Revista Argentina de Clínica Psicológica 2020, Vol. XXIX, N°2, 1500-1506
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.394 1500
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Zhiyong Sun
Abstract
In China, the traditional English teaching mode is exam-oriented. It can no longer satisfy the needs of International communication, or stimulate the learning desire of college students. Drawing on cognitive psychology, this paper designs an innovative English teaching mode with mixed teaching strategies, and explores its correlation with the psychological identity of the audience. The proposed teaching mode and the traditional mode were compared through a control experiment on two groups of English majors from Hunan University. The results show that the innovative English teaching mode reduces some learning contents from the classroom, cultivates thinking ability of the students, and highlights the autonomous, individual learning; our teaching mode improved the psychological satisfaction of the audience by 47.73% and increased the psychological identity score of the audience significantly from the levels of the traditional mode. The research results lay a theoretical basis for the curriculum design of innovative English education.
Key words: English Course, Cognitive Psychology, Innovative English Teaching Mode, Psychological Identity, Psychological Satisfaction.
Received: 12-01-19 | Accepted: 22-08-19
INTRODUCTION
As English is an international universal language, the requirement for higher English proficiency is becoming more and more important, and thus higher requirements are proposed for -English teaching in the reality (van der Meer, te Brake, van der Aa et al., 2018). Traditional college English teaching to a large extent repeats the basic knowledge and skills of high schools, and college students get fewer effects, resulting in low psychological identity of college students (Fuyuno, 2013). At present, for college students, English teaching is no longer to acquire knowledge, broaden their horizons and train their thinking, but more to train the communicative competence for studying abroad, daily communication and academic communication. Therefore, it is imperative to
Normal college of Chifeng University, Chifeng 024000, China. E-Mail: [email protected]
innovate English teaching mode, combine English learning with other professional disciplines, and highlight the characteristics of education and teaching (Saylag, 2013; Ke-Jia, 2009).
From the perspective of psychology, psychological identity is a psychological defense mechanism of people in the process of interaction, and is a process of self-cognition, self-acceptance and self-assimilation (Di Stefano, Ruvolo, & Lo Mauro, 2019). The psychological identity of the audience is the most important index to evaluate the innovative English teaching mode. Improving the audience's psychological identity of English teaching mode is conducive to guiding educators' educational direction and improving the comprehensive quality of educatees. The innovative English teaching mode is not static, but is improved according to the audience's psychological recognition and support (Yu & Liu, 2009; Terras, Ramsay, & Boyle, 2015). From the analysis of the audience's characteristics of psychological
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identity, the audience already have the functional characteristics of accepting innovative English education mode. If the audience adapt to the new English teaching mode, their learning efficiency will be greatly improved, and psychological identity will achieve twice the result with half the effort (Shih, Wilton, Does et al., 2019). The traditional English teaching mode can only meet the examination-oriented needs of students, but hardly to meet the needs of international communication. When updating or innovating the new English teaching mode, the teaching mode considering the audience's psychological identity will become the goal of English teaching reform (Gao,Jia, & Zhou, 2015). Based on the theory of cognitive psychology, this paper explores the correlation between innovative English teaching mode and the audience's psychological identity. This research provides a theoretical basis for innovating English teaching mode and improving students' learning efficiency.
INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH TEACHING IN CHINA
At present, college English teaching is to carry out comprehensive personnel training. The efficient teaching mode is to fully develop the individuality of each student according to the individual differences of students. However, it is difficult of the actual teaching mode to achieve this (McKenzie, Cossar, Fawns et al., 2013). In English learning, students all aim to improve their English level, which can benefit students from work and communication (Winstone & Moore, 2017). The purpose of college students' English learning is investigated. As shown in Figure 1, 30.69% of college students learn English for their future work and also many college students learn English in order to pass various examinations in schools and society, better adapt to the needs of society for talents or better carry out international exchanges.
English teaching is public, instrumental, basic, targeted and cross-cultural. We have a strong psychological identity with Chinese. In reality, English teaching should well deal with the contradiction between innovation and persistence (Peluso, 2015). The investigation shows the weak convergence of college students' English teaching and learning, strong differences in different colleges, the diversity of
students' learning needs and learning identity, and different teaching methods and learning methods. College English teaching is changing from traditional classroom teaching to mixed teaching, which is suitable for students' learning methods using mobile phones or computers as media and greatly improves students' sense of identity in English learning (Lu, 2015).
