From May 17 to 19, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Institute of Foreign Languages of Southwest Jiaotong University jointly hosted the Teaching Reform Seminar and Teaching Open Week for New Era English majors. This open week is carefully designed based on the “Core English Course for the New Era” series of textbooks. The keynote report and special report convey the new ideas of reform. The teaching innovation design is discussed through the introduction and evaluation of courses, and the teaching practice is vividly demonstrated in real classes. The whole session was live streamed online. Members of the English Teaching Guidance Sub-Committee of the Ministry of Education, foreign language education experts, the teaching team of the Institute of Foreign Languages of Southwest Jiaotong University and nearly ten thousand teachers watched, delved into and discussed teaching together, in order to contribute new perspectives and ideas to the curriculum reform and teaching innovation of English majors in the new era.

Miss. Zhang Juyan from our department participated in the two major links of “Teaching and Evaluating Lessons” and “Open Class”. In the section of “Teaching and Evaluating”, she introduced the teaching concept, teaching process, teaching design and teaching organization activities of “Comprehensive English 2”, and showed the learning situation analysis, teaching objectives, class arrangement, activity design, evaluation scheme and unit sample lessons of the comprehensive English courses. Her detailed teaching design fully demonstrates her deep understanding of teaching and learning.

(Miss. Zhang Juyan participated in the section of Teaching and Evaluating Lessons)

(Miss. Zhang Juyan’s wonderful performance in “Open Class”)

The “Open Classroom” section of this Open Week is a highlight. Teachers participating can directly and fully observe the teaching design and the performance of teachers and students through live streaming, and exchange teaching experience and learn from teaching practice. On 15th and 17th respectively, Ms. Zhang Juyan conducted two live broadcasts of real class teaching with a total of 4 credit hours, showing the practical teaching operation of comprehensive English courses for English majors in our department in real time. Mr. Zhang’s calm and atmospheric teaching style, clear teaching ideas and simple teaching content arrangement have been widely praised by the teachers.

She said after class, “This is a new challenge, but also a valuable learning opportunity. Although I successfully completed the task of live broadcasting, I still feel there are many shortcomings. I deeply feel that there is never the best in this matter of teaching, and only continuous efforts leads to better consequence, continue to improve.”