Research on the Path of Foreign Language“Golden Course”Construction

Changchun University of Finance and Economics,Changchu,China Email:2743439462@qq.com

[Abstract]Since the Ministry of Education proposed to eliminate“water course”and create“Golden Course”in 2018,major universities across the country have responded to the call one after another,and actively explore how to create a high-quality foreign language“Golden Course”compared with“water course”.This paper helps foreign language teachers and scholars to construct foreign language courses that conform to the standard of“Golden Course”by deeply exploring the concept and connotation of“Golden Course”in foreign languages,explore effective ways to create a“golden course”for foreign languages.

[Keywords]foreign language;Golden Course;Path Research

Introduction

With the development of science and technology,international exchanges are increasing day by day,and domestic attention to English teaching is also increasing.How to cultivate high-quality foreign language application-oriented talents is the focus of discussion by scholars at home and abroad,the cultivation of high-quality talents is closely related to the quality of college English teaching.On June 2018,the Minister of Education,Chen Baosheng,proposed to eliminate“water course”and create“golden course”at the National Conference on undergraduate education in colleges and universities in the new era,and constantly introduced new concepts of English education and teaching,this is a major adjustment in the teaching of higher education since the founding of New China.From this point of view,the reform of higher education is continuing and new paths are being explored continuously.Curriculum construction emphasizes that major colleges and universities should appropriately increase the difficulty of the curriculum,broaden the depth and improve the degree of academic challenges,so as to effectively improve the teaching quality.The definition of high-quality courses is extensive.General secretary of Xi Jinping said that the fundamental criterion for evaluating the good and bad of schools is the achievement of cultivating talents by virtue,and courses are the key to the implementation of the fundamental task of cultivating talents by virtue.

Since the emergence of the word“Golden Course”,educators in major universities have begun to seriously study and deeply explore the true connotation of“Golden Course”and explore the path of the construction of“Golden Course”.On the basis of comprehensive study of the theoretical basis,model theoretical framework and language teaching of English education and teaching in colleges and universities,this paper deeply discusses how to eliminate“water courses”to create a higher level,innovative and challenging foreign language“Golden Course”.In the process of implementing the reform of creating“Golden Course”in higher education and teaching,any subject,any major and any course should try their best to explore their own“Golden Course”mode,foreign language teaching is no exception.Due to the similarities and differences of subjects,College foreign languages can integrate science and technology as auxiliary teaching in the process of creating“Golden Courses”,and improve teaching efficiency by creating online and offline mixed“Golden Courses”,the foreign language teaching should be raised to a new level in technology.On this basis,teachers should dig deep into the teaching content to truly achieve the transformation of foreign language teaching from the inside out and realize the ultimate goal of improving the quality of foreign language teaching.

Standards and Principles of Golden Course

The concept of“Golden course”put forward by the Ministry of Education is actually relative to“water course”.“Golden course”essentially refers to the best course,which can be concluded as“gender degree”,namely higher level,innovation and challenge degree.A high-quality foreign language course includes many aspects,from teachers’teaching level to teaching content to teaching mode to teaching evaluation.Therefore,the“Golden course”should include the following principles:first,the level of teachers should reach a certain height.If there is a“gold medal course”,there must be a“gold medal teacher”.The quality and teaching level of teachers directly affect the teaching effect.Effective teaching requires the joint efforts of teachers and students.Teachers are the leaders,students absorb and accept new knowledge under their guidance.Second,the teaching process requires students’participation in the whole process,using various teaching modes to stimulate students’autonomous learning ability,and completing the whole teaching content through discussion and interaction in class.Third,the teaching evaluation method should pay more attention to students’classroom performance,take formative evaluation as the leading factor,and mainly investigate students’participation in the course and their attitude towards learning.

Foreign language courses require students to develop in an all-round way in listening,speaking,reading,writing and translating.In addition to the basic requirements,with the development and progress of the times,there should be higher requirements for a high-quality foreign language course.At the same time of teaching,in addition to improving students’foreign language level,it is also necessary to strengthen students’cross-cultural communication ability.As a communication tool,language focuses on its intercommunication,and cross-cultural communication ability is the premise and foundation of effective communication.At the same time,we should also attach importance to the humanity of foreign languages.While teaching courses,we should also appropriately integrate ideological and political elements to improve students’ideological and moral qualities.

Main Problems Faced by the Construction of Foreign Language“Golden Course”

Teachers’understanding of“Golden Course”is not comprehensive enough

Foreign language teachers play a leading role in foreign language classes.On the one hand,they undertake the important task of teaching and educating people;On the other hand,they also face the improvement and improvement of their own knowledge level.In the process of constructing the foreign language“Golden Course”,teachers are not only required to complete the course content of this semester,but also required to dig deep into the internal knowledge of the course.When proposing the word“golden lesson”,many teachers only understood the literal meaning,but did not deeply understand its internal meaning.Only by relying on real principles and standards can we create high-quality foreign language“Golden Course”.In the process of teaching,foreign language teachers often use a single boring teaching method,with teachers’explanation,students’memory and lack of flexibility and interactivity in the classroom according to the traditional teaching method.There are various ways to impart knowledge.With the development of science and technology,students are constantly accepting new things.Traditional teaching methods can no longer effectively stimulate students’interest in learning,therefore,on the premise of reaching a high level of professional knowledge,teachers should also strengthen the improvement of teaching methods and guide students’foreign language learning from all directions and angles.

