Quality English language teaching (ELT) materials play a key role in achieving teaching objectives. This paper first provides a brief historical overview of the development of college English teaching materials in C...Quality English language teaching (ELT) materials play a key role in achieving teaching objectives. This paper first provides a brief historical overview of the development of college English teaching materials in China. Then by investigating studies on college English teaching materials for non-English major students from different perspectives, suggestions are proposed to provide guidance for effective ELT materials writing and evaluation: (1) Language corpora, providing empirical data concerning language usage, have a distinctive advantage in ELT materials writing and evaluation; (2) principles for ESP materials writing are developed; and (3) a systematic approach combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis to materials evaluation is suggested to ensure the validity and reliability of materials evaluation展开更多
The compilation of teaching materials should follow some principles and standards. Following some principles, the compilation of New horizon college English makes full use of the latest technology in computer and Inte...The compilation of teaching materials should follow some principles and standards. Following some principles, the compilation of New horizon college English makes full use of the latest technology in computer and Internet, and therefore bears some unique features. As a newly compiled college English teaching material, nevertheless, it reveals some weaknesses. This paper makes a detailed analysis of and comments on the above, with the expectation of being beneficial to future revision.展开更多
With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. Thi...With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. This paper,based on the knowledge map drawn by the visualized analysis of literatures volume, authors, research institutions,and keywords clustering, analyzes the current research status and hotspots in the compilation of China’s CollegeEnglish textbooks.展开更多
文摘Quality English language teaching (ELT) materials play a key role in achieving teaching objectives. This paper first provides a brief historical overview of the development of college English teaching materials in China. Then by investigating studies on college English teaching materials for non-English major students from different perspectives, suggestions are proposed to provide guidance for effective ELT materials writing and evaluation: (1) Language corpora, providing empirical data concerning language usage, have a distinctive advantage in ELT materials writing and evaluation; (2) principles for ESP materials writing are developed; and (3) a systematic approach combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis to materials evaluation is suggested to ensure the validity and reliability of materials evaluation
文摘The compilation of teaching materials should follow some principles and standards. Following some principles, the compilation of New horizon college English makes full use of the latest technology in computer and Internet, and therefore bears some unique features. As a newly compiled college English teaching material, nevertheless, it reveals some weaknesses. This paper makes a detailed analysis of and comments on the above, with the expectation of being beneficial to future revision.
基金This research is based on the“Construction of Chinese Academic Translation Team Project”(ZP1823105)of the Characteristic Humanities and Social Science Discipline Construction in 2018,and“2019-2020 Postgraduate Teaching Book Project Translation and International Communication”,East China University of Science and Technology.
文摘With the help of Big Data and Citespace software, this research makes a statistical analysis of the journals anddissertations on College English teaching and learning materials collected by CNKI from 2011 to 2020. This paper,based on the knowledge map drawn by the visualized analysis of literatures volume, authors, research institutions,and keywords clustering, analyzes the current research status and hotspots in the compilation of China’s CollegeEnglish textbooks.