Figure 1
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A survey of the purpose of English
learning
12.45% 14.99% 14.29%
12.73%
14.85%
30.69%
English learning is necessary knowledge for future work English learning is a must to pass various exams in school and society English learning is to adapt to society's demand for talent English learning is necessary for your professional development English learning is for better communication
Other
STUDY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL IDENTITY OF INNOVATIVE ENGLISH TEACHING MODE
Analysis of college students' psychological identity in English teaching
Psychological cognition is the key to the cultivation of psychological identity. Both belong to the category of psychology. Psychological cognition is only a stage of psychological identity. Psychological identity also includes emotion, perception and concept and is the psychological activity generated by the brain after processing external information. From the perspective of psychology, psychological identity is reflected as dominance of educators in the process of education and teaching, and is the measurement standard of the degree of absorption and understanding of educational contents and the degree of cognition. Figure 2 explores the objectives, principles and plans of innovative college English teaching. The objectives of innovative college English education are to improve the comprehensive ability of college students. The judgment is made based on the required knowledge, lack of knowledge, desire to learn knowledge, adjustment of learning environment, learners'
CORRELATION BETWEEN INNOVATIVE ENGLISH TEACHING MODE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IDENTITY OF THE AUDIENCE 1502
Figure 2
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On the objectives, principles and plans of Innovative college English teaching
Improve the comprehensive English ability of college
students
Must learn knowledge
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Want to learn knowledge
Learning environment conditions
Learners' knowledge, skills and Strategies
Learner motivation
Teaching objectives
Teaching contents
Teaching methods
Teaching models
Teaching evaluation
Target layer Criterion level Scheme layer
Figure 3
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Advantages of innovative English teaching mode
5.77%
11.54%
44.23%
38.46%
Learning more autonomously Learn means more
Broaden one's horizon Enrich your spare time life
knowledge, skills and strategies, and learners' motivation. Therefore, innovative English education should innovate English teaching objectives, contents, methods, modes and evaluations. Figure 3 shows the advantages of the innovative English teaching mode, mainly including more autonomous English learning, more learning materials and methods, broadening students’ horizon and enriching their spare time life.
Strategies for cultivating psychological identity in innovative English teaching mode
The influence of environment on people is subtle. The innovative English teaching mode should take the educational function as its effectiveness. Through perception with other people's behavior or psychological activity in the learning process, college students can better increase their psychological identity to the innovative English teaching mode. Figure 4 is an
analysis of the teaching process in the field of psychological identity. The lowest goal of teaching is knowledge, the lowest goal of ability is understanding, and the highest-level goal in the field of cognition is evaluation. In English teaching, students, as the main body of educational psychological identity, must have rational reflection ability. Mechanical inculcation-based teaching method can hardly achieve real cognition and understanding of teaching content. Therefore, students, as the audience, must actively and rationally reflect in order to greatly improve the psychological identify effect of English teaching mode. Figure 5 shows the cultivation strategy of psychological identity in the innovative English teaching mode. By creating a good environment for psychological identify of innovative English teaching mode, improving the comprehensive ability of English teachers, stimulating the initiative of college students' psychological identity in English learning, innovating the
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Figure 4
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An analysis of the teaching process in the field of psychological identity
Knowledge
Understand
Application
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Minimum objective of teaching
Minimum objective of capability
Ability goal higher than understanding ability
Ability to break down knowledge and materials
Higher level capability objectives
The highest level goal in cognitive field
Figure 5
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On the cultivation of psychological identity in innovative English teaching mode
On the cultivation of psychological identity in
English innovative teaching mode
Creating a good environment for the psychological identity of English innovative teaching mode
Improve the comprehensive ability of English teachers
Arousing the initiative of College Students' psychological identity in English learning
Innovative ways of psychological identity in English teaching reform and methods
Establishing an effective mechanism of psychological identity in English innovation
education
psychological identity means of English education and teaching reform and methods, and establishing an effective mechanism of psychological identity in English innovative education can effectively promote the cultivation of psychological identity in the innovative English teaching mode.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE INNOVATIVE ENGLISH
TEACHING MODE BASED ON COLLEGE
STUDENTS' PSYCHOLOGICAL IDENTITY
Design of the innovative English teaching system based on college students' psychological identity
In the traditional inculcation-based classroom teaching, students are in a state of low thinking activities. In the English teaching process, the innovative teaching mode is applied to remove some learning contents from the classroom to be completed by students themselves, which can cultivate students' high-level thinking ability training. This study focuses on the design of an innovative English teaching
system. Figure 6 is a mixed teaching process. The mixed teaching system combines the advantages of classroom teaching and online learning. Classroom teaching has the advantages of stimulating learning motivation, giving intensive teaching of course content, promoting interaction between teachers and students and facilitating the reflection on classroom teaching, while online learning has the advantages of pre-class autonomous learning, expansion of course content, post-class collaborative communication and reflection on online learning, which shows obvious autonomy and individuation for students' learning. Figure 7 is a mixed teaching structure diagram of college English teaching. Classroom teaching mode can be used for face-to-face topic discussions and role-play activities, which realize real-life drills of English teaching, while online teaching can be used to watch course videos, collaborate learning, watch additional English materials and answer questions online, etc., which realizes the input and output of English language and culture knowledge.
