IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL THEORIES TEACHING IN COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING

Abstract

Comprehensive Business English course is a comprehensive language practice skills course, which integrates English language knowledge, communication ability, cultural background knowledge and business knowledge. By imitating English materials in different kinds of business and cultural scenes, students can get familiar with English expression habits, cultivate English critical thinking and master fundamental English oral expression ability; by learning different subjects, students' vocabulary and discourse reading comprehension ability are to be enhanced and the basic discourse expression ability and a good foundation for the third and fourth grade English learning are to be improved. Our university, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, is a university of finance and economics with the striking characteristic of wealth management. We have the integration and development of students’ business English. Comprehensive business English is a compulsory course for the first and second year of business English majors, with small classes about 30 students in each. The courses for English majors are all business-related, most of them aim to work in business-related fields or study for master degree domestically or overseas after graduation. Business-English teaching aims to cultivate students with strengthened basic English listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills, relevant theories and knowledge of linguistics, economics, management and other studies, business operation mode and norms, good moral cultivation, social adaptability and innovation ability, and finally and most possibly the Applied Business English professionals. This paper, designed on the study and introduction of the present ideological and political theories teaching of Comprehensive Business English, is to discuss about the application of ideological and political teaching in the very basic course for Business English majors. By finding the ideological and political teaching topics and resources, it is to discover the proper, positive and critical means of applying theories in practice.