With the development of the global economy and the quick growth of international exchanges,Business English major plays an increasingly important role in higher education.The training goal of Business English major(pu...With the development of the global economy and the quick growth of international exchanges,Business English major plays an increasingly important role in higher education.The training goal of Business English major(publishing direction)has gradually shifted from the improvement of studentslanguage abilities to the cultivation of more specialized business knowledge and publishing skills.As an important course for Business English majors(publishing direction),Printing English is of great significance for cultivating studentsprofessional quality,professional competitiveness,career development,and practical ability.From the perspective of curriculum setting,it is necessary to re-understand the importance of Printing English in the curriculum setting of Business English major(publishing direction),and put forward corresponding teaching methods and strategies.展开更多
As the extension and supplement of explicit curriculum,the English hidden curriculum in higher vocational colleges plays animportant role in cultivating students' behaviors,stimulate their interest and arouse thei...As the extension and supplement of explicit curriculum,the English hidden curriculum in higher vocational colleges plays animportant role in cultivating students' behaviors,stimulate their interest and arouse their enthusiasm,initiative and creativity in learningEnglish.This paper analyzes the problems of English hidden curriculum construction in higher vocational colleges under the back-ground o"fInternet plus",and puts forward some corresponding countermeasures to bring the role of college English hidden curriculuminto full play.展开更多
The new curriculum standard points out that affection is one of the most important goals of fundamental education. The non-target language environment is easier to cause the affective change of middle school students ...The new curriculum standard points out that affection is one of the most important goals of fundamental education. The non-target language environment is easier to cause the affective change of middle school students who are changeable in their affective state. Based on the affective filter hypothesis, this paper deals with the adjustment to affective factors in English learning by using Internet English Curriculum Resource, such as attitude and motivation, anxiety and inhibition, self-esteem and self-confidence. At last, some suggestions are offered to judge Internet English Curriculum Resource.展开更多
This paper summarizes and criticizes the researches on Internet English curriculum resources in China from the following 3 aspects: the characteristics and significances; the exploitation and integration; and practic...This paper summarizes and criticizes the researches on Internet English curriculum resources in China from the following 3 aspects: the characteristics and significances; the exploitation and integration; and practice and investigation. The sumarrization shows that the related researches need to be deepened theretically and empirically so as to improve and promote the practice of the curriculum resourses modern technology have brought.展开更多
In order to investigate the curriculum design for postgraduate English in Agriculture and Forestry Colleges, this papermakes great attempts to probe into the target needs and learning needs of English in SDAU. Both qu...In order to investigate the curriculum design for postgraduate English in Agriculture and Forestry Colleges, this papermakes great attempts to probe into the target needs and learning needs of English in SDAU. Both quantitative and qualitative re-search methods were employed in the survey. The final conclusion of this study is that the current English curriculum design forpostgraduate in SDAU can not satisfy the needs of students and workplace completely. On the basis of such major findings and re-sults, this paper makes attempts to develop an English curriculum design and implementing model for postgraduate English teach-ing in SDAU, hoping to offer implications on curriculum design of postgraduate English in Agriculture and Forestry Colleges and of-fer suggestions on personalized teaching reform of postgraduate English.展开更多
Objective:English for Specific Purpose(ESP)is the essence for developing scientific research capacity,which is a core component for postgraduate education.The objective of this article is to develop a curriculum model...Objective:English for Specific Purpose(ESP)is the essence for developing scientific research capacity,which is a core component for postgraduate education.The objective of this article is to develop a curriculum model for ESP of Master's level nursing education in a Chinese medicine university.Method:A three-year action research approach with continuous reflection and modification was used to develop an ESP curriculum based on the RICH model.A total of 78 students of Master's Science in Nursing enrolled in 2016-2018 and three course teachers in Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine participated in the study.The ESP curriculum based on the RICH model involved research-based learning topics(R),integrated curriculum(Ⅰ),cooperative learning methods(C),and humanistic outcome(H).Results:The passing rate of the students was 100%,the excellent rate was 79.5%,with an average score of 83.16±3.43.All students were satisfied with the ESP course design and acknowledged the process of"growing up under the pressure".Four students have published five articles in the journals included by Science Citation Index(SCI).Conclusions:The study exerted a positive effect on the ESP teaching and learning and provided new ideas for the ESP curriculum integration of Master's Science in Nursing in China.展开更多
English thesis writing and tutoring process is traditionally loose and open-ended. Both students and teachers enjoy much liberty in the maneuver of different steps in the whole process, which, as it were, may cause a ...English thesis writing and tutoring process is traditionally loose and open-ended. Both students and teachers enjoy much liberty in the maneuver of different steps in the whole process, which, as it were, may cause a series of problems and dissatisfactions, consequently undermining the quality and significance. This paper is intended to explore a streamlined and systematic procedure to ensure both the students and teachers are doing their bit and make due contribution to the thesis perfection.展开更多
