Summary Journal Teaching 3

Jun, Yan. 2016. College English Teaching According to Students’ Goals of Study. International Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 3, No. 1, (p:50-55).

The research was about goals of learning English, and responses to the current English course. The subject of the research was 200 first and second year college students majoring in food safety, pharmacy, and civil engineering. The researcher analyze of the data were using quantitative methods. Research instrument in this research were questionnaire. The final questionnaire is composed of three parts. The first part is the investigation on students English proficiency and goals of learning English, including 4 questions; the second part is to investigate the students' views on English graded teaching, including 3 questions; the third part is the investigation of the students' responses to the current English course and their views on the reform of the course, including 7 questions. The result of the survey were firstly, the English proficiency of students in Sichuan University of Science & Technology is not good, and it could be much worse than that of students in college and universities of coastline areas, especially those key universities. Secondly, it could be seen that the students’ past rates of band 4 tests in the first year and the second year students are both below 5%. Thirdly, the survey shows that more than 60% students study English to pass band 4 and band 6 tests, and only a small amount of students study English because they want to learn English the language or British and American culture. Fourthly, the survey shows that 70% of students think that graded teaching can help them improve their English, but above 50% of students are not willing to be put into the low level grade, and about 50% of students think that graded teaching can do harm to their enthusiasm in study. Then, in the survey, 47% first year students think that the current English course is a little helpful or not helpful for them to improve their English, and up to 61% of second students think so. At last, it could be seen that more than 60% of first year students and 70% of second year students are willing to have English selective courses. And half of the students think that basic technique training courses should be offered in the first and second year; about 30% students think that band test training courses should be offered. About 55% students are willing to have English selective course in the third and fourth year, and they think culture and literature courses should be offered. Only 14% students think that ESP English courses should be offered in the third and fourth year. To sump up, students in universities and colleges like Sichuan University of Science and Technology have weak English basis, and are resistive to graded teaching to some degree. So, the reform of the college English course in this universities and colleges could not be the same as the reform in those key universities.