在推进微生物学课程全英文教学中提升课堂教学效果的探索

Improving the teaching efficacy while promoting the whole English teaching of Microbiology courses

摘要:

目前在全球化形势下，推进全英文教学对于国际合作与交流至关重要。但是如何让全英文教学不流于形式，使其能与提高教学质量充分结合、相辅相成，从而使全英文教学真正起到传授知识、搭建科学体系、提升学生兴趣、引领科学思维及知识应用的目的，值得探究。在近几年来的教学过程中，我们采用循序渐进的方式，从专业基础课“微生物学”的双语教学，推进至专业选修课“微生物遗传学”的全英文教学。在教学内容上，由浅入深，由面至点，将基础知识与实验技术贯通讲解；在教学方法和手段上，充分运用课上测验、课后作业与课上分析讨论等多种形式，达到了全英文授课与提升学生注意力、灵活运用知识能力相结合的目的。经过几年的不断探索与实践，全英文授课调动了学生积极参与和主动学习的热情，使学生在充分掌握课堂内容的基础上，锻炼了使用英文进行学习、探索、解决问题和交流的能力。学生学习兴趣和热情的激发也检验了全英文的教学效果。

Abstract:

In the current era of globalization, it is very important to promote English teaching for international cooperation and communication. However, how to avoid the English teaching becoming formalistic is a serious question. It is worth exploring to efficiently integrate English communication with knowledge impartment, so that the English teaching can really achieve the goals of building up a system of microbial knowledge, enhancing students’ interests, inspiring scientific thinking and knowledge application. Over the past few years, we adopted a gradual way to transit from a bilingual teaching of Microbiology to the whole English teaching of Microbiology genetics. The teaching contents are structured in ways that are from superficial to deep, from general to specific. Meanwhile, we devoted the teaching to the combination of basic knowledge and experimental technology. A various forms of teaching such as class test, after-school homework and class analysis and discussion have been involved to improve the teaching quality. After several years of continuous exploration and practice, English teaching has mobilized students’ active participation and learning, enabling students to exercise their ability to learn, explore, solve problems and communicate in English. The stimulation of students’ learning interest and enthusiasm demonstrated the effectiveness of the English teaching.