Abstract
It’s arguable that more involvement of government with centralized policies causes less efficiency on education progresses. The article reviewed documents dedicated to or related to College English (CE), which have been released by Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China (MOE)and other institutions / organizations after 1949. Exploring CE’s goal, assessment and national impacts, it's substantially analyzed the benefits and disadvantages of centralized governance conducted on CE, and proposed an integral strategy potentially developed: conducting centralized administration while highlighting and enhancing diversity and individuality on CE for reaching the goal of CE in China higher education.
Highlights
College English (CE) is a very section construct in Chinese higher education
In China, CE is a course teaching and learning English as Foreign language (EFL), where there is no, generally speaking, prevailing English speaking communities beyond campus. This defines the foundation of policy making and implementation across the country, where CE is totally a policy-based reliance as a, in big picture of CE of the country, most largest scale constructed in higher education system in China, beneficially supportive centralized policies, on the course goal, testing system, dedicated competition, etc. in general
It‟s read in the Requirement 2004(trial), and the Requirement 2007that there 3 teaching levels of CE: general requirement, medium level requirement, and higher level requirement (DHE of MOE, 2004a; DHE of MOE, 2007), which agreed that there are diversified students with different English language proficiency level enrolled in CE, so there should be a curriculum system, offering different level CE teaching and learning
Summary
It‟s reported that, in 2018, applicants for College Entrance Examination reached 9.75 million, 7.90 million of them enrolled into various universities and colleges across the country, 28.32 million undergraduates in total (Yu & Zhang, 2019, Feb. 26) Confronting such huge population learners, CE mostly covers 2 academic years with 16 credits (10% of total for being eligible of applying degree) which implying that there are at least 14 million students working on CE at same time (Department of Higher Education [DHE] of MOE,2007). It‟s a compulsory course for every non-English majors in Chinese tertiary institutions‟ (Wang, 2016) These statements establish and formulate a very populous and oversize CE. Such very eminent features have been arousing very peculiar concerns around CE, and its efficient performance is foremost
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