The continuously expanding program scale and increasing student enrollment number of Sino-foreign cooperative educational programs in recent years have demonstrated their increasing acceptance among Chinese students.T...The continuously expanding program scale and increasing student enrollment number of Sino-foreign cooperative educational programs in recent years have demonstrated their increasing acceptance among Chinese students.This paper aims to explore and analyze the reasons behind the growing popularity of Sino-foreign joint educational programs.展开更多
Sino-foreign cooperative education plays an important role in undergraduate education.It has also proved itself popular in higher vocational education in recent years,in which foreign teachers are undertaking the task...Sino-foreign cooperative education plays an important role in undergraduate education.It has also proved itself popular in higher vocational education in recent years,in which foreign teachers are undertaking the task of teaching some specialized courses.The teaching by foreign teachers has certain irreplaceable advantages,but nonnegligible disadvantages as well.Questionnaires have been distributed to the students majoring in Landscape Engineering from Shanghai Urban Construction College to investigate the teaching of specialized courses by foreign teachers.Based on the statistics,the advantages and disadvantages of their teaching have been analyzed,and several suggestions on how to adopt the good points and avoid the shortcomings are offered,so as to improve the quality of Sino-foreign cooperative education in higher vocational college.展开更多
This essay begins with a brief introduction to the changes in foreign language education policy and the main motives for those changes in the context of socio-political circumstances. It then examines the development ...This essay begins with a brief introduction to the changes in foreign language education policy and the main motives for those changes in the context of socio-political circumstances. It then examines the development of language education system in a new college of a university in China over a period of ten years in relation to the issue of internationalization and globalization.The study shows that the language education system of the new college has developed in parallel with the recently-emerged trends in language education in China. Finally,it seeks to interpret these trends in terms of global,national,regional forces that currently drive it forwards.展开更多
There are hot arguments on foreign language learning "the sooner the better" and it is critical to children' s foreign language education policies.This study combs series of empirical studies and models ...There are hot arguments on foreign language learning "the sooner the better" and it is critical to children' s foreign language education policies.This study combs series of empirical studies and models to analyze disadvantages of the belief of foreign language education "the sooner the better" in China.The findings are:1.Age is not the key factor to foreign language achievement,learning strategies,language distance and mother language proficiency are important factors that can not be ignored;2.The results in external foreign language studies can not be used directly to guide domestic foreign language education policies,for practical demands must be taken in consideration.展开更多
文摘The continuously expanding program scale and increasing student enrollment number of Sino-foreign cooperative educational programs in recent years have demonstrated their increasing acceptance among Chinese students.This paper aims to explore and analyze the reasons behind the growing popularity of Sino-foreign joint educational programs.
文摘Sino-foreign cooperative education plays an important role in undergraduate education.It has also proved itself popular in higher vocational education in recent years,in which foreign teachers are undertaking the task of teaching some specialized courses.The teaching by foreign teachers has certain irreplaceable advantages,but nonnegligible disadvantages as well.Questionnaires have been distributed to the students majoring in Landscape Engineering from Shanghai Urban Construction College to investigate the teaching of specialized courses by foreign teachers.Based on the statistics,the advantages and disadvantages of their teaching have been analyzed,and several suggestions on how to adopt the good points and avoid the shortcomings are offered,so as to improve the quality of Sino-foreign cooperative education in higher vocational college.
文摘This essay begins with a brief introduction to the changes in foreign language education policy and the main motives for those changes in the context of socio-political circumstances. It then examines the development of language education system in a new college of a university in China over a period of ten years in relation to the issue of internationalization and globalization.The study shows that the language education system of the new college has developed in parallel with the recently-emerged trends in language education in China. Finally,it seeks to interpret these trends in terms of global,national,regional forces that currently drive it forwards.
基金the staged achievement of the national social science fund project--the Empirical Studies of Whether Foreign Language Learning is the Earlier the Better(CHA140176)
文摘There are hot arguments on foreign language learning "the sooner the better" and it is critical to children' s foreign language education policies.This study combs series of empirical studies and models to analyze disadvantages of the belief of foreign language education "the sooner the better" in China.The findings are:1.Age is not the key factor to foreign language achievement,learning strategies,language distance and mother language proficiency are important factors that can not be ignored;2.The results in external foreign language studies can not be used directly to guide domestic foreign language education policies,for practical demands must be taken in consideration.
