ABSTRACT
TED-Med Viewing, Listening&Speaking is compiled to serve academic audio-visual-oral English teaching in medical colleges. This paper elaborates some compilation ideas concerning this text-book. First, both the urgent needs of academic English teaching and the unique advantages of TED speech are the major stimulus to compiling this textbook. Second, its compiling philosophy adheres to learning centered, meaningful input. Third, compiling process is divided into three stages-preparation, writing and evaluation. Third, compiling principles includes four aspects: language and medical knowledge integrate organically, the text and the task are authentic; proficiency training approaches are scientific; and the text-book is suitable for autonomous learning. Forth, the main content covers four medicine-related themes-humanity, health, disease, science and technology; each theme consists of three sub topics with 12 units (topics) in total; the content is interesting, informative and reflective. These compilation ideas prove to be scientific and feasible demonstrated by English teachers and medical experts. TED-Med Viewing, Listening&Speaking is expected to be completed and published earlier in order to promote academic English teach-ing and research in medical colleges.
ABSTRACT
This paper analyzed challenges and difficulties in the teaching of academic English for doctoral postgraduates. The ideas of putting emphasis on listening and speaking course of academic English,compiling suitable teaching material,encouraging teachers to advance against the hardship were proposed. At the same time,it took China pharmaceutical university as an example to discuss the practice of listening and speaking course of pharmaceutical English for doctoral postgraduates and summed up the experiences in the enaction of teaching objectives,curriculum provision,compilation of teaching material,design of teaching model,etc. The purpose was to provide experiences for teach-ing reform of listening and speaking course of pharmaceutical English.