There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways t...There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.展开更多
This paper provides a critical analysis of the English curriculum for English Major in Chinese tertiary education.This curriculum is examined from two dimensions:the innovative nature of this curriculum according to M...This paper provides a critical analysis of the English curriculum for English Major in Chinese tertiary education.This curriculum is examined from two dimensions:the innovative nature of this curriculum according to Markee' s definition of " language teaching inno vation";the interaction of the curriculum and the mainstream context,which is " expanding circle" in the framework of World English es as well as the type of " foreign language teaching in mainstream culture" of bilingual education.展开更多
With the Globalization and the fast growth of Chinese economy,the society's demand for talents of Business English(BE) is also increased dramatically. Thus,the discipline construction of foreign language and its t...With the Globalization and the fast growth of Chinese economy,the society's demand for talents of Business English(BE) is also increased dramatically. Thus,the discipline construction of foreign language and its talents must meet the development of the new times. In recent years,Business English is gradually set up in many universities and colleges. As an important part for ESP teaching development,ESP provides the basic theoretical framework for the curriculum design of Business English. And it is indispensible in the whole teaching process. This thesis is based on the basic ideas of BE and the theory of Needs Analysis,puts forward some principles that the curriculum design of BE should follow and shed some light to the sustainable development of Business English.展开更多
“Curriculum ideology”is a new teaching concept that combines professional courses with ideological and political courses.At present,the teaching reform of ideological and political education has been launched in col...“Curriculum ideology”is a new teaching concept that combines professional courses with ideological and political courses.At present,the teaching reform of ideological and political education has been launched in colleges and universities across the country.It is a major innovation in the field of education in the new era.With the continuous improvement of China’s opening to the outside world,there is also a strong demand for applied foreign language talents.As a course with elements of cross-cultural knowledge and foreign cultural system,college English translation must adapt to the macro requirements of the ideological and political concepts of college English courses as well as reform its teaching contents and methods.On this basis,this article analyzes the status quo of college English translation under the background of“curriculum ideology”and proposes ways to reform the teaching of college English translation,in order to break the limitations of traditional college English teaching,improve students’learning efficiency,and further deepen the reform of translation teaching,and cultivate modern applied cross-cultural communication talents with high professional skills and political literacy.展开更多
With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and poli...With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and politics are being strengthened,it is necessary to adapt to the needs of the times and integrate ideology and politics into college English teaching.Integration of ideology and politics into teaching is a challenge faced by colleges and universities nowadays,which aims to make ideology and politics alive and well and more acceptable to contemporary college students.In view of this,this paper starts with the importance of the integration of ideology and politics into college English teaching,takes An Overview of Chinese Culture as an example,analyzes new approaches for integrating ideology and politics into the teaching process,and formulates the teaching design centered around these approaches,so as to promote the organic integration of ideology and politics with English teaching.展开更多
MOOC, as a new means of education informatization, does impact the traditional college English curriculum settings, which needs to adapt to the development trend of online education. Through the analysis of the domest...MOOC, as a new means of education informatization, does impact the traditional college English curriculum settings, which needs to adapt to the development trend of online education. Through the analysis of the domestic and foreign literature review, it concludes that our country's college English curriculum should introduce more MOOCs, and make international MOOCs become one parts of their own curriculums. Students can choose any English course with their own interests. And college English curriculum teachers should improve their skills and become more specialized to adapt to the new trend of world higher education.展开更多
Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, includ...Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, including the proposal of learning strategies and emotions, and attitudes to learning English. However, few actual measures are carried out in implementation. Lack of support from school, parents and students proves to be a headache for teachers. The problems that hinder Chinese secondary ELT are hence pointed out: the traditional teaching methods, examination means, constraints, teacher quality and lack of support. Compromises should be made between the decision makers, teachers to bring satisfactory results to ELT in China. especially the course planners and the middle school展开更多
The paper examines how language ideology in English education affects its curriculum development. By exploring the topic from an autoethnographic perspective, the researcher describes how his transnational learning an...The paper examines how language ideology in English education affects its curriculum development. By exploring the topic from an autoethnographic perspective, the researcher describes how his transnational learning and teaching experience informed his perception of language ideological changes in English curriculum development. The researcher's lived experiences from China to the United States witness how English curriculum develops in an ideological continuum from functional ideology to critical ideology, with cultural ideology and progressive ideology existing between the two extremes. The author then concluded: While language ideology has evolved from stage to stage, due to effects of factors like student acceptance and political ideology, English curriculum in China is still dominated by functional ideology. The paper finally proposes how English language curriculum development should go at the current stage of internationalization.展开更多
