A Study on Public English Course Books in Higher Vocational College—Taking 21st Century Practical College English as a Case
- DOI
- 10.2991/hss-26.2016.28How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Vocational education, English course book, Analysis, Evaluation.
- Abstract
21st Century Practical College English was a set of newly -published course book by Fudan University Press. It is now widely used by colleges. Under such a circumstance, the evaluation of college English course book is now increasing. The author intends to understand the current use of this set of course books and existing problems to discover the consistence, applicability, adaptability and flexibility of 21st Century Practical College English. The author firstly introduced the purpose of the research, then she made an internal evaluation of the course book adopted by her teaching college by the guidance of previous studies on evaluation at home and abroad. It also analyzed the current use of the course book by using the data collected from the teachers’, the students’ questionnaires and classroom observation. From the results of this study the author concluded that 21st Century Practical College English is a set of course books that generally meets the needs of college English curriculum requirements in our country. The structure and design of the course book can well meet the needs of both teachers and students. But it is not sufficient in cultivating overall skills and teaching methods.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chunyi Li PY - 2016/01 DA - 2016/01 TI - A Study on Public English Course Books in Higher Vocational College—Taking 21st Century Practical College English as a Case BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 179 EP - 184 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.28 DO - 10.2991/hss-26.2016.28 ID - Li2016/01 ER -