Albeit its impressive achievements so far, China's contemporary large-scale reform on the teaching of college English is suffering from a serious bottleneck that seems to have crippled all reform efforts: English is being taken as the end rather than a means of subject studies. After a detailed research into contemporary college English textbooks, this project team realizes the content-based Immersion Teaching Theory in the course of American Civilization, and thereby constructs a Dynamic Teaching Mode by catering to the students' interest with proper materials and mobilizing the concerted efforts of both teachers and students with a repertoire of pedagogical programs. The DTM finally boils down to a feasible and applicable teaching format that is most likely to revolutionize present practices of college English pedagogy.
WEI Xiaofei, WANG Shiqi, LU Xiaoping
. The Bottleneck of China's Reform in the Teaching of College English: With an Empirical Research in the Course of American Civilization[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2014
, 14(07)
: 40
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DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2014.07.008
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