With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students' cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today's foreign language teaching profession of colle...With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students' cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today's foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modem language talents. This paper tries to implement a comprehensive reform of college English curriculum system through an empirical research in order to improve students' cultural cognitive abilities and cross-cultural communicative competence and change the non-ideal situation in college English teaching. Its valuable experience can greatly promote language teaching and help other universities reform their college English curriculum.展开更多
English learning and teaching has been a hot research topic in China since the coming of the 21 st century. By way of questionnaire surveys and interviews, the research group takes one ordinary Chinese university as a...English learning and teaching has been a hot research topic in China since the coming of the 21 st century. By way of questionnaire surveys and interviews, the research group takes one ordinary Chinese university as a case to study the reform of College English curriculum setup. The paper focuses on study of extended courses, which are the most typical reflections of the reform in this university. In the first stage, 4,330 students are surveyed or interviewed in the pre-research process and another 1,270 participants from Grades 2013 and 2014 in the second stage fmish the questionnaire about the reform. The paper analyses the results of 1,215 valid questionnaires. The analyses and discussions in the research include four aspects, which are participants' overall attitudes towards the reform of College English curriculum setup, current situation of course teaching and assessment, degree of satisfaction with the extended courses and participants' feedbacks and suggestions. In the end of the study the existing problems in the reform are listed and suggestions are given to further reform the College English curriculum.展开更多
Among the various extra-curriculum activities,which are indispensable for English teaching,Extra-curriculum Activity(ECA) group studies are of great value in English learning.
Teaching evaluation is an important and essential part of teaching, is an important means of detecting teaching effect. The traditional way of teaching evaluation only concerned with results of student learning, which...Teaching evaluation is an important and essential part of teaching, is an important means of detecting teaching effect. The traditional way of teaching evaluation only concerned with results of student learning, which is not conducive to reforms of English teaching methods and content. Our school s implemented English curriculum evaluation method combining formative assessment and summative assessment, which reflects the times, openness and flexibility of English teaching, but help to improve the overall quality of students, greatly promoting the reform of English teaching and development.展开更多
Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innov...Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innovation of educational reform.In order to adapt to the trend of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities,the reform of college English curriculum should be based on the modern curriculum concept,through the integration of modern information technology,and achieve innovation in curriculum design and teaching methods.Based on the course construction concept of“English+Innovation and Entrepreneurship”,this paper takes the online course“College English for Entrepreneurs”as an example to explore the teaching design ideas of college English majors.This course shows the characteristics of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional education.展开更多
文摘With the development of the global economy and the quick growth of international exchanges,Business English major plays an increasingly important role in higher education.The training goal of Business English major(publishing direction)has gradually shifted from the improvement of studentslanguage abilities to the cultivation of more specialized business knowledge and publishing skills.As an important course for Business English majors(publishing direction),Printing English is of great significance for cultivating studentsprofessional quality,professional competitiveness,career development,and practical ability.From the perspective of curriculum setting,it is necessary to re-understand the importance of Printing English in the curriculum setting of Business English major(publishing direction),and put forward corresponding teaching methods and strategies.
文摘As the extension and supplement of explicit curriculum,the English hidden curriculum in higher vocational colleges plays animportant role in cultivating students' behaviors,stimulate their interest and arouse their enthusiasm,initiative and creativity in learningEnglish.This paper analyzes the problems of English hidden curriculum construction in higher vocational colleges under the back-ground o"fInternet plus",and puts forward some corresponding countermeasures to bring the role of college English hidden curriculuminto full play.
文摘The new curriculum standard points out that affection is one of the most important goals of fundamental education. The non-target language environment is easier to cause the affective change of middle school students who are changeable in their affective state. Based on the affective filter hypothesis, this paper deals with the adjustment to affective factors in English learning by using Internet English Curriculum Resource, such as attitude and motivation, anxiety and inhibition, self-esteem and self-confidence. At last, some suggestions are offered to judge Internet English Curriculum Resource.
