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College English courses are both instrumental and humanistic, and have become the main position for nursing students to cultivate their humanistic qualities. Integrating the spirit of Yimeng red sister-in-law into the college English teaching of nursing students reflects the new requirements of "curriculum ideology and politics" in colleges and universities, and is also an important way to implement the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating students. The integration of Yimeng red sister-in-law spirit into college English teaching can enhance the sense of mission and cultural confidence of nursing students, and promote them to form correct values and medical ethics. College English teachers should strive to explore methods and paths to integrate the spirit of Yimeng red sister-in-law into college English teaching, fully utilize the humanistic resources contained in textbooks, comprehensively display the image of Yimeng red sister-in-law through literary works, and use the second classroom to cultivate students’ ability to communicate the spirit of Yimeng red sister-in-law in English.
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Objective:To probe the exploration and integration of ideological and political teaching resources for College English by medical students' teams, and to build a College English ideological and political teaching resource database in medical colleges, so as to provide feasible experience for the integration of medical students' College English and ideological and political education.Methods:A questionnaire survey was conducted among 1 030 students in a medical college, and SPSSAU statistical software was employed to analyze the results to investigate the attitudes and demands of students towards the integration of English teaching and ideological and political education, the construction methods of College English ideological and political teaching resource database, and the presentation methods and types of resources. Based on the questionnaire results, textbook themes, teaching modules and students' majors, the content analysis and classification method were employed to construct a College English ideological and political teaching resource database that meets the expectations of medical students.Results:① A total of 836 students agreed with the necessity to integrate College English with ideological and political education, hoping to build an ideological and political resource database with videos and audios related to daily life ( n = 731), medical knowledge ( n = 664), social practice ( n = 622), news and current affairs ( n = 604) and guide the students to learn the above resources through the methods "teacher instruction + classroom discussion" ( n = 528). ② The ideological and political integration points in the questionnaire results were matched according to the subjects of the textbook, and further divided into two categories: universal and medically specific ideological and political teaching elements according to the content of the unit modules. Finally, the resource database of College English ideological and political teaching in medical colleges was built. Conclusion:Outstanding courses and resources are jointly explored and built by teachers and students.
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Drawing experience from the theory and practice of flipped classroom, this paper proposes a new concept of "maker-oriented flipped classroom", differentiates it from the orthodox flipped classroom teaching, and expounds its teaching design and actual implementation in details through the example of WeChat Official Platform "Med Show". By adopting the 5-point Likert Scale, a survey was conducted on students' satisfaction degree about the effectiveness of "Med Show". The results reveal that students have made considerable progress in terms of medical English proficiency, awareness of medical humanities, and abilities of self-regulated learning and innovation. In conclusion, "Med Show" has made achievements in optimizing conventional teaching approaches, refining evaluation methods of teaching and learning, and redefining the role of teachers, and thus it provides some enlightenments for college English teaching in the era of Internet Plus.
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Objective:To investigate the relationship between foreign language learning motivation and academic performance of medical students in emergency remote teaching.Methods:A total of 131 medical undergraduates from the Batch 2018 participated in this study. The motivation part in the "motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ)" was used to test students' learning motivation. SPSS 27.0 was used for statistical analysis. Spearman correlation coefficient was used to describe the correlation between learning motivation and academic performance. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was adopted to compare differences between students with different characteristics. Results:①There were strong positive correlations between learning beliefs, self-efficacy, goal orientation, and task value pairwise; ②self-efficacy and goal orientation were found to have significant positive correlations with academic achievement; ③the differences in self-efficacy and learning goals between high-achieving and low-achieving groups were statistically significant; ④there was no statistical difference in learning motivation between different gender groups.Conclusion:Under the background of online learning, self-efficacy should be strengthened for English learning, making learning goals that focus on deep learning and improving the value of learning tasks and learning beliefs.
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This study proposes the guiding principles, reform ideas and realization paths of college English curriculum reform based on the orientation of medical colleges and the objectives of talents cultivation. Taking Xiamen Medical College's English curriculum reform as an example, it has systematically built a curriculum system which incorporates medical humanities and medical disciplines, and is featured by medical science. Meanwhile it has probed into the connotation of "new medical science" and explored curriculum construction and teaching reform integrated by information technology, as well as the intelligent curriculum evaluation system, thus providing reference for college English curriculum reform in medical colleges and universities under the background of "new medical science".
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Objective:To establish the ecological health evaluation indicator system of college English classroom.Methods:The ecological health evaluation indicator system of college English classroom was formed through the combination of literature study and teaching practice, and a questionnaire was developed from it after several revisions. The improved Delphi method was conducted twice among the chosen experts. The evaluation indicators were chosen and revised according to the results of the consultations. SPSS 20.0 was used for statistical analysis.Results:The enthusiasm coefficients of experts in the two rounds' consultations were 83% and 100% respectively; their authority coefficients were 0.79 and 0.82 respectively; the coordination coefficients Kendall's W of experts' opinions of the importance of the indicators were 0.255 and 0.203 respectively ( P < 0.05). The revised indicator system included 5 first-class, 17 second-class and 48 third-class indicators. Conclusion:The ecological health evaluation indicator system of college English classroom established by this research is relatively scientific and valid, which may provide a method for College English teachers to diagnose the health state of their College English classroom ecology.
