College English Curriculum Research Articles

CLIL model of teaching in the College English curriculum in China: policies, perceptions, and practices

Adopting a CLIL perspective, this study investigates the policies, perceptions, and practices concerning the courses that claim to integrate content learning and language learning in the Chinese College English context by using both a quantitative research method and a qualitative research method. The quantitative study focuses on both learners’ and teachers’ motivation intensity, motivation types, gains in participating in the CLIL courses, and their general attitudes toward the courses. A questionnaire is conducted with 2513 College English students and 230 College English teachers from 45 universities that fall into three different levels and three major types. The qualitative study examines the current state of the CLIL-type College English curricula mainly through the analyses of the College English syllabi provided by 24 universities of different levels and other documents, and also explores the notions of the policy-makers at the university level in regard to CLIL courses through an interview with 15 College English teacher-administrators.

Research on the Optimization Strategies of Higher Vocational English Stratification Teaching Mode Based on the Promotion of Students’ Professional Competence and Quality

Under the background of diversified enrollment structure in higher vocational colleges, the traditional level-based English teaching system cannot meet the needs of language ability development and professional quality improvement. In the past two years, we have built a dynamic assessment system based on ITEST platform. Based on a survey of the English proficiency needs of students with different majors, we have reconstructed the overall design of college English curriculum from the following key aspects: the refinement of the graduates’ qualification standards, the reconstruction of the whole college English curriculum system, the refinement of the English teaching and mentoring modes for different level college students, the optimization and adjustment of the level-by-level assessment system, the reconstruction of the teaching and learning quality evaluation and diagnosis system etc. This paper sums up a set of learner centered strategies to optimize the reform of stratification English teaching mode by taking Qingdao Technical College as an example. The reform aims at the improvement of students’ professional ability and quality by optimizing the stratification teaching mode of English in higher vocational colleges. It helps students with different enrollment backgrounds achieve individuation development and comprehensive accomplishment not only in English language skills but also professional qualities.

The Dynamic Models in School-based Curriculum Development and College English Reform in Mainland China

School-based curriculum development (SBCD) features the role of schools in curriculum decision-making and highlights the importance of school-based curriculum designs. By means of literature reviews on the dynamic models in SBCD, namely Stenhouse’s process model and Skilbeck’s situational model, this paper evaluates the two models to point out the strengths and weaknesses of SBCD. Both the process model and the situational model highlight the importance of dynamic process and regard curriculum development as a dynamic interactive progress rather than a linear process. Additionally, they reveal the high demands for autonomy in curriculum development, emphasizing the interaction between the curriculum developers. However, although teachers as the major implementers shift their positions to the chief curriculum developers in the dynamic models of SBCD, more attention should be paid to the external and internal factors influencing the change of their roles. On the other hand, curriculum evaluation should consider both the suitability and sustainability of the curriculum. In the end, the paper ends with a case, an ongoing school-based college English curriculum reform in a provincial university in mainland China, that puts these abovementioned theories into practice. The case reflects the dynamic features of curriculum design concerning a lot about teaching process and students’ needs in specific university contexts. Apart from the short-term goal of using the curriculum to fit current students’ needs, more attention should be paid to cover the sustainability of the curriculum for its long-term use. Through the documented literature review and case analysis, it is indeed conducive to better our understanding of this reform pattern and get more inspiration about the feasibility and applicability of SBCD in our actual practice of education reform.

Study on Integrating Ideological and Political Education into College English Reading and Writing Course

To begin with, this paper discusses the idea of Ideological and Political Theories Teaching in All Courses, analyzes humanistic characteristics of College English Curriculum and core socialist values, then integrates core socialist values into college English teaching with two examples from New College English Integrated Course 4, and finally realizes the purpose of cultivating college students’ patriotic and professional spirits.

Research on the Construction of “Ideological－Political College English Curriculum” under the Guidance of PBL —A Case Study on New Standard College English Integrated Course 3

Research on the Construction of “Ideological－Political College English Curriculum” under the Guidance of PBL —A Case Study on New Standard College English Integrated Course 3

Research on Existing Problems and Countermeasures in College English Translation Teaching

The “College English Curriculum Requirements” promulgated by the Ministry of Education of China has detailed regulations on the five aspects of English listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating for ordinary undergraduates. However, the foreign language translation ability of most college students in China is still the weak link in the English ability structure. With the further opening up of all walks of life in China, the role of English in daily life and work is becoming more and more important. This paper analyzes and summarizes the current situation and problems of college English translation teaching in China, and proposes corresponding improvement measures.

