Abstract
The Production-Oriented Approach (POA) is a novel teaching approach with Chinese characteristics that is also one of China's research hotspots in the field of English instruction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the theory's future development and challenges based on the research state of POA in China, in order to promote POA's application in a wider range. The researcher retrieved academic journals, master's and doctoral dissertations from CNKI regarding POA from 2016 to 2020 and discussed its application fields, research methods, and research contents in this study. The findings demonstrate that: 1) Chinese researchers' research on POA has advanced significantly in the last five years, with an overall increasing trend in the number of studies. 2) POA's research methodologies mostly consist of non-empirical and empirical research. 3) POA's research focuses mostly on the development of theoretical systems, teaching effectiveness research, teaching reform practice, and teaching compilation and usage. Simultaneously, this study outlines the present research on POA in China's limitations and evaluates its future development prospects.
Highlights
1 Chinese linguistic professor Wen Qiufang proposed the Production-oriented Approach (POA), a theoretical method for foreign language teaching with Chinese elements
The findings demonstrate that: 1) Chinese researchers' research on POA has advanced significantly in the last five years, with an overall increasing trend in the number of studies
The production-oriented Approach is a significant theoretical method for foreign language education in China since it is rooted in Chinese educational background
Summary
Since the POA was proposed, China has seen a surge in research on this theory. Because the theory and practice of POA are constantly evolving, it is essential to keep records of the changes and trends in research based on the theory. This paper employs the method of literature content analysis to systematically collect relevant POA literature in a Chinese database named China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2016 to 2020, summarizes the research findings, forecasts the development trend, and identifies flaws and problems in order to promote POA research, development, and application. IJLLT 4(6): 74-81 development, the POA system has been continually enhanced. It has gone through six development phases since 2007, as shown in Table 1. (Wen, 2018)
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