Vocational English Course Research Articles

Research on the Design and Teaching Model of Vocational English Courses Based on Ideological and Political Perspectives

In the context of globalization and informatization, the mere cultivation of language skills no longer meets the comprehensive quality requirements of society for vocational graduates. Integrating ideological and political education into vocational English courses helps to enhance students' ideological and political literacy and cultural identity. This study explores the design and teaching model of vocational English courses based on ideological and political perspectives. By analyzing the connotations and goals of ideological and political education, it discusses its points of convergence with vocational English courses and proposes specific course designs and teaching models. The results show that integrating ideological and political education not only improves students' English application abilities but also enhances their ideological and political literacy and cultural identity, providing strong support for the reform and innovation of vocational education.

Exploring the Feasibility and Educational Suggestions for Integrating OBE Educational Concepts into Higher Vocational English Courses

In response to the English curriculum standards of higher vocational colleges in both society and the nation, this study explores the feasibility of applying Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concepts into higher vocational English courses. A teaching experiment was conducted with 161 students selected from 4 parallel classes at a public higher vocational college in Guangdong Province. The intervention involved teachers in the experimental class utilizing the "Design Plan for the Application of OBE Educational Concepts in Hotel English Courses" provided by the researchers, while the control class proceeded with regular teaching methods. Following an 8-week intervention period, it was found that students in the experimental class demonstrated significantly higher academic performance compared to those in the control class, indicating the positive impact of integrating OBE educational concepts into higher vocational English courses. At the same time, researchers randomly selected 8 students for semi-structured interviews. The results of the interviews revealed that students in the experimental class responded positively and demonstrated recognition and acceptance of the OBE teaching method. Conclusion: The application of the OBE educational concept in higher vocational English courses is deemed feasible. As a result, the researchers have provided educational recommendations for English teachers in higher vocational schools, aiming to foster innovation and enhance educational quality in the field.

Study on the Ideological and Political Smart Teaching Model for Higher Vocational English Curriculum Based on the Production-Oriented Approach

With the comprehensive promotion of ideological and political education in college curricula, the reform of ideological and political education in higher vocational English curricula has also been fully implemented. To explore the integration of ideological and political education with English teaching based on the production-oriented approach (POA) theory, the paper proposes an innovative smart teaching model of integrated learning and application based on language context under the theory of ideological and political education in the curriculum, guiding students to engage in production-oriented language learning and achieving good learning outcomes. Based on this, the paper analyzes and studies the ideological and political smart teaching model of vocational English courses based on POA, and takes the comprehensive English course in Chongzuo Preschool Education College as an example to explore in depth for reference.

Strategies and Recommendations to Enhance Online English Teaching Quality in Higher Vocational Colleges

The rapid growth of the Internet has propelled online teaching into a prominent position in higher education, including vocational English courses. Despite its widespread adoption, online teaching faces significant challenges compared to traditional classroom methods. This study delves into the current landscape of online teaching in vocational English courses, identifying key issues such as the lack of targeted course content, insufficient teaching resources, and low student participation. Drawing on a literature review and utilizing both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including questionnaire surveys and field observations, this study offers insights into the complexities of online teaching. Findings highlight the importance of improving teacher's technical abilities, fostering active student engagement, optimizing teaching resources and modes, and strengthening online teaching supervision. These strategies are pivotal in enhancing the quality of online teaching and paving the way for further advancements in vocational English education. Future research avenues include exploring innovative teaching models and leveraging emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality to enrich the online teaching experience.

