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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 289 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018) Reflection and Reconstruction of College English Teaching in the Context of College Transformation Taking Nanchang University Gongqing College as an Example Jun Chen Department of Foreign Language and Literature Nanchang University Gongqing College Gongqingcheng, China Abstract—Nowadays, it is required that the newly-built colleges and universities in China should transform into the II. CURRENT SITUATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH application-oriented ones for the training of applied talents. TEACHING IN NEWLY ESTABLISHED LOCAL UNIVERSITIES College English is an important compulsory course for the applied colleges to apply the undergraduate education for the A. The Status of Students purpose of cultivating students’ comprehensive skills and According to the investigation, the status of students has abilities. Based on this, the paper taking Gongqing College of the following features. First of all, some students have a Nanchang University as an example has first analyzed the sense of inferiority. Because of the failure of the college present situation of College English teaching objectives, curriculum and teaching staff, then put forward a new entrance examination, they think that they are inferior to application-type College English teaching system to optimize those good students and lose their confidence in learning. the cultivation of English applied talents in accordance with Secondly, some have poor knowledge in English. Although the development of applied colleges, the orientation of the students from the applied college have learned English in transformation and the training target as well. their middle school stage, there is still a clear gap with students from other colleges in vocabulary, grammar and Keywords—college transformation; college English teaching; reading. Thirdly, some lack interest in learning English. reflection and reconstruction Under the autonomic learning mode without teachers’ supervision, they do not take advantage of opportunities to I. INTRODUCTION develop interest in learning English but lack perseverance in learning. Fourthly, the development of students’ English For a long time, Chinese College English course, as an ability is not balanced. In order to adapt to the environment important compulsory course, plays a key role in developing of examination-oriented education and to pursue the students’ subsequent learning ability and their ability to use enrollment rate, schools pay more attention to English English in a comprehensive way. At present, the new local reading and writing in basic teaching and ignore the training colleges and universities are supposed to be transferred to of listening and speaking, which raises a trend to hinder applied undergraduate education. After the transformation, students’ full development. Finally, there are still a few the colleges and universities should change the orientation of students feeling comfortless towards transformation because development, guiding ideology, teaching philosophy and they misunderstand the applied college as the vocational cultivation methods. However, there are many problems in college. the applied universities and College English teaching. For example, the orientation is not clear, the teachers do not have B. The Status of Curriculum a high aptitude for the teaching, the teaching means is single, and the selection of teaching materials is unreasonable. Thus, College curriculum is generally divided into basic it is urgent to reform College English teaching in the applied courses and professional courses, but there is a lack of colleges and universities so as to realize the teaching goals of relevance between the two courses. According to the basic cultivating the high-quality and high-skilled talents. Taking requirements of the Ministry of Education, college teaching Gongqing College of Nanchang University as an example, should follow the unified requirements and the principles of this paper rethinks the present situation of College English classification guidance. However, it has been proven that teaching and explores the reconstruction of College English they are difficult to be effectively implemented in practical teaching system based on the transformation. teaching. Therefore, there are the following defects in the setting up of College English courses. First, the periods for College English teaching are short. According to the basic requirements, students should spend 180-220 basic school time on English learning. However, because of the short period of school system, many colleges allocate the time of Copyright © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 57 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 289 College English and professional English, which colleges are generally lower than those of teachers in undoubtedly cause students who have a weak English ordinary universities, resulting in greater mobility of teachers. foundation lack interest in English learning. Owing to the Likewise, most teachers in applied colleges and universities poor English knowledge, they have difficulties in have a low degree of education. Most of the first educational professional English courses, which wastes resources as well qualifications of teachers are bachelor’s or master’s degree. as their time. Second, College English teaching do not lay a There are few doctoral qualifications. From the title, most of good foundation for professional English teaching. Based on them are intermediate titles and few professional ones. the guidance of the Ministry of Education, applied colleges have set up professional English courses, but because the E. The Status of Teaching Methods time of opening is short, it is out of line with college English At present, most applied colleges still follow the courses and there is no transition from college English traditional “three centers” (i.e. teachers, textbooks, and courses to professional English courses, so that students cannot connect related knowledge and apply in practice. classroom) teaching mode, and teachers’ teaching methods are single. According to the survey, in a 45- C. The Status of the Selection of English Textbooks minute class, 65% of the teachers tend to spend more than 35 minutes on knowledge, while the rest of 35% are used The existing teaching materials in the transformational to spending about 30 minutes. It shows that teachers’ development institutions cannot meet the needs of practical teaching method is still an instillation way and the training objectives. With the continuous expansion of teaching focus is decided by teachers. The classroom students in China’s applied colleges and universities in activities are determined by the teachers’ preferences, but recent years, relevant English textbooks have gradually begun to rise. According to the latest related curriculum not the combination of students’ interest and the basic requirements issued by the Ministry of Education, the teaching task. Students’ English learning in the classroom publishing houses have stepped up the publishing of English still follows the model of “vocabulary — grammar textbooks for applied colleges and universities. Currently, analysis — text translation — practice — consolidation”. there are many kinds of publishing houses but their The original teaching method imprisoned the students’ textbooks focus on different teaching emphases. In most innovative ideas and made them lose their ability of self- colleges, they choose New Century English Learning to study. Apart from that, teachers spend too much attention Speak: An English Video Course and New Century College and time on the teaching of basic English knowledge English Zooming in: An Integrated English Course from rather than training for English culture and oral Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press as basic pronunciation in the class, which cause students’ poor textbooks. But in terms of professional teaching materials, participation and make their subjective initiative greatly colleges select textbooks according to their own restricted. development needs. However, it needs to be pointed out that the lack of distinctive and pertinent school-based and F. The Status of Teaching Evaluation planning textbooks will lead to English teaching not to It is common to see that nowadays, most of the applied effectively guide students to develop and specialize in colleges take the examination as the means of evaluation, international English learning. Besides, in the fierce and some colleges and universities lower the evaluation competition with ordinary universities, applied colleges requirements for students on the basis of the lack of teaching would lose their own advantages, which is not suitable for conditions and the weak foundation of the students. Some the future survival and development. students reflect that colleges should set up College English courses as compulsory ones while professional English D. The Status of Faculty courses are divided into professional basic courses, The “double-qualified” teachers in applied colleges are professional optional courses, professional direction courses insufficient. The level of teachers is the key to the quality of and basic subject courses according to different specialties. teaching. Because of the rapid

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