文摘This paper summarizes and criticizes the researches on Internet English curriculum resources in China from the following 3 aspects: the characteristics and significances; the exploitation and integration; and practice and investigation. The sumarrization shows that the related researches need to be deepened theretically and empirically so as to improve and promote the practice of the curriculum resourses modern technology have brought.
文摘In order to investigate the curriculum design for postgraduate English in Agriculture and Forestry Colleges, this papermakes great attempts to probe into the target needs and learning needs of English in SDAU. Both quantitative and qualitative re-search methods were employed in the survey. The final conclusion of this study is that the current English curriculum design forpostgraduate in SDAU can not satisfy the needs of students and workplace completely. On the basis of such major findings and re-sults, this paper makes attempts to develop an English curriculum design and implementing model for postgraduate English teach-ing in SDAU, hoping to offer implications on curriculum design of postgraduate English in Agriculture and Forestry Colleges and of-fer suggestions on personalized teaching reform of postgraduate English.
基金the National steering committee for medical degrees education[grant numbers B2-YX20180304-07],China.
文摘Objective:English for Specific Purpose(ESP)is the essence for developing scientific research capacity,which is a core component for postgraduate education.The objective of this article is to develop a curriculum model for ESP of Master's level nursing education in a Chinese medicine university.Method:A three-year action research approach with continuous reflection and modification was used to develop an ESP curriculum based on the RICH model.A total of 78 students of Master's Science in Nursing enrolled in 2016-2018 and three course teachers in Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine participated in the study.The ESP curriculum based on the RICH model involved research-based learning topics(R),integrated curriculum(Ⅰ),cooperative learning methods(C),and humanistic outcome(H).Results:The passing rate of the students was 100%,the excellent rate was 79.5%,with an average score of 83.16±3.43.All students were satisfied with the ESP course design and acknowledged the process of"growing up under the pressure".Four students have published five articles in the journals included by Science Citation Index(SCI).Conclusions:The study exerted a positive effect on the ESP teaching and learning and provided new ideas for the ESP curriculum integration of Master's Science in Nursing in China.
文摘English thesis writing and tutoring process is traditionally loose and open-ended. Both students and teachers enjoy much liberty in the maneuver of different steps in the whole process, which, as it were, may cause a series of problems and dissatisfactions, consequently undermining the quality and significance. This paper is intended to explore a streamlined and systematic procedure to ensure both the students and teachers are doing their bit and make due contribution to the thesis perfection.
文摘There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.
文摘This paper provides a critical analysis of the English curriculum for English Major in Chinese tertiary education.This curriculum is examined from two dimensions:the innovative nature of this curriculum according to Markee' s definition of " language teaching inno vation";the interaction of the curriculum and the mainstream context,which is " expanding circle" in the framework of World English es as well as the type of " foreign language teaching in mainstream culture" of bilingual education.
文摘With the Globalization and the fast growth of Chinese economy,the society's demand for talents of Business English(BE) is also increased dramatically. Thus,the discipline construction of foreign language and its talents must meet the development of the new times. In recent years,Business English is gradually set up in many universities and colleges. As an important part for ESP teaching development,ESP provides the basic theoretical framework for the curriculum design of Business English. And it is indispensible in the whole teaching process. This thesis is based on the basic ideas of BE and the theory of Needs Analysis,puts forward some principles that the curriculum design of BE should follow and shed some light to the sustainable development of Business English.
基金This study was supported by the Economic and Social Development Research Project in Heilongjiang Province(2019)-A Feminist Study of American Fiction Writing in the 20th Century(WY2019022-B)the General Research Project of Higher Education Reform in Heilongjiang Province(2019)-Subjects’Communication System in Translation Teaching for English Majors(SJGY20190373).
文摘“Curriculum ideology”is a new teaching concept that combines professional courses with ideological and political courses.At present,the teaching reform of ideological and political education has been launched in colleges and universities across the country.It is a major innovation in the field of education in the new era.With the continuous improvement of China’s opening to the outside world,there is also a strong demand for applied foreign language talents.As a course with elements of cross-cultural knowledge and foreign cultural system,college English translation must adapt to the macro requirements of the ideological and political concepts of college English courses as well as reform its teaching contents and methods.On this basis,this article analyzes the status quo of college English translation under the background of“curriculum ideology”and proposes ways to reform the teaching of college English translation,in order to break the limitations of traditional college English teaching,improve students’learning efficiency,and further deepen the reform of translation teaching,and cultivate modern applied cross-cultural communication talents with high professional skills and political literacy.
