Effective Teaching Techniques in Bilingual Courses in Chinese Higher Education -- Empirical Results based on Real Learning Outcomes
- DOI
- 10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.95How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- bilingual teaching, effective teaching techniques, higher education, China
- Abstract
for the past decade, China’s education system has put much effort in bilingual teaching in English. Most Chinese higher education institutions set up bilingual form in professional courses to improve students’ professional English skills. This paper discusses problems encountered in the implementation of bilingual courses, such as inefficiency in teaching and low acceptance among students. Through the understanding of students in the teaching practice, this paper finds that the problem is not caused by students' English skills, professional foundation or their learning habits, but by the mismatch of their English skills and professional knowledge reserves, leading to not being able to apply English in learning specialized courses, hence reducing learning interests. We conduct a series of methods on reforming bilingual teaching techniques based on actual experimental teaching and follow-up surveys, and find that use of targeted previews, English keywords, and online platform providing repeatable English micro lessons can largely improve students' learning interests and learning efficiency. This study explores the essential causes of problems in bilingual teaching and explores effective ways to improve teaching outcomes, filling the gap between theoretical and practical research.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yin Yu AU - Yawei Zhao PY - 2018/06 DA - 2018/06 TI - Effective Teaching Techniques in Bilingual Courses in Chinese Higher Education -- Empirical Results based on Real Learning Outcomes BT - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 413 EP - 416 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.95 DO - 10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.95 ID - Yu2018/06 ER -