1995 Heilongjiang Provincial Education Commission approved Mudanjiang Teachers College as an undergraduate majoring in English, and 1996 officially enrolled students. The former Foreign Language Teaching and Research Section has trained 10 English junior college students from 1985. Up to now, there have been ten graduates of English major, with more than 2000 graduates. At present, there are 2932 English majors and 45 teachers. There are basic teaching and research sections and professional teaching and research sections, which undertake the teaching tasks of English major and English education major in primary schools respectively. Over the past few years, we have seized the great opportunity of college enrollment expansion, developed rapidly, and constantly strengthened the construction of teaching, scientific research, student groups and party building, forming a good style of "unity, professionalism, realism and innovation" and making contributions to the development and construction of the college. He has been awarded the titles of advanced party organizations in provincial and municipal institutes and advanced collective of student work in Heilongjiang Province for many times.
Second, English (normal) professional development achievements
Since its establishment, this major has always adhered to the direction of English language and literature, and formulated a syllabus that conforms to the professional construction plan and foreign language teaching rules. Adhere to the planning and construction goals in terms of curriculum, teaching resources, student training objectives and specifications, and textbook selection. The traditional courses of this major, such as basic English, English extensive reading, English listening, oral English, English grammar, English-Chinese translation theory and practice, English linguistics, English literature history and selected readings, American literature history and selected readings, general situation of Britain and the United States, comparison of Chinese and English cultural customs, are now very mature and have formed their own traditions. In 2007, English education major was rated as a provincial key major, Basic English II was rated as a provincial excellent course, and in 2009, it was rated as a provincial talent training model innovation experimental area. Teachers of all majors are working hard to get a master's degree in English language and literature in the near future.
1, discipline construction
This year, the subject of English language and literature has been carefully cultivated. First, English literature; English linguistics and applied linguistics; The advantage of American educational research is multidisciplinary integration and matching with disciplines. Professor Liang Zhongxian and Dr. Liang Zhongxian, the academic leaders, not only have great influence at home and abroad, but also strengthen the discipline construction and drive a number of excellent academic teams, which are expected to successfully obtain master's degrees in foreign languages and literature in recent years.
2. Teaching staff
At present, this major has a good faculty. The age, education background, degree, education background, professional title and professional direction of full-time teachers are reasonably distributed, and the development trend is good. In terms of age distribution, among full-time teachers, young and middle-aged teachers account for the vast majority of all full-time teachers and gradually become the backbone. From the academic level, 18 of the 45 full-time teachers have master's degree or above. According to the distribution of academic background, 80% of teachers have obtained degrees from other institutions. From the distribution of professional titles, teachers with senior professional titles account for 13% of the total number of teachers, and teachers with intermediate professional titles account for 57%. From the professional perspective, most full-time teachers have a master's degree in linguistics or literature, and some teachers have degrees or advanced experience in related fields.
We explore educational ideas through various channels, change teachers' educational ideas, improve teachers' enthusiasm for learning educational theories, and improve their comprehensive quality and professional level.
First, on-the-job training for teachers. This is the main way to improve the comprehensive quality of teachers, that is, teachers constantly explore experience in practice and increase their talents. Pre-service training is given to new teachers every year, and they are given learning guidance and trial training on the history and rules and regulations of the department, so that young teachers can enter the teaching state as soon as possible. Every young teacher should undertake the work of teaching secretary, counselor and head teacher for one year to improve the teaching management ability. Provide tutors for young teachers and implement the "one-on-one" system, so that the professional quality of young teachers can be continuously improved under the training of old teachers.
The second is to carry out the activity of "being a teacher that students like". This activity can improve the relationship between teachers and students, make young teachers pay more attention to students' learning situation and mental health, and make the relationship between teachers and students more harmonious. Organize regular classroom teaching feedback, understand the teaching situation and teaching quality of young teachers, and put forward constructive opinions and suggestions to teachers in time to improve their teaching level as soon as possible.
