Course For English Majors Research Articles

인공지능과 빅데이터 관련 영어 전공 수업에 대한 한국 대학생 학습자의 인식

This study examined Korean undergraduate students’ perceptions toward English major courses on artificial intelligence and big data. Twenty-one Korean undergraduate students participated in an online survey designed to observe their interests in new technologies based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), perceptions toward newly developed English major courses on practices and applications of AI and big data, and other wide-ranging concerns about such developing technologies. In addition, two students participated in an in-depth interview on the topic. The results of the survey revealed the participants’ keen interests in the field of technologies evidencing the needs and desires for basic and substantial knowledge on new technologies pertinent to their major. In addition, they demonstrated very low to no anxiety in acquiring new AI-technologies and applications; rather, they expressed an extensive motivation to engage in learning them. However, the interview results showed that the curriculum should be revised to create more courses considering students’ levels towards new technologies. Overall, these results may suggest the demands for modifying the current English major courses to better meet the students’ needs in such rapidly-changing 4th industrial revolution era.

Research on the Construction of College English Reading Courses Based on Ideology and Politics Curriculum

In recent years, with the introduction of the concept of curriculum ideological and political teaching, great changes have taken place in foreign language education. The organic integration of English major courses as well as ideological and political courses is an urgent requirement for the reform of English majors in the new situation. As an important part of college English teaching, college English reading class penetrates ideological and political education in the course teaching. Thus, this conforms to the overall requirements of the country’s curriculum ideological and political education. Based on the concept of curriculum ideology and politics, this article first elaborates on the necessity and feasibility of the integration of curriculum ideology and politics with college English reading. Then, it analyzes the current situation of college English reading courses, and finally proposes three ways to optimize the construction of college English reading courses.

An Analysis of Legitimization Strategies from the Perspective of the Discourse-Historical Approach and Its Enlightenment to Teaching of the Reading Course for English Majors

The cultivation of critical thinking ability of English majors is a focus in English teaching. Legitimization is regarded as one of the most effective ways to make things accepted and generally recognized in society, mainly through discourse construction, and it is an important topic in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. In the process of representing society, discourse realizes its legitimization function through selection, distortion and neglect. Legitimization strategy plays a key role in this process. An analysis of legitimization strategies in discourse is helpful to cultivate English majors’ critical thinking ability. This paper gives a brief introduction to the legitimization strategies in discourse and discusses the enlightenment of an analysis of legitimization strategies in the frame of the discourse-historical approach to teaching of the reading course for English majors in combination with the characteristics of the course.

Reforming English Writing Instruction in the Context of Intercultural Communication: A Case Study

The study conducted a one-year teaching reform of English writing courses for English majors in a university in the context of intercultural communication. The results are expected to provide instructive and practical suggestions for both students’ and teachers’ skills development.

The Trajectory of an Undergraduate Researcher

AbstractThis article focuses on the progress of an undergraduate English major on the scholarship continuum outlined by Laurie Grobman (2009). The student engaged in authentic research in a research methods course for English majors, a class that also meets a university requirement of “quantitative intensive,” and she completed two research projects of note. Her journey has implications and significance for faculty in designing undergraduate research experiences.

Research on the Implicit Ideological and Political Education by Chinese Excellent Culture in the Basic Teaching Stage of English Majors

The introduction and dissemination of western culture has been overemphasized in English major teaching in China, while the ideological and political role of Chinese excellent culture in English major teaching has been ignored, leading to the lack of Chinese culture for students and hindering the development of students' intercultural communication ability. Taking the professional course teaching in the basic stage for English majors as an example, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the implicit ideological and political education of Chinese excellent culture in professional courses for English majors.

Looking for the right blend: a blended EFL university writing course

As a primary form of communication in the global village, the importance of English writing cannot be emphasized enough. Most academic institutions regard training their students to write English effectively as a goal of the curriculum. Here in Taiwan is no exception to that; therefore, more and more colleges start to offer English writing courses for their students. To develop a suitable EFL college writing course for English majors, a blended course that integrates traditional classroom activities and technology was proposed by the author based on the data analysis from a pilot study and literature review. This one-year writing course was then implemented and researched employing pre-and post-writing tests, perceptions questionnaire, interview, and class observation. This article reports the effectiveness of the course from three dimensions: the students’ linguistic performance, their perceptions of the course, and the most essential elements that made the course effective. The results show that after the course of study, the students could write longer and more grammatically complex texts. Overall, they felt positive about the course, regarding the instructor as facilitative and blogging to write as beneficial in guiding them to write. According to the quantitative and qualitative findings, the most essential elements of a blended EFL university writing course by rank are (1) instructor’s guidance/scaffolding, (2) a variety of writing practices including free writing, (3) blogging to writing, (4) introduction of writing-related online resources, (5) good lesson planning and classroom activities, and (6) a conducive learning community. One thing needs our attention is that the digital natives like the subjects of the present study still need a teacher interacting with them in real time when learning to write and the guidance is suggested to be conducted in a brick-and-mortar classroom, which cannot be replaced by other technologies.

