Construction of the training mode of English teaching ability for medical professional teachers

Abstract

Objective To explore the reasonable construction of the bilingual teaching training mode for medical professional teachers so as to improve the effectiveness of the bilingual teacher training, promote the development of faculties and the quality of bilingual teaching in colleges and universities. Methods First, need analysis was done on 45 medical teachers who had taught medical science in English or intended to do it in Third Military Medical University and four basic modules were formed lectures in class, one on one instruction, self training, simulation teaching. Lectures in class are related to how to improve students' ability of language, make PPT and design teaching plans. One on one instruction focuses on pronunciation, lecture notes writing in English, trial teaching and teaching attitude; self training includes human-computer interaction in listening and speaking, independent preparation for lessons and video learning; simulation teaching is composed of trial lecture in class, teacher-student comments and demo lessons. Then 3 students participating the training was investigated and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was applied to calculate the weights of every indices. Results Primary index weights are: 0.490 for one-on-one tutoring; 0.240 for simulated teaching; 0.180 for having English lessons; 0.082 for independent learning. Weights of secondary indices are as the following. Trial teaching, the lecture notes writing in English and the training for English pronunciation and teachers' classroom language which are subordinate to the primary index of one-on-one tutoring are 0.180 0, 0.150 0 and 0.096 0 respectively; teachers' comments and peer feed-back and demo class under the primary indices of simulated teaching are 0.120 0 and 0.091 0. Conclusion In order to improve the teaching ability in English, it is necessary to strengthen the one-on-one tutoring for medical professional teachers, highlight English teachers' comments and peer assessment and excavate the effect of demo classes in the training program. Key words: Bilingual teaching; Professional teacher; Analytic hierarchy process (AHP)