An Experimental Research on the Integration of Ideal and Belief Education into English Major Courses in Chinese UniversitiesAn Experimental Research on the Integration of Ideal and Belief Education into English Major Courses in Chinese Universities

Abstract

The university phase is a critical period for the formation of students' outlook on life and career ideals, but some Chinese college students lack a correct understanding and motivation for learning, which needs to be improved. Through a teaching reform experiment to integrate ideal and belief education in the professional course in an academic year and 32 teaching weeks to 106 freshmen and 113 sophomores of English education majors. The result shows that compared with the control group who maintained the conventional teaching mode, the experimental group’s performance in the outlook on life, academic development plans, professional ideals, and their motivation to learn well are all significantly improved, and the final exam scores have increased by 13-15% on average. The experiment shows that the use of appropriate materials and methods to integrate ideal and belief education in the teaching of professional courses in college can effectively promote students to form a correct outlook on life and career planning, improve learning enthusiasm and professional course performance, and help serve the society to achieve their ideals in life.