Research on Strategies for Improving the Quality of English Blended Teaching in Vocational Colleges through Network Informatization Resources

<p>The blended teaching mode of “online+offline” has gradually become a widely used teaching mode due to its flexible teaching form and rich and vivid course resources. In the blended teaching mode, this article mainly focuses on how to improve the teaching quality of vocational English courses. Firstly, an analysis was conducted on the learning situation of English courses among vocational college students, including their source structure, learning characteristics, and current development status of English courses. In order to facilitate a structured analysis of students’ learning ability in English courses, a learning ability analysis model for vocational college students was constructed, and a survey questionnaire was designed to analyze their learning behavior and data. Finally, through data analysis, it was found how to use network information resources to improve the quality of English blended learning courses.</p> <p> </p>

A Study on Evaluating the Effectiveness of Higher Vocational English Curriculum Reform and Teaching Suggestions Based on Data Analysis

Abstract College English is the public foundation of vocational schools and colleges and an important course to cultivate students’ English oral communication ability. The study reforms the higher vocational English course under EGP+ESP, and on the basis of designing the index system of the reform effect of the English course, the game theory method is utilized to combine the BWM subjective empowerment method and the improved CRITIC method to calculate the comprehensive weights of the indexes. Taking higher vocational institution A as an example, the cloud model theory of data analysis is introduced into the evaluation. Then, the evaluation grade of the reform effect is calculated. The regression analysis model is used to further explore the degree of influence of factors on the reform effect of the higher vocational English course, and to explore the relevant teaching suggestions. The reform effect of the English curriculum in higher vocational college A is between “medium-high effect” and “high effect”, closer to “medium-high effect”, and the index scores are between (78, 94) and (80). The index scores are between (78 and 94). And the effect of reforming higher vocational English course (Z) = 0.155*course objective + 0.253*course content + 0.441*course implementation. College English teaching should be used to improve students’ English application and oral expression abilities and to strengthen students’ competitiveness in employment from the perspective of language communication.

Research on the Path Construction and Practice of Bidirectional Cultural Mutual Guidance in Higher Vocational English Course Civics Teaching under the Background of Big Data

Abstract This study delves into the effective integration of bi-directional cultural intercultural instruction with Civic and Political teaching in a higher vocational English course and analyzes it with an association rule mining algorithm. By screening the weighted candidate itemsets through the weighted support degree model, the study identifies the itemsets’ positive and negative correlation attributes and mines the association rules between English teaching and students’ bidirectional cultural interduction ability by combining with the decision support model. The article also analyzes the content of Civics and Chinese and foreign cultural elements in the English curriculum. It compares and examines the changes in students’ two-way cultural core literacy and its introduction effect. The results of the study show that after the bi-directional cultural Civics teaching in the English curriculum, students experienced significant changes in worldview, values and Chinese and foreign cultural cognition, with t-values of −4.312, −5.034, and −4.275, respectively, and p-values of less than 0.001. In addition, the students’ bi-directional cultural communication competence improved significantly, with scores ranging from 3.8 to 4.3. The study provides valuable insights into the promotion of Chinese-foreign cultural communication and the reform of higher vocational English teaching.

Research on the Current Situations and Feasible Paths of Ideological and Political Education in Higher Vocational English Courses—Taking Sichuan Vocational College of Culture and Communication as an Example

Research on the Current Situations and Feasible Paths of Ideological and Political Education in Higher Vocational English Courses—Taking Sichuan Vocational College of Culture and Communication as an Example

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Civic Teaching in Higher Vocational English Courses under the Great Civic Teaching Landscape

Abstract As a general course of humanistic education, English for higher vocational education aims to cultivate English professionals with correct ideals and exemplary professionalism. This study focuses on the impact of teaching Civics and Politics in higher vocational English courses. After completing the construction of the English course’s Civics and Politics teaching model, the improved K-prototypes algorithm is utilized to establish a teaching effect assessment model to explore the English teaching effect of the sample higher vocational colleges and universities. Then, through the Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (FsQCA) method, we explore the combination of factors that affect the teaching of Civics and Politics in English courses to improve its teaching effectiveness. The results show that the effect of teaching Civics and Politics in English courses can be categorized into three categories, from good to bad, which are roughly 40%, 30%, and 20% respectively. The rating of “good” and above accounted for about 68%, and the overall teaching effectiveness of the sample was good. The study obtained two grouping paths to enhance and reduce the effectiveness of Civics teaching in English courses, in which the influence of the means of Civics integration and the breadth and depth of Civics content presented in the teaching process is more pronounced. This study can guide improving the quality of teaching Civics and Politics in higher vocational English courses.

