Through course study, you will realize influence and importance of spoken English on international railway project operation and management, understand basics and principles of English communication in the daily life of railway engineering technicians, master basic sentence patterns of communication English applied in technical standards and implementation, get to know each other's thinking patterns and cultural barriers, master professional English and oral communication points involved in implementation stage of international railway engineering projects, understand the cultural background of other countries, customs and habits, further broaden the international vision. Based on higher vocational English teaching, in order to do a good job in cultivating English application ability, we must start from developing students' interest and self-confidence in English learning, adopting modern teaching means to optimize teaching environment, and strengthening cultivation of listening comprehension, speaking and other aspects to ensure that higher vocational English teaching can clarify teaching objectives, focus on cultivation of English application ability, improve overall effect of English teaching in higher vocational colleges, to ensure "practical, fresh, interesting, special" features of online course construction. This course is designed to meet students’ future business communication needs as overseas railway engineering and technical personnel. Teaching contents are taken from English often used by overseas railway engineering professional and technical personnel in practical work, covering business scenarios, core vocabulary and terminology, thus, highlighting the setting of "business scenarios", improving students' English communication level and ability, enhancing targeted cross-cultural communication under different cultural backgrounds.
The course "Practical Oral English for Overseas Railway Engineering" is a basic course for first-year students of various majors in railway or engineering vocational colleges. With 41 credit hours, it has a foundational status in the curriculum system and plays an instrumental role. With the construction of high-level vocational schools, continuous diversification of the source of students and satisfaction of business needs of overseas engineering and technical personnel, oral English has increasingly become an important part of English teaching in railway higher vocational colleges. For students to engage in future railway engineering technical services and research, it plays a very important role in laying the foundation for research, overseas project management, etc.
