International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2024, 6(5); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060506.
Zhao Junqin
Institute of Foreign Language, Wuhan University of Bioengineering, Wuhan, China
Comprehensive English is the main course of Business English major in higher vocational and technical schools, targeting at cultivating students’ interest in learning Business English, improving their international business literacy, and helping them grasp the basic business knowledge. The ultimate goal is to develop students qualified for the international business exchange and communication. Stimulating student’s interest in business knowledge is absolutely the first step to realize these purposes. Lead-in is, generally speaking, the key to arouse students’ interest, so how to produce desirable effect of lead-in activities has become a difficult teaching point and even a vital research target. A questionnaire is conducted to identity the problems in the lead-in of this course, and based on the analysis of three major elements including the textbooks, teachers, the principles are explored to improving the lead-in effect.
Comprehensive English; lead-in; teaching principles
Zhao Junqin. Principles of Improving the Effect of Lead-in in Comprehensive English. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 5: 34-38. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060506.
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