A Study on the Application of PBL on SPOC—Taking College English Courses for Hearing-Impaired Students for Example

Project-Based-Learning(PBL)is“teacher-led,student-centered and project-supported”.By completing projects students can learn knowledge,acquire skills,and cultivate abilities.PBL is not only applicable to specialized courses for hearing-impaired students,but also to college English courses for hearing-impaired students.SPOC can“flip”the traditional classes and increase the capacity of college English courses.Taking college English courses for hearing-impaired students as an example,this paper studies the application of PBL on SPOC(Small Private Online Course).It is proved that this model can not only greatly reduce teachers’pressure of limited class time,improve the teaching efficiency,but also can stimulate students’interest to learn and undoubtedly achieve better learning effects.

Research on Integrating Moral Education Into College English Course on the Basis of Outcomes-Based Teaching Mode

College English courses are an important part of college education with humanistic and instrumental characteristics.Outcomes-based teaching method is oriented by students’learning output,which has been applied in education for decades.Students achieve the outcomes through communication,cooperation,and exploration from which their initiative,confidence,and learning ability are improved.It is instructive to help student both develop language skills as well as enrich the knowledge of Chinese traditional culture.This paper explores the necessity of moral education and relates them to College English course on the basis of outcomes-based teaching method.It is intended to help teachers understand the theory and philosophy of outcomes-based education and put it into moral education practice in their instructional planning,teaching,and assessment of students.

A Research on the Application of Case Teaching Method in Curriculum-Based Ideological and Political Education in College English Course under the Concept of OBE

Since the idea of“Curriculum-Based Ideological and Political Education”was formally proposed in 2016,it has rapidly become a research hotspot in education reform.Although a large number of relevant studies have focused on the effective paths to curriculum-based ideological and political education in specific courses,there are few studies on how to integrate ideological and political education contents into particular courses under specific educational concepts and by particular teaching methods.Thus,this paper will explore how to improve the teaching effectiveness of curriculumbased ideological and political education in College English course with the OBE concept as the driving force and the case teaching method as the means.Finally,a few thoughts on the application of case teaching method in College English course are offered.

Blended Learning Mode in Undergraduate Integrated English Course

With the digital revolution,blended learning is widely adopted in Chinese higher education.The mode has been applied in our undergraduate integrated English course since April.2020.Based on the teaching practice and a questionnaire survey,this paper analyzes the characteristics of blended learning mode,discusses the new changes and the challenges of it,and aims to forward optimized proposals to explore an integrated blended learning mode in undergraduate integrated English course for English majors.

On the Impropriety of General Provision of English Courses in China's Primary Schools

Despite some pros for providing English courses in China’s primary schools, some factors should be acknowledged: pu-pils of young ages are less efficient in commanding the overall communicative skills than their older counterparts;teachers in manyprimary schools are not sufficiently competent as expected and are liable to build inadequate models that degrade children’s lan-guage learning;there exists some misunderstanding about critical period hypothesis in which it is believed that language acquisi-tion can only be successful during people’s younger age. The general provision of English courses in China’s primary schools maynot be as necessary and efficient as is generally advocated for the current state of affairs.

Multiliteracies Pedagogy:An Integrated English Course Lesson Plan

Based on the multiliteracies framework proposed by New London Group,this paper puts forwards a 90-minute lesson plan for An Integrated English course which includes situated practice,overt instruction,critical framing and transformed practice,aiming to provide teachers with a new perspective to design lesson plans with multiliteracies pedagogy in this new era of media English language teaching.

Brief Introduction of Intercultural Communicative and College English Course

With the acceleration of globalization, people have encountered more and more intercultural communication.In China, more and more scholars have turned their attention to the intercultural communication, and many foreign language teachers have done a lot of work in the field of research and practice of cultural teaching. In this paper, the author will try to introduce the relationship between intercultural communication and college English course briefly.

Research on Interactive and Exploratory Teaching Methods used in College English Courses

This research is based on the implementation of interactive and exploratory teaching methods in college English courses.The analysis done for this research signifies the importance of interactive-exploratory teaching methods,identifying the characteristics of interactive teaching methods,and specifying the purpose of conducting interactive-exploratory teaching methods as a reference for educators.

