Study on the relationship between college English and global citizenship

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between college English education and global citizenship, and to present the meaning and future direction of English curriculum as college English. To achieve the research goals, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 190 college students who are taking a compulsory English course. The collected data was analyzed through t-test and ANOVA. The result of the analysis showed that first, the group with high English proficiency had higher level of global citizenship than the group with low English proficiency; second, the group with high interest in English had higher global citizenship than the low group; third, the group with high interest in foreign languages had higher global citizenship than the low group’ fourth, the start time of English learning did not lead to differences in level of the global citizenship; fifth, the students who had experience in staying abroad more than one month had the higher level of global citizenship than the ones who had visited abroad only one or two times. These results imply that English education is closely related to global citizenship. Lastly, the direction of future college English courses was discussed based on the results.