Research on the Reform of College English Teaching

Research on the Reform of College English

Teaching under the Background of New Liberal

ArtsTalehati Ailimubieerdi

School of Foreign Languages, Yili Normal UniversityAbstract: English is the key content in students’ learning, which is also the

foundation for students to learn and communicate in the future. The reform content

of the new curriculum standard clearly pointed out: Teachers should improve the

actual efficiency of college English teaching, expand English training by guiding

college students to have interesting thinking activities, and improve their ability

to learn. If teachers want to improve the English literacy of students, they should

actively promote reading education. The launch of college English plays a key role

in broadening the knowledge and horizons of college students and improving their

English literacy and reading ability. Therefore, the dissertation mainly analyzes the

problems of college English teaching and the specific teaching strategies under the

background of the new liberal arts so as to promote students’ English literacy and

comprehensive ds: College English; English teaching; The new liberal arts; Reform

strategiesDOI: 10.47297/wspciWSP2516-252710.20210501Reading is an important content in English teaching, which is also an extension

of reading activities in class, and an important part to cultivate college students’

reading skills. Efficient reading activities can make in-class English activities

more effective. And this requires college English teachers to pay full attention to

English teaching, fully understand the difficulties faced by English teaching today,

and innovate reading strategies based on the personality and characteristics of each

college student in the class so as to effectively improve the learning quality of

the author: Talehati Ailimubieerdi (1981-04) , Male, Kazakh. Birth Place: Xinyu-an, Xinjiang, School of Foreign Languages, Job title: Lecturer, Master degree, Research

Interest: linguistics and Applied Linguistics.56

Research on the Reform of College English Teaching under the Background of New Liberal Arts1. The Dilemma of College English Teaching(1) Low Motivation of Students to LearnFor college students, they do not concentrate on learning English compared

with their own professional courses, when they are learning English content

because they think that English lessons are not important. Therefore, there are not

enough interests of student when learning English content, and they also have low

motivation to learn. After class, students would not look at the content of English.

In the daily teaching, when teachers explain the content in English courses, the

rate of students to raise their heads is obviously lower than that of other courses

and only some students like to learn content related to English. Judging from

final assessments of students, most students answer questions by searching for

information on the internet, and do not have their own opinions. Some students

even make some very low-level mistakes. When listening to the English course,

most of the students do not willing to answer questions, and they are not motivated

to learn. Therefore, students do not understand enough about the content in English

course.

(2) Teachers’ Unclear Understandings of English Teaching

Most college English teachers only pay attention to students’ academic

performance and their ability to work out the exercise. Therefore, college English

teachers usually only select articles from textbooks or reference books for reading

teaching and explanation when organizing students to read. However, It is

impossible to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of college students for reading on this

boring way of reading teaching, and students only have a surface understanding of

the article without mastering the skills and methods of reading. College English

teachers also ignore the important meaning of reading. A low understanding about

reading is an important reason that affects the efficiency of college English reading

teaching. It makes students only passively participate in reading activities and

cannot prompt students to actively understand related knowledge. As a result,

teaching efficiency is low.(3) Backward Teaching Concepts and MethodsThe main purpose of English teaching is to have an inner dialogue with the

author through the thinking and speculation of readers, so as to achieve emotional

resonance. Whether it is an article in a college English textbook or a reading

comprehension topic, it tends to allow readers to communicate with the author in

depth, to achieve soul collision and emotional integration, and to further enable

readers to truly feel the real emotions expressed in the article, thereby significantly

promoting the reading ability of students. However, the reading concepts and

reading teaching methods of most college English teachers are too traditional

and backward. Teachers believe that students’ reading is only for exams. In daily

teaching, teachers have been regarded as the main body of the classroom and

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Creativity and Innovation Vol.5 No.1 2021students have been regarded as bystanders in the classroom. At the same time, the

teaching method of reading adopted by English teachers is simply to question and

explain, which not only does not meet the requirements of the new curriculum

reform, but also greatly dampens the enthusiasm of students for reading, and affects

the cultivation of reading initiative and thinking of students.(4) The Influence of Online MediaWith the rapid development of network information technology, the

