Reflections on the International General Examination Teaching in Chinese Universities
Taking IELTS Teaching as an Example
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.517How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- IELTS teaching, Chinese universitites, improvement, problem analysis
- Abstract
IELTS (International English language testing system) acts as an official and international exam that organized by the British Council. IELTS pays more attention to the examination of students’ practical English language ability, and initiates a comprehensive examination of English ability from listening, speaking, reading and writing, it provides a “benchmark” with great credibility and influence for the establishment of Global English assessment standards. The IELTS teaching is also introduce to Chinese university in order to satisfy the need of students who are major in the Chinese-foreign cooperation running programme. In this paper it will be argued that whether the teaching of IELTS in Chinese university is effective and scientific. In this passage, with the use of the experience of university teachers and the real teaching plan they made. The first part will introduce the widely use of IELTS, the second part will outline the key points on the weakness about IELTS teaching for Chinese university such as passing the exam become the only aim of teaching, focusing on teachers too much and the plan of teaching is not scientific, memorizing all vocabulary is without selecting and relying too much on the skills, the third part will provide with some methods about how to improve the teaching quality on the IELTS for Chinese university such as applying culture introduction to the teaching of IELTS, teachers need to make more scientific teaching plan and carefully analysis the marking criterion of IELTS, making fully use of the other part of material in the exam and students should pay more attention to practical exercise rather than some tricks. And the final part will conclude with a further view on the development of teaching quality in the IELTS for Chinese universities.
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TY - CONF AU - Jinhan Xu PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/16 TI - Reflections on the International General Examination Teaching in Chinese Universities BT - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 326 EP - 328 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.517 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.517 ID - Xu2020 ER -