Effect Analysis on Pedagogical Practice of Environmental Science Courses in English Lectured by Foreign Expert in Provincial Agricultural University

Abstract

Employing foreign experts to lecture specialized courses is an important measure to implement educational internationalization strategy in the local provincial agricultural universities in China. This paper analyzed the pedagogical effect of a foreign expert employed for teaching environmental science courses in English at Qingdao Agricultural University (QAU). The students gave a high evaluation to the foreign expert for teaching the specialized courses, despite their English was not good enough. The students believed that there were some aspects that the Chinese teachers could learn from the foreign expert, such as the combination of theory and practice, classroom management, and communication with the students, especially the constructivist teaching mode. The Chinese domestic teachers were suggested to apply the foreign experts’ methods in constructing the real scene, real case, guiding and eliciting questions, and encouraging students to participate and communicate in the classroom.