Research On The Application Of Situational Teaching To Cultivate The Ability Of Tour Guide Explanation For Vocational School Tourism Majors

With the continuous development of China’s tourism industry,the demand for front-line tourism service personnel will continue to increase,and secondary vocational schools,as the cradle of cultivating front-line skilled talents,need to cultivate applicable talents according to the development needs of the industry.Tour guide explanation is the soul of tour guide service,and tour guide explanation ability is the professional core ability that tour guide personnel should have.As the core compulsory course of the secondary tourism major,"Local Accompaniment Tour Guide Practice" has strong practical and practical nature,which is of great significance for cultivating students’ interpretation ability and tour guide service ability.According to the investigation in this paper,it is found that the teaching of "Practice of Local Accompanying Tour Guide" in Guilin X Vocational Secondary Professional School has the following problems: the utilization rate of teaching facilities is not high,the selection of teaching environment is inappropriate,the teaching materials are not realistic,the use of situational teaching is incoherent,and the teaching evaluation design is unreasonable.Through the combing of domestic and foreign literature,it is found that the situational teaching has rich connotation,diverse forms,strong emotional interaction between teachers and students,and the situational teaching based on the position of local escort tour guide is in line with the training needs of teaching talents of the course "Practice of Local Accompanying Tour Guide" in the middle school.However,its applicability in the secondary tourism profession needs to be verified urgently,so this paper puts forward the research objective of cultivating the tour guide interpretation ability of secondary vocational tourism students,and combines the situational teaching with the teaching of tour guide interpretation skills to explore the situational teaching mode to cultivate the tour guide interpretation ability of secondary vocational tourism students.The content of this study mainly consists of the following five parts:The first part is the introduction.It mainly expounds the research background,research purpose and research significance,research status at home and abroad,research ideas and methods,and lays a theoretical foundation for the research of this paper.The second part is related concepts and theoretical foundations.It mainly defines the concepts of situational teaching,tour guide explanation ability and middle-level "Local Accompanying Tour Guide Practice" course,analyzes the theoretical basis of situational teaching implementation,and further provides theoretical guarantee for the research of this paper.The third part is the research on the talent demand of tourism enterprises and secondary vocational schools.In the form of interviews,questionnaires and classroom observations,interviews with the managers of travel agencies(scenic spots)to understand the job settings and talent needs of travel agencies(scenic spots);Questionnaire survey of tourists to understand the requirements of tourists for tour guides(docents);The questionnaire survey of students was conducted to understand and analyze the cognition of secondary vocational students on the course and teaching evaluation of "Local Accompanying Tour Guide Practice",the understanding of secondary vocational students on situational teaching,and the learning preferences and behaviors of secondary vocational students.Questionnaire survey of students to understand and analyze the cognition of tour guide interpretation ability and cognition of guide word creation,language expression,explanation skills and situational language of secondary vocational students;Teachers were interviewed to understand their views on the original class mode and students’ tour guide interpretation ability,which provided a basis for the situational teaching design studied in this paper.The fourth part is the situational teaching design to cultivate the guiding ability of secondary vocational students.According to the existing situational teaching mode and design principles,the situational teaching mode designed by teachers is mainly divided into four parts: preliminary analysis,teaching resource design,teaching process design and teaching evaluation,and the specific implementation path of situational teaching includes six links: "preliminary preparation,situation introduction,situation experience,activity exploration,achievement display,and after-class development".The fifth part is the application and effect analysis of the situational teaching of "Local Accompanying Tour Guide Practice" for middle jobs.Combined with the teaching characteristics and teaching status of the course "Practice of Local Accompanying Tour Guides",teachers apply the designed situational teaching to the course of "Practice of Local Accompanying Tour Guides".After the implementation of situational teaching,the implementation effect was analyzed by means of pre-and post-assessment results,tour guide explanation skills competition results,questionnaire surveys,interviews,etc.,and testified to the effectiveness of the situational teaching designed by teachers in cultivating students’ tour guide interpretation ability in the course "Practice of Accompanying Tour Guides".The practical results show that the application of situational teaching in the course of "Ground Accompanying Tour Guide" is helpful to cultivate students’ tour guide interpretation ability,which is manifested as situational teaching can improve students’ language expression,improve students’ explanation skills,improve students’ situational language and enhance students’ writing thinking.