Practical Research on Flipped Classroom Teaching Model in College English Based on Production-Oriented Approach

In the context of integrating technology into higher education and the widespread acceptance of a learning-centered philosophy, flipped learning (FL) is gaining popularity as a flexible new approach. To overcome the problem of input-output separation in the traditional text-centered teaching and learning paradigm in tertiary education in China, a flipped classroom teaching model based on the theory of the Production Oriented Approach (POA) was proposed and implemented for a vocational English course. Mixed research methods, including testing, questionnaire surveys, and interviews, were used to validate the effect of the model. Data analysis shows a notable enhancement in the mastery of new target language items among the experimental class that adopted the flipped classroom teaching model based on the POA. Moreover, this practice also has changed their learning behaviors both in and after class, increasing their time investment in learning and improving their performance and engagement in class, thus enhancing their autonomy in language learning. This study empirically supports the flipped classroom teaching model based on the POA. It aids in transforming traditional input-driven teaching into output-driven teaching and serves as a teaching reference for practitioner teachers.

Optimization Analysis of the Path of Ideological and Political Construction in Higher Vocational English Courses Based on Intelligent Data Analysis

Abstract Incorporating the elements of curriculum Ideological and Politics in English teaching is an important way to enhance the effect of nurturing, and this paper explores its integration. In the paper, the intelligent data mining process for the construction of higher vocational English curriculum Ideological and Politics is constructed, and the related data are integrated based on the rough set method to explore the set relationship between the construction of intelligent data. In addition, combined with the PSO algorithm, the PSOBR algorithm is constructed on the basis of the PSORSFS algorithm of PSO’s rough set feature selection for the optimization of the path of construction of the English curriculum Ideological Politics. On this basis, relevant data on English majors in higher vocational colleges and universities were collected to carry out empirical research on the path of Ideological and Political construction of English courses in higher vocational colleges and universities. The results show that the main distribution of GPA of the three groups of students based on rough set classification is (0.60,0.80), (0.36,0.50), (0.24,0.44), respectively, and the distribution of the construction of higher vocational English courses is not balanced. The average construction effect after optimization has been improved by 0.30, and the highest construction effect has been improved by 0.42, which makes the optimization effect obvious. The optimization effect of the path of English course ideological and political construction through the formation of a professional teaching team, enrichment of teaching methods, and other means is obvious.

Influential Factors on the Enhancement of Comprehensive Vocational Competence in Higher Vocational English Courses by Applying Statistical Analysis Methods

Abstract In this paper, we first constructed a model for analyzing the factors influencing the vocational competence of higher vocational English using the logistic regression model and optimized the model by maximizing the likelihood function and minimizing the loss function in order to obtain the best model. Then, the model’s performance was evaluated, the binomial categorical logistic regression parameters were calculated, and the dominance ratio of each influential variable was analyzed using the model. Then, based on the model, the degree of influence of each influential factor on comprehensive vocational competence in English courses was explored, and the correlation between subjective and objective factors and English vocational competence was analyzed. The study shows that the water of significance of each factor on vocational competence is in the range of 5%-10%, and the p-value of each influencing factor in the independent t-test is less than 0.05, which indicates that the different influencing factors have a positive influence on vocational competence. This study provides a scientific basis for higher vocational English education and is of great significance for the reform and innovation of higher vocational English education.

Research on the ideological and political implementation path of higher vocational English course from the perspective of cultivating people with virtue

Cultivating people with virtue as the basis for the implementation of education, the ideological and political thinking of the curriculum can promote the good integration of moral cultivation and educational methods, and escort the innovation of higher vocational English course teaching. In the context of the era of cultivating people with virtue, in the face of problems in the teaching of higher vocational English course, it is necessary to promote the organic combination of ideology and politics and English knowledge, give full play to the educational effect of English courses, and develop the core literacy of English. In this context, this paper analyzes the current situation of ideological and political development of higher vocational English course from the connotation of curriculum ideology and politics, and puts forward the implementation path of ideological and political implementation of higher vocational English course in the environment of cultivating people with virtue.

