Author(s)

Xueyu Sun ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages , Jiangsu Open University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Corresponding Author

Xueyu Sun

ABSTRACT

With the universal education of English language in China for the past decades, the college students have acquired the language knowledge at different levels after years of English education, but there exists a common phenomenon that most of them lack the ability to use the language and can not  conduct smooth intercultural communication. Researchers of different disciplines have tried to find a solution to the problem from different perspectives such as linguistics, pedagogy or brain science, but the problem still cannot be solved effectively. Ecological linguistics focuses on the dynamics and systematicness of language learning, which provides a new perspective for language teaching research and a theoretical support for the construction of a positively more developed model of language teaching. So it can provide a certain enlightenment for changing the current situation of college English teaching in China.

KEYWORDS

Ecolinguistics, College english teaching and learning, Evaluation system

CITE THIS PAPER

Xueyu Sun. Ecological Linguistics--a New Research Perspective on College English Teaching. Advances in Vocational and Technical Education (2021) 3: 28-31. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/avte.2021.030108.

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