2.5.1 General Conception of Curriculum Design 13
2.5.2 Models of Curriculum Design 15
2.5.3 The Importance of Needs Analysis in Curriculum 15
2.6 Related Studies 17
Chapter 3 Methodology 19
3.1 Research Questions 19
3.2 Research Subjects 19
3.3 Research Instruments 20
3.4 Data Collection 21
3.5 Item Analysis 22
3.6 Reliability Analysis 23
Chapter 4 Results and Discussions 25
4.1 Students’ Needs Analysis 25
4.1.1 Analysis of the Survey on English Selective Courses 25
4.1.2 Analysis of Students' Satisfaction with the English Curriculum 28
4.2 Enterprise’s Needs Analysis 32
4.3 Summary 36
Chapter 5 Conclusions 37
5.1 The Findings 37
5.2 Implications 38
5.2.1 Meeting the Needs of Students’ Personality Development 38
5.2.2 The Implementation of Flexible Teaching Management Model 38
5.2.3 Exploring a Three Pairs Based Teaching Faculty 38
5.2.4 English for Practical Uses 39
5.3 Limitations 39
5.4 Suggestions for Further Researches 40
References 41
Appendix A: Questionnaires to Students 44
Appendix B:A Questionnaire to Enterprise 47
List of Tables
Table 3.1 Results of the Questionnaire Analysis 22
Table 3.2 Reliability Coefficient of the Questionnaire 24
Table4.1 Results of Students' Attitudes toward English Electives 25
Table4.2 Skills that Students Want to Get from the Selective Courses Most 26
Table4.3 Reasons that Students Are Interested in a Certain English Course 27
Table4.4 Satisfaction with the Teaching Programs for English Language Courses 28
Table4.5 Students’ Satisfaction with the Employment Prospects 29
Table4.6 Mean Value of Students’ Satisfaction with the English Curriculum 29
Table4.7 Satisfaction Statistics for Teaching Content and Teaching Methods 30
Table4.8 Students’ Satisfaction with Teachers and School 31
Table4.9 Employees’ Ability to Read and Write in English in the Company 32
Table4.10 Company’s Demand for the Employees’ Level of English Writing 33
Table4.11 Company’s Demand for the Employees’ Level of English Reading 33
Table4.12 Mean Value of Enterprise’s Needs 34
Table 4.13 Ways Enterprises Examine the Employees’ English Skills 35
List of Figs
Fig 1 Students’ Choice in English Electives Selection……………………..….28
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
1.1.1 The Requirements of English Curriculum in Vocational Education
“The Requirements of English Curriculum of Higher Vocational Education in China (Trial)” clearly states that the vocational English courses should aim to teach students the practical application of English, which is focused on developing the communicative comp
