作者:校园英语杂志社 字数:2620 点击:

  【Abstract】The vocational education aims at fostering students with practical skills in specific field. Compared with the undergraduate education, the vocational education places more emphasis on the applicability and profession. It is a teaching with career simulation. This thesis focuses on the teaching practice of vocational English teaching connected with the working processes for the hotel profession..
  【Key words】teaching practice; vocational English teaching; working processes
  The current situation of vocational English teaching for the hotel profession now in vocational college is unsatisfactory. The English teaching for the hotel profession is not separated from the public English in vocational college. The teaching knowledge is the basic English. Therefore, the English teaching is not connected with the working processes. After graduation, students can not apply the English with the working situation very well. On the other hand, the professional English for the hotel focuses on the lecturing of relevant hotel vocabulary and reading ability of related article. In this thesis, the vocational English teaching connected with the working processes points to the practical teaching of public English in vocational college. For this current situation of vocational English teaching for the hotel profession, researchers conducts a study on the teaching practice of vocational English teaching connected with the working processes. The study is conducted in the following aspects.
  The educational objectives of vocational English should be guided by the market demands and professional settings. The teachers and researchers should develop a deep study on the companies, pay attention to the latest trends of the field, and take the market demands into consideration. Based on the research, the teaching activities can be centered on the workplace scenarios. The teaching objectives are designed based on students’ major and the career. For the hotel profession, teachers and researchers should go into the hotel, and know the skills and qualities that the hotel asks for the staff. For the students majored in hotel, they should possess the ability of expressing ideas and communicating with guests in English fluently. Students should know the western cultures and be aware of the cultural difference between the Chinese culture and foreign culture, and they should know the administrative provisions of the hotel and relevant etiquette. According to these requirements, the teaching objectives are determined.