Research on the Ideological and Political Teaching Mode of Secondary Vocational English Curriculum from the Perspective of Multi-Modality

The curriculum ideological and political is to combine ideological and political with the major, so that the professional ideological and political go hand in hand, better cultivate outstanding talents with both ability and political integrity, and achieve the talent training goal of the vocational and technical college. The teaching of secondary vocational English ideological and political courses from the perspective of multi-modal perspective is to use a variety of methods to create a variety of situations according to the teaching requirements and teaching content, and realize the all-round development of students in various forms of interaction, to improve the effectiveness of English ideological and political education and teaching. Based on this, this paper explores the ideological and political teaching mode of secondary vocational English courses from the perspective of multi-modality.

He Study of Meta-cognitive Strategy Training Based on Higher Vocational English Newspaper Learning under the Digital Context

This paper explores students’ attitudes towards meta-cognitive strategy and its teaching effectiveness through training of meta-cognitive strategy for freshmen in higher vocational English course. The study shows that it is feasible to incorporate meta-cognitive strategy training into English newspaper teaching in current digital context, which can help improve students' awareness of self-study.

He Study of Meta-cognitive Strategy Training Based on Higher Vocational English Newspaper Learning under the Digital Context

This paper explores students’ attitudes towards meta-cognitive strategy and its teaching effectiveness through training of meta-cognitive strategy for freshmen in higher vocational English course. The study shows that it is feasible to incorporate meta-cognitive strategy training into English newspaper teaching in current digital context, which can help improve students' awareness of self-study.

Needs Analysis in Curriculum Design: Language Needs of Tourism Students

In this study, the main aim was to reveal English language needs of tourism students for their future profession. Regarding the obtained needs from students, graduates, content experts and employers in tourism sector, goals and objectives of Vocational English Course were set. The data were collected through needs analysis questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. 70 students in the school where the researcher works, 112 graduates of Tourism and Hotel Management program, 9 content experts and 51 employers working in tourism sector answered the questionnaire. 8 students, 11 graduates, 2 content experts and 5 employers took part in semi-structured interviews voluntarily. After the questionnaire was administered to four groups of participants, the obtained data were analyzed through SPSS 20. On the other hand, while analyzing the qualitative data, the recordings were transcribed for the analysis of data by the researcher. Then, a list of codes developed by Wen (2010) was drawn on for coding. The results indicated that 4 language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) were important for tourism students, but particularly listening and speaking language skills for their future profession were emphasized.

Teaching Reform and Practice of Higher Vocational English Course under the New Situation

With the continuous development of society, people’s living standards gradually improve. In this new situation, higher requirements are put forward for the English level of higher vocational students. We need to change the traditional teaching mode and the teacher centered teaching mode. In the new situation of higher vocational English teaching, students and teachers are required to take the initiative to cooperate, and teachers, as the guide of teaching, students as the practitioners of learning, the two roles should be integrated, so as to make higher vocational English teaching more efficient under the new situation. This paper first analyzes the necessity of higher vocational English teaching reform, analyzes the current situation of teaching, and finally discusses the teaching reform and practice.

How to Improve Higher Vocational English Teaching Mode under the Condition of Rapid Update of Modern Technology

Nowadays, in the higher vocational English courses promulgated by the Ministry of Education, students are required to master certain basic knowledge and skills of English. This article begins with an in-depth analysis of English teaching in higher vocational colleges and finds that higher vocational English teaching has made a lot of achievements in recent years. This is reflected in the development of clear teaching guidance documents and the publication of series suitable for higher vocational education. English textbooks, and some new teaching models are being explored. However, in general, there are still many unresolved problems and challenges in higher vocational English teaching, which are mainly manifested in: the implementation of the guiding documents is not in place, the transformation of teachers’ educational and teaching concepts is relatively lagging, and the modernization of teaching models is not high. These problems have affected the effect of higher vocational English teaching, and seriously affected the English training of higher vocational students.

Practice and Reflection on Teaching Civics in Higher Vocational English Courses

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