Thinking on the College English Curriculum (2004) and the Multimedia-Aided Teaching in College English

2011 ◽  
Vol 217-218 ◽  
pp. 1839-1843
Author(s):  
Wen Hui Wang ◽  
Xin Sheng Zou
Keyword(s):  
National Curriculum ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Top Down ◽  
College English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
School Based ◽  
Trial Implementation

College English Curriculum (2004) (CE Curriculum hereafter) is issued by China’s Ministry of Education. As a top-down document, it acts as a guide for colleges and universities nation-wide to formulate a school-based curriculum in the light of their specific circumstances. Compared with the previous counterparts, it is a more balanced and democratic national curriculum. Although the present curriculum is for trial implementation, the course rationale is sound and the curriculum is of greater flexibility.

scholarly journals Research on Existing Problems and Countermeasures in College English Translation Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Xiaohe Huang
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Weak Link ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
College English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
Opening Up

The “College English Curriculum Requirements” promulgated by the Ministry of Education of China has detailed regulations on the five aspects of English listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating for ordinary undergraduates. However, the foreign language translation ability of most college students in China is still the weak link in the English ability structure. With the further opening up of all walks of life in China, the role of English in daily life and work is becoming more and more important. This paper analyzes and summarizes the current situation and problems of college English translation teaching in China, and proposes corresponding improvement measures.

What Are the Experiences of College English Teaching in Heilongjiang Province, China?

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Zhang Baisu ◽  
Qiao Mengyi ◽  
Jin Xiaoling ◽  
Wang Lixin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
College English ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teaching Reform ◽  
Teaching Standards

Teaching reform is an important part of addressing teaching standards in China in order to ensure quality in faculty performance and implementation of student outcomes is delivered at the highest degree of excellence in colleges and universities throughout China. This chapter makes a comprehensive investigation in the field of English teaching in 20 colleges and universities in Heilongjiang Province. This chapter will focus on aspects of English teaching reform. The College English Test (CET) is a large-scale standardized test administered nationwide by the National College English Testing Committee on behalf of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in China. The chapter will describe the role CET 4 & 6, faculty, and scientific research played in the analysis of the findings. This chapter discusses progress in the field of teaching English, addresses challenges and makes appropriate recommendations.

scholarly journals The Anxiety of Educational Reform and Innovation: Bridging of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies within Practice Educational Reform of Curriculum in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beni Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Field Education ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
School Based ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Reform And Innovation ◽  
The Government

Reform and innovation are important issues in the educational field. Education is dynamic and changing depends on globalization demands. To counterbalance for these changes, there are two strategies to make education change. Top down and bottom up strategies. Top down and bottom up have advantages and disadvantages to the reform and innovation of educational. For instance, the advantage of top-down is the government have the power to make policy, do research about national curriculum and implement that policy in the education area, especially at school but for making policy, regulation, research and implement government have spent more money without significant result. In another hand, the benefit of bottom-up is the innovation of education easily to find and grow up because they have involved directly in the change in school, also understand what they need in education because the teachers and the principle have strong connection with the students and indirectly evaluate the national curriculum which is appropriate or not. Nevertheless, school community as the representative of bottom-up did not have the power to bring that innovation in the top level because there is no connecting purpose between government and school. In addition, the big effect is the top-down, bottom-up has the different points of view to look into education. Furthermore, to solve that problem, there are some approaches could be bond to both strategies such as the collaborative, negotiate, conceptual, and strategic clarification, school-based management and strong site councils. Based on several previous researchers that approach is the best option for bridging the educational purpose between top down and bottom up.

scholarly journals Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom: Its Contribution to the Development of Ethical Teacher Professionality through the Implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum

Paideusis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Leon Benadé
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
School Based

This paper takes lessons and directions from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom (1998) that both inform the theme of Dialogue and Difference and a particular conception of ethical teacher professionality. Freire’s vision of teachers and teaching challenges managerialist notions of teachers as dispassionate, data-driven objects of bureaucratic policy, aligned to a sanitised list of features that make up ‘the effective teacher’. This representation of teachers is unlikely to motivate or prepare teachers in the future to be critical thinking ethical professionals. An alternative conception of the teaching professional is required, and one is presented here which has strong links to Pedagogy of Freedom in particular, and critical pedagogy more generally. Expressed as ‘ethical teacher professionality’, this account suggests a broader approach to the role of teacher than provided by notions such as ‘satisfactory teacher dimensions’ or ‘characteristics of quality teaching’. The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) is a policy text whose understanding of teachers is informed by such notions. New Zealand schools engaged in a process of preparation in 2008 and 2009 for full implementation of this revised national curriculum in 2010. The scope of these revisions, expectations of teachers, and the requirement that this implementation be school-based (rather than centrally prescribed) mean that in essence this curriculum goes well beyond a mere revision. Further, as a product of early-21st century education reform which seemingly gives schools, teachers and communities greater flexibility, there are lessons that could be relevant internationally. As a fundamentally new approach to policy, implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum could significantly alter how teachers see and approach their work.