Third, actively encourage teachers to get master's and doctoral students. The awareness of lifelong learning has been established in the whole department. While completing a large number of teaching tasks, teachers study hard and improve their own quality. Master's degree and master's degree examination have become a trend among teachers, and the proportion of master's degree and master's degree of teachers has been continuously improved.
The fourth is to create a scientific research atmosphere. The Department of Foreign Languages has formulated detailed measures for scientific research awards, giving different awards to scientific research achievements at different levels. The head of the department personally guides and leads teachers to engage in scientific research, tries to create superior conditions for teachers with scientific research ability and potential, reduces class hours and gives them time to engage in scientific research. Send teachers out to participate in high-level academic conferences and related seminars, broaden their thinking, increase their knowledge, and actively recommend scientific research results to relevant publications and publishing houses. The department uses self-raised funds to encourage teachers to publish articles in high-level journals, and at the same time seeks funds from the college to give teachers more support in scientific research.
The fifth is to send key teachers to participate in foreign language conferences at home and abroad or national professional training. By participating in various forms of meetings and training, they can broaden their knowledge horizons. Every year, more than 65,438+00 teachers are sent to universities at home and abroad for further study or hold academic conferences. Among them, Professor Liang Zhongxian has visited Australia many times. Professor Liao Chunhong was sent to the University of Edinburgh in the UK and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia for training.
The sixth is to hire well-known experts and scholars to teach in this department. In order to promote teachers' knowledge updating, we hired more than 20 experts at home and abroad and held more than 30 academic reports. In conjunction with the School of Western Languages of Heilongjiang University, American experts come to our school to give lectures and give guidance every year.
3. Curriculum construction
In 2007, Basic English II, the main course of this major, was rated as a provincial-level excellent course, which further promoted the curriculum construction and professional development. The host is Professor Liang Zhongxian, Ph.D..
In the past three years, in order to further implement the requirements of the national syllabus for English majors, this major has adjusted some courses, highlighted the status of the main courses, ensured the full class hours of basic courses, ensured the comprehensive opening of professional courses, and attached importance to the teaching of English language and literature professional knowledge, aiming at helping students lay a solid foundation in language and broaden their horizons.
Pay attention to the revision of "Talent Training Program" and optimize the curriculum system. Continue to seriously revise the talent training programs in 2005, 2006 and 2007 according to the requirements of the credit system. The guiding ideology of the revision is to make the new talent training goal realize the mutual coordination and unity of knowledge, ability and quality, and fully reflect the latest characteristics of English. In the course setting, it fully embodies the characteristics of increasing course capacity and knowledge content with more class hours and less class hours; In the module design, on the basis of fully reflecting the professional direction, elective courses are added, and the elective courses in senior grades reflect diversified subject group courses. In the subject design, English language and literature are the main subjects, and interdisciplinary is emphasized to serve the cultivation of compound talents. In teaching content, we should attach importance to teachers, strengthen students' basic teaching skills, attach importance to students' process learning, constantly update teaching methods and improve students' learning skills. Reform is carried out in the form of course examination, some courses are set as examination trees, the total number of final examination subjects is reduced, and oral examination is added to the basic course examination to strengthen the effect of students' oral learning. While strengthening specialty construction, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Education for college foreign language reform, we began to reform college English from grade 2005. Making full use of network resources, the English teaching mode, teaching methods and evaluation methods have been reformed. Adhere to the principles of graded teaching, classified guidance and target management in teaching. In the teaching content and methods, the student-oriented idea is more clearly reflected, and efforts are made to create a good independent learning environment for students that reflects individual differences and is rich in content.
