A Survey of Chinese Engineering Students' Attitudes toward EMI
A Survey of Chinese Engineering Students' Attitudes toward EMI
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中国工科学生对 EMI 态度调查
DOI：
10.2991/metss-16.2016.35
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
L. Ren
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作者：
Haiyun Gu;L. Ren
EMI(英语作为教学语言)在中国大学正式推广已经15年了。本文报告了一项关于中国工科学生对EMI态度的调查。它首先介绍了工科学生用英语学习主修科目的必要性。对电信工程和电子工程专业的50名大二和50名大三学生进行了20个项目的问卷调查，内容涉及他们对EMI的态度。结果分析表明，受试者对英语作为工作语言的重要性和在中国大学工科教育中推广EMI策略的重要性表示赞同，但他们也同样担心自己的英语水平可能会对学科学习产生负面影响。最后，本文提出了提高我国工程教育EMI政策有效性的几点具体措施。
EMI (English as a Medium of instruction) has been officially promoted in Chinese universities for 15 years. This paper reports a survey of Chinese engineering students’ attitudes toward EMI. It starts by presenting the necessity for engineering students to learn their major subjects in english. A group of 50 sophomores and 50 juniors, majoring in telecommunication engineering and electronic engineering, were surveyed using a 20-item questionnaire about their attitudes toward EMI. The analyses of results reveal that the participants quite agree with the importance of english as a working language and the promotion of EMI strategy in engineering education in Chinese universities, but they equally worry about their english proficiency might have negative effect on disciplinary learning. Finally, the paper suggests several specific measures to improve the efficiency of EMI policy in Chinese engineering education.