Empirical Study on “EGP+ESPâ€-Based College English Curriculum Reform in Application-oriented Universities: A Case Study

Abstract

Before the formulation of Guidelines on College English Teaching, different types of universities have already made attempts on the English-teaching reforms in accordance with their own objectives of talents training. After a thorough survey, we made an empirical research on the “EGP+ESPâ€-based college English curriculum reform which was carried out among 1796 non-English major students of Grade 2014 and Grade 2015 in Huaihua University. The result shows that 88.07% of the students think it is necessary to open ESP courses and intercultural communication courses; 60.96% think it’s reasonable to pass CET-6 before selecting ESP; 44.1% and 25.47% of the students prefer the courses that aim to improve English speaking and listening ability; 39.2% care whether the elective courses are helpful for employment; 43.2% concern whether the course can improve their humanities; 12% are interested in whether the course is helpful for postgraduate study or studying abroad; only 27.78% of the students think their selection of courses isn’t influenced by their classmates; 65.54% of the students think the ESP courses should be conducted in the form of discussion; 55.56% and 31.37% tend to choose the open-book examination or writing course paper.