Study on Challenge and Countermeasures College English Faces from the Viewpoint of Curriculum Theory

摘要

This paper firstly summarizes that, since the issuing of College English Course Teaching Requirements in 2004, the student development demands, social development demands and science development demands have been changed, and the three main problems resulting from the demand change are as follows: 1) the polarization of freshmen's English proficiency is aggravated; 2) the shortage for the personnel with high English proficiency, international vision and Chinese vision is enlarged; 3) no attention to the effectiveness problem of the international language communication in the colleague English teaching gives rise to high input and low efficiency. Based on above problems, this paper puts forward three suggestions: 1) the English skill target should provide more options to the students; 2) provide first-class foreign education the excellent student, which is favorable for cultivating high-end talents; 3) provide teaching framework of the English to the teaching efficiency. According to the curriculum theory, there are three bases for formulating and revising the course target: student development demands, social development demands and science development demands (Zhong Qiquan et al, 2008). With the change of the three demands, what challenge the college English faces? What countermeasures we should adopt? This paper explores the answers to these two questions from the viewpoint of the curriculum theory, which provides reference opinions for the further revision of "Course Requirements".