Author(s)

Xiaochun Wu ¹, Zeyi Cai ¹, Yanli Li ², Shiyun Lin ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, 524048, China
² Yang Xianyi Middle School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, 528400, China

Corresponding Author

Xiaochun Wu

ABSTRACT

Since a series of violent protests erupted in Hong Kong in 2019, leaders of Chinese government have put patriotic education back on the agenda in face of people’s weaken patriotic sentiments in recent years, requiring the integration of patriotic education in all school courses. This article focuses on the integration of patriotic education in junior high school English courses, aiming at revealing the status quo of the practice of the integration of patriotic education in junior high school English courses on the basis of a related questionnaire survey in a southern city of China and an analysis of the questionnaire data. It also finds out in the integration process the problems and deficiencies and provides resolutions from the perspectives of teaching philosophy, teaching contents and teaching resources.

KEYWORDS

Patriotism; Patriotic Education; Junior high school English courses

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiaochun Wu, Zeyi Cai, Yanli Li, Shiyun Lin, The Integration of Patriotic Education in Junior High School English Courses—a Case Study of a Southern City in China. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 28-39. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.061205.

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