TITLE:
On the Ideology and Political Education in ESP Courses Based on CBI Teaching Methodology
AUTHORS:
Ying Huang
KEYWORDS:
ESP, CBI Teaching Methodology, Ideology and Political Education, “Key Competencies”
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.10 No.4,
April
30,
2023
ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the connotation of ideology and political education in one of the ESP (English for Special Purposes) courses—Selected Readings from the English Newspapers and Magazines, and conducts an empirical study based on the CBI teaching method to explore how to effectively integrate the ideology and political education into the actual teaching under the current trend of advocating new liberal arts in China. The research adopts pre-class interviews, classroom observations, and post-class questionnaires to collect students’ real feedback on the course under the CBI teaching method. The result shows that through the use of online teaching resources, the blended teaching approach can effectively promote the development of students’ “key competencies”. Meanwhile, this research also proved the effectiveness of the CBI teaching method on the ideology and political education of the ESP courses.