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The English curriculum in medical university can include English for general purpose (EGP), English for medical academic purposes (EMAP) and English for medical occupational purposes (EMOP). Teachers can dig deeply the medical humanities elements in the teaching materials, enrich the medical humanities knowledge and expand the medical terms. Combining production-oriented approach (POA) and online course, the teachers set up study groups, design medical scenarios, assign production tasks and carry out flipped classroom teaching practice. The three stages of POA, motivating, enabling and assessing, can organically connect pre-class, in-class and after-class. This model can cultivate effectively the medical students language competency, critical thinking ability and cooperative ability and improve their humanistic quality, and at the same time, it also poses higher requirements and challenges for front-line English teachers and students.
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Objective To explore how to apply the teaching mode combined flipped class with PBL teaching method to improve college students' ability of English reading and writing and the effectiveness of classroom. Methods In the class of college English reading and writing, students at grade 2015 were randomly divided into two groups. The experimental group (43 students) was adopted the class teaching with " flipped class and PBL teaching method"and the control group (43 students) was adopted traditional class teaching mode taught by the same teacher. The teaching effects of two groups were studied in a comparative way. The students' final grade, related data in the learning process, students'view of the two teaching modes are studied by analysis of basic data and questionnaire. Results At the end of the semester, the results of the experimental group are better than those of the control group. In the survey of the two class teaching modes, the students in the experimental group spent more time in the learning process than that of the control group.Students think that the teaching mode combined flipped class and PBL teaching method not only improves their autonomic learning ability, classroom participation, the English reading and writing ability, but also helps them perform better in the average scores in the final exam compared to the traditional classroom. Students are more satisfied with the new classroom teaching mode than with traditional one. Conclusion The teaching mode combined flipped class with PBL teaching method can promote the students'autonomous learning, contribute to absorb and internalize knowledge, improve the students'learning interest and learning efficiency, and improve teachers teaching ability.
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The integration of medical humanities and College English is based on the actual needs of the development of College English and medical humanities in medical colleges and universities in China. Under the guidance of theory of content and language integrated learning (CLIL), the medical humanities and College English integrated teaching should use English medical literature and medical videos to develop students' medical humanities literacy. It should adoptstudent-centeredteaching approaches, such as case-based teaching, task-based teaching, medical humanistic practice, and autonomous learning. It should also optimize the evaluation methods. The purpose of the teaching model is to create a real English learning context for medical humanities in which students can improve their English proficiency, enrich their medical humanities literacy, and expand their international horizon as well.
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College English education in TCM universities should set up its own unique education system characterized by the TCM characteristics, manipulability and generalizability. Here the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine was taken as an example to discuss the necessity, theoretical basis, specific methods and preliminary achievements of the application ability-oriented college English education reform in the past six years that serves students' learning needs and career development as well as the university's talents cultivation.
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Three Modules and Three Stages proposed by guidelines on college English teaching that will be issued by the Ministry of Education gives direction for college English teaching.Through the investigation of the students' cognition and learning of English curriculum,combined with the teaching experiment,the new system of English curriculum,which reflects the characteristics of medical colleges and universities,has been preliminarily established,aiming at cultivating medical students' comprehensive English abilities in medical study and career development.Considering students' language abilities in different stages,college English curriculum can be designed in three modules,that is,English for general purpose (EGP),English for academic purpose (EAP) and intercultural communication,in three stages,that is,the basic stage,the improvement stage,and the development stage.The practice shows that the new curriculum system can promote the interaction,reform and development of teachers,teaching teams and Foreign Language Department.
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Objective To verify the effect of English newspaper reading instruction on promoting the development of English teachers.Methods Differences of the two experimental group teachers' teaching effects were evaluated by Teaching Steering Group scoring method,and the statistics was treated by paired t test;questionnaires aimed at finding out thereason for the improvement of teachers' teaching effect,and how English newspaper reading instruction promotes teachers' professional development.Results The differences of the experimental group teachers' teaching evaluation Pre and Post scores were significant in Tracing academic frontier and Knowledge update,Focus on the cultivation of humanistic spirit,Teacher-student interaction,Teaching according to learners' aptitudes,Students' satisfaction,Emphasis on ability cultivation (P=0.000);questionnaire survey results showed that the participants' approval rates of English newspaper reading instruction were more than 90％ in the four aspects:helping teachers learn a way to improve the relationship between teachers and students,updating professional knowledge,changing the original fixed mode of teaching method,and broadening teachers' horizons.Conclusion English newspaper reading instruction can broaden English teachers' horizons,make their knowledge keep pace with the times,enhance teacher-student relationship,improve teaching methods,attract teachers' attention to cultivate students' humanistic and scientific spirit,and enable teachers to use professional vocabulary at the right time.
