A REVIEW OF HIGHER VOCATIONAL COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHING STUDIES BASED ON PRODUCTION-ORIENTED APPROACH IN CHINA

Abstract

A literature review on the implementation of the Production-Oriented Approach (POA) in higher vocational college English teaching is provided by this study. Since the Production-Oriented Approach was proposed, although there have been many studies on the implementation of POA in college English, there is still a lack of systematic literature and implementation research on POA in domestic higher vocational colleges English teaching. Therefore, a total of 30 academic articles published between 2017 and 2022 from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) was reviewed by this study to fill the gap. According to the Metrological visualization analysis, five categories can be identified: (1) specific teaching areas, (2) English Curriculum ideological and Political Education, (3) application of POA in English blended teaching model, (4) Benefit of POA in English teaching, (5) Challenges to POA implementation in English teaching. The review results also reveal that the implementation of POA can enhance the English teaching’s effectiveness at higher vocational college. Besides, the results of domestic POA’s research will be summarized and its main problems also be noted by the paper. In the end, this study identifies several future research issues needed to be examined, which may provide useful enlightenment for teachers and researchers.