ABSTRACT
Like most English major teaching, vocational English education presents certain limitation with its fast development in China. Seen from basic teaching condition, there is a lack of normalization in English textbooks adopted by vocational college students. In the early days, these colleges with short running time had no special English textbooks, adopting the same textbooks of undergraduate education. This behavior ignored the characteristic and special social responsibility of vocational education, and caused trouble to teacher-student English course activities during the practice. Students failed to adapt course difficulty and schedule, which influenced their learning quality and the enthusiasm in English subjects. In the next years, the government unified teaching textbooks for the regulation of teaching activities and teacher behavior in colleges. However, there are cases where some colleges still use self-compiled
1 INTRODUCTION
With the popularization of higher education, teaching activities have widespread promotion in various vocational colleges. They act as the bond of schools and society, aiming to provide tremendous young professionals for social production. However, considering weak school condition and teaching resource of most vocational colleges, there is a doubt about the effect of vocational education as well as the professional quality of their graduates, which also concern students, parents and enterprises. Although currently the government has increased funding and policy support for vocational education, more efforts of schools and educators are required in complex teaching links in order to really turn the input into reasonable educational output [1]. It is necessary to consolidate vocational education advantages and introduce new teaching concept and mode for the improvement of teaching work and the quality optimization of talent cultivation during the long-term practice and run-in period. The teaching exploration, with social responsibility and significance, needs frontline teachers’ breakthroughs from fix thinking mode as well as strong coordination and support of students and their colleges [2]. These measures will ensure smooth process of the improvement activities and bring good achievements.
