Abstract:

The teaching concept of ideological and political education in college English courses has been promoted for more than four years, yet there has been a lack of an effective teaching evaluation scale. Most of the existing scales are derived from the macroscopic educational fields of non - English disciplines, which are difficult to meet the teaching needs of ideological and political education in college English courses and fail to provide effective guidance. Therefore, the development of an applicable evaluation scale is urgently needed. Based on two important documents, namely “The Guiding Outline for the Construction of Ideological and Political Education in Institutions of Higher Learning” and “The College English Teaching Guide”, this study utilizes the emotional experience (perezhivanie) framework in sociocultural theory to construct a scale for the effectiveness of ideological and political education in English courses. In Sample 1 (N = 500), an exploratory factor analysis was used to form a scale with 33 items. In Sample 2 (N = 504), a confirmatory factor analysis was employed to verify the good fit of the four - factor structure, and confirm the internal consistency of the scale and the measurement consistency across genders. This study provides a scientific measure for the teaching reform of ideological and political education in college English courses and offers a valuable reference for subsequent research.

Key words: Sociocultural Theory, perezhivanie, teaching effectiveness of IPE, scale development