scholarly journals COLLEGE ENGLISH CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS IN CHINA: EXPECTATIONS AND RESPONSES

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Lianli Gao
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
College English ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Curriculum Changes ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Trial Implementation

The purpose of the research reported here was firstly to examine the expectations placed on university teachers of English in China in relation to curriculum changes as evidenced in the College English Curriculum Requirements (For Trial Implementation, 2004), designed for non-English majors (hereafter CECR 2004). It further reports on a study of responses to these changes on the part of teachers, administrators and policy-makers as revealed in interviews. The study adopts a mixed method of inquiry to deal with how teachers made sense of multiple realities and constructed complicated interactions between CECR and themselves. Additionally, some aspects of the work of Bourdieu and Bernstein are taken to analyse and interpret the issues. The findings show that CECR gives the impression of being forward-looking, making reference to contemporary English language teaching (ELT) concepts. This leaves a great deal of freedom for individual universities to flesh out the details and adapt the content to their own contexts. However, teachers feel either frustrated with the lack of real change in the syllabus or threatened by new challenges such as the emphasis on speaking and listening for which they believe they have not been adequately prepared. Key words: College English Curriculum Requirements, tertiary English teaching.

MOET’S THREE PILOT ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIONAL CURRICULA FOR SCHOOLS IN VIETNAM: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIO

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Van Van
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Assessment ◽  
Single Text ◽  
And Training ◽  
Trial Implementation

In this paper, Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam will be discussed. In doing so, we will organize the article into four main parts. Part 1 states the reason for the choice of the topic. Part 2 examines the rationale for the development of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam. Part 3 is the focus of the article. In this part, we will frst provide an overview of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Teaching, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and Threshold Level English – two important studies that have laid theoretical grounds for the development of the three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam. Then we will describe in some detail the design of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam and discuss their trial implementation, highlighting the achievements and the problems encountered during the implementation process. In the fnal section, after summarizing the contents discussed, we will recommend the integration of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam into a single text presumably called English Curriculum for Schools in Vietnam and propose some recommendations on what should be done to overcome the problems before putting the Curriculum into use throughout Vietnam.

scholarly journals MOET’S THREE PILOT ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIONAL CURRICULA FOR SCHOOLS IN VIETNAM: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoang Van Van
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Teaching Assessment ◽  
Single Text ◽  
And Training ◽  
Trial Implementation

In this paper, Ministry of Education and Training (MoET)’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam will be discussed. In doing so, we will organize the article into four main parts. Part 1 states the reason for the choice of the topic. Part 2 examines the rationale for the development of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam. Part 3 is the focus of the article. In this part, we will frst provide an overview of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Teaching, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and Threshold Level English – two important studies that have laid theoretical grounds for the development of the three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam. Then we will describe in some detail the design of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam and discuss their trial implementation, highlighting the achievements and the problems encountered during the implementation process. In the fnal section, after summarizing the contents discussed, we will recommend the integration of MoET’s three pilot English language communicational curricula for schools in Vietnam into a single text presumably called English Curriculum for Schools in Vietnam and propose some recommendations on what should be done to overcome the problems before putting the Curriculum into use throughout Vietnam.

Can-Do descriptors – Realigning English Language Curriculum at Higher Education Institution to CEFR

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
Erda Wati Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Language Curriculum ◽  
English Curriculum ◽  
The Common ◽  
The University

The Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR) has become the standard used to describe and evaluate students’ command of a second or foreign language. It is an internationally acknowledged standard language proficiency framework which many countries have adopted such as China, Thailand, Japan and Taiwan. Malaysia Ministry of Education is aware and realise the need for the current English language curriculum to be validated as to reach the international standard as prescribed by the CEFR. The implementation of CEFR has begun at primary and secondary level since 2017 and now higher education institutions are urged to align their English Language Curriculum to CEFR as part of preparation in receiving students who have been taught using CEFR-aligned curriculum at schools by year 2022. This critical reflection article elucidates the meticulous processes that we have embarked on in re-aligning our English Language Curriculum to the standard and requirements of CEFR. The paper concludes with a remark that the alignment of the English curriculum at the university needs full support from the management in ensuring that all the stakeholders are fully prepared, informed and familiar with the framework.

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