Keywords: college English implicit moral values
Colleges and universities shoulder the task of cultivating qualified talents for the society. Having both ability and political integrity is the basic requirement of the society for the quality of college students. It is the bounden sacred duty of all workers engaged in higher education to do a good job in teaching and educating people. Teaching is the central work of the school, the main way to implement intellectual education, physical education and aesthetic education, and the important link to implement moral education. The Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving College Students' Ideological and Political Education issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on June 5438+00, 2004 emphasized: "Moral education should be infiltrated into all aspects of college students' professional study and into all aspects of teaching, scientific research and social services; It is necessary to dig deep into the moral education resources of various courses and strengthen moral education in the process of imparting professional knowledge, so that students can consciously strengthen their ideological and moral cultivation and improve their moral quality in the process of learning scientific and cultural knowledge. "As a compulsory course in colleges and universities, almost all college English courses in colleges and universities have been offered for more than two academic years, with four to six class hours per week. English learning has not only mastered a foreign language, but also brought a new culture and value system. Some parts of this new culture are completely different from the traditional culture of China. College students are at an important moment in the formation of life values. Faced with different cultures and value systems, they will think for themselves, but they often feel at a loss and can't find a clear direction. Therefore, the teaching purpose of college English course cannot be limited to the cultivation of instrumental abilities such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation. We must also actively play its role in improving students' comprehensive quality, and strive to stimulate its potential moral education function, which is beneficial to students' morality, intelligence and translation.
First, recessive moral education.
Dewey, a famous educator, said: "Hidden curriculum refers to various factors that form students' informal learning, such as teacher-student relationship, ability grouping, classroom rules and levels, metaphorical teaching materials, gender differences among students and classroom reward methods. Although these elements are not clearly defined in the school curriculum, they are considered as part of the hidden, unintentional or even not fully recognized school life experience, but it is precisely these experiences that often play an effective role in students.
Implicit moral education is an important way of moral education. Making full use of hidden courses for moral education conforms to the law of people's ideological, moral and personality development. To cultivate students' good personality and ideological and moral quality, we must rely on implicit moral education to internalize this knowledge into individual values and preserve it. Educators need to choose appropriate opportunities, create certain situations, and let students get emotional experience, and show it in certain specific behaviors.
Implicit moral education in college English teaching means that moral education runs through the whole process of imparting English language knowledge and cultivating English language ability and communicative competence. Through the emotional adjustment of teaching language and the model demonstration of teaching behavior, English teachers naturally integrate English teaching content and moral education into the whole teaching process by using appropriate teaching methods, so that students can improve their aesthetic ability and moral awareness while mastering knowledge and realize comprehensive and balanced development.
Second, the hidden moral function of college English courses
1. Boot function
In the process of growing up and learning English, students will come into contact with some western cultures and form some preliminary understandings of western cultures, but these preliminary understandings are vague, even superficial or one-sided, and they are not really comprehensive, profound and meticulous understanding of western cultures. However, college students in the critical period of the formation of life values are often confused when faced with two different or even conflicting cultural value systems between the East and the West. In terms of students' ideological and moral character, behavior norms and lifestyle choices, the teaching of college English course has a subtle guiding role for college students, which affects the formation of students' values, behavior norms and ideological style. Therefore, in college English teaching, we should scientifically guide students' values, help them comprehensively and profoundly understand the connotation and essence of Chinese and western cultures, and establish a correct outlook on life and the world. College English teachers should explore and apply the moral connotation of English textbooks and teaching contents from the perspective of moral education, and naturally and appropriately extend the meaning of moral education. Through positive guidance, they persuade students and convince people by reasoning, and through repeated reinforcement, students are unconsciously influenced, so that their thoughts and behaviors are constantly consistent with the values, codes of conduct and moral quality required by society. Taking the first volume of New Comprehensive College English Course published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press as an example, the text of Uni4 American Dream has a strong guiding role in forming good values for college students. For them, the American dream means that talent and hard work can take you from the wooden house to the White House. ), teachers can guide college students to realize that only diligence and hard work can succeed.
2. Incentive function
College English course is rich in content, including meeting students' needs for knowledge, communication and emotion. Teachers can use appropriate teaching methods and language to arouse students' learning consciousness and initiative, promote students to study hard and explore the truth, goodness and beauty of life. For example, the article Unit5 Text A published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Publishing House tells the story of Michael, a blind high jumper, breaking the world record. Through Michael's motto, "If you want something, work hard." If you want something, go for it! ) to motivate students to work hard for their dreams. Teachers often say things like "I believe you can do it". I believe you can finish it. I know you have the ability to solve this problem. I know you have the ability to solve this problem. I think every student in your class can answer this question. I think every student in your class can answer this question. This kind of teaching language with encouragement and expectation can create a good educational situation and make students have positive confidence and love for life. College English course can inspire college students in many ways, make them have an enterprising mood, and also educate and inspire their thoughts.