当代美国外语教育政策变化分析
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关键词:英语论文范文美国外语教育政策外语教育改革比较教育
摘要:本文是英语论文范文,本文研究美国外语教育制度的变化,了解其特点,分析其经验,目的是为了在深化我们对美国外语教育制度的认识,以他人为鉴,从而为我国外语教育制度的调整提供有益的参考。
Chapter IIntroduction
1.1 Research Background
Language, as a communicative intermediary, is delivery of thoughts, conveyor ofinformation, and carrier of culture. It has been playing an essential role in the processof human development. As the pace of economic globalization and internationalcultural exchange accelerates, foreign language has even more essential functionstoday. Commanding at least one foreign language has become an essential need formost people in order to survive and develop. In today's world, with the increasingfrequency of economic and cultural communication activities around the globe, publicdiplomacy has become an irresistible trend. People should have foreign languageskills so as to undertake intercultural communication missions. However,how peopleperform in international communication by using foreign language is,to a great extent,decided by a nation's foreign language
Education policy. A nation's foreign languageeducation policy is, nevertheless,closely connected with its national interest.Therefore, foreign language education policy matters vitally in the sense of not onlypersonal development to every individual but also strategic development to the nationas a whole.As the biggest developed country in the world, the United States experiencedmajor policy changes in its contemporary foreign language education. To illustrate, in1958, the U.S. Department of Education enacted ''National Defense Education Act'. Itpromoted the education of 'New Three Skills” for the first time in
history. Modemforeign languages was emphasized as well as natural science and mathematics for thepurpose of national defense. In 1983,the National Commission on Excellence inEducation presented “A Nation at Risk: An Imperative for Educational ReforrrT? Itproposed that the education on foreign languages should be attached great importanceto as much as it was attached to English and mathematics. This report opened a newera of foreign language education in the United States. In 1996,the American Councilon the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proposed ''National Standards inForeign Language Education Project' and issued “Standards for Foreign LanguageLearning in the 21st Century'. This document put forward the “Five Cs' guidingtheory (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons and Communities),providing standards for foreign language learning in the upcoming century.
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1.2 Significance of the Study
The research is of both theoretical and practical significance. Theoreticallyspeaking, the combing and reviewing of the major policy changes in contemporaryU.S. foreign language education could enrich the relevant theories of domesticresearch on the U.S. foreign language education. Practically speaking, the fruit of thisstudy could provide useful references for adjusting,enacting, and implementingforeign language education policies in China.
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1.3 Purposes of the Study
The research purposes of this study are; 1. To review the major policy changes incontemporary U.S. foreign language education. 2. To analyze the characteristics andhistorical experience and lessons of the major policies changes in the U.S. foreignlanguage education. 3. To present possible recommendations for adjusting theenactment and implementation of foreign language education policies in China byusing the U.S. case as references.
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