A Brief Analysis of the Reform of British and American Literature Education Mode Based on Artificial Intelligence

With the development of society and progress, the computer technology has been widely used to the life of people, now fairy many teaching using multimedia technology, British and American literature course makes students’ compulsory course for English majors, for students to British and American literature, oh sister have a vital role to improve your English, multimedia technology has been widely applied to the British and American education mode, education technology in British and American literature play a crucial role in the education reform, the application of multimedia teaching, make the British and American literature course more vivid, more effective.

On the Teaching Reform of Translation Course Based on the Cultivation of Applied Talents

This article, taking the translation courses for English majors in Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics Dongfang College as an example, starts from the current teaching problems of translation courses in application-oriented colleges and universities. In order to clarify the teaching system, highlight the local characteristics, and find a way to adapt to the teaching objective of high-quality applied talents, this article establishes the teaching idea of “solid foundation, application-oriented and strong ability” and discusses the teaching reform of translation course by optimizing the teaching syllabus, teaching content, teaching mode, teaching method and evaluation system. The innovation of translation teaching reform mainly lies in the consistency, integration and effectiveness of the “Four-in-One” teaching mode which taking practical ability as the core, integrate the teaching objective, teaching content, teaching methods and teaching evaluation as a whole, so as to solve the existing problems of the translation course and follow the changes of social and economic development.

The Teaching Design of Comprehensive English for English Majors in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on "Production Oriented Method"

As the core basic course for English majors, Comprehensive English is faced with the difficulties of time consuming and effort with little effect, serious separation between learning and application, and poor English output of students. The Production-oriented Approach (POA) provides a theoretical basis for the reform of comprehensive English. According to the POA theoretical system of "motivate-enable-assess teaching process", this paper carries out teaching design and teaching practice for unit 3 "My First Job" in college Comprehensive English. The practice shows that the Production-oriented Approach has a positive effect on the separation of learning and application and the unsatisfactory output effect of the comprehensive English course.

Exploration and Practice of STEAM Teaching Model of Comprehensive English Integrating the Ideological and Political Concept

Comprehensive English is a comprehensive course for English majors to lay the foundation. While English is a language tool, which can be integrated into the learning of various subjects, and vice versa. STEAM teaching model can well satisfy the needs of comprehensive English teaching. It is the requirement and the development trend of higher education in China to integrate the concept of ideology and politics. Therefore, this paper will explore the teaching and practice of Comprehensive English from the aspects of theoretical basis, the status quo of the course and specific implementation plans, so as to improve the language skills and cultural breadth and depth of English majors, as well as improve students' ideological consciousness and patriotic feelings.

Application of Blended Teaching Mode in Comprehensive English Course

Comprehensive English is one of the fundamental courses for English majors and it aims at cultivating students’ basic English skills, and laying solid foundation for higher grades. However, the current teaching mode cannot fulfill the needs of the information era any longer due to its old teaching materials and traditional teaching methods. This paper tries to explore the blended teaching mode from three stages—pre-class, in-class and post-class based on the Internet+ background to stimulate students’ autonomous learning ability, improve their language competence and comprehensive attainment.

On the Reform of English Major Teaching Courses under the Background of Big Data

The rapid development of Internet technology makes our real life more and more dependent on big data technology. English is one of the most widely spoken and popular languages in the world. At present, the cultivation of English majors in China needs appropriate reform. Curriculum reform should be carried out against the background of big data, English teaching should be combined with the development of The Times, curriculum needs should be innovated, and teaching mode should be created to match the current economic development. Therefore, it is very important to explore the reform of English major courses under the background of big data. This paper firstly discusses the significance of the reform of the teaching mode of English majors under the background of big data, then discusses the influence of the reform on the teaching mode of English majors under the background of big data, and finally discusses the reform direction of the teaching mode of English majors under the background of big data.

Strategies for Improving the Effectiveness of English Translation Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges Based on Data Mining

At present, most vocational colleges have set up English majors accordingly, and translation is a compulsory course for English majors. Although some concrete measures have been taken to implement the teaching mode and method of translation teaching, there are still some problems in the practice of translation teaching. Higher vocational students have some misunderstandings in English translation, which requires teachers to improve teaching methods and promote students’ initiative to participate in teaching. How to change the position of translation teaching in higher vocational English teaching and improve the level of English translation teaching is a hot issue for all English teachers. Based on an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of English translation teaching in higher vocational colleges, this paper expounds in detail the strategies for improving the effectiveness of English translation teaching in higher vocational colleges based on data mining.

