The Content-based Instruction in Campaign English Teaching

Abstract

Based on the theory of ESP, the teacher should employ the content-based instruction, through which students can complete different learning tasks with full input of rich knowledge and language at the same time a large quantity of language output activities are put into practice. What is more, the teaching method is able to tap the students’ potential of independent thinking ability and self-study, cultivate the cooperative spirit among students, and strengthen the interactivity between the teacher and students. Campaign English is opened for the military cadet based on the reality and the current international political and military situation, abiding by the curriculum standard of college English and the college English course teaching standard for military colleges. Its deep reason is to cultivate the talents with high quality so only the college English is far away from enough. At this critical moment, campaign English is especially important. According to Wang, an intensive English education direction change is urgently needed, which means only teaching and learning of college English is not enough and the direction should be transferred to EGP+.