A Brief Analysis of The College English Teaching in Privately Owned Colleges For Postgraduates Upon The Demand Analysis
A Brief Analysis of The College English Teaching in Privately Owned Colleges For Postgraduates Upon The Demand Analysis
A Brief Analysis of The College English Teaching in Privately Owned Colleges For Postgraduates Upon The Demand Analysis
2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
Shanshan Jia
City College of Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Whuhan, Hubei, P.R.C 430000
Key words: the postgraduate cultivation (PC) in POCs and ICs; experimental teaching; demand
analysis
Abstract: In the year 2011, China Administration issued The Cultivation Program of Talents of
Special Requirements in which 5 privately owned colleges and universities are approved to recruit
postgraduates. Since then, many independent colleges (ICs) and privately owned colleges (POCs)
began to apply for the authority of postgraduate recruitment due to its importance in cultivating
advanced applied technique oriented talent professionals (ATOP) which is of great significance for
the development of POCs in its futher establishment of fist educational products. Although the
appliance of postgraduate recruitment means more opportunities for the development of POCs and
ICs, it confronts those institutes of higher education with more problems worth wide attention.
Therefore, the current situations including challenges and opportunities for ICs and POCs in their
advanced ATOP cultivation were elaborated in this paper, based upon which the significance and
demands of College English Teaching (CET) for postgraduates in POCs and ICs were analyzed in
detail. Further, the current CET in A College taken as the case, an experimental teaching procedure
was designed for the cultivation of professional masters. Supported by the results of contrastive
testing between experimental group and control group and the data collected from the questionnaire
during the experimental teaching , the experimental teaching should be verified in the hope that it
may provide reference for the operation of postgraduate education in ICs and POCs, so as to pave
the way for their establishment of educational brand in cultivating advanced ATOP.
City University in 2015 was 280, that in Xijing University is 60, 100 in Jilin HuaQiao University of
Foreign Languages, and 60 in Hebei Institute of Communications.
C. The number of candidates for postgraduate education has been on an increase. Since the
establishment of PC in ICs and POCs, due to the limit of specialization recognition of candidates
for ICs and POCs, the candidates recruited comes at a large extent from adjustment, which is a
booming for the scale but a negative impact on the quality of recruitment. However, with the time
passing, the PC in ICs and POCs has been gradually accepted by candidates inside China. This is
reflected in the net recruitment in some regional ICs and POCs such as Beijing City University and
Xijing University in 2015, both of which didn't accept adjusted candidates and the recruitment in
some colleges was very competitive, 19.7:1, which is over 7 times more than that of the national
average, 2.7:1.
1.2 The bottleneck for the PC in ICs nd POCs
Although the scale and number of authorized centers for professional PC and recruitment is on a
booming thanks to the administrative support from the government and investors of ICs and POCs,
lots of problems are still left unsolved which have become the bottleneck for the development of PC
in ICs and POCs.
A. The source of students: Although with the development of PC in ICs and POCs, various
preferential policies aiming at attracting candidates have come into being, ICs and POCs are
difficult to be accepted by the general candidates in China. For instance, before 2015, East
University of Heilongjiang, Ji lin Hua Qiao University, and Hebei Institute of Communication took
pains to satisfy their recruitment via adjustment. Before 2014, Xijing University also had the same
difficulty. The source of recruitment concerns much about the survival and development of ICs
and POCs. The property of severe shortage of candidates is actually the low recognition in China
among the candidates. However, seen from the development of Beijing City University and
Xijing University, the geological advantages and assistance and aid policies are conductive to the
attraction of candidates,, which is in the short term a relieving strategy, but not sustainable for the
development of advanced higher education catering in ICs and POCs. Therefore, it is urgent that a
brandish educational programme for the establishment of distinguished reputation for those ICs and
POCs in PC shall be of great significance, for their sustainable development.
B. The instability of candidates For the preparation of the study in this paper, in the hope of
investigating the current statues of candidates in ICs and POCs, 60 postgraduate students from A
College were interviewed, with the data collected in the table below:
Table 1. The questionnaire for the satisfaction of students in A College
The motivation Willing/Unwilling Degree of recognition
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students is to equip them with sturdy theoretical basis and certain practical skills, techniques and
working experience so as to make them the advanced talents for professional fields. To be brief,
those who are cultivated to be the professional graduates are supposed to be qualified with practical
working positions where large amounts of working experience and certain theoretical knowledges
are required. Currently, seen from the distribution of supervisors in ICs and POCs inside China,
most of the supervisors are of theoretical teaching faculties due to their education background.
Namely, because most of supervisors are graduated from the state-owned universities and colleges,
they are adept at writing research thesis but fairly weak at directing their graduates to cope with the
reality during their working. This dilemma has now become a serious bottleneck for PC in ICs and
POCs.
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POCs in China, represented by CET. If summarized, the CET in ICs and POCs are of the following
shortcomings:
The teaching content follows the traditional version in the public or state owned colleges and
universities, which goes against the school operation to serve the local economy and the features of
their students.
Since the purpose of running a college for most of the investors in China is to maximize the
benifit, the fund input in the hardware construction and the teaching force establishment is quite
limited, which restricts the development of PC.
Morever, the graduates in those ICs and POCs will handle professional and practical work in
their posts. Therefore, the teaching content should be arranged in a hierarchical way from English
for General Purpose (EGP) to English for Special Purpose (ESP).
To sum up, the CET for graduate students in ICs and POCs is not ideal, hence, reformation
needed urgently.
3. The demands of CET from the professional graduate students. In order to find out the real
demands of those students in having CET, 200 candidates from A College were interviewed, with
150 valid questionnaires collected, which is represented in detail as belows:
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1.The establishment of experimental teaching. From the aforementioned, the establishment of a
teaching mode for those professional graduate students is of great significant. Thus, according to the
features of Net+ currently, an experimental teaching was designed in this paper. With Small Private
Online Courses (SPOC) the prototype, the mode is divided into online and offline modules. Online
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module was designed for information exchange after or before class, also a channel for the teacher
to collect information to adjust the teaching plan in time, whereas the offline part serves as the
feedback of the practice via presentation of student groups and assessment from teachers. In this
teaching mode, students were taught with ESP according to the teaching materials composed by the
teaching faculties in A College. The offline part was conducted in the form of seminar presentation.
The procedure is presented asblow:
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the media of information with the professional knowledge. Therefore, during the experimental
teaching, students are equipped with an enhanced vocational confidence and language capability.
Therefore, Class one was superior to Class two in the final test.
Conclusions
For the purpose of POCs and ICs in their postgraduate students cultivation, which is to serve
the local economy, so as to establish their own fist educational brand, those ICs and POCs should
set their courses according to the basic and actural needs of their students in the career development.
That is, the cultivation of advanced ATP. The settlement thereof could finally form the instinctive
educational features for those POCs and ICs, which could give them a sustainable development in
the competition of student resources. However, all these above rely much on the teaching reform of
general course represented by CET due to its fundamental properties. Meanwhile, the establishment
of the CET mode upon the students' demand is the respect towards the students' willing which shall
be also supported by them, so as to get its maximized teaching effort. In conclusion, represented by
CET, the teaching mode upon the students' need analysis is of great sigfinicance and necesity.
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