CORRELATION BETWEEN INNOVATIVE ENGLISH TEACHING MODE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IDENTITY OF THE AUDIENCE 1504
Figure 6
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Mixed teaching process
Mixed teaching mode
Arouses study motivation
Intensive course content
Interaction between teachers and students
Reflection on classroom teaching
Self study before class
Course content expansion
Cooperation and communication after class
Reflection on online learning
Teaching evaluation Network
learning Classroom
teaching
modify
Figure 7.
Mixed teaching structure of college English teaching
Mixed teaching mode of College English
Classroom teaching Online teaching
Face to face topic discussion; Learning experience
communication; Role playing activities.
Watch the course video; View wikis or other
extensions; Receive wechat push.
Discussion area;
collaborative learning; Complete unit
exercises.
English practice walkthrough English language and cultural knowledge input
English language and cultural knowledge
output
Evaluation on the effect of the innovative English teaching based on college students' psychological identity
The innovative English teaching mode shows a personalized teaching method, which requires students to have abilities of conscious learning and high thinking and analysis, and cultivates students' autonomous cognition and digestion abilities, thus improving college students' psychological identity in English learning. In order to explore the influence of innovative teaching mode on college students' psychological identity, this paper investigates and studies college students majoring in English from Hunan University. The basic data of the subjects are shown in Table 1. Figure 8 shows the results of a survey on college students' psychological satisfaction under traditional and innovative English teaching modes. Figure 8 (a)
shows the traditional English teaching mode and Figure 8 (b) shows the innovative English teaching mode. It can be clearly seen that compared with the traditional English teaching mode, the psychological satisfaction of students to the innovative English teaching mode has increased by 47.73%, of which the proportion of very satisfied is obviously increased; furthermore, the psychological dissatisfaction of the traditional English teaching mode is 45.66%, while the psychological dissatisfaction drops to 14.35% after the innovative teaching mode is implemented.
Table 1.
Basic information of subjects
English teaching methods Number Percentage
Traditional teaching methods 149 55.19% Mixed teaching methods 121 44.81%
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Figure 8
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A survey of college students' psychological satisfaction under the traditional and
innovative English teaching mode
17.22% 28.44%
26.95%
17.96%
9.43%
Very satisfied Satisfied General Dissatisfied Very dissatisfied
2.87% 11.48% 10.53% 33.49%
41.63%
Very satisfied Satisfied General Dissatisfied Very dissatisfied
(a) Traditional English teaching mode (b) Innovative teaching mode of mixed English
Figure 9
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College students' psychological identity score of innovative English teaching mode
70 75 80 85 90
Other English courses Special
English course Academic English
course English
knowledge course
Average
sc
ore of psychological identity
General English course
Traditional teaching methods Mixed teaching methods
English teaching courses are divided into general English, English knowledge, academic English, English for specific purposes and other English courses. This paper evaluates the psychological identity under different courses based on the two English teaching modes respectively. Figure 9 shows the psychological identity score of college students on the innovative English teaching mode. It can be clearly seen that the psychological identity score of the innovative English teaching mode is significantly higher than that of the traditional teaching mode, and the psychological identity scores of the two teaching modes in different English courses show significant differences.
CONCLUSIONS
Based on the theory of cognitive psychology, this paper explores the correlation between
innovative English teaching mode and the audience's psychological identity. The specific conclusions are as follows:
(1) The investigation shows the weak convergence of college students' English teaching and learning, strong differences in different colleges, the diversity of students' learning needs and learning identity, and different teaching methods and learning methods.
(2) Psychological identity includes cognition, emotion, perception, concept, etc., and is reflected as dominance of educators in the process of education and teaching, and is the measurement standard of the degree of absorption and understanding of educational contents and the degree of cognition.
(3) The innovative English teaching mode effectively cultivates students' autonomous cognition and digestion abilities. The
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investigation shows that the psychological identity score of the innovative English teaching mode is significantly higher than that of the traditional teaching mode, and the psychological identity score of the two teaching modes in different English courses shows significant differences.
Acknowledgements
Application Projects for Chifeng University Serving the Economic and Social Development of Chifeng City: Research on Multi-dimensional Promotion of Primary and Secondary Education Practice in Chifeng Area (cfxyfc201842).
Inner Mongolia Educational Science Research Projects for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Colleges and Universities: Research on the Application of "MOOC+Flipped Classroom"
Teaching Method in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Education (NMSC18034).
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