Educational Reform of College English Course on the Background of ESP

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Liu, Huili
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	With the development of economic globalization, English as an important tool of communication application is more and more widely. The traditional college English teaching could not meet the needs of multi-level, many colleges and universities through the ESP courses to train complex talents. This paper researches on the problems existing in the current college English teaching. First, the ESP professional competence; Secondly, analysis the necessity of ESP teaching; Then, the ESP teaching curriculum design; Finally, the Suggestions of teaching reform, specific include: comprehensive reform, perfecting the assessment mechanism, attaches great importance to the teaching material write, enrich the teaching methods and means, etc. Practical application of this article research results, combined with the characteristics of the school and students, teaching reform in order to make more productive. Introduction From the point of currently teaching English in China, taking (English for General Purposes) and ESP (English for Specific Purpose) as the two mainstream of English teaching and research. Taking a refers to the basic knowledge of English, a professor at the school, emphasize the students understand the basic English language structures, vocabulary and grammar, to cultivate students in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation of the five basic skills, is needed for daily life language. In taking a teaching method of training, the students can communicate, deal with ordinary language proficiency test [1].From the high school English teaching in China are belong to the category of common use English teaching, teaching mode of taking out the whole process of basic education. The current college English teaching is also belongs to taking mode. ESP is relative to the taking of a kind of teaching mode, based on the theory of functional view of language, according to the needs of the learner's particular purpose and specific courses in English. ESP focus on how to efficiently combine language use and language learning, is a continuation of the basic English teaching or extension, is the development of the students' language knowledge and skills to a certain stage, in view of the students' actual needs, to further develop the students' language ability is an important teaching content, a taking teaching have a clear purpose and targeted. EGP and ESP is two kinds of English language teaching mode, the actual refers to the two different stages of learning English, in the process of public English teaching is a continuum. Taking cultivating the students' language ability, GSP pays attention to cultivate students "communicative competence"; Taking emphasize foundation, ESP application is emphasized. Taking a major to cultivate the students' basic English skills, ESP mainly trains the student to use English in a professional work environment of communication skills. The teaching goal is different, both in the setting of curriculum content, teaching means and so on also has a qualitative difference. Professional Competence Structure of ESP Professional ability generally refers to the specialized knowledge, professional skills and special ability is directly related to professional ability, the basis of is to conduct the basic conditions of professional activities. As a contemporary college students, in addition to basic ability, must also has professional ability and professional foreign language ability. This is the point of winning 2nd International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2016) © 2016. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 883 performance improvement, without this support, career, there is no development potential. Professional ability is reflected in daily work, such as management, concerning foreign affairs or business activities. Both have the basic quality and basic ability to support, need professional knowledge and ability to accumulate more. ESP professional competence is shown in Fig.1. Necessity of ESP Teaching College English teaching is an integral part of higher education, college English course is a required basic course of college students. College English is a foreign language teaching theory as the guide to English language knowledge and application skills, cross-cultural communication and learning strategy as the main content, and collect a variety of teaching mode and teaching means for the integration of teaching system. The teaching aim of college English is to cultivate the students' English comprehensive application ability, especially listening and speaking skills, to make them in the future study, work and social activities can communicate effectively in English, at the same time to improve their ability of autonomous learning, improve the comprehensive cultural quality, to meet the need of social development in our country and international communication. The necessity of ESP teaching in college English is as follows: (1) The ESP teaching is an objective demand to improve the language application ability. One of the functions of language is communication of daily life as the carrier of human civilization and knowledge. Language is the access to information, learning and mastering foreign advanced science and technology is the most direct and fast bridge and approach. Basic English teaching is an important stage in college English teaching, cannot achieve the purpose of their major, the ultimate Pr of es si on al c om pe te nc e Listening skills of professional English Conversational skills of professional English Understand the professional English general session Command of English listening Understand simpler professional materials Can perform simple English conversation Reading skills of professional English Form a higher reading logical thinking Absorb more professional background knowledge Fig. 1. Professional competence structure of ESP Master professional English conversational skills Have access to and request such as communication skills The basic theory of bilingual translation Master professional English translation skills Translation skills of professional English Master the ability to obtain information from the network Master professional English translation Writing skills of professional English All the literature materials ability Organize the material and the formation of a text Close reading, skimming and consult Collection of literature material ability According to the material to determine the subject ability Master professional English long sentence translation The ability to use professional symbols accurately Have professional organizations written ability
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