Frontiers in Educational Research, 2024, 7(2); doi: 10.25236/FER.2024.070212.
Zhao Junqin
Institute of Foreign Language, Wuhan University of Bioegineering, Wuhan, China
New Liberal Arts, as a new form of liberal arts education, has fostered the optimized English teaching in colleges and universities. English teaching emphasizes culture more than language, so College English teaching aims to nurture students’ ability of telling good Chinese stories in English in the context of New Liberal Art construction. Integrating Chinese traditional culture into College English teaching is essential for this goal but there still exist some problems leading to poor integration. Via a questionnaire surveying 145 students, the actual problems are analysed from the perspectives of teachers and students, and 4 specific countermeasures are proposed including improving the teaching evaluation mechanism by increasing traditional culture content, enhancing cross-cultural communication ability by fostering English teachers’ cultural literacy, optimizing teaching methods to create teaching activities suitable for traditional culture into English teaching and tapping new traditional culture elements with specialty feature combined.
New Liberal Arts; traditional culture; college English teaching; problem analysis; countermeasures
Zhao Junqin. Problems and Countermeasures: The Integration of Traditional Culture into College English Teaching in the Context of New Liberal Arts. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 2: 76-80. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070212.
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