基于ESP的中国高校英语人才培养模式探索

在当今经济全球化背景下,专门用途英语(ESP)在社会各个领域中的应用越来越广泛,这对高校英语人才的培养质量提出了更高的要求,而中国高校的ESP教学却尚未达到成熟阶段。在中国高校ESP人才培养中,还存在着定位不清晰、专业与课程设置不合理、培养模式单一、实践教学不足、师资队伍建设相对滞后等问题。中国高校构建基于ESP的人才培养模式应采取以下措施:一要基于社会需求确定人才培养目标;二要合理规划和编写ESP教材;三要结合ESP特点创新教学方法;四要注重实践教学;五要加强适于ESP教学的师资队伍建设。

Exploration of College English Talents Training Mode Based on ESP

Under the influence of the economic globalization, English for Specific Purposes (ESP) plays more and more important roles in various fields, and the requirements for English talents are much higher. However, due to the relatively short time of its courses construction in colleges and universities, ESP is far from maturity in our country. There are different problems in ESP teaching process, including the position of the talents training, the major and curriculum design, the talents training modes and the correlated ESP practical teaching, etc. Therefore, the following measures should be adopted with the purpose of exploring the college English talents training mode based on ESP:At first, to determine the talents training objectives in accordance with the social needs; Second, to plan and write ESP textbooks based on needs analysis; Third, to innovate teaching methods in line with the features of ESP; Fourth, to emphasize the practical teaching; and at last, to strengthen the ESP teaching staff construction.