Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
With the improvement of China’s overall national strength and the deepening international communication, English language is becoming an important instrument to Chinese people. In medical field, English is completely necessary for medical workers’ daily work and professional development. It has become one of the basic skills to modern medical workers.Unfortunately, the higher vocational education nowadays is not perfect and faces more and more opportunities and challenges. Most students in higher vocational college have a low English level when they enter colleges. Some come from villages and towns where the level of English teaching is low and unsatisfying. These students speak English with a heavy accent and lack of enough English knowledge such as vocabulary, grammar, translation and writing, etc. As a result, they own a strong sense of inferiority and show little interest in class activities. They are even afraid of communicating with teachers owing to no confidence. As for the other students who are from cities, they also have some problems in learning English. Although most of them have a better English foundation than the former, they are learning English passively and lack of motivation. Because of the requirement of future career, they spend more time on the specialized courses and look down upon English learning. All these behaviors have a great influence on the English motivation of the learners.Therefore, many scholars manage to find an effective and efficient approach to solve this problem. Widdowson (1978) proposed a new idea: Content-based Instruction (CBI), which integrates language learning with subject matter. The feature of this approach is used as a medium to learn subject knowledge; that is to say, the students should learn language and subject knowledge at the same time. CBI inspires the learners to study English by means of content and use English to communicate in real life.
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1.2 Research Significance
At present, one of the hottest global topics in the area of language teaching is foreign language acquisition, which is to find an effective or perfect method to help the language learners to gain the target language. The practitioners and researchers face this urgent task and aim to solve it as quickly as possible. CBI provides sufficient comprehensible input to language learners and enables them to grasp the linguistic knowledge in a context, which facilitates the process of acquisition of the target language (Krashen, 1982). Nevertheless, in some ESL countries, a few researches or reports of，英语论文题目，英语论文 |
