Cause Analysis on Deficiency of Humanistic Education in English Teaching

Abstract

In essence, the English teaching process in colleges and universities is a learning process of foreign language culture. Teachers in colleges and universities just use this learning process to penetrate humanistic education into English teaching and to integrate with it, so as to help students to improve their humanistic quality. Given this, this paper first gives a statement onto internal relations between English teaching in colleges and universities and humanistic & spiritual education. Based on the special historical background of China at present, this paper discusses new requirements of new times for humanistic & spiritual education in English teaching in Chinese colleges and universities. Moreover, an analysis is made onto relevant causes for deficiency of humanistic education in English teaching in Chinese colleges and universities. Based on current conditions and existing deficiencies of English teaching in Chinese colleges and universities, effective countermeasures and recommendations are proposed in this paper for the implementation of humanistic education in English teaching in Chinese colleges and universities, with certain positive reference to the promotion of teaching practices.