평생교육 단과대학의 교양영어 교육과정 분석: 6개 대학교를 중심으로

The Korean government’s support for lifelong education for adult learners at higher education institutions is growing. Unlike other types of educational institutions for adult learners, the lifelong education college, established as part of the LiFE (Lifelong education at universities for the Future of Education) project, should take into account the conflicting needs of adult learners who want the college to reduce their learning burden and to provide high-quality education. To examine how the college deals with this situation, the present study analyzed the college English curricula at six universities that have carried out the LiFE project since its introduction. In particular, this study compared the college English curricula between the lifelong education college and other colleges at each university in terms of required courses, elective courses, and level-differentiated classes. The findings show that the college English curricula for adult learners in the lifelong education colleges can be classified into four types (Type 1-1, Type 1-2, Type 2-1, and Type 2-2) on the basis of their organization in comparison with the college English curricula for other college students. This classification serves as a useful guide for lifelong education colleges that will develop or reform their own college English curriculum.

Research on the New Eco-construction of College English Teaching in the Data Age

Along with the in-depth application of computer and network technology in the field of education, the concept and strategy of College English teaching is quietly undergoing a major change. The era of big data has brought a new perspective and direction to college English teaching reform. Under the development trend of continuous integration of education and digital technology, College English teachers need to build a new ecology of College English based on the era of data, explore a hybrid teaching model by breaking the time and space constraints, reconstruct the evaluation mode of education quality by applying data mining and develop teaching team building by changing self-role. In this way, a systematic, open, dynamic and three-dimensional College English curriculum system can be established to better meet the needs of college students getting high-quality and diversified college English teaching, and to meet the requirements of national economic and social development for talent training.

Task-driven and College English Curriculum Based Intercultural Competence Cultivation in Police University

Globalization and the Belt and Road Initiative motivate police cadets to improve intercultural competence. In the meantime it’s very difficult for Chinese College English teachers to focus solely on cultures while students facing the task of improving language skills. It is more practical for teachers to integrate cultural instruction and normal curriculum, improving both linguistic and cultural competence to achieve the multiple objectives at the same time. This paper provides some practical ways to enrich the current curriculum. Three-step action research is used in the paper. Step one: intercultural knowledge accumulation. Teachers use explicit and implicit ways, including reading assignment, video-clip, WeChat essays in law enforcement and police fields, to improve cultural diversity awareness and to appreciate dynamic intercultural communication. Step two: task-driven intercultural skills training. Step three: reflection. These procedures form a spiral cycle which recurs to enhance the effect of continuous improvement.

Research on the Application of SPOC Online and Offline Hybrid Teaching Mode in College English Curriculum

The reason why top universities pursue SPOC is that it perfectly adapts to the exclusiveness and high achievement values of elite universities, and helps universities achieve their goal of improving teaching quality. SPOC is the real value of online education in university campus.

Achievements analysis of mooc English course based on fuzzy statistics and neural network clustering

At present, the field of natural language will also introduce in-depth learning, using the concept of word vector, so that the neural network can also complete the work in the field of statistics. It can be said that the neural network has begun to show its advantages in the field of natural language processing. In this paper, the author analyzes the multimedia English course based on fuzzy statistics and neural network clustering. Different factors were classified, and scores were classified according to the number of characteristics of different categories. It can be seen that with the popularization of the Internet, MOOC teaching meets the requirements of the current college English curriculum, is a breakthrough in the traditional teaching mode, improves students’ participation, and enables students to learn independently. It not only conforms to the characteristics of College students, but also improves their learning effect. In the automatic scoring stage, the quantitative text features are extracted by the feature extractor in the pre-processing stage, and then the weights of network connections obtained in the training stage are used to score the weights comprehensively. This model can better reflect students’ autonomous learning ability and language application ability.

The Realization of Ideological and Political Education in College English Based on Cultural Confidence

Ideological and political education is an important content to ensure the direc-tion of education and improve the quality of talent training in China. In recent years, it has been widely concerned by the education system and the society. The traditional ideological and political course is gradually transferred to the curriculum ideological and political education, and provides guidance for the comprehensive promotion of ideological and political education. This paper makes a summary and reflection on the current ideological and political edu-cation in China, introduces the practical significance of cultivating students’ cultural self-confidence through curriculum setting, analyzes the relevance between college English curriculum setting and ideological and political educa-tion, and proposes a path planning for enhancing the relevance.

