An Empirical Investigation into the Undergraduates’ Acceptance of English Courses with Ideological and Political Elements

Abstract

Since the “ideological and political education (IPE)” was put forward in China, all kinds of courses in colleges and universities across the country have set off a wave of educational reform. The teaching reform of English courses is also in full swing. Scholars and researchers have interpreted the programmatic documents from top to bottom, analyzed the implementation framework of “ideological and political education”, excavated the ideological and political elements in English courses, and carried out it in a meaningful way. But education is always the interaction between “teaching” and “learning”. Students are the main object of education. Education without evaluating students is meaningless. Based on the perspective of students’ subjectivity and guided by Reception Theory, this study carries out a bottom-up research to investigate students’ acceptance of IPE, and adopts SPSS analysis based on Likert scale. The paper discusses the factors affecting students’ acceptance of English courses with ideological and political elements, in order to provide reference for the implementation of it.