In the context of promoting common prosperity and building a Chinese path to modernization, employers generally require college graduates to have a certain level of English language proficiency. However, the satisfaction with the professional competence and English ability of the college graduate applicants is not high. From the perspective of Economics of Language, the cost and benefit ratio of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching, as an economic input to human capital, is far from ideal: human capital has not been well formed, and teaching results have not well served the needs of social and economic development. Therefore, this paper explores the path of serving common prosperity of ESP teaching in local colleges based on empirical research methods. It is proposed that on the basis of cultivating compound and practical capabilities as ESP teaching goal in local colleges, the teaching design of ESP should be guided by the idea of common prosperity and the ESP teaching in local colleges should publicize common prosperity so as to maximize the economic and social benefits of ESP teaching in local colleges as well as forming human capital. It is expected that this study will provide some reference for the ESP teaching in local colleges to provide educational support for achieving common prosperity.

Wei Yue. Exploration of the Path for Local College ESP Teaching to Empower Common Prosperity. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 25: 26-34. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2023.052506.

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