4. Teaching material construction
The forerunner of curriculum construction is teaching material construction, so we have always attached importance to the teaching material construction of this major. In recent years, this major attaches great importance to the construction of teaching materials, and defines the tasks, principles, measures and procedures of teaching material construction. The college has established a scientific management method for textbook selection, and defined the basic principles of textbook selection and the specific procedures for textbook selection and evaluation. In the selection of teaching materials, teachers are encouraged to use textbooks oriented to the 2 1 century, national key construction textbooks in the ninth and tenth five-year plans, excellent original foreign textbooks and new textbooks published in recent three years. The selected textbooks are advanced in content, and they are all award-winning textbooks or textbooks designated by universities. The allocation rate of compulsory textbooks = 100%, and the allocation rate of elective textbooks exceeds 80%. For example, Contemporary College English published by Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Comprehensive Course published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press were selected as basic English courses. The English extensive reading course uses the original textbooks "College English Oral Creativity" and "College English Creative Reading" published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. In the course of Basic English, the use of textbooks has been reformed, and two sets of textbooks have been adopted at the same time. One is to study under the guidance of teachers in class, and the other is to teach students by themselves after class. Both sets of textbooks are tested during the examination, which embodies the principles of speaking, practicing, testing and measuring. Third, boldly use high-quality self-made teaching materials in elective courses, such as General Situation of Britain and America, Selected Reading of British and American Literature History and Works, Appreciation of British and American Short Stories, etc. In order to adapt to the changes in the level of learning sources after the expansion of undergraduate enrollment, we have updated basic English, English audio-visual speaking, English writing, general situation of Britain and the United States and other textbooks in recent five years.
5. Scientific research achievements
In the past three years, teachers of this major have published academic works 1 department, teaching materials 12, and 208 academic papers, including 48 journal papers above the core, covering teaching research, teaching achievements and academic research. This major has continuously increased investment in scientific research projects, and teachers' awareness of scientific research projects has increased year by year. At present, he has presided over or participated in the national project 1, the provincial project 17 and the school project 18, and completed the task with high quality on schedule, which was well received by experts. * * * teachers of this major have won 2 provincial awards, including 1 1, including 2 second prizes for excellent teaching achievements at the provincial level in Heilongjiang province. In the summer of 2006, we jointly held the 12th annual meeting of English teaching in Northeast China with Heilongjiang University.
6. Basic conditions of teaching
My major * * * has teaching equipment worth 3.7 million yuan. 10 set of multimedia language laboratory, with 773 seats; Among them, two 168-seat language laboratories, with advanced equipment, can be called first-class in the province, specially for students to study online. Two sets of multifunctional audio-visual rooms with seats of *** 160.
There are 4 197 kinds of books in the department reference room, with 7643 volumes. Among them, there are 7203 Chinese professional books, 276 English professional drawings and 440 books.
There are 705 volumes of domestic periodicals 109 related to this subject in the department reference room for students to read. There are 47 original foreign periodicals with 82 volumes. It can meet the needs of undergraduate students in learning, scientific research and writing papers.
These academic materials reflect the cutting-edge information of academic research and teaching of English language and literature, and can provide consulting services for scientific research and teaching of English subjects, so that teachers of this major can keep abreast of the development trends of other universities and other countries in related aspects in their teaching and research activities. All books and materials can be used by teachers and students of this major, which provides convenience for teachers and students to understand, master and use the latest scientific research information at home and abroad, and can meet the needs of teaching and scientific research of this major.
In order to meet the needs of modern network construction and enable students to make full use of network resources, the school has built a computer room with 1006 people surfing the internet at the same time on the third and fourth floors of the comprehensive building, which can be used for college foreign language network teaching, greatly increasing the opportunities for students to get information online and get more online course services. At the same time, the English education department has also established a foreign language audio-visual resource database for teachers. This resource library is full of original foreign language resources, such as listening materials for English majors of all grades, and a large number of original movies for English majors. These resources not only facilitate teachers' teaching, but also provide fresh resources for improving students' listening and speaking ability.
7. Graduation thesis and educational practice
The graduation thesis of this major mainly focuses on English language, literature and culture, and the topics of the thesis mainly involve linguistics, British and American literature, comparative literature, cross-cultural communication, teaching methods and translation. Under the guidance of the writing teacher, students conduct topic selection, outline writing and information inquiry.
The excellent graduation thesis in recent three years shows that the students of this major have good independent thinking, problem finding, problem solving and comprehensive practical ability. The different themes around the paper reflect the scientific research interests and concerns of college students in the new era, as well as their basic ability to use English language. The students made a careful investigation and analysis of the research topic. The thesis conforms to the standard of graduation thesis writing, with clear structure, rigorous logic and sufficient argumentation. Most papers are fluent in language and can be used freely. The paper meets the requirements of undergraduate professional syllabus and has high quality.
