College English Teaching in agricultural and forestry universities of China:current situation analysis and countermeasures

Abstract:

College English is one of the most important public fundamental courses offered for nonlanguage majors 〖JP〗in agricultural and forestry universities of China. When it comes to College English Teaching (CET) in these universities, the characteristics of CET itself as well as the selfdevelopment law of some featured disciplines must be taken into consideration. Over the recent years, the agricultural and forestry universities of China have achieved a lot in the faculty development, syllabus designing, textbooks and reference books compiling, teaching methods and courses assessment, etc. However, CET reform admits of no evasion of many issues. This requires that these universities, on the premise of keeping the features and advantages of their disciplines unchanged, readjust the training objective of CET in terms of the objective orientation for the future talents so as to improve CET in these universities as much as possible. The present paper discusses the current features, achievements, issues and countermeasures concerning CET in agricultural and forestry universities.