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Through quantitative methods,the study evaluates the effectiveness of Web-based Autonomous Learning in College English curriculum reform in a medical college,in order to explore the effect of network autonomous learning on improving medical undergraduates' English listening and speaking ability.The study shows that in four-semester College English learning,by urging students to carry out autonomous listening and speaking based on network and computer and adopting the in class + after class learning mode,the students' English listening and speaking ability has been improved,and their interest in learning has also been enhanced.However,students' emotional factor and curriculum design have great influence on online autonomous learning in the Curriculum Reform.
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Objective To discuss the effect of formative evaluation for flipped classroom of college English teaching. Method We chose 180 clinical medicine undergraduates from a college and divided them equally into experimental class and control class. In the experimental class, the formative evaluation was implemented for the flipped classroom of college English teaching from September 2014 to June 2015. At the same time, the teaching in the control class was carried out according to the basic process of flipped classroom, with no formative evaluation. At the end of the experiment, the students' satisfaction survey, autonomous learning ability and English proficiency test of the two classes were finished. SAS 9.1 software was used for statistical analysis, and t test was used to compare two class measurement information and count data with chi-square test. Result ①Experimental class' satisfaction of formative assessment teaching design for flipped classroom was 94.45%, which was obviously higher than that of the control class (66.66%). The difference was statistically significant (χ2=7.94, P=0.005). (χ2=7.94,P=0.005).②The score at first, fifth dimension and the overall score of independent learning in experimental classes were respectively (55.31± 4.99)、 (53.61±4.93)、 (247.16±22.10), and they were significantly higher than those in the control class (47.18±4.23)、(45.72±4.01)、(225.92±20.78) (t=8.889, P=0.001;t=7.299, P=0.001;t=6.642,P=0.001), and other dimensions' score was also significantly higher than that in comparative classes (P<0.05). ③The pass-ing rate of CET-4, and the number of students from 505 to 544 and more than 545 fraction in the experi-mental class were respectively 79 (87.78%)、19 (21.11%)、10 (11.11%), and they were significantly higher than those in the control class 61(67.78%)、10(11.11%)、0(0). Conclusion Formative assessment can obvi-ously improve the teaching effect of flipped classroom of college English.
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Firstly, this paper introduced and analyzed the humanistic quality of medical students. Thereafter, this paper discussed the advantages and thinking of college English teaching in the process of cultivation of medical students′ humanistic quality. At last, it pointed out that college English teachers could cultivate the medical students′ humanistic quality and effectively improve the comprehensive humanistic quality for medical students through changing educational concept, digging teaching materials about humanistic quality education, enriching the means of college English teaching, expanding the teaching space of humanistic quality, strengthening the emotion education, and training critical thinking.
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This study is to verify the effect of content-based instruction (CBI) teaching mode in English course by introducing it into medical English course in medical universities.Results showed that integration of language learning and academic content learning not only strengthened participants'professional English but also improved their overall English levels.CBI teaching mode can improve academic language skills of medical professionals effectively,boost the development of foreign language skills and professional abilities and meet the needs of medical students' further study and employment.
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Objective To verify the effect of English newspaper reading teaching on improving students' writing ability. Methods Forty students in Binzhou Medical College choosing English news-paper reading as elective course were enrolled as experimental group while 40 students not choosing English newspaper reading as elective course were enrolled as control group. English newspaper read-ing was introduced into the selective course and www.pigai.org was employed to do online real-time composition writing. Differences in pre-test (before online real-time composition writing)and post-test (after online real-time composition writing) scores were compared by paired t test and P<0.05 was considered statistically different. Results There were statistical differences between pre-test and post-test scores in experimental group (t=-17.590,P =0.000). There was no statistical difference between pre-test and post-test scores in control group (t=1.347,P=0.186). There were statistical differences in accuracy,complexity,fluency and coherence of the composition between pre-test and post-test in ex-perimental group. Conclusions English newspaper reading teaching plays an important part in im-proving medical college students' writing ability. After a semester of English newspaper reading, the writing ability of students had obviously improved in language accuracy,complexity,fluency and co-herence.
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Based on the analysis of the medical students' humanities quality and current college English teaching,this paper explored four strategies including pre-class lead-in activity,making full use of current teaching materials,reforming present college English teaching method and developing extracur-ricular practical activities in order to foster humanities quality in college English teaching and to improve medical students' humanities quality.
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Objective To explore the English newspaper reading activities which are well-suited for medical students. Methods At the end of an optional course News in English, a question-naire investigation was conducted among 86 enrolled students on their degree of preference for the 8 kinds of news reading activities designed for this course. Questionnaire data were processed by SPSS 13.0 software. Percentages were calculated and ANOVA tests were employed to compare the prefer-ence degree between different activities. P0.05). Conclusions The eight types of English news reading activities are well suited for the interest of most medical students. Nevertheless, they still need improving in several aspects to increase students’ interest in newspaper reading and further motivate them in relat-ed English learning activities, including selection of text material.
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Based on the discussion of the present English teaching in medical colleges and universities in China,this paper clarifies the mission and task of English teaching in medical colleges and universities and proposes that medical colleges and universities should attach importance to the education goals and needs of the department,major and students in the information age.It is believed that a scientific,reasonable and perfect English curriculum can be achieved by integrating IT into English curriculum,applying individualized teaching mode and expanding course connotation.