Research and Practice of Course Reform in English Majors of Colleges and Universities from the Ideological and Political Perspective

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.

Construction of Ideological and Political Education in English Teacher Education Courses in Local Normal Universities:Objectives,Connotations,and Implementation Paths

The integration of ideological and political education into university curricula represents a new trend in holistic,comprehensive,and all-around education.The concept of“ideological and political education in English teacher education courses”embodies an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum reform.Grounded in the principle of fostering moral integrity,it aims to create high-quality courses by seamlessly integrating the transmission of knowledge and skills with the guidance of ideological values.This study explores the status quo,significance,and implementation pathways for integrating ideological and political education into English teacher education courses,providing valuable insights for future curricular development.

Challenges and Countermeasures in Integrating Chinese Traditional Culture into English Listening and Speaking Course

Foreign language education involves not only language education but also cultural education.It is the new mission of today’s foreign language education to integrate Chinese traditional culture into foreign language teaching and cultivate foreign language talents who can tell Chinese stories well and spread Chinese voice.As a basic course for English majors,English Listening and Speaking faces many challenges when it is integrated into Chinese traditional culture,such as complex teaching content,limited teaching resources,insufficient teachers’literacy,and students’listening and speaking difficulties.In order to solve these problems,teachers and universities should work together to sort out the connotation of Chinese traditional culture,develop audio-visual teaching materials,organize teacher training,and innovate teaching methods,so as to effectively promote the connection between Chinese traditional culture and English Listening and Speaking curriculum system.

On the Teaching Design of Graduates’EAP Course:Enhancing Language Proficiency and Critical Thinking Skills

This paper explores the integration of the bridge-in,objectives,pre-assessment,participatory activities,post-assessment and summary(BOPPPS)teaching model within the context of the post-graduates Academic English course.It discusses how this structured approach can effectively enhance students’language proficiency,foster critical thinking skills,and align with the multifaceted objectives of advanced English language education.The study provides a detailed examination of each BOPPPS component as applied to the post-graduates Academic English curriculum,supported by theoretical underpinnings and practical implications.

An Analysis of the Research Trends in Blended Learning Methods in Teaching College English Reading Courses

Curtis J.Bonk defined blended learning as a combination of face-to-face and computer-assisted online learning instruction since it was gradually formed after the emergence of the Internet[1,2].Breen pointed out that blended learning is a learning method that combines online and offline learning activities and resources[3].The blended learning approach is popular in school and e-learning.Moreover,it is one of the important trends in promoting higher education reform in the coming years.Therefore,it has attracted the attention of international researchers[4].In this paper,42 articles in Scopus(established by international institutions)and 30 articles in CNKI(found by Chinese mainland institutions)on the query of“college English reading blended learning”in the field of education were analyzed.Furthermore,CiteSpace software was used to analyze the research hotspots and trends with the keyword clusters and citations that occurred in the last two decades(1999 to 2022)to foresee future research prospects.

FRAMEWORK FOR ORAL ENGLISH COURSE EXAMS

Little research has been conducted on Oral English course exams for tertiary-level English major students in China. Issues found in recent surveys of teachers and students of Oral English classes at four universities suggest that the Oral English course exam needs a theoretical model to ensure its reliability and validity and hence to better lead students' learning of spoken English. Applying language testing theories and using ethnographic methodologies, this paper attempts to propose such a model through discussing the problematic issues in current practice in Oral English course exams and defining the targeted oral English abilities to be examined.

