Efficiency Orientation:the Study Of College English Instruction Time Management

The College English is designed as a national compulsory course for the undergraduate students of universities in China. Since1980s, the College English has become the most popular and populated course in Chinese universities which is facilitated by the Ministry of Education, especially by its policy like 《College English Curriculum》 and 《College English Curriculum Requirement》 as well as officially-planned English teaching textbooks and the National College English Tests (Band4&Band6). The College English is so influecial and highly-emphasised that it can be called a national key course.The concern that the Ministry of Education has on the College English results from the strategy of the national development and the policy of openness to the world.It is logical that the investment of the Ministry on the College English Instruction requires pay-back.However, for quite a long time, the despute on "time-consuming and low-efficiency" of College English Instruction has lingered on. It may well be the fact that the students who passed the National College English Tests (Band4or Band6) are still weak in English listening and speaking as well as reading and writing. As a result, it is necessary for us to clear up the controverce on the problem of time-utilization and the efficiency in the College English Instruction and do a careful research on it.Overviewing actual situation of the College English Instruction, one may see quite a few dilemmas such as limited instruction time, heavy teaching tasks, a big quantity of students, large classes, weak faculty and test-oriented teaching design, etc. Moreover, the misunderstanding at the reform of the College English Instruction is prevellent. Many teaching methods and techniques are frequently and blindly at trial which look ostentatious but are in low efficiency. These kinds of teaching measures confuse teaching objectives and lead chaos in teaching procedures which often make students feel uneasy and encumbers teaching efficiency, which is the real situation and bachground faced by the present research.It is postulated that the instruction of College English should be effective at nurturing students to be the talents suitable to the era of globalization. Thus, how to reform the College English instruction and promote the teaching efficiency in accordant with College English Curriculum Requirement issued by the Ministry of Eduction, especially with its criterion in quality and ablity of the talents, is the aim of the research.The present thesis is focused on "efficiency orientation"in the time management in the College English instruction so as to clarify the value of the time-management in such a situation.The analysis will be conducted with the framework in three dimentions of "State-timing, College-timing and Teacher-timing", that is, the time-management in the College English teaching is surveyed from macro-perspective of state level to micro-ones of teacher level in order to find the way to promote the more efficient and effective College English teaching.Concerning methodology of the thesis, literature review, questionnaire, statisitic analysis and case study will be applied to reveal the current situation of the time-management in the College English teaching and explore the values, attributes, connotations and at last suitable strategies of that time-management.In accordenth with the framework of the analysis for the thesis, the State-timing is surveyed with literature review, the College-timing with questionnaire and statistic analysis and Teacher-timing with classroom observations as well as interviews.For the investigation,68college-timing samples and3teacher-timing samples will be selected from three sorts of Chinese universities, which are the comprehensive universities, guild universities and foreign language universities.It is hopeful that by literature review and investigation above, the crucial problems and the problem-solving strategies will be found out which may well be very much beneficial to the time-management in the College English Instruction.The effort to improving the efficiency of the time-management in the College English Instruction includes three aspects in accordant with the theme as follows. The State-timing requires the accordance between state level, college level and teacher (as well as student) level. The College-timing explores multi-needs fitting, localization, curriculum planning and in-time guidance. The Teacher-timing pursues teacher autonomy, enlightment on time’s value, suitable time strategies and academic qualification.The present author attempts to take the time management in three dimentions as an approach to display vulberability in the College English Instruction and suggest some effective strategies to adjuct it. The value of the time-management lies in the efficiency improvement as the conlusion of the thesis, which may well be the case and needs more probe in future.