Lack of technical equipment in schools

The“Golden course”course not only has higher requirements for teachers,but also has higher requirements for basic teaching technical equipment.Its teaching method is different from ordinary foreign language courses.To build high-quality courses,we should take informatization as the background,use online and offline mixed methods for teaching,and cultivate intelligent talents.We should use intelligent equipment,especially intelligent classrooms as typical representatives,building online and offline hybrid gold courses requires both manpower and material resources of the school,and the level of teaching and network technical support teams,the network speed and storage resources of campus network play a decisive role in the application level of online courses and classroom teaching level.From the current reality of colleges and universities,the number,function,intelligent teaching tools,centralized control platform and big data collection system of teachers all hinder the construction of“Golden Course”.Specific teaching modes need to be supported by specific teaching equipment.Traditional teaching methods can usually be solved by a piece of chalk and a blackboard.Today,with the rapid development of information technology,the traditional teaching mode can no longer meet the needs of students.Only by using multiple teaching modes can the teaching level be improved to a certain extent.The use of different teaching platforms can stimulate students' interest in learning,improve Students'Autonomous learning ability.

The teaching evaluation system is not perfect enough

With the development of science and technology,a large number of new teaching modes are constantly emerging,and the corresponding evaluation system is also changing.The evaluation system plays an important role in teaching,can improve the teaching level.The establishment of“Golden Course”aims at cultivating students with allround development.We should not only pay attention to students’academic performance,but also pay attention to students’classroom performance,as well as the ability of autonomous learning and the spirit of exploring knowledge.At the same time of implementing various teaching modes,teaching evaluation methods should also be improved and improved.In order to effectively combine the evaluation system with the new teaching mode,it is imperative to formulate the evaluation system under the new teaching mode.The original teaching evaluation method is mainly based on summative evaluation,which is usually called by students as the final examination is everything.The evaluation method under the new teaching mode will increase the proportion of formative evaluation,from the original 30% to 40%,so as to increase the proportion of formative evaluation and pay more attention to students' learning attitude,ability and enthusiasm.

Paths and Measures for the Construction of Foreign Language“Golden Course”

Broaden the teaching content and reflect the“higher level”of the curriculum

Tyler(1949)proposed that the curriculum has four interrelated and inseparable elements:teaching objectives,teaching contents,teaching organization and evaluation system.Teaching content is a special knowledge system,which is different from language knowledge itself and daily energy.We should not only consider the knowledge system of English subject itself,we should also consider the age characteristics and actual needs of students.In the past,the content of college English teaching completely came from fixed teaching materials,and the content of extracurricular expansion was less.To reform the previous teaching content,we should first start with the reform of teaching materials.With the development of the times,new contents should be effectively integrated into the new version of teaching materials.Old teaching materials should be updated in real time to present the teaching materials that are closest to and most needed to students,so as to broaden students' horizons and meet the development requirements of the times.At the same time,in high-quality foreign language classes,teachers should pay attention to the embedding of culture.With globalization as the background,language is a part of culture and plays an important role in culture.On the one hand,the integration of culture can enable students to better understand the language,enrich the teaching content and enhance students' interest in learning; On the other hand,culture plays an important role in language communication.Whether cross-cultural communication can proceed smoothly or not,it depends on both parties'understanding of culture.

As a public basic course,foreign language courses should give students humanistic care and pay attention to the development of students' ideological and moral qualities while teaching foreign language knowledge.General secretary of Xi Jinping pointed out at the National Conference on ideological and political work in colleges and universities in 2016 that we should insist on establishing morality and cultivating talents as the central link,and make ideological and political work run through the whole process of education and teaching,so as to realize full education,full education,all-round education.Other courses should keep a good channel and plant a good responsibility field,so that all kinds of courses and ideological and political theory courses go in the same direction and form a synergistic effect.Students trained by high-quality teaching should have comprehensive qualities,and should integrate ideological and political elements into teaching,and integrate ideological and political elements in the way of moistening things silently.Curriculum ideological and political requires teachers to dig out moral education elements in the original teaching content and pass them on to students in combination with the teaching content.Therefore,without changing the original teaching content,pay attention to the design of the curriculum,guide students to understand the cultural tradition of the country,enhance cultural confidence; Encourage students to learn from pioneers and successors in various fields,cultivate the spirit of perseverance;Guide students to love their jobs and work hard,pursue truth,goodness and beauty and establish a correct view of heroes.

