城乡规划专业英语课程教学改革探索

当前国际化信息化的时代背景对城乡规划专业英语课程教学提出了新要求,针对这一课程教学内容和方式的改革势在必行。以重庆大学城乡规划专业英语课程教学为例,通过梳理教学中缺乏系统课程设计,未能有效推动专业知识的学习及与基础英语课程重复等问题,提出注重专业知识而非语言传授的教学原则和培养学生英语思维的教学目标。在此原则和目标指导下,从教学层面完善课程系统设计、引入新兴知识、培养学生英语思维、强化专业知识传授并积极处理好与基础英语课程的关系,同时可通过拓展现有教学方式、推动交流与总结并利用新兴网络教学平台等手段实现教学改革,以满足当前对城乡规划专业英语课程的要求及有效发挥这一课程对其他相关课程的辅助及支撑作用。

Teaching reform of academic English course for urban and rural planning specialty

The current background of internationalization and informationization has put forward new requirements for the teaching of English for urban and rural planning, and the reform of this course is imperative. This article takes the academic English course teaching of urban and rural planning major in Chongqing University as an example. By sorting out its current teaching lack of systematic design, failure to effectively promote the learning of professional knowledge, and duplication with basic English courses, it is proposed that this course should focus on professional knowledge rather than English. The teaching goal of this course should be cultivating students'' English thinking. Under the guidance of this principle and goal, this article proposes to improve the curriculum system design from the teaching level, introduce new knowledge, cultivate English thinking, strengthen the transfer of professional knowledge, and actively deal with the relationship with basic English courses. At the same time, it can expand the existing teaching methods, promote communication and summaries, and use emerging network teaching platforms to realize teaching reforms to meet the current requirements for academic English courses of urban and rural planning and effectively play the role of this course in assisting and supporting other related courses.