1. Curriculum design pays attention to conforming to the natural laws of language learning. Each unit consists of three parts: watching, listening and speaking. First "read" the main idea, then "listen" the details, and finally "say" it, so as to truly turn English among foreigners into our own.
2. Training in phonetics, grammar points, language difficulties and vocabulary. It is systematic and profound, with special emphasis on practical training of these learning contents. At the same time, the course "Audio-visual Speaking" gives full play to the advantages of multimedia, provides students with rich language reference materials, and combines the daily life, customs and cultural background knowledge of Britain and the United States, which is beneficial for students to communicate with foreigners correctly in English.
3. The listening materials are rich in content and novel in selection; Video and recording materials are vivid and true, with natural speech speed and strong practicability, involving many English accents; Listening practice design highlights its practicability as much as possible, and also trains students to master the common language expressions of a certain function and topic. Adhere to the principle of combining listening training with oral training and promoting each other.
4. The oral practice of each unit also highlights its practicality, combining the context of China and the actual situation of college students in China, so that students have the opportunity to express their true thoughts. Common words, phrases and indicative language expressions help students to conduct listening and speaking training on a certain language function and topic. In addition, the design of oral practice is rich and colorful, from controlled to free. Oral practice is diverse and interesting, which is used to guide students to understand the content of listening training. Listening materials provide language expression for subsequent oral activities, which can greatly improve students' learning efficiency.
5. Learning software design pays attention to the management and quality control of learning process. Each level has about 12 learning units, 3 stage tests and 1 level tests. The study time of each level is one semester. Learning content is basically arranged according to common language functions and common language topics, and the principle of selecting and sorting functions and topics is mainly to consider their commonality.
6. The application of advanced multimedia and information technology makes the software more powerful, practical and humanized. Advanced technologies such as speech recognition, speech speed control, recording comparison, difficulty selection and control, high-definition audio-visual presentation, instant image formation and summative evaluation are widely used in audio-visual learning software, which makes the software have unique advantages in stimulating students' interest, mobilizing students' enthusiasm and meeting students' personalized learning needs.
7. It is highly compatible with CET-4 and CET-6 in content and form. The training, testing methods, means of realization, judging principles, difficulty of learning content and presentation form of various skills such as sight-seeing, listening and speaking meet the characteristics and requirements of computer network examination. Students can not only really improve their practical English application ability, but also improve their ability to take various English proficiency tests at home and abroad through the study of audio-visual and oral courses.
8. The network-aided management platform is powerful, convenient for teaching and teaching management, and truly realizes the organic interaction at all levels and links such as "teaching-learning-practice-examination-evaluation-management". The "Reading, Writing and Translation" series of textbooks for New Era Interactive English (New Edition) consists of books for students, MP3 discs attached with books, teaching reference books, supporting CNN video discs and supporting computer multimedia learning software. Various carriers of teaching resources give full play to their respective advantages, and the teaching contents and functions complement each other. Classroom teaching and computer network autonomous learning are closely combined. In terms of teaching content, this series of textbooks takes the overall requirements of College English Curriculum Requirements as the main teaching content, which is divided into four levels, and each level is divided into eight units. Each unit gradually improves students' comprehensive English application ability from three aspects: reading, writing and translation. This textbook has the following main features:
1. The textbook "Mothers and Parents" is accurate and fashionable, authentic in language and rich in connotation.
The materials for reading, writing and translating articles mainly come from the course "Reading" of Cai Bo English and the latest ELT course published by Senger in 2006 and 2007, which runs through a brand-new teaching concept. The topic and content of the article are close to the life of students in China. At the same time, it pays attention to expanding international horizons and emphasizing the cultivation of cross-cultural communication function and humanistic quality.
2. Reading, writing and translation are interrelated and self-contained.
Each unit of the textbook is divided into three sections: reading, writing and translation, and the content revolves around the relevant language application skills. All skills are organically combined and mutually infiltrated to help students master each individual skill.
3. Highlight the teaching principle of "teaching people to fish".
The teaching of language learning strategies runs through the whole set of teaching materials, providing corresponding learning strategies for reading, writing and translation skills, designing targeted exercises and promoting solid mastery; At the same time, the teaching of metacognitive learning strategies can cultivate students' good self-management and monitoring ability, help them form good study habits and cultivate their autonomous learning ability.
4. After-class exercises are rich and varied, emphasizing "practice first".
The series of textbooks emphasize "what to learn and what to practice", and design rich and practical after-school exercises around language knowledge and skills and learning strategies. As the main body of learning, students consolidate their learning content and display their language knowledge through classroom activities and after-class exercises, so as to promote learning through practice. In addition, the textbook also combines the characteristics and requirements of computer network examination, and specially designs computer operation exercises.
5. The network-aided management platform is powerful.
It is convenient for teaching and teaching management, and truly realizes the organic interaction at all levels and links such as "teaching-learning-practice-examination-evaluation-management".