiration for the research of cultivating cross-cultural communication talents.
文摘The paper firstly describes the present woeful actuality that more and more college graduates who can speak English fluently are lack of some good characters of traditional Chinese virtue.This is mainly due to too much highlighting the skills of language and western customs but ignoring or rejecting the essence of Confucian culture in the college English teaching.Then the author continues to state that it's our college English teaching that influences the students' value most,basing the argument on analyzing the goals of college English teaching,the content of English teaching materials and the proportion of the English classes in the period of four years of university.In the last part,the paper gives some advice in inheriting Confucian culture in college English teaching procedures.
文摘Culture teaching is an important part of college English teaching. But the current culture teaching emphasized on the culture of target language and overlooked the Chinese culture. This thesis analyses this phenomenon and put forward several suggestions concerning the syllabus, course setting, textbooks edit and teaching method to change this phenomenon.
文摘At present,in English teaching in many colleges and universities,teachers attach great importance to the introduction of western culture,but ignore the introduction and application of Chinese traditional culture.In order to effectively solve this phenomenon,it is necessary to increase the teaching application of Chinese elements in college English teaching,increase the teaching content of the contrast between Chinese and western cultures,and at the same time improve the English teachers’Chinese traditional cultural literacy.In this paper,the author makes a study on how to better introduce Chinese culture into college English teaching,and puts forward some practical and feasible viewpoints and suggestions.
文摘This paper mainly aims at determining the effectiveness of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) used in College English classes. The study utilized the descriptive research method and was conducted in Medical University for Nationalities that offers College English classes to non-English majors strategies Youjiang . Survey questionnaire was used to assess the CLT strategies. The experimental data shows that CLT strategies are very effective in improving the students' language proficiency. Therefore, it is recommended that CLT approach should be used intensively and extensively in the teaching of College English in China.
文摘Reading English newspapers and magazines is an effective way to help the students get the latest information worldwide and improve English levels. The present article first analyzes the features of the English newspapers and magazines and then proposes making good use of them through such classroom activities as discussing the hot issue and role-playing to provide more authentic situations in which the students can have chances to practice four English skills, achieving the ideal teaching result.
文摘With the deepening of the reform of College English, the universities in our country have achieved some success, but there are still a lot of problems. The introduction of the flipped classroom teaching model provides a reliable way to improve the English teaching. As the center of the teaching activity, the flipped classroom can change students’ learning attitude change, which can improve the students’ learning autonomy, and effectively improve the students’ learning efficiency. In this paper, we introduce the concept of flipped classroom and its application in College English teaching practice, and we focus on the analysis of the flipped classroom teaching model and the feasibility of College English teaching.
文摘English is the current most widely used international language of communication, with the improvement of China' s comprehensive national strength, participation in the exchange, cooperation and increase trade opportunities for the international community, particularly the WTO, Beijing 's successful Olympic bid, the Shanghai World Expo, several major events more and more people are realizing the importance of English practical applications. Now students acquire decent rules of successful communication in English, and this should be the starting point and final destination of English teaching. Therefore, in the process of teaching English, the penetration of the language and cultural knowledge, cross-cultural communication awareness training must cause concern and attention of English teachers to improve students ' intercultural communication content acumen, thus to improve students' English communication in practice capacity.
文摘With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.This paper discusses the significance of introducing western culture,and puts forward some countermeasures based on teaching experience,in order to provide some references for the application of the introduction of western culture in college English teaching.
基金This research has been supported by National Social Science Fund of China(Project 20CWW007)Philosophical and Social Science Development Plan of Guangzhou(Project 2020GZGJ28).
文摘A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language and culture.In recent years,China sees a rising concern over the declining of Guoxue,or the study of traditional Chinese culture,and the absence of Chinese culture in College English pedagogy.A survey conducted in South China University of Technology shows that even for non-English majors with good English competency,their ability to express local cultures in English is weak.However,despite some experts’calling for reducing the proportion of English in education,this paper holds that English should be restored to its place as a lingua franca and that the reform of College English education is urgent and desirable.The integration of Chinese culture into College English can be achieved by such ways as re-editing the“Syllabus”,renewing textbooks,improving teachers’competency,and revising the assessment methodologies.
文摘MOOC(Massive Open Online Course) is undoubtedly the most popular word in online education in China.It has the characteristics of openness, large-scale, self-organization and sociality. It is successfully used in Internet technology education, open education concept has been recognized by society, social learning has become a main form of learning background, is conducive to building a social learning network, is conducive to the creation and sharing of knowledge, to provide real-time, interactive, on-demand services for users by the system. By discussing the application and practice of MOOC in College English teaching, this paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of MOOC in College English teaching.
文摘With the rapid development of the education industry,higher requirements have been put forward for college English education and teaching,accelerating the pace of college English reform.Issues such as how to integrate knowledge transmission,language expression skill improvement,cultural element extraction,and ideological and political education,and present the role of curriculum education function have attracted attention.In the era of informatization,college students’thinking has undergone certain changes and gradually developed towards diversification.Therefore,universities should start from the perspective of cultural confidence,extract valuable ideological and political elements,and explore effective tourism ideological and political teaching methods.While helping college students enhance their cultural confidence,it is also beneficial for them to better inherit traditional Chinese culture.This article conducts an in-depth exploration of ideological and political education in college English courses from the perspective of“cultural confidence”and uses scientific and effective measures to solve the problems encountered,aiming to provide valuable guidelines for relevant researchers.
文摘The English college entrance examination reform is a sign that communicative competence will be more concerned rather than scores. Based on the theory of communicative approach,this paper discusses the use of communicative approach in college English teaching.
文摘As college life is a turning point in one’s life, receiving higher education is of great importance. A nation wide heat of learning English arises in these decades, college students’ English competence becomes the most concern. This essay mainly discusses this concern from a communicative way by studying the theoretical base, the current situation of college English teaching and learning, thus to evoke the need for a new approach to language teaching, to show our students how the language system is used in normal communications and to enable them to cope with a varied range of situations in the target language.
文摘In pace with the constant increase of exchange with other countries, the traditional teaching approach cannot meet the demand of modem education. But the communicative approach conforms to historical trends, focusing on students and developing their overall language ability to handle changes and solve problems. Proceeding from the tortuous course of teaching reform on English, analyzing theories of foreign language approaches and characteristics of communicative approach and researching into its strategies, the author aims to study how to spur teaching reform on college English towards great success.
文摘In this dissertation, questionnaire is the main way to accomplish the research. Some basic information of culture teaching in today's English listening class has been drawn from those questionnaires carried out by the students from Hechi University. Though the analysis on the statue of cultural teachings, the factors that confine the cultural teaching and the importance of cultural teaching in college English listening class, we intend to help university students have a better understanding of the significance of cultural teaching. By doing so, cultural teaching will be paid more attention to.