A Study of College English Curriculum from the Perspective of General Education

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Cultivating College Students' Critical Thinking Ability in China

As one of the aims of cultivating innovative talents in colleges and universities, the cultivation of the ability of critical thinking has attracted great attention from domestic experts. In addition, the importance of college English curriculum in cultivating the ability of critical thinking has been emphasized in the educational field in recent years. Based on the relevant studies on College English curriculum and the critical thinking ability, this paper analyzes the definitions of critical thinking, the cultivation of critical thinking ability and the construction of measurement tools.

Changes to teachers’ knowledge base

Abstract In China, since 2004, developing students’ overall communicative competence has become the central goal of the current College English Curriculum Requirements. However, this goal has yet to be addressed, particularly in regard to the teaching of writing. This paper examines whether and how changes in teachers’ knowledge base related to teaching writing may impact their students’ writing outcomes. Six experienced teachers were introduced to a SFL (Systemic Functional Linguistics)-informed genre approach and subsequently trialled this pedagogy in practice. Through pre- and post- workshop interviews and classroom observations, changes in teachers’ knowledge base were investigated. In each observed class, two writing samples produced by students were collected. The findings of changes in the teachers’ knowledge base were compared with possible changes emerging in their students’ writing products. The results of the comparison reveal that, corresponding to positive changes evidenced in the teachers’ knowledge base, the majority of the students made improvements in their writing products.

A Study on Developing Learner-centered College English Curriculum: Based on Needs Analysis of Students Across Majors

A Study on Developing Learner-centered College English Curriculum: Based on Needs Analysis of Students Across Majors

Investigation and Analysis of the Translation Tests in CET-4: Taking Software Engineering Students in Jiangxi Normal University as an Example

College English Test (abbreviated as CET) is one of the major language tests in China. Its purpose is to measure Chinese college students’comprehensive ability in English and it plays a positive role in achieving the goal of college English curriculum. Since its birth, CET has been reformed in scoring system, score reporting, test content and test questions, especially in translation test. This will enhance college English translation teaching which has been ignored for a long time. The paper mainly analyzes the reform of the translation test types in College English Test Band 4 and the current situation of translation teaching for non-English majors. 194 software engineering college students in Jiangxi normal university were required to accomplish the questionnaire survey to inquire into the problems they had encountered in CET-4 translation test and their translation learning situation in class, hoping to provide teachers and students with constructive suggestions with regard to college English translation teaching and learning.

Research on College English Teaching Model under the Computer Environment

The growing update of computer and global technology provides the raw energy for college English teaching to start a revolution and development. How to deal with the teaching methods by using computer network to build a pluralistic system of interactive teaching for college English curriculum is a serious problem. This paper combines the characteristics of college English teaching, exploring the teaching ways of teaching mode and multi-interaction network of college English. Besides, it also reviews the evidence which is based on independent learning theory and several learning models, analyses the relationship between the advantages of computer network teaching and learning ability of students and enhances the benefits between teaching in practice and computer networks teaching. According to the research and survey of the College English Teaching Model of a University, it validated the role in promoting new teaching model to improve students’ self-learning ability.

Students’ and teachers’ readiness for autonomy: beliefs and practices in developing autonomy in the Chinese context

In 2004, the Chinese Ministry of Education issued the College English Curriculum Requirements in an effort to revitalise English language teaching in China. This official document underpins “College English”, a compulsory course for non-English majors in the first 2 years of university study. In a break with the past, the policy document placed considerable emphasis on the development of learner autonomy. Despite these aspirations, in practice it has been observed that many teachers struggle to implement their content (Lin, Chen, Journal of PLA University of Foreign Languages 32(2):45–50, 2009; Luo, Journal of the Foreign Language World 183(6):29–36, 2017; Xu, Language and Education 7(4):2–7, 2014). To better document this mismatch and identify its causes, this research investigated 668 students and 182 teachers’ beliefs, practices and readiness for autonomy in the context of the College English course. Through a triangulated approach, this article found that both the students and teachers appeared psychologically, but not technically or behaviourally, ready for autonomy. The challenges to the promotion of autonomy in Chinese universities, therefore, seem to be more about pedagogical than cultural impediments. We conclude the paper with a number of implications to enable classroom practitioners to better integrate the development of autonomy into the curriculum.

Integrating WeChat-based Mobile-Assisted Language Learning into College English Teaching

WeChat, one of the most popular social networking tools in China, has attracted attention of educators to its pedagogical value such as its support for interactivity and real-time communications. Based on the literature review of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) and WeChat, the paper aims to analyse the affordances of WeChat application in MALL, explore how to integrate WeChat-based Mobile-assisted Language Learning (MALL) into College English Curriculum so as to promote students’ engagement in learning and to improve their learning outcomes.