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What kind of course is comprehensive English?
Comprehensive English refers to listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. Comprehensive English, published by Xi Jiaotong University Press in 2008, is based on the syllabus of English for non-English majors (the first foreign language) of the Ministry of Education, aiming at improving students' comprehensive skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation.

With the economic globalization and increasing international communication, improving students' language application ability has become the focus of foreign language teachers in colleges and universities.

Comprehensive English Course, a series of English Textbooks for Postgraduates' Innovative Education, is compiled in accordance with the teaching objectives set by the English Syllabus for Non-English Majors (First Foreign Language) of the Ministry of Education, focusing on language foundation and cultivating students' language application ability.

Taking reading as the starting point, we should cultivate students' comprehensive skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, consolidate and improve students' basic language knowledge and language application skills, and comprehensively improve students' comprehensive language application ability.

The compilation of Comprehensive English starts from students' reality, starts from Band 4, and follows the law of step by step. The teaching materials are divided into one or two volumes, which are equipped with supporting teachers' books, covering the basic stage of postgraduate teaching, and can also be selected relatively independently to make the teaching more targeted.

Comprehensive English has a wide selection of materials and keeps pace with the times. It not only involves many hot topics in today's society, such as society, economy, education, culture, science and technology, but also contains original literary works interspersed with inspirational, energy saving, lunar exploration and other emerging themes.

On the one hand, it embodies strong practicality and academics, on the other hand, it is extremely readable and interesting. At the same time, the content of the article is profound, which is suitable for discussion teaching in English learning at the postgraduate level, so as to achieve the purpose of activating and enlightening thinking.