Exploring the Ways to Improve the Comprehensive Quality of College English Teachers on the Basis of Analyzing Students’ Response to College English Follow-up Courses

Abstract

Most colleges and universities have offered four-semester college English courses for non-English majors for a long time. At present, China is in a critical period of social transformation and development of higher education, college English teaching reform has once again become a social concern. English for general purpose( EGP) is not helpful for the students to improve their comprehensive language ability and now the students’ recognition towards EGP is getting lower and lower. It is high time that each university should set up appropriate follow-up courses for students of different English levels and different majors. Although some universities has tried to offered such courses, the students are not very satisfied with the current courses. The teaching effect is not ideal. One of the key influential factor is the teachers who are the main performers of teaching. Therefore, it is necessary to take measures to help the college English teachers to improve their overall quality so as to provide the students with more and high-quality follow-up courses. By analyzing the students’ need for follow-up courses under the new situation, this paper combs the abilities and qualities that college English teachers lack in teaching follow-up courses, and then discusses the ways to improve the comprehensive qualities of college English teachers, which is of great significance in promoting college English reform and teachers’ professional development.