The construction of practice base is in good condition. First, all the middle schools in the city are our practice bases. At present, there are 69 internship bases in * * *, which can meet the internship needs of students in school. We can exchange what we need, invite excellent middle school teachers to give a report on middle school curriculum reform, and let college students know the current situation of middle school English teaching. Students can listen to middle school teachers' English classes and learn middle school teaching methods during their probation. Second, during the internship, all interns can attend classes in the internship base, apply the teaching theory they have learned in school to teaching practice, explore experience in practice, improve themselves, make themselves a mature teacher as soon as possible, and make full preparations for becoming a qualified middle school teacher in the future.
8, teaching effect and quality of personnel training
This major attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' language ability and encourages students to participate in various scientific research activities and English competitions. In recent years, he has won more than 0 times in the national skills competition 10. Tang, a 2002 student, won the second prize in the National Dandelion Cup English Speech Competition. Because students participate in teaching and research projects and speed up the process of project completion, some student papers can be published in national journals, and students in our department have published more than 10 papers.
Graduates 1000 people, graduates are very popular with employers. The employment rate of the first three graduates has reached 100%. 98% of the graduates entered the field of education, and 40% of the graduates worked in universities, such as Heilongjiang Institute of Science and Technology, harbin university of science and technology, Changchun Normal University, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao Branch, etc. Many students entered provincial key middle schools, such as Harbin No.1 Middle School, Tianjin No.4 Middle School and Beijing No.14 Middle School, and the remaining 2% were engaged in other occupations (joining the army and foreign companies). Due to the excellent quality of graduates, they have been widely praised by employers such as Harbin No.1 Middle School and Yanshan University Qinhuangdao Branch, which has driven many universities to compete for English majors in our department. The employment rate of the last four graduates reached more than 90%, of which 80% were employed in high schools and junior high schools in the province, some in county-level cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and some in junior high schools and primary schools in central cities like Shanghai. The graduates recognized the teaching work of my major, and they unanimously reflected: First, they laid a solid foundation in the basic stage, students have excellent basic skills, pure and authentic pronunciation and intonation, and have great potential for future development; Second, the quality of students as teachers is high, even better than some key universities.
Third, the characteristics of English majors
1, characteristics and advantages of educational reform:
(1) In view of the complicated situation of students after the expansion of higher education, English majors have implemented hierarchical teaching reform, adopting different teaching contents and methods for students at different levels, and truly implementing the teaching concept of "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude".
(2) After the freshmen enter school every year, a "Phonetic Research Month" is held to correct students' pronunciation and solve students' pronunciation and intonation problems;
(3) Compiling the complete set of examination questions of foreign language courses, determining the examination questions of each course, increasing the proportion of subjective questions, and solving the standard problems of testing students' ability and teachers' evaluation of students; The determination of test questions directly affects the reform of teachers' teaching content and teaching methods.
(4) Formulating and issuing the Notice of the Department of Foreign Languages on Reforming the Examination Form of Basic Foreign Language Courses, reforming the credits of basic English courses and implementing structural credits. Take out 1 credits from the basic English credits of each semester for students' oral test, so that the written test credits and oral test credits together constitute the complete credits of this course. The oral test is a process test, which is conducted three times per semester; It solves the problem of students' lack of motivation in process learning and changes terminal learning into process learning.
(5) Edit and print "18 Selected Works of English Majors", the content of which is mainly taken from the classic articles in the textbook, which solves the material problem of oral English test for basic English courses. In order to standardize and institutionalize the basic oral English test, we have formulated the "Reciting Standard of Classic Selected Works of Foreign Languages Department", which solves the problem of the quality evaluation standard of the oral English test of this course. This teaching reform won the second prize of teaching achievement in Heilongjiang Province.