文摘With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and politics are being strengthened,it is necessary to adapt to the needs of the times and integrate ideology and politics into college English teaching.Integration of ideology and politics into teaching is a challenge faced by colleges and universities nowadays,which aims to make ideology and politics alive and well and more acceptable to contemporary college students.In view of this,this paper starts with the importance of the integration of ideology and politics into college English teaching,takes An Overview of Chinese Culture as an example,analyzes new approaches for integrating ideology and politics into the teaching process,and formulates the teaching design centered around these approaches,so as to promote the organic integration of ideology and politics with English teaching.
文摘MOOC, as a new means of education informatization, does impact the traditional college English curriculum settings, which needs to adapt to the development trend of online education. Through the analysis of the domestic and foreign literature review, it concludes that our country's college English curriculum should introduce more MOOCs, and make international MOOCs become one parts of their own curriculums. Students can choose any English course with their own interests. And college English curriculum teachers should improve their skills and become more specialized to adapt to the new trend of world higher education.
文摘Interviews are made with 10 middle school English teachers in Guangdong to seek their opinions and discover the implementation of the 2003 new English curriculum. It was agreed that there are many improvements, including the proposal of learning strategies and emotions, and attitudes to learning English. However, few actual measures are carried out in implementation. Lack of support from school, parents and students proves to be a headache for teachers. The problems that hinder Chinese secondary ELT are hence pointed out: the traditional teaching methods, examination means, constraints, teacher quality and lack of support. Compromises should be made between the decision makers, teachers to bring satisfactory results to ELT in China. especially the course planners and the middle school
文摘The paper examines how language ideology in English education affects its curriculum development. By exploring the topic from an autoethnographic perspective, the researcher describes how his transnational learning and teaching experience informed his perception of language ideological changes in English curriculum development. The researcher's lived experiences from China to the United States witness how English curriculum develops in an ideological continuum from functional ideology to critical ideology, with cultural ideology and progressive ideology existing between the two extremes. The author then concluded: While language ideology has evolved from stage to stage, due to effects of factors like student acceptance and political ideology, English curriculum in China is still dominated by functional ideology. The paper finally proposes how English language curriculum development should go at the current stage of internationalization.
文摘With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students' cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today's foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modem language talents. This paper tries to implement a comprehensive reform of college English curriculum system through an empirical research in order to improve students' cultural cognitive abilities and cross-cultural communicative competence and change the non-ideal situation in college English teaching. Its valuable experience can greatly promote language teaching and help other universities reform their college English curriculum.
文摘English learning and teaching has been a hot research topic in China since the coming of the 21 st century. By way of questionnaire surveys and interviews, the research group takes one ordinary Chinese university as a case to study the reform of College English curriculum setup. The paper focuses on study of extended courses, which are the most typical reflections of the reform in this university. In the first stage, 4,330 students are surveyed or interviewed in the pre-research process and another 1,270 participants from Grades 2013 and 2014 in the second stage fmish the questionnaire about the reform. The paper analyses the results of 1,215 valid questionnaires. The analyses and discussions in the research include four aspects, which are participants' overall attitudes towards the reform of College English curriculum setup, current situation of course teaching and assessment, degree of satisfaction with the extended courses and participants' feedbacks and suggestions. In the end of the study the existing problems in the reform are listed and suggestions are given to further reform the College English curriculum.
文摘Among the various extra-curriculum activities,which are indispensable for English teaching,Extra-curriculum Activity(ECA) group studies are of great value in English learning.
文摘Teaching evaluation is an important and essential part of teaching, is an important means of detecting teaching effect. The traditional way of teaching evaluation only concerned with results of student learning, which is not conducive to reforms of English teaching methods and content. Our school s implemented English curriculum evaluation method combining formative assessment and summative assessment, which reflects the times, openness and flexibility of English teaching, but help to improve the overall quality of students, greatly promoting the reform of English teaching and development.
基金this paper is funded by Project:The Research Basic Ability Enhancement Project for Young and Middle-aged Teachers in the Universities in Guangxi in 2021(No.2021KY0023).
文摘Curriculum is an important concept in the field of education.Curriculum and teaching design directly affect the effect of teaching.Nowadays,the rapid development of information technology constantly promotes the innovation of educational reform.In order to adapt to the trend of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities,the reform of college English curriculum should be based on the modern curriculum concept,through the integration of modern information technology,and achieve innovation in curriculum design and teaching methods.Based on the course construction concept of“English+Innovation and Entrepreneurship”,this paper takes the online course“College English for Entrepreneurs”as an example to explore the teaching design ideas of college English majors.This course shows the characteristics of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional education.