Comprehensive English Assessment System Based on Mobile APPs

Comprehensive English is a professional basic course for English majors, with the most class hours and the highest credits. It can be said to be the most important course in English majors. However, the procedural assessment in the previous comprehensive English assessment system, that is, the usual assessment, was largely determined based on the subjective impression of teachers. However, with the emergence of various English learning apps, students’ learning methods and content have changed a lot. With major changes, the previous assessment system has not been able to play its due role. Designing a reasonable comprehensive English assessment system based on mobile APP is the unshirkable responsibility of comprehensive English teachers. Carefully and reasonably designed comprehensive English assessment system can promote students to improve learning efficiency, reduce classroom lecture time, improve teaching effect, and play a vital role in cultivating qualified English professionals.

An Experimental Research on the Integration of Ideal and Belief Education into English Major Courses in Chinese UniversitiesAn Experimental Research on the Integration of Ideal and Belief Education into English Major Courses in Chinese Universities

The university phase is a critical period for the formation of students' outlook on life and career ideals, but some Chinese college students lack a correct understanding and motivation for learning, which needs to be improved. Through a teaching reform experiment to integrate ideal and belief education in the professional course in an academic year and 32 teaching weeks to 106 freshmen and 113 sophomores of English education majors. The result shows that compared with the control group who maintained the conventional teaching mode, the experimental group’s performance in the outlook on life, academic development plans, professional ideals, and their motivation to learn well are all significantly improved, and the final exam scores have increased by 13-15% on average. The experiment shows that the use of appropriate materials and methods to integrate ideal and belief education in the teaching of professional courses in college can effectively promote students to form a correct outlook on life and career planning, improve learning enthusiasm and professional course performance, and help serve the society to achieve their ideals in life.

Research on ESP Hybrid Teaching Innovation based on the Computer Information Technology

The rapid development of the educational information age has brought changes and challenges to the field of English education. The development of computer information technology has led to the reform of teaching methods. Under the guidance of constructivism theory, around the teaching concept of “teachers’ leading role and students as the main body, and the conductor combination”[1]. In this paper, based on English majors offered English course as an example, analyzed the computer information technology platform based on hybrid English teaching, in order to provide useful reference for the teaching reform of basic courses for English majors.

The Teaching Reform of English Major Translation Course based on the Analysis of Computer Big Data

At present, in the actual translation process, the English translation work is mostly carried out in the form of teamwork.In the future college English teaching, big data and its related concepts and technologies will become one of the main tools for teachers to find and discover teaching rules, summarize teaching experience and innovate teaching methods, especially in the current English translation courses involving international communication.This paper combines the computer big data technology with the emerging teaching methods such as flipped classroom, and attempts to reform the English translation course for English majors, so as to realize the goal of independent learning and improve the quality of English translation teaching.

Blended Learning Using Video Blogs in Teaching English as a Second Language— A Case Study of International Trade Practice Course

Blended learning starts late but develops rapidly in China owing to the advancement of information technology. In the last decade, researches on blended learning have drawn much attention in the field of interdisciplinary education and have become relatively mature. International Trade Practice Course, one of optional courses for English majors, features as systematization and practicality with the aim of cultivating cross-disciplined and multiple talents. Nevertheless, the practical requirements of the course are hard to fulfill due to the limitation and restriction of the traditional teaching method. The emergence and promotion of video blogs provide a new approach for blended learning that makes up for the deficiency of unitary teaching method. This paper intends to study the status quo and the effect of blended learning using video blogs in international trade practice course. By using the methods of questionnaire, field trip and interview, the author collected the effective data and information in order to offer some rational suggestions on blended learning in second language learning.

Exploration and Application of SPOC-based Belended Teaching Mode in Comprehensive English Course

As the new direction of education reform in the “Internet +” epoch, the SPOC-based blended teaching mode can enrich the teaching content and meet the learning needs. Based on the SPOC teaching concept, this paper studies the advantages of the blended teaching mode and explores its application in the teaching of Comprehensive English course for English majors. Through teaching practice, it is found that the SPOC-based blended teaching mode can improve students’ enthusiasm for learning English, enhance their learning interaction, and finally optimize the effectiveness of English teaching. In view of this, through the study of the blended teaching mode in English teaching practice, this paper aims to provide useful enlightenment for the future implementation of SPOC-based blended teaching mode.