To create a foreign language“Golden Course”,we should improve the original teaching content,not only the invariable content in textbooks,but also on the basis of the goal of improving students'language communication ability and comprehensive literacy,expand the teaching content of foreign language courses,cultivate students'cross-cultural communication ability,and integrate the ideological and political content of the courses.On this basis,improve the difficulty of the courses and dig deep into the inner meaning of the courses,make the foreign language course into a“higher-level”course that meets the requirements of the development of the times with both internal and external courses.

Improving the teaching mode to reflect the“innovation”of the curriculum

Foreign language classroom is the cradle of cultivating high-quality foreign language talents.To create a foreign language“Golden Course”must be based on the premise of improving the effectiveness of foreign language teaching.Training Foreign language application-oriented talents should start from the classroom,emphasize the main position of students in the teaching process,and require“student-centered”.Krashen(1985)focused on input,Swain(1985)emphasized output,Long(1991)highlighted interaction,however,as the builders of second language acquisition theory,they often do not consider how to integrate the three into each foreign language class.They think that this is the content that needs to be discussed in depth in curriculum and teaching theory.Based on the above theories,as a teaching worker,the teaching mode should be improved according to the development of the times and the needs of students,and the three should be organically integrated together,in teaching,new knowledge should be constructed on the basis of learners’original knowledge or experience,and students’mastery of new information and new knowledge should be strengthened.A variety of new methods of personalized English teaching should be advocated,including grammar translation,listening and speaking method,situational teaching method,communicative teaching method,interactive teaching method,etc.Individualized Teaching aims at students’different knowledge and experience,which is conducive to students’active and active learning.

With the development of science and technology,the new era has become an era of knowledge explosion.Students can learn more information through mobile phones and the Internet.In class,teachers should also make full use of the scientific and technological products brought by The Times,explore new teaching modes,closely combine computer technology with teaching,and stimulate students’learning motivation,it reflects the modernization of foreign language courses.As the representative of typical teaching mode in foreign language courses,flipped classroom mode uses science and technology to make micro-courses,effectively uses micro-courses in foreign language classroom teaching,enriches classroom contents,innovative classroom teaching.At the same time,mixed teaching can also be used.Mixed teaching is a teaching mode that combines offline teaching with online teaching.This combination is an organic combination of the advantages of online and offline teaching,taking advantage of the rich online teaching resources and the advantages of offline teaching,and adopting various forms of activities,strengthen the interaction and communication between teachers and students to reflect the“innovation”of foreign language courses.

Improving the evaluation system to reflect the“challenge degree”of the curriculum

Teaching evaluation system is an important link in foreign language teaching.It is usually required to use formative assessment and summative assessment methods in assessment,and specific means and methods are introduced.However,it does not clearly explain which method should be in the leading position,and schools generally still carry out teaching evaluation according to the final evaluation as the leading method,and do not pay enough attention to formative evaluation methods.Based on the current assessment situation,the author of the book proposes to respect students' ideas first; Secondly,pay attention to the differences between individuals; Thirdly,fully consider the individuality of students.Therefore,various methods should be used in student evaluation to combine teacher evaluation,classmate evaluation,school evaluation and self-evaluation.

The practice and research of college English evaluation system under the new teaching mode can not only improve college students’foreign language application ability,but also meet the needs of college students’all-round development.This paper combines formative assessment with new teaching modes such as flip class,and through curriculum setting,appropriate application of assessment and evaluation methods is conducive to achieving a win-win situation between teaching and evaluation.Finally,it can effectively improve students’learning ability and interest.On the basis of mutual evaluation and self-evaluation,students can better understand the advantages and disadvantages in the process of foreign language learning and correct them in time.It mainly evaluates students’current comprehensive English ability and level as well as their efforts at this stage.Comprehensive investigation of students'foreign language knowledge and ability level,through the foreign language evaluation system,reflect the“degree of challenge”of foreign language courses.

Conclusion

In short,to make foreign language courses“Golden courses”,we need to abide by the principles of higher level,innovation and challenge of curriculum teaching.To practice and explore the path of foreign language“Golden Course”requires the joint efforts of foreign language teachers to improve their own value on the basis of improving their own teaching ability,in addition to comprehensively improving students’five aspects of foreign language listening,speaking,reading,writing and translating,the teaching content should also pay close attention to students’own development and combine with the goal of talent training,cultivate students with comprehensive development of morality,intelligence,physique,art and labor,and deliver talents with comprehensive qualities to the society.In foreign language classroom teaching,teachers should actively explore new teaching modes,strengthen students’interest in learning,guide students to learn independently,and combine various teaching modes to achieve the final teaching goal.At the same time,improve the teaching evaluation system,effectively combine the teaching content,teaching mode and evaluation system,and create a high-quality foreign language“Golden Class”classroom.

Acknowledgements

This paper is the research result of“research and practice of classroom construction of foreign language”Golden course“in private colleges and universities”social science project of“13th Five-Year Plan”of Jilin provincial education department(Project No.:JJKH20201262SK).