An Exploratory Reform in Separation of Teaching and Examination for Postgraduate Academic English Course Based on POA ()
ABSTRACT
Based on the survey of academic English abilities and learning needs of
non-English major postgraduates at Inner Mongolia University, China. The study explores the curriculum reform scheme of general academic
English for postgraduates under the guidance of Production-oriented
Approach, and carries out the separation reform in teaching and examination of
postgraduate academic English. The teaching concept of “promoting learning with
pragmatic purpose” in Production-oriented
Approach (POA) is applied to the teaching of graduate students’ academic
English writing. Combined with computer technology and related products
developed by Beijing Tianyan Rongzhi Software Co., Ltd., a number of open
question banks conforming to POA summative evaluation are constructed, and the POA
teaching evaluation model is applied to the summative assessment of the course.
The results indicate that the new teaching model based on POA realizes the
transformation of students from merely learning English to pragmatically using
English. The academic writing task assigned by the teacher promotes postgraduates to earnestly apply what they
have learned in class to practice, which is of great help to their writing academic abstracts and research papers in English, and greatly enhances their
confidence in reading English literature and publishing English academic papers
independently. The curriculum assessment adopting separation between teaching and examination enables students to show
more initiative to expand their academic knowledge and their English thinking
while learning the classroom content, so that the cases of getting high scores
via a frantic last-minute effort will be apparently reduced, and the assessment
for their achievements in the course will become more efficient and fair.
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Wu, Z. and Wei, L. (2022) An Exploratory Reform in Separation of Teaching and Examination for Postgraduate Academic English Course Based on POA.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
10, 279-289. doi:
10.4236/jss.2022.103021.