A Comparative Analysis of Teacher Talk Between Advanced and Fundamental English Major Courses

The importance of teacher talk in EFL （English as a foreign language） class has aroused much attention in China since the late 1990s. On a basis of classroom discourse analysis, this paper has observed 14 courses with 21 hours in total from advanced and fundamental grades in an English department. The classroom observation has been transcribed to analyze the features of teacher talk in various English courses in terms of five dimensions--discourse quantity, questioning types, feedback manners, interactional modification features, and conversation chains, It is found that on average there is significant difference in those five dimensions between fundamental and advanced courses. In terms of discourse quantity, the teacher talk has occupied more than 80% of the total talk amount and the total teacher talk in advanced courses is more than that in fundamental ones; the number of display questions is much more than that of referential questions; evaluative feedbacks are more than discursive ones; all of the teachers prefer to employ confirmation checks to modify students＇ answer, and half of the conversational chains are IRF （Initial-Response-Follow-up） structure while another half are full of complicated chains. The paper then provides some suggestions and implications for EFL teaching in the light of these findings.

The Application of Research Teaching Model in English Courses

The research teaching in the field of education is not a new vocabulary, but to give a complete definition of scientific is not an easy task.It is so much better to say it is a teaching model or teaching philosophy than teaching model and its purpose is to ＂teach＂ and ＂learning＂ the whole process runs through the characteristics of research, including research of teachers＇ ＂teach＂ and students＇ research- based ＂learning＂ . According to the characteristics of English language teaching combined with the advantages of teaching research to explore the teaching model of English courses.

An Exploration on ＂Cultivating Character＂ in the Courses of College English

The fundamental purpose of Virtue education for college students is to carry out the education policy of moral education first and cultivate college students＇ correct attitude towards life, work, helping them achieve the happy life. This paper, based on the understanding of the inner link between the character of the college English course culture contains and students＇ virtue cultivation, analyzes the characteristics of our College English curriculum culture such as generation, counterbalance and practice and puts forward strategies to cultivate student＇s deliberating, self-supervision and cautious action by teachers＇ teaching wisdom, the design of the teaching evaluation and contents and students＇ learning experience step by step and so on.

EVALUATING AN EFL TEXTBOOK—A NEW ENGLISH COURSE

The necessity of the textbook can not be neglectedalthough problems do exist with our teaching materi-als.As teachers it is important for us to evaluate,se-lect and adapt teaching materials to meet our teachingand students’ learning needs in order to maximizelearning potentials.The case study of one particularEFL textbook provides us with more insights into theunderstanding of our teaching materials.The processof evaluating the teaching materials helps us make de-cisions in selecting textbooks,as well as allowing us toreflect on our teaching and learning experience.

An integrated method for teaching English theoretical courses

The theoretical courses are very important for the students in the postgraduate phase because the students must have a good command of the theories and principles of the field to do their own research later. However, the issue of how to teach English major graduates theoretical courses effectively is the big headache both for teachers and students of English to tackle. The paper aims to introduce an integrated method of teaching English theoretical courses adopted by a teacher in Foreign Language School of Xi＇an Jiaotong University who taught ETTM course （English Teaching Theory and Methodology course）. And the method has employed the collaborative learning strategy and through a survey conducted among the students attended the course, and we find that the method has gained some effective teaching results. And the author of the paper also hopes that more attention should be paid to the probing better ways of teaching theoretical and specialty courses to English major graduates.

On the Development of a Maritime English Visual-Audio-Lingual Course Book

Presently, with the higher requirements of maritime education and training, the development of maritime visual-audio-lingual course books are lagging behind, in that the contents are outdated, dull and away from the actual practice. They can by no means reflect the production of ocean transportation and run counter to the principles of language communication, resulting in a severe lap in the aspects of contents, quality and formation. Maritime visual-audio-lingual teaching belongs to ESP and its contents should give prominence to practice and operation, such as, instruments, equipment, machinery and principles; operation, entering and leaving ports, loading and discharging of cargo, navigation and communication, berthing and unberting, heaving anchor, etc. Many scenes and processes are not to be demonstrated by verbal means and normal methods of teaching. Therefore, a set of course book that reflects the real operational situations is of great need and one that adopts the multi-media means in visual-audio-lingual teaching is of enormous and irreplaceable privilege, in that a highly qualified visual-audio-lingual course book will provide real, clear-cut and understandable working situations, so that students will be on-scene and impressed. It will not only improve the students＇ attention and learning interest, hut also help learn practical English in real environment.