A Study Of Business English Course Design Upon Constructivism

As a modern burgeoning educational psychology theory—constructivism advocates that learning is a "learner-centered" process of constructing meaning actively and emphasizes that the initiation, socialization, and situation of the learning process. By utilizing constructivist epistemology, constructivist learning theory and constructivist learning environment theory, this thesis analyzes the Business English course design of five colleges in Changchun city and design the questions in the light of which the interviews have been conducted. Questionnaire for the teachers, Questionnaire for undergraduates and Questionnaire for the graduated have been designed, distributed and collected in order to design a tentative college Business English Course Syllabus upon Constructivism. Major problems are found that the arrangement of practical courses couldn't fulfill the needs of students, courses are disconnected and isolated from each other, class hours and credits are unreasonable and multimedia instruments are seldom used. Major findings have been sorted out. Firstly, constructivism can be utilized in Business English course design. Secondly, the proportion of practical courses may be improved. Thirdly, the skill courses might be integrated. Finally, more multimedia should be utilized in the Business English course design. The limitations lie in the unexhaustion of research coverage, the unavoidable subjectivity of interviewees and the limited guidance of constructivism. Therefore, suggestions are made that more research should be carried out in Business English course design and its scope should be extended to the whole country.