Professional Content-Based Graduate English Course Reform in China

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10.2991/assehr.k.210120.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

general English, academic English, content-based, course reform

Abstract

Graduate English, as a general language course, has been unable to meet the academic and professional needs of graduate students in China. A survey on the status quo of postgraduate English courses is made in a Chinese University, which has disclosed a number of problems, including unclear target orientation, homogeneous curriculum setting, insufficient teacher input and weak intrinsic motivation. A course reform plan which is demand-oriented, professional content-based, and targeted at improving the learners’ academic and professional communication ability is proposed to get a win-win situation for both teachers and graduate students.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shuzhen Jiang
AU  - Yufan Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/20
TI  - Professional Content-Based Graduate English Course Reform in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 166
EP  - 170
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210120.032
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210120.032
ID  - Jiang2021
ER  -