The Exploration of Public English Teaching Reform in Application-oriented Colleges

Abstract

As the application-oriented colleges will become the mainstream of the development of higher education, such colleges are shouldering mission for training high-skilled talents for meeting the needs of social production, construction, service and management. Therefore, public English teaching reform is imperative. How to solve the problems and challenges faced by the present stage of public English teaching is perpetual object. The paper attempts to explore English teaching reform in five aspects--teaching target, teaching content, teaching mode, the construction of English teachers’ group and the evaluation system through theory of the ESP and the output-driving hypothesis theory in application-oriented colleges. Keywords-application-oriented college; college English teaching model; reform; English comprehensive competence; application-oriented talents