information explosion occurred on network media has had a great impact on our

lives and work. At the same time, due to the poor resistance of college students

and the lack of good supervision by teachers and parents, attention of students is

so easy to be attracted by online information. Most college students also choose to

waste time in short videos or online games, which makes college English reading

activities not really implemented and seriously affects the improvement of the

classroom teaching efficiency of college English.2. Effective Strategies for Developing College English Teaching under

the Background of New Liberal Arts(1) Teachers Who Should Play a Guiding Role1) Leading by Example and Playing an Exemplary RoleWhen students learn English, teachers usually play a super important

role. Therefore, teachers should set up an excellent role for students and read

extracurricular articles frequently to improve their own literary quality. In addition,

teachers should also actively guide students to read extracurricular articles. While

teaching students to read, they can also improve their literary literacy.2) Guiding Reading Methods of StudentsFor the teaching of English reading, teachers can teach students some reading

methods and skills. These methods mainly include intensive reading, skimming

and ingenious reading. In the teaching process, English teachers should correctly

guide students to read articles, so that students can have a deeper understanding of

the relevant content. For the reading method of ingenious reading, some students

are unable to master this method due to their own limited ability, which requires

teachers to actively guide them to apply the method of ingenious reading to read

when teaching, and make reasonable use of some related stories or characters to

help students understand the content of the article and experience the emotions

expressed in the article.3) Encouraging Students to Take Reading NotesAt this stage, a common problem for college students is that students may

think they have proficiently mastered the knowledge, but after a period of time, they

will forget it. Therefore, it requires students to take notes carefully. For reading, it

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Research on the Reform of College English Teaching under the Background of New Liberal Artsis also necessary for students to take certain notes. These notes can be a summary

of the content of the article or their own experience. In the process of taking notes,

it can promote students to further understand the content of the article, and it is also

convenient for students to review after class, so as to further improve the learning

efficiency of students in reading.(2) Stimulating the Interest of Students in ReadingInterest is the motivation for students, and reading interest can motivate

college students to actively read, so that teachers can cultivate students to have

good reading habits and reading methods. Therefore, the primary task for college

English teachers to improve the efficiency of English reading teaching is to fully

stimulate the interest of college students in reading and ignite their reading initiative

and desire for knowledge, which will support students to read and think in depth.

Most college students have strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge, so English

teachers can fully combine their learning ability and characteristics to innovate

teaching methods of reading, so as to fully mobilize college the learning initiative

of students.(3) Grasping the Teaching Progress of ReadingAt this stage, in the process of teaching English reading, there is a huge

amount of article teaching, and the difficulty of the article is also quite different.

Due to the limited reading ability of college students, coupled with the fact that

some students have a shallow understanding about the article, so that students

would have many problems when learning extracurricular content. For example,

for students with poor abilities, it may be super difficult to read the content of

extracurricular articles, it is also not easy to understand the connotation of the

article, and it will also depress these students so that they would lose confidence in

the study of classics. Therefore, it is necessary for teachers to make a reasonable

reading plan when teaching, guide students to arrange reading activities according

to their own learning situation step by step, and choose what students are interested

in as much as possible to improve their reading ability. In addition, English teachers

should formulate appropriate teaching plans based on the actual situation of the

students before developing English reading teaching.(4) Organizing Rich Activities of Reading Teaching

Different students have different opinions on the same reading article, so

reading notes of students would be different. Therefore, teachers can organize

students to conduct selection activities of reading notes and allow students to

vote for the best reading notes. In this way, students can share their own reading

opinions, and it can cultivate the good reading habits of colleges students, stimulate

their interests in taking reading notes often when they are reaching, improve the

efficiency of actual English reading of college students, and improve their reading

ability and comprehensive literacy.59

Creativity and Innovation Vol.5 No.1 20213. ConclusionAll in all, reading can not only greatly enrich the English knowledge of college

students in the class, but also speed up the process of cultivating their good reading

habits and abilities. College English teachers should attach great importance to the

significant role of reading, and stimulate the reading interest of students in the class

to the greatest extent through the development of effective and abundant reading

activities, promote their own reading ability, promote the efficiency of college

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