项目依托式区域国别课程对英语专业学生合作精神的影响研究

Examining the Impacts of Project-Based CAS Courses on English Majors’ Cooperative Spirit

摘要: 随着我国对外部世界的研究需求逐渐增加，我国愈发重视培养具有合作精神的外语专业区域国别人才。本研究基于合作精神的三个维度，以东北某高校英语专业区域国别方向的100名学生为研究对象，运用定量与定性相结合的研究方法，探讨了英语专业项目依托式区域国别课程对英语专业学生合作观念、合作行为及合作能力的影响。研究发现，项目依托式区域国别课程对学生合作精神的三维度均产生积极影响，其中影响最显著的是合作行为，其次是合作能力、合作观念。研究表明项目依托式区域国别课程在分组机制、合作任务、合作形式以及评价体系方面存在问题。本研究针对现存问题提出相应的改进措施，以期对项目依托式区域国别课程的课程设置和教学方法有所启发。

Abstract: With the gradual increase of our research demand for the outside world, cultivation of countries/areas studies (CAS) talents specializing in foreign languages with cooperative spirit has been attached more and more significance in China. To meet the current needs, this paper takes 100 students majoring in English from a college in Northeast China with CAS orientation as the participants to explore the impacts of project-based CAS courses on English majors’ cooperative spirit by a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research methods. It is found that project-based CAS courses has a positive impact on the three dimensions of students’ cooperative spirit, among which the most significant impacted is the cooperative behavior, followed by the cooperation ability and the cooperation concept. It is also found that CAS courses have problems with grouping mechanism, cooperative task content and form as well as the evaluation system. The study puts forward the corresponding improvement measures according to the existing problems in order to enlighten the CAS courses teaching and courses setting.