Research-led Course Design and Practice of English for Academic Purposes in Chinese-Foreign Cooperatively-run Schools

摘要

In the past few decades, many Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools have gained the approval of the People’s Republic of China and developed rapidly. In these schools, traditional English teaching mode emphasizing the knowledge instruction can no longer meet the requirements of international education. The research-led teaching and learning model refers to the learning process that starts from a problem or phenomenon and helps students to actively explore knowledge about the problem and solve the problem through independent research or group cooperation under the teacher’s guidance. Research-led teaching and learning is a teaching model that can effectively stimulate students’ interests in learning, train their critical thinking and integrating knowledge, and improve their ability to learn independently and solve practical problems. Some highly specialized Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools have higher requirements for academic English and the students’ English level in listening, speaking, reading and writing. This article starts with the necessity of research-led EAP teaching mode in Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools, summarizes the course design and practice of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools between the University of Southampton and Dalian Polytechnic University, exemplifies some specific research-led projects to explain the EAP course design and practice in this Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools, and provide some experience for other similar education institutions.