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Reflections on the Talent Development Program of “Foreign Language Plus”: Why? What? How? How Good?
FAN Li
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.08.001
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
The program of “Foreign Language Plus” aims to offer some non-foreign-language courses, which guide us to the knowledge system about other disciplines, to foreign language students to widen their horizon and enhance their competitiveness. The study first reviews the previous studies on the “Foreign-Language-Plus” Talent Development Program of foreign language majors. Then based on the results of a survey conducted among 235 teachers and 352 students of foreign language majors in China’s universities, it discusses these questions: Why is “plus”? What is “plus”? How can “plus” be achieved? How can the effect of “plus” be evaluated? Then, it demonstrates the main topics that related research and practical work need to focus on in the future: choice of integrated disciplines, setting of integrated curriculum, teachers’ professional training, students’ quality, evaluation of efficiency, utilization of teaching resources, and exploration of high-tech-aided instruction. Finally, it is proposed that the “Foreign Language Plus” program is one of the workable solutions to the problems foreign language majors are confronted with.
Foreign-Language-Plus, teaching of foreign languages, teaching reform, talent development
US-China Foreign Language, August 2021, Vol. 19, No. 8, 193-207 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.08.001
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