(6) With the classroom teaching, the second classroom activities of English drama club, pronunciation training and English prose poetry club were carried out, which solved the problem of practice and extension of the first classroom knowledge and improved students' professional learning ability, practical ability, innovation ability, communication ability and social adaptability.
(7) May of each year will be designated as English Skills Learning Month, and colorful learning skills activities will be carried out, such as bilingual speech contest, bilingual blackboard writing contest, bilingual story meeting, English courseware making contest, class teacher skill contest, comprehensive knowledge contest, etc. Create opportunities to show students' talents and become a big training for students before graduation.
2. Training of teachers' characteristic talents: learning skills and professional second classroom activities.
The characteristic of English education major is that students have excellent teaching ability in the future and can be competent for the work of middle school teachers, so we pay attention to the cultivation of teaching skills when students enter school. First of all, train English pronunciation and intonation, focusing on students reading and reciting texts; Second, under the guidance of professional teachers, hold oral English, oral English, reading and listening competitions, award first, second and third prizes, and encourage and recommend students to participate in oral English competitions at or above the provincial level. For example, class 2002 student Tang won the first prize in municipal, provincial and national English speech contests; Third, actively carry out the second classroom activities and extend the basic training in class to extracurricular activities. The Department of Foreign Languages * * * launched the 16 professional association, which held activities once a week; Fourthly, combined with the teaching method course, the internship activities before the internship and strict microteaching were seriously carried out, and each student conducted at least 2-3 rounds of microteaching one by one to make full preparations for the internship. Fifth, in order to strengthen teachers' skills training, we hold a "skills activity month" once a year, hold various forms of skills competitions with classes as units, invite excellent middle school teachers to give lectures and give on-site guidance in our department, fully practice students' teacher skills, and lay a solid foundation for being a qualified middle school teacher in the future. The annual Christmas party is a concentrated display of the achievements of English majors.
3, strengthen the construction of rules and regulations:
(1) The management system of this major is sound, which determines the central position of teaching. More than a dozen rules and regulations, such as Regulations on the Management of Teachers, Regulations on the Management of Teaching Work, and Measures for Rewarding Scientific Research Achievements, have been formulated successively, which put forward clear requirements for the construction of teaching style and study style, ensured teachers' energy input in teaching, and made daily teaching work scientific, standardized and orderly.
(2) Interim Measures for Quantitative Assessment of Teaching Management Performance of Foreign Languages Department was issued. It is to quantify the teaching links of teachers into a certain score, and implement unified performance and pay according to work. This system greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of teachers. The director of the teaching and research section keeps track of teachers' teaching work, puts forward different assessment objectives for teachers with different titles, and standardizes the teaching management of English majors.
(3) We also implemented the practice of transferring the teaching management right to the teaching and research section. In recent years, the scale of foreign languages department has been expanding, and it is far from enough to rely solely on the director or teaching director to manage it. We mobilized the director of the teaching and research section to participate in the teaching inspection at the beginning, middle and end of the semester. After training, they have been able to work independently and solve some specific problems, such as four-level counseling, students' professional competitions, extracurricular activities and so on. Under their organization, they are methodical and have achieved remarkable results.
(4) In order to strengthen students' learning autonomy and change students' exam-oriented learning into process learning, the Foreign Languages Department has reformed the basic course examination, and included the oral test results in the total credit examination as reciting classic articles. The oral examination is divided into three times: the first, the middle and the last, and the total score is accumulated. In this way, students will continue to practice oral English, and change the final exam into a process exam, which has achieved remarkable results. In order to make the examination more scientific and systematic, we selected 18 classic reciting articles, edited them into volumes, and made them into tapes to distribute to students. In order to standardize the examination form and content, we have compiled the Encyclopedia of Examination Questions of Foreign Language Courses, which has detailed provisions for all foreign language specialized courses, and will be implemented as a guiding document for foreign language departments in the future.
(5) In order to help counselors do a better job in students' work and improve students' academic performance more effectively, the English Education Department began to implement the student management tutorial system and tutorial system in June 2007. The main method is to equip junior students with counselors and students step by step to help counselors strengthen the overall management of students and make teaching and educating people coordinated and unified.