A Study of the Effects of the Content-Based Instruction for English Majors in the Chinese Context
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Chang Junyue
Abstract
This study focused on the effects of the Content-Based Instruction (CBI) for English majors in the Chinese context. A quasi-experiment was conducted in an English teaching institution with tests as data collection instruments. The quantitative study indicates that CBI brings better outcome than Skill-Oriented Instruction (SOI) in developing language knowledge, language skills and disciplinary knowledge, achieving the general objectives of the national curriculum more effectively than the conventional SOI. The findings throw a positive light on the reform of the national curriculum for English as a specialty and the education of English majors in China.
本项研究依托教学改革的准实验研究，运用了测试采集研究数据，重点关注了中国高笹院校英语专业基础阶段内容依托教学改革的实践效果｡实验研究表明，和以语言技能为导向的教学相比，内容依托教学在语言知识教学､语言技能发展和学科知识的传授方面取得了更好的效果，更好地实现了国家大纲规定的总体教学目标｡这项研究结果对我国英语专业教学大纲的改革及英语专业教育的发展具有重要的启示意义｡
© 2011 Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Co. Ltd., Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston and Cultural and Education Section British Embassy
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- Message from the Guest Editor
- Developing Chinese Undergraduate English-Majors' Research Article Writing Competence
- A Study of the Effects of the Content-Based Instruction for English Majors in the Chinese Context
- A New Model in English Language Teaching in China: The Case of Shantou University
- Promoting Student Participation in Seminar Courses: A Case Study
- The Concept of “Object” in Activity Theory and Its Application in Classroom Research: A Case Study of a Phonetics Course
- Scaffolding in Teacher-Student Interaction: A Case Study in Two Oral English Classes in China
- Classroom Research in a Chinese Context: A Review
- The Relative Significance of Vocabulary Breadth and Syntactic Knowledge in the Prediction of Reading Comprehension Test Performance
- Chinese Abstracts
Articles in the same Issue
- Message from the Guest Editor
- Developing Chinese Undergraduate English-Majors' Research Article Writing Competence
- A Study of the Effects of the Content-Based Instruction for English Majors in the Chinese Context
- A New Model in English Language Teaching in China: The Case of Shantou University
- Promoting Student Participation in Seminar Courses: A Case Study
- The Concept of “Object” in Activity Theory and Its Application in Classroom Research: A Case Study of a Phonetics Course
- Scaffolding in Teacher-Student Interaction: A Case Study in Two Oral English Classes in China
- Classroom Research in a Chinese Context: A Review
- The Relative Significance of Vocabulary Breadth and Syntactic Knowledge in the Prediction of Reading Comprehension Test Performance
- Chinese Abstracts
